Previously Scheduled:

1. Course and program proposals (undergraduate and graduate)
2. CMST 191 revised test-out procedure
3. Minnesota Transfer Curriculum
4. Registrar vacancy
5. USP appeals policy and procedure
6. Res. College Steering Committee appointment
7. Committee on Committees: spring committee solicitation, study of oversight and definitions
8. Hazing Policy recommendations
9. "Endowed Faculty Chairs" definition
10. Campus Art Advisory group
11. Fall Convocation
12. National Child Protection Center
13. NCA call for interim report due 9/03
14. Task Force on Professional Quality Improvement
15. University Center-Rochester (administrative addition to agenda)
16. All University Technology Committee membership (administrative addition to agenda)

Additions:

17. Student Action on Tuition (Administration addition)
18. WSU Sexual Violence Policy (Administration addition)

Faculty Senate recommended approval of the following undergraduate courses and programs:

I. New Course

A AIS 452 - Management Training and Development Programs

II. New Program

A. AIS - Training and Development Certificate Program

III. Revised Programs

A. BS Major - Physics, Teaching

IV. University Studies Courses

A. Arts & Sciences Core: Fine and Performing Arts

THAD 205 Makeup for the Performer (1 SH)

V. Flag Courses

A. Writing Flag

German 401 Medieval to Baroque Literature (3 SH)

German 402 German 18th and 19th Century Literature (3 SH)

BUSA 317 Management of Human Resources (3 SH)

B. Mathematics or Critical Analysis

German 403 20th Century German Literature (3 SH) (CA)

C. CMST - Waiving CMST 191 (See memo from CMST department)

Faculty Senate recommended approval of the following graduate courses and programs:

AIS Training and Development Certificate 15 s.h.

These courses are already in the catalog:

410/510 Administrative Communication (3 s.h.)

440/540 Training and Employee Development (3 s.h.)

441/541 Training Techniques and Media (3 s.h.)

452/552 Managing Training and Development Programs (3 s.h.)

470/570 Seminars in Business Education and Training (3 s.h.)

AIS Information only: Change the course number of AIS 652 to 552

EDUC Certificate in Educational Technology 12 s.h.

EDUC 501 Current Issues in Educational Technology (3 s.h.)

EDUC 502 Productivity Tools in Education (2 s.h.)

EDUC 503 The Internet in Education (3 s.h.)

EDUC 504 Digital Media (2 s.h.)

EDUC 505 Critical Thinking, Problem Solving and Technology (2 s.h.)

EDUC Approval of the above courses: 501, 502, 503, 504, 505

NURS Post Master's Certificate - Nurse Practitioner

Adult Nurse Practitioner - 28 s.h.

Family Nurse Practitioner - 34 s.h.

Core Courses:

NURS 506 Psychosocial Interventions in Family Care (2 s.h.)

NURS 514 Health Care Policy and Finance (3 s.h.)

NURS 519 Advanced Health Promotion (3 s.h.)

Focus:

NURS 502 Clinical Pharmacology (3 s.h.)

NURS 623 Advanced Health Assessment (3 s.h.)

NURS 640 Primary Care of Adults I (3 s.h.)

NURS 641 Primary Care Clinical I (2/3**s.h.)

NURS 642 Primary Care of Children (2**s.h.)

NURS 643 Primary Care Clinical II (3/4**s.h.)

NURS 644 Primary Care of Adults II (3 s.h.)

NURS 645 Primary Care Internship (3 s.h.)

**Credits for FNP

NURS Post Master's Certificate - Clinical Nurse Specialist (credits needed dependent on previous graduate nursing education)

NURS 502 Advanced Pharmacology (3 s.h.)

NURS 504 Advanced Pathophysiology (3 s.h.)

NURS 620 CNS Role I Seminar (3 s.h.)

NURS 624 CNS Role II Seminar (3 s.h.)

NURS 623 Advanced Health Assessment (3 s.h.)

NURS 621 CNS Role I Clinical (3 s.h.)

NURS 625 CNS Role II Clinical OR NURS 629 CNS Prescribing Clinical

(3.s.h.)

Optional/Elective Core Courses

NURS 506 Psychosocial Interventions in Family Care (2 s.h.)

NURS 508 Advanced Role Seminar (2 s.h.)

NURS 516 Issues in Gerontology and Geriatrics (3 s.h.)

NURS 602 Health Care for Rural America (3 s.h.)

NURS 650 Nursing Information Mgmt & Decision Making (2 s.h.)

NURS 519 Advanced Health Promotion (3 s.h.)

NURS Post Master's Certificate - Nurse Educator (9/10 s.h.)

NURS 669 Nursing Education: Theory and Research (3 s.h.)

NURS 670 Nursing Education: Curricula and Program Design (3 s.h.)

NURS 671 Nursing Education: Instruction and Evaluation (2 s.h.)

NURS 672 Nursing Education: Instr. and Eval. Practicum (1-2 s.h.)

NURS MS Nursing - Nurse Administrator Focus (37-41 s.h.)

Discontinue requirement for NURS 504 Advanced Pathophysiology and replace it with an interim required 3 s.h. graduate level elective course until a three-credit replacement course is developed.

NURS RN to MS Professional Pathway

Substitute NURS 375 Nursing Research, Theory & Technology (3 s.h.) for NURS 510/410 Theoretical Foundations and Research (4 s.h.)

Drop NURS 491 Captstone (3 s.h.) and add NURS 408/508 Advanced Role Seminar ( 2 s.h.) and NURS 414/514 Health Care Policy & Finance (3 s.h.)

NURS Course Approvals

NURS 629 Clinical Nurse Specialist Prescribing Clinical (1 - 3 s.h.)

NURS 640 Primary Care of Adults I (3 s.h.)

NURS 641 Primary Care Clinical I (2 s.h. ANP, 3 s.h. FNP)

NURS 642 Primary Care of Children I (2 s.h. FNP)

NURS 643 Primary Care Clinical II (3 s.h.)

NURS 644 Primary Care of Adults II (3 s.h. ANP, 4 s.h. FNP)

NURS 645 Primary Care Internship (3 s.h.)

NURS 646 Primary Care of Children II (2 s.h. FNP)

NURS Course Changes

Faculty Senate approved a revised test-out procedure for CMST 191.

The administration received the revised procedure.

Senate directed the M&C reps to seek information at M&C regarding which WSU offices have been told what (and by whom) regarding the MN Transfer Curriculum. It appears that the Registrar's Office has been told one thing by MnSCU, while Admissions (including Transfer Specialist?) has not been told the same thing; others are asking department chairs for interpretations of what the university does and does not accept.

Senators accepted two kinds of Gen Ed transfer ('whole package' and course-by-course); however, Senate did not accept 'area-by-area' transfer, whereby a transfer student's sending institution gets to decide whether an entire area of the MN Transfer Curriculum had been satisfied by courses taken at the sending institution.

Administration Comments:

1. Similar interpretations by the administration.

2. Legislative intent is "area by area" transfer, as long as goals in course are satisfied, the course is satisfied. However, the IFO statewide oversight committee does not have the same interpretation. Jim Pehler has been informed and is investigating the issue.

3. It might be true that not all staff in Registrar's Office knows about the actual rules, the administration will try to inform all staff.

4. Trust is important.

5. It is difficult to know exactly what the other campuses do with their courses; again, trust is important!

6. MnSCU transfer curriculum is only general education, not courses for majors.

 

Senate directed faculty reps to express at M&C concerns regarding the temporary assignment of the Academic VP to function as the Registrar, particularly in terms of teacher education curricula. Are there not qualified internal candidates to fill the job permanently?

Administration Comments:

1. There were qualified internal candidates, but none wanted to give up present duties.

2. VP will start becoming familiar with Registrar's Office procedures as soon as he can. Of course, he will rely on people who have more expertise on different areas/issues.

3. Dean Carol Anderson could be taking over teacher education curricula issues.

 

Senate approved a revised 'appeals policy and procedures for USP,' devised by A2C2 in response to administration's request to reconsider its original 'no substitutions of WSU courses' draft. The text of this revised policy follows:

1. Student appeals of WSU University Studies Program (USP) policies regarding course credit will be made to the University Studies Subcommittee (USS) for review and recommendation to A2C2.

2. Course placement in the preexisting General Education program is not adequate ground for course substitution in the USP and will not be considered by the USS.

3. In the case of transfer of courses from other institutions student appeals of WSU Transfer Coordinator decisions regarding USP credit or course substitution will be forwarded to the USS for review and subsequent recommendation to A2C2.

4. The Registrar's Office recognizes course approvals in the semester following their formal approval by the administration, however given the infancy of the USP it is understood that some course approvals will be established after students have already enrolled. During the transition to this new program, Academic Departments may recommend that students receive credit towards the USP requirements for courses completed prior to their formal acceptance by the WSU administration. Departments may submit a notification to A2C2 certifying that the course, in substance, met the USP criteria prior to its formal approval. The notification to A2C2 should also indicate the relevant semesters for which the exemption would apply. Departments should forward their notification to A2C2 as soon as practicable only after Administration approval of the USP course. This grace period would apply to allow retroactive credit towards the USP requirements for courses completed between the Fall Semester of 2001 and Spring 2004.

Administration Comments:

1. Registrar's Office is nearing completion of a computerized transfer system. Perhaps transfer wouldn't be a problem.

The administration accepted the revised appeals policy and procedures for USP

Faculty Senate appointed Elizabeth Oness to the Res. College Steering Committee.

The administration acknowledged the committee appointment.

Faculty directed Committee on Committees to recommend clarifications/simplifications in the committee structure (definitions, terminology, oversight, etc.) by the first Senate meeting next fall.

The administration welcomed such a review.

Faculty Senate approved a revised Hazing Policy (after VP Winbush a couple of weeks ago politely asked where in the depths of the FA committee structure it disappeared into). The revision suggests eliminating one provision that (we are informed) courts have not upheld and another that could be taken as prohibiting practices by athletic teams in rainy weather. It also removes a paragraph, which in the opinion of the committee appeared to allow the entire policy to apply to classroom activities.

Administration Comments:

1. Some clarification on the changes

2. Looks fine.

The administration accepted/thanked the revision efforts.

Faculty Senate instructed the M&C reps to ask at M&C for administration's definition of 'Endowed Faculty Chairs.'

Administration responses:

1. Will come back with list and definitions.

2. Different models for Endowed Chairs at different institutions.

 

Faculty Senate authorized D. Bratt to draft a Campus Art Committee charge, etc. (In the meantime, however, the immediate issue remains unaddressed: a donor has asked librarians to select art from a catalog; some/many/most librarians are reluctant to do so.)

Administration Comments:

1. Art being put into the Library is currently put on hold.

2. Will wait for Campus Art Committee to address the issues.

 

Faculty Senate endorsed the draft of the Fall Convocation proposal, especially the grant proposal getting funding for Faculty/Staff gowns (for rental and purchase).

The administration is pleased with the endorsement. The administration intends to send out post-card notices this summer.

Faculty Senate endorsed the principle of the National Child Protection Center. Senators, however, also had a number of questions, many of them regarding funding:

A. WSU has already contributed $600,000--what did that money buy? Did it come at the expense of other items that might have enhanced students' education?

B. The sums of money seem very large: $3 million, $2.2 million from the state...where is it coming from, and is it coming at the expense of classroom education?

C. How much dedicated space will be needed? Is it exclusively in the stacks area, or will other parts of Maxwell be made unavailable for use by existing units of the university?

D. How many staff will be needed? Will it bring new students to campus? Visitors?

Administration Responses:

1. Some of the money (used as a match for future federal grant) has been used for the remodeling done in Maxwell so far. The matching is fairly loosely defined. No guidelines of matched required.

2. No commitments from federal grants have been made. Maxwell stack-renovations could take up most the proposed $600k match.

3. Project will absolutely bring extra staff and students. Extra staff/visitors could be lawyers.

4. University profile could be raised nationally (and internationally) and attract students into this special area at WSU.

5. This project could be bigger than WSU itself!

6. WSU alum has been writing supporting letters to key legislators in D.C.

 

Regarding the NCA interim report, Senate directed that faculty reps ask a series of questions at M&C regarding:

A. The NCA description of the report's contents, and

B. Ways in which WSU might most effectively/efficiently generate the report.

Regarding the contents of the report:

A. What is the administration's understanding of the terminology on p15?

B. What precisely is being required by NCA?

C. What sort of information is to be collected? In what format(s)? (In reference to the possibility that portfolios might be an appropriate format, Senators noted that Authorware has been discontinued and new software not yet purchased.)

Administration Responses:

1. Do what is right! WSU must fulfill its obligation to students, system office and NCA.

2. Must show value. Tests would be one part, perhaps now portfolios.

3. Some universities use alumni surveys.

4. WSU must be a "self-regarded" institution.

5. Ultimately faculty should decide on the content of the response.

6. Standardized tests could be something NCA wants; however, standardized tests cannot be the only way! Portfolios and/or capstone experience can also be used. Departments can choose.

7. Faculty in each department should agree upon a common response.

8. Added value to WSU degree could be adding a capstone experience.

9. Use assessment levels to continuously improve student learning.

10. Baldridge criteria might be used at our next NCA visit.

11. The Baldridge criteria have been applied to industries.

12. Direct measures: actual student outcomes. Indirect measures: student satisfaction surveys.

Regarding the question of how to generate the report, some Senators asked:

A. What workload investment(s) the administration was willing to make to generate the report.

B. Others noted that, in light of department chairs' current workload, they are not necessarily the people who need to be most involved.

Administration Responses:

1. Not mentioned. Response not solicited.

Finally, Senators asked for a definition/explanation of the *problem(s)* that would be fixed by a series of meetings between Academic VP and department chairs (or other reps of departments) en masse. If we can define the problem(s), perhaps then we can have a better chance of devising solutions.

In and out and around all of the Senate's discussion of this idea could be heard the 'workload' refrain: "I'm too busy already...this is a perfect example of what we've been talking about...just say 'no'...it's not *my/our* problem." A sub-theme was the opinion that the interim report is busy-work and that nothing terrible will happen to the institution if it isn't done (or if it *is* done, but in a slapdash way).

Administration Responses:

1. This might be the only interim report; however, MnSCU Board could be reviewing the reports.

 

An issue, whose connection to workload should be evident, as was in Item 13 above. Faculty Senate moved that the faculty reps at the next Meet and Confer request the establishment of an Ad Hoc Task Force on Faculty Professional Quality Improvement (PQI).

Charge: Investigate ways of reducing the maximum Fall-Spring teaching load of WSU faculty, reducing the average class size, or both. Possible solutions should not violate the Master Agreement; not jeopardize the university's financial stability; and encourage voluntary participation by individual faculty, departments, and colleges through the use of incentives.

Reporting date: Report to the President no later than?

Membership: One faculty member from each college, three academic administrators, and university comptroller.

[The irony inherent in his request is that, in view of heavy faculty workload, a new committee should be formed. Most Senators were probably too tired to vote this down!]

Administration Comments:

1. "Wonderful"!

2. The administration will start the ball rolling.

To keep Faculty Senate updated on the UC-R issue:

The administration was informed about the continued interest of Rochester people wishing to move all our costs ($3M allocated to UC-Rochester from MnSCU) to the University of Minnesota. U of M is doing another study and could have report in June. However, most faculty won't be around in the summer, so things could go sour quickly! Rochester wants its own name. The perception is that nobody (WSU, MnSCU, and U of M) really wants this change!

The administration requested on behalf of MAPE to add one more MAPE member to the committee. Presently, two MAPE members on committee, addition would bring MAPE total up to three.

The Task force addressed the 10-12% tuition increase. Costs of faculty settlement up somewhat.

The administration proposed to students: 12% increase for in-state students, 8% increase for out-of-state students, with a weighted average increase of 11.6%.

The administration gave Student Senate authority to set priority on the extra one-time allocation ($432k) from MnSCU. Department chairs could be solicited about the needs of this one-time money. Chairs should be serious in providing input; after all, everyone knows how much autonomy Chairs have!...ha! ha!

A document was given to Faculty Reps on the WSU Sexual Violence Policy. Some revisions have been noted on the document. Will be reviewed/discussed at Senate and other constituencies.

Respectfully Submitted,

Bill Ng.