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Meet and Confer Notes
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Additions or
Deletions Previously Scheduled: 1.
Course Approvals 2.
General Education Two-Department
Rule 3.
Committee Appointments 4.
COMTEC Director Unit Determinations 5.
Space Utilization Committee 6.
Communication of Copier Back-Up
Plan 7.
Faculty Email Addresses 8.
Gateway Center Planning 9.
NCPCA Expenditures 10.
Use of IFO Travel Funds 11.
Final Exam Policy 12.
Social Event, 1/18/03, Country Club Additions: 13.
Seniority Roster (IFO Addition) 14.
Promotion/Tenure Summary (IFO Addition) 15.
UCR E-Learning (Administrative Addition) 16.
Budget/Principles Task Force
(Administrative Addition) 1. Course Approvals The
administration was notified regarding Faculty Senate's approval of courses below. I.
Course Approvals A.
New Courses 1.
MUS 169, 269, 369, 469 Jazz Improvisation Instruction (2 SH) 2.
MUS 170, 270, 370, 470 Jazz Piano Instruction (2 SH) 3.
PER 390 Tourism Planning (3 SH) 4.
PER 396 Leader ship and Group Dynamics: An Experiential Education (3 SH) 5.
PSY 311 Careers in Psychology (1 SH) B.
Revised Courses 1.
CHEM 108 Introductory General Chemistry (4 SH) 2.
MUS 298 Foundations and Principles of Music Education (3 SH) 3.
MUS 107 Music Technology (3 SH) a course offered at RCTC 4.
PSY
308 Experimental Psychology (3 SH) 5.
C.
University Studies Flag Courses 1.Writing EDUC
449/549 Middle School Philosophy, Organization, and Interdisciplinary Planning (3 SH) ENG
471 Seminar in British Literature (3 SH) MUS
351 Music of the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque (3 SH) MUS
352 Music of the Classical Period and the 19th, and 20th Centuries (3 SH) 2.
Oral MUS
471 Survey of Vocal Literature I (Italian) (2 SH) MUS
472 Survey of Vocal Literature II (German) (2 SH) MUS
473 Survey of Vocal Literature III (French) (2 SH) MUS
475 Advanced Instrumental Styles and Literature (3 SH) 3.
Critical Analysis MUS
402 Form and Analysis (3 SH) The
administration acknowledged receiving the above course approvals. 2.
General
Education Two-Department Rule The
administration was informed that the Faculty Senate-approved a recommendation from A2C2 to
drop the "two department" rule that had applied to the Area Studies portion of
the old General Education program. The effect of the recommendation would allow a student
to take, for instance, 12 credits of Gen. Ed. Theatre courses to satisfy the Humanities
requirement in the General Education program, instead of requiring that these 12 credits
be distributed between at least two departments' courses. The
administration responded with one single word: wonderful! 3.
Committee
Appointments The Faculty
Senate notified the administration of the following committee appointment approvals: 1.
A committee to edit the
"case" document for the university capital fund campaign: Troy Paino (History), Kelly Herold (Comm.
Studies), Colette Hyman (History), and David Bratt. 2.
iTeach Planning Committee: Gene Lundak (Computer Science). 3.
A2C2 change: Nursing - Sue Ballard
as representative with Linda Smith as 1st Alternate and Linda Seppanen as 2nd Alternate. The
administration acknowledged the above committee appointment information. 4.
COMTEC Director
Unit Determination The
administration was informed that the IFO will request from the Bureau of Mediation
Services (BMS) a unit determination for the COMTEC Director position. 5.
Space Utilization Committee The
administration was asked to convene meetings of the Space Utilization Committee so that
important issues, including but not limited to the possible destruction of Howell, might
receive a thorough consideration and recommendation. Administration
Comments/Responses: 1.
There was one meeting this fall
but had problems with lack of members. 2.
Next meeting is scheduled for Dec.
10th, at which time the Master Plan architects will be present to talk about
various plans, including Howell. 6.
Communication of
Copier Back-up Plan The
administration was queried on how to get word to all faculty and department secretaries
details of the copier back-up plan described at the most recent Meet and Confer. Administration
Comments/Responses: 1.
VP Whetstone is planning to post
signs next to each copier, (instead of SYSUSERS, which most people deleted in auto-mode). 2.
All security supervisors have been
trained in the network manual over-ride procedure. 7.
Faculty email addresses In light of
the administration's determination that faculty email addresses and phone numbers would be
made public, D. Bratt asked whether there were also plans to ensure that these addresses
and numbers would be accurate. Administration
Comments/Responses: 1.
NO!...Why should
the web be different from the phone-book?...what phone book...yah, we are working on it! 2.
By the end of the spring semester,
everyone should be using the same email designations. 8.
Gateway Center
Planning D. Bratt
requested the following of the administration: (a) that
faculty be involved in the planning of the Gateway Center, and (b) that any
establishments at the facility not put local businesses out of business. Administration
Comments/Responses: 1.
The bookstore would be WSU's own
bookstore. 2.
Most of the Gateway Center space
will be resident-related space. 3.
The bookstore is short of space in
its present space, so it's logical to re-locate it in the new building. 4.
Perhaps 3 additional faculty (plus
space utilization faculty) should be included in the planning of the Gateway Center. 9.
NCPCA Expenditures The
administration was asked that in light of future budget difficulties, how much of the
$600,000 pledged by WSU toward the NCPCA has yet to be expended? Administration
Comments/Responses: 1.
WSU used previous matching monies
for renovations, which included the renovation of the Maxwell conference Center and
Teleconference meeting room. 2.
All matching monies have been
used. 10.
Use of IFO Travel Funds The
administration was asked whether IFO travel funds might be expended not only to pay for
the education necessary to receive certification but also to pay the costs for the
certification itself. IFO Travel Fund
language pertaining to the new IFO contract was given to the administration for
consideration. The
administration responded that if the faculty resubmits his/her request, then it would now
be approved by the administration. 11.
Final Exam Policy The
administration provided a 2nd draft (11/25/02) of the Final exam policy. This
11/25/02 draft agrees with Faculty Senate's 10/7/02 recommendations to delete two
sentences: "If the final examination is given, it
should be administered during the assigned time during exam week." and "Exceptions to the final exam schedule
must have prior approval of the college dean." This 2nd
draft proposes the following statement as a replacement for those two sentences: "An instructor who wishes to
reschedule an exam during final exam week must receive prior approval from the college
dean" Faculty
Comment: 1.
This draft would still allow
faculty to give their last exam during the final week of classes without permission from
the administration. This would provide some
faculty the flexibility of using the time scheduled during final exam week for reviewing
tested material. 2.
Faculty can decide on the format
of final exams, such as take-home exams. 12.
Social event, 1/18/03, Country Club D. Bratt
invited members of the administration to attend a FA-sponsored dance at the Winona Country
Club, 1/18/03 (hors d'oeuvres at 6:30, dancing beginning at 7:30). The
administration was thankful for the invitation...and from the joyous expressions, they all
love to dance! 13.
Seniority Roster
(IFO addition) The
administration was queried about the method used to determine seniority listing of faculty
if they are hired on the same date. Administration
Comments/Responses: 1.
If hired on the same date: first use overall years of service, then
tenure-date, then alphabetical. 2.
However,
alphabetical listing does not imply seniority. 14.
Promotion/Tenure
Summary (IFO Addition) The Faculty
Exec's queried the administration regarding the annual summary of promotion and tenure
decisions from 2001-2002. K. Northam
will e-mail a copy to D. Bratt. 15.
UCR E-Learning The
administration provided a document stating that UCR seeks to further develop its strategic
direction for e-learning by doing market research and the development of strategic study
groups. At the Dec. 16th visioning
session, the UCR e-learning team will review baseline data and determine the specific
disciplines to be represented in two strategic study groups. IBM is the consulting service facilitating the
market research and study group activities. The team
would like to request approval to contact the IFO president by e-mail after the Dec. 16th
session, who would then immediately seek discipline specific faculty involvement, which
would begin work by early January and conclude by the end of March. 16.
Budget/Principles
Task Force The
administration will be calling the executive boards of all WSU constituencies together to
talk about and revisit the principles involved with budget issues. After some preliminary studies of the WSU budget,
there could be some drastic measures taken. Some
thoughts were also given to monies used for the Capital Campaign. However, only principles should be looked at right
now and real dollar figures should not be looked at until the new Governor is in place in
January. Perhaps the greatest burden could be
placed on the students. The meeting
is tentatively set for the week of final exams. Additional
Administration Comments: 1.
Hoped that one-time monies are not
used to solve any (recurring) budget problems. 2.
There could be a chance that money
designated for next year's budget could be taken back/reduced. 3.
Dec. 4 is the next budget forecast
date. 4.
End of January could be the real
time for budget crunching. Adjourned
3:40 p.m. Respectfully
Submitted, Bill Ng. |