A.         New Courses

            1.            GEOS 201 Investigative Science I: Earth B The Water Planet (4 SH)
2.              HIST 214 The Mississippi River in U.S. History (3 SH)
3.              POLS 460 North American Relations (3 SH)
4.              THAD 151 Tap Dance I (1 SH)*
5.             THAD 153 Jazz Dance I (1 SH)*
6.            THAD 253 Jazz Dance II (2 SH)*
7.            THAD 157 Ballet I (1 SH)*
8.            THAD 257 Ballet II (2 SH)*
9.            THAD 357 Ballet III (2 SH)*
10.            THAD 457 Ballet IV (2 SH)*
11.            THAD 155 Modern Dance I (1 SH)*
12.            THAD 255 Modern Dance II (2 SH)*
13.            THAD 355 Modern Dance III (2 SH)*
14.            THAD 455 Modern Dance IV (2 SH)*

* These are a result of the change from PER dance techniques courses to THAD dance technique courses.

B.         University Studies B Flag Courses

1.            Critical Analysis

ART 417 Advanced Painting (3 SH)
                                    ART 418 Advanced Drawing II (3 SH)
                                    ART 420 Ceramics II (3 SH)
                                    ART 428 Advanced Sculpture (3 SH)MATH 330 Advanced Calculus I (4 SH)

The administration acknowledged the above course approvals.
The administration was also notified of the following A2C2 notifications.

              A.                 Business Administration - Addition of ACCT 330 Accounting Information Systems (3 SH)
                          to the Management Information Systems (MIS) major and minor electives list. 
                          Accounting department will add “or consent of instructor” to the course description.

B.         Mathematics & Statistics - Course title changes:

MATH 150 Mathematics for the Earth and Life Sciences I to Modeling Using Precalculus and Statistics
MATH 155 Mathematics for the Earth and Life Sciences II to Calculus Based Modeling

C.         Residential College - One-time course offerings: **

RC 001 Living & Learning Theme - Gender & Culture (0 SH)
                        RC 002 Living & Learning Theme - Globalization (0 SH)
                        RC 003 Living & Learning Theme - Human Beginnings and Endings (0 SH)
                        RC 004 Living & Learning Theme - The Mississippi River (0 SH)

** These courses serve as a tracking device for future assessment of the Residential College
Living and Learning Communities.

D.         Theatre & Dance - Renumbering of dance technique courses:

With the approval of the new THAD dance technique courses above, the catalog listing for the
 B.A. Minor-Dance must be updated to reflect the department change from PER to THAD and
course number changes.

2.            Committee Appointments

 The administration was notified of the following appointments approved by the Faculty Senate.

                   Action Committee - Toby Dogwiler (IFO Committee only, just notification.)
                   IACUC - Kevin Possin (for the remainder of the 02-03 academic year)
                   Commencement Committee - Mark Norman, Eugene Lundak
                   Academic Software/Systems Steering Committee (MnSCU) - Robert Bacchus, Rita Rahoi-Gilchrest
                   MN Transfer Curriculum Study Task Force (ad hoc) - Charla Miertschin, Alex Yard, Pat O'Brien, David Bratt
                   Science Building Art Advisory Task Force (ad hoc) - Robin Richardson, Rill Reuter, Anne Plummer
                   Faculty Orientation Coordinator Screening Committee - Joyati Debnath and David Bratt. (will soon
                   receive a third name).

 Note: Committee on Committees is having difficulty-finding volunteers for study groups for Rochester
e-Learning Committee.

 The administration acknowledged the IFO appointments.

 3.            Regulation 3-7

 The administration was informed that the Faculty Senate recommended approval of Regulation 3-7 with
 the following amendment:

A full review be accomplished within 10 duty days and that an expedited review be done in 5 duty days.

The administration approved the Faculty Senate recommendation.

4.            Stipends

 Since the WSUFA has insisted that faculty be given payments for whole or integer number of duty day
payments (in accordance with the IFO Master Contract), the administration was queried on how WSU
has been handling stipends from external granting agencies (and MnSCU CTL) that pay stipends at les
than or non-integer duty-day rates.

 Administration Responses:

1.         The administration interprets MnSCU CTL grants only from the point of the view of the IFO Master Contract
and therefore cannot accept a grant written with stipends less than a whole duty-day payment.
This is the administration’s understanding from MnSCU and yet MnSCU CTL grant stipend amounts
 are in violation of the IFO Master Contract.  The same understanding of stipends at integer duty-day
 rates was also related from Labor Relations.

2.         One can write MOA’s for stipends set at less than a whole duty-day payment.

3.         Perhaps there should be some sort of generalized MOA written to cover stipends at less than or
 non-integer duty-day rates.

4.         If the WSUFA and the faculty involved with a grant are willing to set up an MOA, the administration is willing to
work with the WSUFA.  President Krueger stated that he is not trying to block stipend payment  to faculty.

5.         The MOA process appears to be the solution until the IFO Master Contract addresses the stipend issue.

5.         IFO Banquet Invitation, 4/23/03

 The administration was invited to attend the IFO Honors Banquet on Wednesday April 23^rd at the Westfield Golf course. 
Free Appetizers will be provided along with a Cash Bar.  This year's retirees to be honored are:

Lyelle Palmer - Special Ed.
Dennis Pack - Mass Comm.
George Gross - Math.
Chuck Bentley - Counseling Center/oced
Jim Mootz - Psyc/Admissions

Also to be honored is:  D. Bratt - WSUFA President for 2001-2003.

 Administrators are invited but they have to pay the same amount as faculty/staff, $13 per person.

6.         Global Studies/Akita

 The administration informed the faculty exec’s that the MSU-Akita program will be officially closed this spring.
The Akita Prefecture will be starting (with $30M) a program in collaboration with a few SU’s sometime in fall
2004.  They are beginning to hire faculty now.  A partnership is being developed between WSU and the new Akita
Prefecture to strengthen both programs (Global Studies) at WSU and in Akita.  The Akita National University will
be sending WSU (with salary/travel provided by Akita) a Japanese faculty to teach Japanese course(s) at WSU.
 WSU will only need to cover housing for the Japanese faculty.  This will be done for two years. 

This arrangement would enhance WSU’s Global Studies program and provide WSU faculty the opportunity to
 teach at Akita National University.  WSU’s faculty salary will be picked up in full by Akita, including living expenses. 
This could occur in the second full year of operation at Akita National.  The faculty salary savings (especially for a
senior WSU faculty) can be used at WSU to pay for an Akita instructor teaching as a Fixed
Term at WSU (beginning in the fall of 2005) and also a fixed term to teach courses vacated by the WSU faculty. 
WSU will work out (make up) the difference in cost; i.e. WSU will probably need to pick up the extra cost, but
 get some back in the form of extra credits taught by the Japanese faculty.  This scenario could be much
better than a WSU faculty going on sabbatical.

 A similar arrangement is being worked on with one or two universities in China.

 If a WSU faculty chooses to work at Akita, there will not be any effect/decrease for that faculty’s accumulation
 of benefits and seniority years.

7.          Senate Hearing and other Budget Items (administration addition)

 The administration thanked students, faculty, staff and community members in providing great support for
 the Senate Hearing last Tuesday.

 The administration pointed out the following budget issues upon analysis of budget details:

1.         Over the years, WSU is slowly picking up more of the costs within the operation budget.

2.         WSU is starting to look like a private institution.

4.         WSU will be looking at how students are paying for the increase.

5.         Relative to total costs at WSU, ~70% of student costs (~$11,000 per year) is being paid by the students/parents.

6.         With this trend, WSU could look more like a private school a decade of so down the road.

7.         The claim that the state pays for 43% of public student costs is not true if one looks at the actual
money paid by students and parents.

8.         Recruiting strategies could be quite different in the future since students and parents need to feel
even more satisfied (than ever before) for them to choose WSU.

8.         The American Democracy Project (administration addition)

 The administration provided a document on the American Democracy Project: Civic Engagement for
 Citizens in the 21^st Century, in which WSU is being solicited, to join in a new civic engagement initiative.
 One hundred institutions could work together collaboratively with the American Association of State
Colleges and Universities (AASCU) and The New York Times.

 This project is a multi-campus initiative that seeks to create an intellectual and experiential understanding
 of civic engagement in the United States in the 21^st century.  It grows out of a concern about decreasing rate
 of participation in the civic life of America in voting, in advocacy, in volunteerism in local grassroots
 associations, and in other forms of civic engagement that are necessary for the vitality of our democracy.

 Enrolling in this project requires no special expenditure of campus funds.  Upon participation, campus
agrees to:

*Review the mission statement and other institutional goal statements, and work to include a statement
 about the civic outcomes of college for students in that statement if not already present,

*Conduct an inventory of civic engagement activities already underway on campus,

*Participate in a national conversation about civic engagement theory and practice,

*Initiate a wide variety of civic engagement projects and programs...within the curriculum, in non-academic
 campus activities, and in reshaping the campus culture and climate...within current funding limits, and as
 appropriate for the campus,

*Participate in assessment activities and share successful strategies.

 Should WSU’s name be sent forward?

Adjourned 4:03 p.m.

Respectfully Submitted,