Meet and Confer Notes
       WSU Faculty Association
          Monday, February 17, 2003, 3:00 p.m.

                      

0.            Additions Or Deletions

 Previously Scheduled:

            1.            Course Approvals
2.            IP Grade Recommendation
3.            Committee Appointments And Calls For Volunteers
4.            Negotiations Issues: Salary, Workload, and Individual Research
5.            Faculty Advisor For Golden Key Honorary Society
6.            Meet And Confer Dates, 03-04
7.            Budget Questions
8.            USP Director

 Additions:

            9.            IRB WSU Reg. 3-7 (administration addition)

 1.         Course Approvals

 The administration was notified regarding Faculty Senate's approval of courses below.

 

A.         New Courses

1.            SOCW 445 Globalization of Social Welfare (3 SH)

B.         University Studies B Course Requirements

1.            Unity and Diversity: Critical Analysis

ECON 302 Intermediate Microeconomics (3 SH)

FIN 360 Corporate Finance (3 SH)

2.            Unity and Diversity: Science and Social Policy

GEOS 102 Resources of the Earth (3 SH)

3.            Unity and Diversity: Global or Multicultural Perspectives

MATH 410 History of Math (3 SH) - Remove course from this area effective fall 2003.

C.         University Studies B Flag Courses

1.            Writing

MATH 330-Advanced Calculus I (4 SH)

2.            Oral

MATH 410 History of Math (3 SH) - Add course to this area effective fall 2003.

3.            Mathematics/Statistics

FIN 335 Forecasting Methods (3SH)

 

The administration acknowledged the above course approvals.

The administration was also notified of the following:

 PER Adventure Tourism minor B adjustment of credits from Area A to Area B

 

 

 

 

2.         IP Grade Recommendation

 

The administration was notified that Faculty Senate approved A2C2 recommendations dealing with In Progress (IP) grades:

 

A2C2 can find no reference to IP grades in current WSU regulations. The 2002-2004 catalog (page 26) includes the statement "If an IP is not replaced with a grade before the student completes graduation requirements, it becomes a failing grade," which was added by Stewart Shaw for that catalog and did not appear in previous versions.

 

(A)       A2C2 recommends approval of the following policy statement:  "Winona State University recognizes that special circumstances will arise in which a student can not be assigned a grade for one or more courses at the end of a term. Typically, this will apply to independent study courses, internships, special projects, and related activities which bridge from one semester to the next. The grade of "In Progress" (IP) is appropriate for these circumstances.

 

A faculty member shall have one calendar year from the time a grade of "IP" is initially submitted to replace it with a regular grade. Any grade of "IP" which is not replaced within this time shall automatically be converted to an "F" or "NC". A grade of "IP" which was submitted during or prior to the fall semester of the 2002-2003 academic year will automatically be converted to an "F" or "NC" unless a regular grade is submitted by the end of the fall semester of the 2003-2004 academic year.

 

(B)        A2C2 recommends that the catalog statement noted above be revised to read:  "If an IP is not replaced with a grade within one year, it becomes a failing grade".

 

The administration acknowledged the IP recommendations.

 

 

3.            Committee Appointments And Calls For Volunteers

 

The administration was notified that Faculty Senate approved the following appointments:

 

May Term Committee (David Bratt, Toby Dogwiler, Bruce Svingen, Elizabeth Oness),

Child Abuse Prevention Center Committee (Dan Lintin, Rod Winters, Colette Hyman, Helen Dachelet, Jacqueline Hatlevig, Glen Just, Carole Madland, James Kobolt, Kelly Herold, Colin Ward),

FA Budget Committee (David Bratt, Cathy Summa, Marzie Astani, Elizabeth Burke, Linda Seppanen, Mary Kesler, Dan Bloom), and Judicial Committee (Marianna Byman);

 

The administration acknowledged the committee appointments.  

 

The administration was also informed that Faculty Senate instructed Committee on Committees to issue a call for members of the Transfer Curriculum Study Committee and the Science Building Art Advisory Committee.

 

 

4.            Negotiations Issues: Salary, Workload, And Individual Research

 

The administration was queried for their responses to three contract items important to faculty: competitive salaries, workload/reassigned time (including the process by which reassigned time is distributed), and

supplemental resources for individual research;

 

Administration Responses/Comments:

1.         Bad time to talk about additional reassigned time.

2.         Non-class duty days in the Calendar should be considered as faculty workload reassigned time.

3.            Research days are captured within contractual non-class duty days, may be ~35 total FTE for reassigned (for all faculty chairs + directors + IFO President + research).

4.         Feels that this past year’s contract was quite competitive.

5.         Do not want to talk about specific/new contract issues at Meet and Confer, especially when they are to be negotiated.

 

 

5.         Faculty Advisor For Golden Key Honorary Society

 

The administration was informed that Faculty Senate recommended that students who are members of the Golden Key Honor Society select their faculty advisor (with assistance, as desired, from the Senate).  Gab Manrique was also so informed.

 

 

6.         Meet And Confer Dates, 03-04

 

The administration was informed that the Faculty Senate approved dates for next year's Senate, A2C2, and in particular Meet and Confer meetings.

 

The administration acknowledged/thanked the approved Meet and Confer dates.

 

 

7.         Budget Questions

 

The administration was queried regarding areas of the university that the administration regards as 'off the table': Which areas are they?  By what process were they given this status?  How firm is that status? ...in light of the fact

that 25% of operating budgets were unalloted last week.

 

Administration Responses/Comments:

 

1.         No absolute agreements yet on what are off the table and what the actual % unallotment will be.  Administration didn’t want people (outside) to think we can afford a 25% allotment...may be it could be more yet!  Though, laptops are off the table and items that are directly related to student tuition are off the table.

2.            Students were promised 3% (2% acquisition + 1% technology) for the Library, so that money will not be touched.

 

In addition, the administration was questioned about resources devoted to 'technology' (broadly conceived):

What does the Student Technology Fee buy? The Student Laptop Fee? How much money from other sources (e.g., the operating budget) goes to pay for technology (hardware, infrastructure, staffing)?

 

 

Administration Responses/Comments:

1.         Laptops for adm/staff/faculty are paid by university operating budget (part of capital equipment); two year lease agreement. Cost is ~$440k.

2.            Computer fee from students leasing laptops takes care of service and staffing in IT, different line for the university.  Last year was in the black by about $100k.  Previous years were in the red by ~$700-800k.  About $8-million will be generated from laptop rentals this coming year.  Will try to have a reserve from any laptop money.