WSU FACULTY SENATE MEETING
October 23, 2000

Senators Present: Beckry Abdel-Magid, Sara Barbor, Matt Bosworth, David Bratt, Marianna Byman, Narayan Debnath, Darrell Downs, Ron Elcombe, Mark Engen, Pat Ferden, Colette Hyman, Vernon Leighton, Peter Miene, Bill Ng, Frances Ragsdale, Holly Shi, Dean Feller, Susanne Smith, Cathy Summa, Bruce Svingen, Paul Vance, Kerry Williams, Alex Yard.
Senators Absent: Shirley Eiken, Matthew Hyle, Mary Kesler (Sabbatical), and Jo Stejskal
Others Present: Kelly Herold (A2C2 Chair), Nancy Peterson (Grants Director), Dave Robinson (Calendar Issues), Brant Deppa (Math Placement), John Johanson (Math Placement).

I. Call to Order
President Yard called the meeting to order at 3:05 p.m.

II. Approval of Minutes of October 2, 2000
Year 2000 was added to date. B. Svingen/D. Downs moved to approve minutes as corrected/written.
Motion Carried.

III. Agenda Additions and Approval
NB- E. Facilities Manager Search.
NB-F. Rochester Meetings
NB-G. Univ. website
N. Debnath/R. Elcombe moved to approve the above additions.
Motion Carried.

IV. President's Report
A. 18-0 electronic votes for CLA Dean Search committee appointments. Names were forwarded to the administration.
B. Congrats to Paul Vance on a great first symphony concert of the year.
C. Tom Lee's (retired faculty) letter stated his thanks for the IFO Banquet and for the work the IFO did for faculty. The only dismay he had for IFO is that the IFO never went on strike during his years at WSU.

V. Review of Meet and Confer Notes
Notes were included in Senate pack.

VI. Committees
A. A2C2 (Com A)
A2C2-Chair Kelly Herold brought A2C2 recommendations on approval of new courses: Art 130 and Music 142,
Univ. Studies Courses Eng. 111, College Reading and Writing 3sh Communication Studies 191 Fundamentals of Speech Communication 3 sh and HHP 204 Personal and Community Health 3sh, PER Activity Courses : 112 - Folk and Square Dance 1sh, 116 - Modern Dance 1sh, 118 - Jazz Dance I 1sh, 120 - Ballroom Dance 1sh, 122 - Beginning Swimming 1sh, 123 - Swimming and Water Safety 1sh, 128 - Ballet I 1sh, 134 - Skiing 1sh, 136 - Tap Dance 1sh, 137 -Fencing 1sh, 141 -Golf 1sh, 144 -Contemporary Activities 1sh and 239 - Outdoor Pursuits 3sh
Motion Carried.

Faculty is advised to read/review Policy 3-4. A better link has now been set on the A2C2 webpage. Senate will take a vote in the future.

K. Williams requested the approval of the following (from A2C2 minutes of Oct. 4):

The USS recommends that courses in the Unity and Diversity category may fulfill both major and University Studies requirements be replaced with, courses in the Basic Skills or Unity and Diversity categories may fulfill both major and University Studies requirements under II. Departments, Disciplines, and Course Placement, Item D, first sentence of the University Studies Program. The third sentence of that section would also be changed to read, however, students may not use a course in her/his major to meet an Arts and Sciences Core requirement unless it is an additional requirement in effect deleting Basic Skills or from that sentence.
Motion Carried.

Point of information from the Oct. 4 A2C2 meeting: 55 paper copies to A2C2 are too much, will try to use electronic route. USS committee needs only 10 copies, then afterward electronically posted on the web by Kathy Schott.

B. Graduate Council
No report.

C. Government Relations Committee
D. Downs mentioned (briefly) the following events:

1. Thanks for people who did door knocking for local candidates.
2. Coming Saturday door knock in White Bear Lake for Rep. Harry Mares, Oct. 28^th, 9:30 a.m. Looking for any volunteers!
3. Hosted a candidates forum with IFO/Student-groups.

D. Personnel Policies and Grievance Committee
No report. But as a note: Peter Miene was elected as chair and Matt Hyle continued as chief grievance officer.

E. Committee on Committees (COM E)
Committee on Committees forwarded the following appointments for Senate approval: Appointments to Faculty Association Committees

A2C2
ACEED - Pauline Christensen
Accounting - Jim Hurley
AIS - Shirley Eiken (Jan Karjala, alt)
Art - Dominic Ricciotti
Biology - Ed Thompson (Larry Reuter, alt)
Business Admin - Kim Snyder
Chemistry - Charla Miertschin (Tom Nalli, alt)
Communication Studies - Kelly Herold (Dan Lintin, alt)
Computer Science - Paul Schumacher (Joan Francioni, alt)
Counselor Education - Tim Hatfield
Economics and Finance - Dan Kauffman
Education - Melanie Reap
Engineering - Maryam Grami (Beckry Abdel-Magid, alt)
English - Ruth Forsythe
Geoscience - Rebecca Ambers (Cathy Summa, alt)
HHP - Randy Miller
History - John Campbell (Alex Yard, alt)
Library - Joe Jackson (Russ Dennison, alt)
Marketing - Robert Newberry (Bruce Klemz, alt)
Mass Comm - Drake Hokanson (Ron Elcombe, alt)
Math/State - Brant Deppa (Jeff Anderson, alt)
Music - Cathy Schmidt (Gloria Chuang, alt)
Nursing - Lola Johnson (Jacqueline Hatlevig, alt)
PER - James Reidy (Roger Riley, alt)
Philosophy - Ed Slowik (Kevin Possin, alt)
Physics - Dan Bloom (Richard Shields, alt)
Political Science - Frederick Lee (Karen Csajko, alt)
Psychology - John Johanson (Kristi Lane, alt)
Sociology - Helen Dachelet (Ron Stevens, alt)
Special Ed - Barbara Boseker
Theatre/Dance - Win Lewis (David Bratt, alt)

Faculty Development
Shirley Newberry (College of Nursing/Health Sciences)
Pat Paulson (College of Business)

Personnel, Policies & Grievance
Tim Dost (Fixed Term)

Student Affairs
Karen Csajko

Instructional Technology
Catherine Nosek (College of Nursing/Health Sciences

State Task Force (to review fixed-term and adjunct positions)
Jacqueline Hatlevig

Appointments to All-University Committees

Task Force on the Responsible Conduct of Research
Rita Rahoi-Gilchrest (Liberal Arts)
Brian Aldrich (Liberal Arts)
Michael Delong (Science/Engineering)
Russ Dennison (non-teaching)

Residential College Steering Committee
Tamara Berg
Linda D'Amico
Chara Wangen
Dan Eastman
Ron Elcombe
David Urion
Alex Yard

Athletic and Hall of Fame
Jim Bromeland

Calendar Committee
Russell Smith

Institutional Review Board (formerly Human Subjects Committee)
Sharon Tucker (Nursing)

Long Range Planning and Assessment
Christine Pilon-Kacir (Nursing)

Lyceum
Kathy Sullivan (non-teaching)

VII. Old Business

A. Math Placement Test (OB-A) [Brant Deppa/John Johanson 4:00 p.m.]
K. Williams/P. Vance moved to approve the Math Placement Exam Revision Proposal (OB-A). The document outlined the work/time-line that Brant Deppa and John Johanson will do to determine and recommend what improvements, if any, could be made to the current WSU math placement exam strategy. Release time for Deppa and Johanson will be (per person):

A. Release time of one-course during Spring 2001 for the development and pilot validation of placement models.
B. A summer stipend equal to teaching one 3-credit class for the continued development, administration, and data collection of placement models.
C. Release time of one-course during Fall 2001 for the continued data collection, validation, and cross-validation of the relevant data.

B. Magid/C. Hyman moved to amend the motion with a new section labeled with outcomes listed with the project. Amendment defeated.

Back to original motion, approval of OB-A.
Motion Carried. 

VIII. New Business

A. Calendar Issues (Dave Robinson, 3:30) [NB-A brought by Dave Robinson]

The WSU Calendar Committee notified Senate of their 2002-03 and 2003-04 Calendar Decision Deadlines (NB-A). These deadline dates are driven by the needs of our students and their parents need to plan activities and make reservations, and also constrained by our university organizations, athletic teams and other university extra-curricular activities that develop schedules of events several months in advance. Length of spring break, rental dollars, the start date and finish date (set not to conflict with SMU) are some major issues of concern. The Committee is requesting input/comments from the Faculty Senate. The University Semester Task Force (members included Senators Abdel-Magid and Byman) will be forwarding input to the WSU Calendar Committee.

D. Bratt/F. Ragsdale moved to approve a one-week spring break for the calendar. It was noted that we already have a semester task force.

S. Sloan/S. Smith moved to postpone (one-week spring-break motion) until the Univ. Semester Task Force have a chance to give input to the Calendar Committee and the Faculty Senate, Nov. 20^th or earlier.
Motion (to postpone) Carried.

Bottom line is that CLA has done this before. Unless the administration is going to make a firm (expanded) commitment ($'s and positions) for Rochester program support, then CLA cannot go any further than this memo (NB-B).

K. Williams/Ron Elcombe moved to take NB-B to Meet and Confer for the administration to address. Further, ask if there is funding, is the funding new or existing? ~4-5 positions. Who is supplying funding for Rochester? [MnSCU, U of M, WSU?]

C. Hyman/S. Smith moved to substitute the Williams/Elcombe motion with, Abased on NB-B, that Senate requests the administration seek new/external (i.e. MnSCU) money for CLA at least three new faculty positions in Rochester, each for three year commitments. These new positions would take advantage of the CLA program opportunities identified in NB-B.
Substitution carried.
Motion Carried.

Senate noted it might be appropriate to invite the new Associate VPAA Clements in the future to discuss this matter.

C. WSU Regulation 3-27: Policy and Procedures for Dealing with Allegations of Scientific Misconduct (This is a 54 page document. It is available on the web and can be accessed at the President's office site:
http://www.winona.edu/president/old/WSUREG3_27pol.htm

Grants Director Nancy Peterson reported that deadline is coming fast and furious. We need to approve this WSU Reg. 3-27, like yesterday! Already sent to the Feds. K. Williams/S. Barbor moved to receive the policy.
Motion Carried.

D. Bratt/C. Hyman moved to send Reg. 3-27 to PP & G for comments. Federal mandates are set, but at least check for any possible contradictions to the IFO contract.
Motion Carried. Though several strong NO votes were voiced!

VPAA forwarded the following request to faculty senate (from the Dean of Liberal Arts and the chairs and directors of Liberal Arts departments and programs), that a Liberal Arts College Committee on Equipment, R&B and Classroom Technology be created.
The charge of this committee would be to:

1) assist the dean in making recommendations about the college's priorities for classroom equipment;
2) assist the dean in making recommendations about the college's priorities for wiring classrooms and providing other classroom technology;
3) assist the dean in making recommendations about the college's priorities for recommending R&B projects to the President.

The committee would consist of five faculty from the College of Liberal Arts.

S. Sloan/P. Ferden moved to approve this CLA Task Force (NB-B) and send to Committee on Committee for membership
Motion Carried.

E. Facilities Project Manager Search
The administration would like to have a faculty member serve on a search committee for a facilities project manager (previously held by John Burros). Dan Lintin and David Bratt of Space Utilization would be good candidates.

B. Svingen/B. Ng moved to approve David Bratt for the Facilities Project Manager Search committee...right now before David can change his mind!
Motion Carried. (Ng dodged one!)

F. Rochester Meetings
The last ITV Meet & Confer had dismal turnout on the Rochester side. Perhaps we should consider having a Senate Meeting in Rochester instead. Busy semester schedule is one of the reasons for people not even going to ITV side. Perhaps having a social after a Senate Meeting might help!
Senate agreed to explore different ideas with Rochester faculty members.

G. University Web Page
Several concerns regarding the new WSU Homepage were discussed. These included:
1. excessive prominence of athletics,
2. the lack of attention to non-athletic student activities,
3. the lack of faculty input.
D. Bratt/S. Sloan moved to approve to inform the administration at Meet and Confer that the Admissions Director should have the right to veto on the emphasis of the web site.

IX. Adjournment

M. Engen/B. Ng moved to adjourn at 5:13 p.m.
Motion Carried.

Respectfully submitted,

Bill Ng.

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