WSU FACULTY SENATE MEETING
October 29,2001
Senators Present: Danning Bloom, Matt Bosworth, David Bratt, Marianna
Byman, Narayan Debnath, Darrell Downs, Mark Engen, Pat Ferden, Matthew Hyle,
Colette Hyman, Joe Jackson, Mary Kesler, Cindy Killion, Daniel Lintin, Peter
Miene, Bill Ng, Christine Pilon-Kacir (in Rochester), Susanne Smith, Jo
Stejskal, Cathy Summa, Bruce Svingen, Paul Vance, Kerry Williams, Alex Yard
Senators Absent: Sara Barbor, Frances Ragsdale
Others Present: Joe Mount, Charla Miertschin, Dan Eastman, Peter
Henderson, Steve Richardson, Darrell Krueger, Scott Ellinghuysen, D. Martin, Cal
Winbush, Tamara Berg, John Ferden
I. Call to Order
David Bratt called the meeting to order at 3:02 p.m.
II. Approval of minutes of October 15, 2001 Senate Meeting
M. Kesler/D. Downs
moved to approve minutes of Oct. 15th as written.
Motion Carried.
III. Agenda Additions/Revisions and Approval:
Add:
1. Com-F: Negotiator
2. Com-G: Social
3. NB-G: New Science Bldg. Invitation
P. Vance/C. Killion moved to approve these agenda additions.
Motion Carried.
IV. President's Report
1. Mary Kesler, Bruce Svingen, and I survived attended an
IFO Board Talkfest
Meeting. Noteworthy
items included:
The Chancellor's quarterly report to the Board of Trustees included; a
note that the CO's Public Affairs Officer was proposing a public relations
campaign, promoting the idea of a 'contract' which would assure a student
initially denied admission to a MnSCU four-year state university of seamless
transfer into one/any of those universities, provided that the student
completed the Minnesota Transfer Curriculum at a two-year MnSCU college.
I have alerted the Academic VP and Admissions Office to this passage in
the Chancellor's report. WSU currently requires that transfer students have
a minimum 2.40 GPA for automatic admission; those with GPAs between 2.00 and
2.39 are required to interview with the Admissions Office staff before being
admitted.
The State IFO Office will contribute $200 to the local AFSCME and MAPE
strike/hardship funds.
The 'Professional Issues (Foster)' document discussed at a Senate meeting
was referred to the state IFO Academic Affairs committee
Faculty from MnSCU CCs and four-year universities will meet in St. Paul
to evaluate courses submitted by Tech College's for inclusion in the
Minnesota Transfer Curriculum. The meeting will begin in the late afternoon
on Thursday, 11/15, and end around 2 p.m. on 11/16.
The IFO negotiating team was instructed to introduce the Post-Retirement
Savings Plan into the
negotiating process.
Jim Pehler and Russ Stanton are visiting campuses to answer questions
about this plan, to gauge the amount of support it has, and to determine
which funding source faculty across the system prefer. They will hold
meetings at WSU during the morning of Tuesday, 11/20. The first will be
8:30-9:30 a.m.; the second 9:30-10:30 a.m.
2. I will be driving to Marshall tomorrow to address the Chancellor's
Citizens Commission on the evils of the funding formula.
3. A number of senators and other WSU faculty attended the presentation about
the university's Science Building bonding request, delivered to members of the
House Bonding Committee on Wednesday afternoon. In addition, the Student Senate
adjourned its meeting in order to attend.
V. Review of Meet and Confer Notes (October 22, 2001)
Meet and Confer Notes received by Senate.
VI. Committee Reports
A. A2C2
I. Course/Program Proposals
A. New Courses
ART 110 Experiencing Art (3 SH)
MATH 315 Chaos Theory (3 SH)
MKTG 341 eCommerce (3 SH)
B. Revised Program
Associate in Arts Degree
II. University Studies Courses
III. Flag Courses
A. Writing Flag
NURS 330 Nursing Role Development (3 SH)
SOC 404 Law Enforcement Communication (3 SH)
B. Oral Flag
NURS 491 Capstone Experience in Role Synthesis (3 SH)
C. Mathematics/Statistics or Critical Analysis Flag
POLS 410 Political Research II-Primary (3 SH)
NURS 375 Nursing Research (3 SH)
Courses and program revision approved by Faculty Senate.
IV. Notifications
A.
Art - B.A. Major-Studio Art: ART
444 Senior does not have to be repeated.
There is another upper division studio elective required, instead.
Required courses are 30 SH and Electives are 18 SH. There is no change in
the total number of credits required.
B. Biology: Course name changes.
1. BIOL 241 Principles of Biology I was changed
to
BIOL 241 Basics of Life
2. BIOL 242 Principles of Biology II was changed
to
BIOL 242 Organismal Diversity
C. BS Major - Sociology: Criminal Justice
1. Drop POL 228 Public Service (3) from requirements and add three
credits to electives.
2. Course title change: SOC 404 Law Enforcement Communications to
SOC 414 Law Enforcement Investigations and Communications.
3. Course title change: SOC 491 Crime Prevention and Community Policing
to SOC 491 Community Policing and Administration.
4. Course description change: SOC 404 Law Enforcement Investigations
and Communications
5. Course description change: SOC 491 Community Policing and
Administration
D. History
1. BA Major - History and BA Minor - History: HIST 220 Introduction to
African American History (3) and HIST 235 History of the American Indian
(3) are added to the list of available courses in the Different Culture
History Sequence.
2. Drop HIST 210 American Military History (3)
3. Drop HIST 415 20
th-Century
Europe (3)
4. Course title change: HIST 447 The Vietnam War to HIST 447
America in the Vietnam War Era
5. Course title change: HIST 423 20
th-Century
England to HIST 423 Modern England
6. Course description change: HIST 417 Hitler and Nazi Germany
7. Course description change: HIST 440 World War II
8. Course title change: HIST 495 Senior Seminar
to
HIST 495 Senior Research Seminar
9. Prerequisite change for HIST 495 Senior Research Seminar: History or
Social Science/History major status, senior standing, students must be
carrying no Incompletes at time of registration, instructor permission
required.
E. Foreign Languages: One-time course offerings
1. FL 108 Introduction to Arabic (3) - Fall 2001
Senate received notifications.
V. Other
A. AIS BS Major Business (Teaching)
A2C2 approved the following motion from the AIS Department:
The AIS Department requests approval for a 19-30-credit residency
requirement for those transfer students' participation in the MN Business
Teacher Education Transfer Plan. The 11-credit variance will apply only to
off-campus transfer students participating in the innovative 3-year pilot
plan for business teacher education.
AIS item Postponed till next Senate meeting.
B. Graduate Council
No Report.
C. Government Relations (statewide and local)
Darrell
Downs briefly reported the following:
Local GR Committee met on Friday, Oct. 26 to discuss political action
items regarding the proposed science building and related planning for the
legislative session. The committee is planning to: initiate pre-session
meetings with selected legislators; send committee delegates to caucus
fundraisers; and pending the availability of legislators, organize an eggs
& issues event for the science building proposal.
D. Personnel Policies and Grievance
No report yet. But committee has started looking at the various issues
from Senate. These
include Teacher Supervision Loads and Review of AA/HR.
E. Committee on Committees
The Committee on Committees
recommends that the following members be appointed to the
committees
listed:
All-University Technology
Committee - Lee Gray (Ed. Admin)
Social Committee (IFO) - Cindy
Killion (Mass Comm)
Marketing Department's alternate
representative to A2C2 - Bill Murphy
Motion Carried. (Appointments
confirmed by Senate)
Dan Rand indicated his interest to serve on the IRB
(human subjects).
D. Downs/M. Kesler moved that Dan Rand be appointed on
the IRB (human subject) committee.
Motion Carried.
F. Negotiator
1. Met last week and another set of meetings set.
2. Bad meeting last week, better off if not met!
3. MnSCU didn't have all their team members present, made it difficult to
negotiate. In fact, meeting was shortened due to lack of MnSCU member
representations.
4. Have Senate ask administration what it (admin) can and will do to
ensure that WSU's admin representative are present for negotiations?
5. MnSCU's counter $ offer is very poor!
6. Previously, MnSCU claimed need for more flexibility with summer
school scheduling, but Chris Dale said this may not be sure. What is WSU's
position on this summer school issue?
#4 & #6 was moved by Senators to go to Meet and Confer for clarifications.
Motion Carried.
7. Make your views known to Matt Hyle.
G. Social
The Friday Oct. 29 Social was quite well attended and was very well
received by
MAPE/ASFSME members.
Future socials could include a Valentine's dance for IFO and their guests. Alex
can't wait!
VII. Old Business
None.
VIII. New Business
A. Honors (Dan Eastman, Peter Henderson, 3:15)
Honors program has not grown. Many ways were created to enhance the
program, but still only a few students.
Honors Council asked to take to Meet and Confer the issue of discontinuing
the Honors program, effective next catalog.
M. Kesler/A. Yard moved to refer this issue to A2C2 with a return
recommendation back to the next Senate meeting.
Motion Carried.
B. Enrollments and Funding (with administration, 3:30)
The following questions and comments were generated prior to and from
discussion of these issues at the 10/29/01 Faculty Senate meeting
Enrollments and funding:
--why will WSU continue recruiting in Illinois if enrolling these students
loses us money? (the Chancellor said there were plenty of students in Minnesota)
--aren't we guilty of false advertising if we advertise close faculty/student
contact but continue to raise class sizes?
--why in fact do we have so many freshman students? isn't this year's class
much larger than expected? why did so many unexpected students show up at the
last minute? why didn't we know sooner? or take steps earlier to deal with the
extra students?
--do we have data on retention rates of students who do get Basic Skills
courses in their first year vs. those who do not? how many new students
(primarily those who enrolled on the last day in June or in August) were unable
to enroll either in Composition or Speech for the Fall? will these students be
able to enroll in both these courses in the Spring? were a disproportionate
number of these students male?
--'increase all classes by 1' isn't helpful or realistic...labs, for
instance, have only so many seats.
--What is our plan? are we going to rely on designating some courses as
megasections and supplying help for them? or are we going to increase every
class's size? or...? right now, it looks as if there is no plan.
--some senators recalled that the administration last year had suggested that
this year's high enrollment need be merely a temporary blip...after which we can
retreat/return to more acceptable enrollment levels. True? if so, is that still
the case?
--whatever the enrollment levels are, the university's reputation is being
damaged by the larger number of students who disrupt neighborhoods while/after
drinking
Questions/Comments/Responses:
1. Presentation by the administration on the new Allocation Model
Components.
2. $3M shortfall was taken care of by: $1M extra Tuition, $1M other
funds, $1M personnel cuts.
3. A handout was given to Senators on the Allocation Model; a bit more
in-depth from what was presented at meetings with campus constituencies
earlier this fall.
4. $500M available to rest of MnSCU campuses after MnSCU takes theirs
from the top.
5. CIP codes were assigned and compared to all other MnSCU campuses.
6. MnSCU forced campuses to pursue quantity, not quality!...in fact
invites evil doings to get below the MnSCU average.
7. The model rewards low-salary faculty and high enrollment (large class
size), and low equipment cost relative to all other campuses.
8. The model is impossible to predict.
9. Differential tuition can be used to win against this model.
10. The following web-site contains actual data from MnSCU on various
depts. in MnSCU campuses.
11. Increasing retention rate would spread out our four year numbers while
keeping total WSU students constant at ~7500.
12. If WSU's enrollment grows faster than the system's average, then we can
win.
13. Get rid of this Model since it only awards numbers.
14. Suggest model: Adequate Base + Performance.
15. WSU is reaching its capacity...so is Winona. Is there a logical size for
WSU?
16. Lack of availability of Basic skills and other University Studies courses
for all First Year Students...a statement generated at the Oct. 12, 2001
Orientation Faculty Workshop.
17. Strategic Options (individually with risk but taken together as a package
may work):
a. Increase retention [depends on MnSCU average]
b. Increase class size selectively [depends on MnSCU average]
c. Expand summer offerings
d. Expand On-line offerings
e. Expand Customized Training
f. Increase external gifts [can be used to support faculty line, i.e.
$1.3M needed per endowed chair, Foundation is driving toward $35M soon.]
[but dangerous if no future grants.]
g. Increase grant & contract income [can be used to support
faculty line] [but again dangerous]
h. Increase special programs (conferences, camps, etc.)
i. ???
18. Have as many people as possible lobby against this new MnSCU
Allocation Model.
19. TC's are the big winners in this model. Most CC's are hurting more
than SU's.
20. IFO has been lobbying against this model. IFO have lobbied the
legislators, which has been more successful than lobbying MnSCU...Lobbying
efforts so far has only resulted in slowing down the implementation of the
present MnSCU Allocation Model.
21. Administration feels that the new Chancellor might be receptive to
Base+Funding.
22. How should WSU approach the nuts and bolts of the Strategic options
listed under Item #17.
23. NR(Illinois/Iowa) students has higher average ACT (~23.5) than MN-WSU
students (ACT~22). WSU can
--how many WSU students live in residence halls?
--how do retention rates compare between students in residence halls and
students in private housing?
--do the two choices, bonding and internal funding, both result in large
increases in room/board charges? are these increases roughly equivalent in size?
--to what degree is the increase in charges alleviated if we go to a 15-20
year timeline rather than 10 years? Does WSU have the OK to use a 15-20 year
timeline?
--why does the administration believe that internal funding, as opposed to
bonding, is the wiser course to take?
--which is the more 'dangerous' funding source? Which harms WSU the most if
conditions turn bad, internally? Does either funding source protect WSU (or
leave us financially exposed) if dorms at other schools are unfilled?
--is there any indication of which funding source is preferred by student
organizations, either locally or at the state level?