Senators Present: Sara Barbor, Danning Bloom, Matt Bosworth, David Bratt, Marianna Byman, Darrell Downs, Mark Engen, Pat Ferden, Yogesh Grover, Colette Hyman, Joe Jackson, Mary Kesler, Cindy Killion, Daniel Lintin, Christa Matter, Peter Miene, Bill Ng, Troy Paino, Christine Pilon-Kacir (Rochester), Susanne Smith, Cathy Summa, Bruce Svingen, Kerry Williams.

Senators Absent: Matthew Hyle, Kelly Herold, Jo Stejskal, and Alex Yard.

Others Present: Kristin Maloney and Kelly Demeter.

David Bratt called the meeting to order at 2:59 p.m.

Items NB-A and NB-B were considered before Item II. See below

II.      Approval of minutes of April 15, 2002 Senate Meeting

Corrections:

1. VI. E. Committee on Committees: IFO Committees: Government Relations - should be Mary Kesler, not Mark Kesler.

Senate approved minutes of April 15th as written/corrected.

Motion Carried.

III.    Agenda Additions/Revisions and Approval:

Additions:

OB-A: Student Teaching Supervisor Assignments
NB-F: Phone Directory
NB-G: Copy Machine
NB-H: Rochester Meetings
NB-I: Final Exam Policy

S. Barbor/C. Hyman moved to approve agenda items.

Motion Carried.

IV.    President's Report

1. Acronym of the month: Higher Education Legislative Lobbyists (HELL).

2. During the summer I attended the June Meeting of the MnSCU Board of Trustees in connection with Rochester. I also attended the three meetings of the IFO Executive Committee and a statewide Meet and Confer. [A meeting at which Linda Baer tried to defend the Rochester issue by saying MnSCU was only protecting WSU...baloney!...D. Bratt/IFO maintained that whatever WSU got in the Rochester agreement was solely due to the work put forth by the IFO and WSU faculty. D. Bratt also asserted the agreement might be a violation of the IFO contract since the agreement was never announced in any Meet and Confers. The Chancellor immediately responded defensively.] An IFO Board meeting is scheduled for this week.

3. Alex Yard and I met last week with IFO President Jim Pehler and the president of the U of M-Duluth Faculty Association (affiliated with Education Minnesota) concerning their desire to organize U of M faculty in Rochester.

4. The Association has arranged for memorials on the occasion of deaths in the families of three faculty members.

5. In late August, MnSCU technical types proposed a policy governing access to MnSCU library resources. Some librarians took exception to the process by which the draft had been developed as well as the potential threat it posed to user anonymity. A second draft will be discussed 9/10; librarians at WSU and other state universities are monitoring the issue.

The Senate thanked D. Bratt for his efforts on the Rochester issue.

V.       Review of Meet and Confer Notes of April 22, 2002

D. Bratt referred to Item 5 dealing with Rochester meeting attendance problems.

Additional notes:

1. Registrar Search Committee has started work. Files are being reviewed.

2. Where is the Chiller Loop in Phelps? Phelps faculty requested this issue be pursued at the next Meet and Confer.

Meet and Confer Notes received by Senate.

A. Student Teaching Supervisor Assignments

Faculty received the "Final Student Supervisor Loads for Fall 2002" from Dean Carol Anderson (via Meet and Confer).

Comments:

1. Do all faculty in Education get to see this memo? [will ask at Meet and Confer]
2. Clarification on a few assignments. [will ask at Meet and Confer]

M. Kesler/C. Summa moved to convey thanks to Dean Anderson for her efforts in forwarding Student Teaching Supervisor Assignments to Meet and Confer and Faculty Senate.

Motion Carried.

D. Akita University

A document (memo from VP Richardson to Masaaki Komatsu, Project Leader, H. Ed. Section, Academy & Technology Division, Akita Prefecture, Japan) detailed a plan to make it possible for students to earn baccalaureate degrees that are granted jointly by WSU and the new Akita international university. The plan spoke to eight curricular principles of the Dual Degree Option and proposed cost sharing of Language Instruction and Instructors. The Akita campus is due to open Fall 2004.

Comments/Questions to be asked at next Meet and Confer:

1. How do we count the joint degree granted between WSU and Akita (credit, degree, graduate)?

2. Page 2: #3, should it be 32 credits for one full year of study?

3. Students will generally be spending first two years at one institution, third year at sister institution, then last year back at "home" institution.

4. Page 2: #8, both Chinese and Japanese options will be available, implying two instructors are needed.

5. Instructors are to train students too high language proficiency in one year could be difficult to achieve. However, the proposal really implies lower proficiency. Perhaps a clearer statement is needed.

6. What is the cost associated with teaching Chinese courses given by an exchange instructor? Is it an equivalent $$$ exchange?

7. A concern was made regarding the English speaking skills of foreign exchange faculty teaching courses outside his/her language expertise.

E. Rochester Agreement

A new agreement documenting the development of programs by the University of Minnesota Rochester (UMR) and the retaining of certain programs by WSU in Rochester. The agreement includes:

1. UMR is responsible for the planning, approval, and implementation of upper-division and graduate/professional programs.

2. WSU-RC continues to deliver the following programs under this new agreement:

B.A.S. Health Sciences
B.S. Accounting
B.S. Business Administration
B.S. Computer Information Systems
B.S. Computer Science
B.S. Elementary Ed
B.A. Professional Studies
B.S. Nursing
B.A. Psychology
B.S. Social Work
B.A. Sociology
M.S. Counselor Ed (Prof. Dev., Comm. Coun., School Coun
M.S. Education
M.S. Educational Leadership (Ele. Sch. Leadership, Sec. S. L., Gen. S. L.)

Specialist Degree in Ed. Leadership (K-12 Principal, Gen. School Leadership)

M.S. Advanced Practice Nursing (Family/Adult Nurse Pract., Clinical Nurse Spec., Nursing Adm., Nurse Educator)

The Provost (Rochester) will manage a review to insure greater articulation and efficiency in the delivery and cross-referencing of curriculum across degrees and systems during the 2002-2003 academic year with WSU-RC, UMR and UM-TC campus leadership. Report due by June 1, 2003.

Comments:

1. A state level grievance has been set against the Chancellor (mainly due to lack of Meet and Confers on the Rochester Agreement).

2. By having both UMR and WSU-RC list B.S. of Nursing, aren't they in competition? Are Roch/WSU faculty comfortable with this? Rochester/Nursing Senators are not sure how many students UMR has in their B.S. Nursing program...probably not many and therefore perhaps not a competition. The competition is certainly something that WSU will be monitoring. The competition has always been there, but now it's stronger since it's been written down.

Stay tuned!

F. Phone Directory

Are we getting a hard-copy version of the phone directory (which WSUFA Senate requested last year)? Electronic version simply takes too much time, plus it's dependent on the network working! Printing an electronic version would just get us one that resembles the lousy copy that we had last year... a copy that breaks/shreds every time you take it out!

Comments:

1. Getting phone service is becoming a very slow process.
2. The Phone Directory on the web displays a different Email address  
     than the Email Directory.

The Phone Directory and associated concerns will be taken to the next Meet and Confer.

G. Copy Machine

Plan A (with network software) has already failed. Plan B has started without the network. Where are Plans C and D?
Comments:

1.  What about streamlining the copying/printing process?
2.  There is a lot of wasteful printing on campus.
3.  Lower the Technology Fee and make students pay for each
     printing.
4.  Can faculty purchase copy/print cards for personal things?
5.  Color printing for courses is a concern...now that only Media
     Services has them.
6.  Even when Plan A is implemented, there must be a non-networked
     copier available!

H.  Rochester Meetings

Since the Meet and Confer meetings set for Rochester have not been well attended over the years, should we have other means to give more opportunities for Rochester faculty, Administration, and IFO participation? D. Bratt suggested that President Krueger and IFO President Bratt attend regular (~monthly) meetings held by Assoc. VP Clements with Rochester faculty. The presence of the IFO President would prevent concerns of Meet and Confer violations during these Rochester faculty meetings and would give Rochester faculty more participation opportunities.

Comments:

1. Request Administration to kick in refreshments for Rochester meetings (or perhaps we can share with the Administration).
2. Be clear that these meetings are not Meet and Confer meetings.

S. Smith/M. K moved to take to Meet and Confer the proposal that President Kruger and President Bratt attend some/all of these Rochester faculty meetings, noting that these are not Meet and Confer meetings.

Motion Carried.

I. Final Exam Policy

A statement (s) appeared in the new Catalog/Web, "there must be a final examination for each course". IFO's understanding is that this should read as "final exam/experience". There are many examples in which courses might not have final examinations. For example, lab courses and seminar courses.

Comments:

1. This statement is inaccurate.
2. Former administrators used to put out this statement and the IFO have informed
    the administration that the exam statement is inaccurate.

J. Information

1. D. Bratt commented about INF documents.
2. Several revisions were noted on the Officers/Senators list:

Alex Yard - Minne 215
Sara Barbor - Somsen 324D
Marianna Byman - Minne 214
Pat Ferden - 5330
Cindy Killion - Phelps 113E
Bill Ng - Pasteur 312G

Faculty Senate adjourned at 4:48 p.m.

Respectfully submitted, Bill Ng.