WSU FACULTY SENATE MEETING
March 22,
Senators Present: Sara Barbor, Tamara Berg, Danning Bloom, Matt Bosworth, David Bratt, Darrell Downs, Mark Engen, Pat Ferden, Peter Henderson, Kelly Herold, Matthew Hyle, Colette Hyman, Joe Jackson, Mary Kesler, Dan Lintin, Peter Miene, Bill Ng, Troy Paino, Christine Pilon-Kacir (ITV-Roch), Susanne Smith, Jo Stejskal, Cathy Summa, Bruce Svingen.
Senators Absent: Marianna Byman, Cindy Killion (sabbatical leave), Jan Sherman.
Faculty/Staff: Charla Miertschin (A2C2), Chris Brown (BSU), Toby Dogwiler, Linda Seppanen, Tess Kruger, Nancy Dumke, J. Whetstone, D. Gresham.
Students/Others: Justin Jellnek, Adam Keith, Michael Hofland, Parker Hjelmberg, and BJ Puttbrese.
I. Call to Order
M. Kesler called the meeting to order at 3:02 p.m.
II. Approval of minutes of February 23, 2004 Senate Meeting
Correction:
Students/Others: Jaye Fritz (1st District Republican Chair)
B. Svingen/J. Stejskal moved to approve minutes of 2/23/04 as corrected.
Motion Carried.
III. Agenda Additions/Revisions and Approval:
Revision:
Com-F: Remove “Vote of No Confidence in Chancellor” keep “Negotiations”
Deletion:
Com-H: College Republican Proposal
Add:
Com-H: Task Force on Civil Liberty
NB-F: Vote of No Confidence in Chancellor
NB-G: IFO Travel Fund Reimbursement
NB-H: Chris Brown
D. Lintin/C. Summa moved to approve agenda.
Motion Carried.
IV. President’s Report
Faculty Association President’s Report
M. Kesler
March 22, 2004
Since I did not have a President's report for you last time, I will try to summarize a few of the events occurring since February. Darrell Downs reported to you last time that several of us attended IFO Lobby Days and were able to speak with a number of legislators. Bruce Svingen attended the IFO Meet and Confer with the Chancellor for me on February 20, 2004, when I was on my way to Baltimore. Among the more unusual items on that agenda was a "Business Practice Variance Alignment Committee," which had not been brought to Meet and Confer. In correspondence from Vice Chancellor Linda Baer to President Jim Pehler, she states that the intention of this group is to improve "seamlessness," recommending reductions in "perceived/actual barriers to a student's ability to move between our colleges and universities..." Some of these are academic issues, such as how many times a student can repeat a course, whether credit is given for passing college level exams, and various admissions and registration procedures.
On another issue, Governor Pawlenty has asked the Citizen's League to do an assessment of higher education in the state, develop a vision for higher education, and develop an agenda to connect the assessment and vision. As far as we have heard, they have not started to work yet. Back in 1995, there was "A Citizens League Policy Statement: Building a Legacy of Better Value: Choose Reform, Not Declining Quality." One of the thrusts of this report for higher education was that most of the funding went to institutions and that more should go to our "customers," the students. At the time, the report stated that 90% of higher education funding went to institutions, and they recommended that 30% should be the new amount for systems, 30% for "lifetime learning grants" to Minnesota students, 30% to needbased financial aid, %5 for research, and 5% for initiatives like technology. I knew there was a reason I kept these in my files this long!
Back before spring break, I sent each of you an email on the new Acceptable Use policy MnSCU has adopted. If you have misplaced that, you can find it at http://www.mnscu.edu/Policies/Procedures/522p1.html
I would like to call your attention to the IFO Meet and Confer notes with the Chancellor's office. They are posted on the IFO website at http://www.ifo.org at the bottom of the window.
This week is our Delegate Assembly. We have 24 delegates attending, out of 29 seats that were available to us. This includes faculty from all colleges and nonteaching faculty. We also have 14 resolutions from WSU that we sent for inclusion in the program.
The second New University conference is also next week. I have emailed you summaries and concept papers I have received. Since the Board of Trustees is requesting that WSU present progress to them at the April Board meeting, I wanted you to have access to this material. There will also be a meeting next week for anyone from WSU who wants to hear a summary of what happened at the conference.
Additional Notes:
1. Do not circulate forms with student or faculty SSN’s on them.
V. Review of Meet and Confer Notes of March 1, 2004.
Meet and Confer Notes received by Senate.
VI. Committee Reports
COM-A. A2C2 (document in Senate packet, presented by A2C2 Chair Charla Miertschin)
Senate considered the following A2C2 items from 2/25/04:
I. Courses and Programs
A. New Courses
1. MIS 200 Independent Studies in MIS (12 SH)
2. ECON 401 Entrepreneurship and the American Economy (3 SH)
3. MIS 412 Management of eCommerce (3 SH)
4. MIS 398 Internship (19 SH)
5. MIS 399 Internship Problems (3 SH)
6. OM 398 Internship (19 SH)
7. OM 399 Internship Problems (3 SH)
B. Revised Courses
1. MUS 207 Music Technology II (decrease from 3 to 2 SH)
C. New program
1. BA Major Sociology Gerontology Studies Option (43 SH)
D. Revised Programs
1. B.S. Major Music Business (change from 96 SH to 9596 SH)
2. B.A. Major Sociology General Option (43 SH)
II. University Studies
A. Course Requirements
1. Unity & Diversity: Global Perspectives
GS 210 Introduction to North America (3 SH)
2. Unity & Diversity: Multicultural Perspectives
CHIN 201 Advanced Beginning Chinese I (4 SH)
CHIN 202-Advanced Beginning Chinese II (4 SH)
JPN 201 Advanced Beginning Japanese I (4 SH)
JPN 202 Advanced Beginning Japanese II (4 SH)
B. Flag Courses
1. Oral
ENGL 470 Seminar in American Literature (3 SH)
ENGL 471 Seminar in British Literature (3 SH)
C. University Studies Program Assessment Plan (USPAP)
[Separate PDF document was not placed in Senate packet. C. Miertschin provided copies to Senators. USPAP will be considered at the next Senate meeting.]
III. Notifications (information only)
A. Special Education Bank the following courses:
1. SPED 200 Exceptional Child
2. SPED 449 Practicum B Learning Disabilities/Developmental Disabilities
3.
B. Health and Human Performance B.S. Major name changes:
1. Current: Exercise Science: Athletic Training Option, new: Exercise and Rehabilitative Science: Athletic Training Option.
2. Current: Exercise Science: Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation Option, new: Exercise and Rehabilitative Science: Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation Option.
3. Current: Exercise Science: Movement Science Option, new: Exercise and Rehabilitative Science: Movement Science Option.
4. Current: Exercise Science: Worksite Health Promotion Option, new: Exercise and Rehabilitative Science: Worksite Health Promotion Option.
C. Management of Information Systems and Operations (formerly under Business Administration)
1. B.S. MajorManagement Information Systems rearrangement of catalog listing to reflect recent program and prefix changes; change recommended general elective from CS 150 An Overview of Computer Science (3 SH) to MIS 202 Microcomputers in Business (3 SH); Add MIS 399 Internship Problems (3 SH) (replacing BUSA 399) and MIS 412 Management of eCommerce (3 SH) to list of electives.
2. B.S. MinorManagement Information Systems rearrangement of catalog listing to reflect recent program and prefix changes; add MIS 412 Management of eCommerce (3 SH) to list of electives
3. Program name change current: B.S. MinorProduction and Operations Management, new: B.S. MinorOperations Management.
4. B.S. MinorOperations Management rearrangement of catalog listing to reflect recent program and prefix changes; include STAT 303 Introduction to Engineering Statistics (3 SH) as option under required courses; add OM 399 Internship Problems (3 SH), ACCT 361 Intermediate Managerial/Cost Accounting (3 SH), ENGR 390 Composites Manufacturing (3 SH), ENGR 420 Computer Integrated Manufacturing (3 SH) to list of electives.
5. Course name change current: OM 334 Production and Operations Management (3 SH), new: Operations Management.
6. Course name change current: OM 414 Production Planning and Control (3 SH), new: Operations Planning and Control.
7. Course name change current: OM 494 Current Topics in POM (3 SH), new: Current Topics in OM.
D. Physical Education and Recreation changes in B.S. MajorRecreation, Tourism and Therapeutic Recreation.
1. Current: Option A: Recreation and Tourism, new: Track A: Recreation and Tourism.
2. Replace the word Option with Track throughout listing.
3. Relisting of PER 203 Recreation Programming (3 SH) and PER 239 Outdoor Pursuits (3 SH) from PER Courses Required for Option A Only to PER Courses Required for Track A and Track B.
E. Nursing course number reduction. Current: NURS 425 Transcultural Issues in Health Care (3 SH), new: NURS 325.
Faculty Senate approved courses and programs in Items I and II.
Faculty Senate received notifications.
COM-B. Graduate Council
No report.
COM-C. Government Relations
D. Downs reported that the Alternative Teacher Licensure Bill is still moving forward. IFO is against the Bill. Write to your legislators.
Com-D. Personnel Policies and Grievance
M. Hyle reported the following RECOMMENDATIONS FROM PERSONNEL POLICIES AND GRIEVANCE COMMITTEE:
The PP&G committee recommends that the administration address the following concerns in its regulation 516 WINONA STATE UNIVERSITY POLICY STATEMENT ON AND PLAN TO PREVENT WORKPLACE VIOLENCE:
1) The draft combines policy with strategy/planning. The policy ends after point 4. End policy there. Plan(s) can be incorporated elsewhere.
2) It is unclear how this policy is to implement the policy or how it applies to the Rochester campus..
3) In the case of a crisis level 1 or level 2 it is not clear what the expectations of the staff are. It is unclear what the responsibilities of the members of the CIRT are. A clear and concise summary is necessary.
4) Who are the potential Presidential designees for the Critical Response Team?
5) The statement in boldface Section F, subdivision 5e No staff member of the University is authorized to speak to any member of the media on behalf of the university in relation to any critical incident or emergency. What does this mean? For example, are faculty or staff prohibited from talking to the media in such situations for any reason? What is the discipline for transgressing this rule?
6) Section F, subsection 6, part b reading, "encourage professional counseling" is too proscriptive. Less prescriptive is the phrase "offer professional counseling".
7) Section F, subsection 6, part c reading "referral to the Employee Assistance Program" is too proscriptive. Less prescriptive is the phrase "referral to the Employee Assistance Program, if desired".
8) Department chairs do not have disciplinary powers. In the plan (PART 5, Section D, subd1) assumes they do.
9) Section F, subsection 6 refers to the possibility of paid administrative leave. There is no provision for paid administrative leave for IFO faculty. In the IFO contract, the only administrative leave is unpaid.
10) The boldfaced statement about firefighting seems misplaced. It makes more sense to have it somewhere under the critical incidents section (Section F).
11) Section F, subdivision 5f uses the word "liaising". This is not a word.
12) Section F, subsection 6 "Critical Incident Debriefing . This section is unrelated to debriefing. A better title is Critical Incident Review.
13) Section F, subsection 6, part d reading "relocating employees on a temporary basis, if a facility is inhabitable;" should read "relocating employees on a temporary basis, if a facility is uninhabitable;"
14) Section F, subsection 9, part b reads "Internal and external service providers to provide non-confidential information relevant to the" . The sentence is incomplete. Perhaps part c is the rest of the sentence.
15) Large documents such as this regulation/plan should have both page numbers and a contents front page.
Faculty Senate approved PP&G recommendations and requested recommendations sent to the next Meet and Confer.
D. Downs/M. Hyle moved that Faculty Senate requests advisee list (to address faculty workload issues) from the administration at the next Meet and Confer. The list should be provided by the last Faculty Senate meeting.
Motion Carried.
Com-E. Committee on Committees (document in Senate packet)
D. Bratt reported that the following appointments have been made by Faculty Senate (via e-mail), as recommended by Committee on Committees:
March New University Visioning Conference
Tom Nalli (Chemistry)
Jean Leicester (Education)
Darrell Downs (Political Science)
Saeed Ziaee (Composites Engineering)
Andrew Ferstl (Physics)
Tim Gegg-Harrison (Computer Science) [name added and sent to Carol Anderson]
Flag Task Force
Liberal Arts: Dan Lintin, Darrell Downs, Ruth Charles, and Kelly Herold
Science and Engineering: Joyce Quella
Business: Mark Wrolstad
NonTeaching: Vernon Leighton
COM-F: Negotiations
M. Hyle reported that:
1. There will be a “closed” meeting at the Bureau of Mediation Services this Friday.
2. Mediator has a lot on his plate (i.e. other union contracts besides IFO).
3. Unless MnSCU decides to get things done this Friday, there is no projection when we will get a contract.
4. Hang-ups are not just on language, includes money; basically everything is still up for negotiations.
5. Having a closed-door one-day mediation is considered to be a step forward for MnSCU.
6. So far, MnSCU has not offered any money for the first year of our contract.
7. Imposition of the Health Insurance issue is moving forward as part of Unfair Labor Practice grievance/lawsuit. IFO is trying to determine who the defendants are.
COM-G. Elections Update (document in Senate packet)
Senators were reminded that faculty would receive two separate mailings on spring elections: one for local WSUFA elections (one Board seat, one negotiator, ten Senate seats, one Business rep. and one Rochester rep. on Committee on Committees.).
Special thank you’s were mentioned for Matt Bosworth, Marianna Byman, Peter Minne, and Troy Paino (who are not running for Senate seats) for their past and continued support of the Faculty Association.
COM-H. Ad Hoc Task Force on Civil Liberties & Academic Freedom
The following recommendation (II) was postponed from the 2/23/04 Senate meeting:
II. Adoption of Resolution to Protect Civil Liberties (committee not unanimous on the following document) [Resolution II is intended for university-wide adoption.]
WINONA STATE UNIVERSITY RESOLUTION TO PROTECT CIVIL LIBERTIES
WHEREAS Winona State University is proud of its long and distinguished tradition of protecting the civil rights and liberties of its students, faculty and employees;