Faculty Senate
March 24, 2016 – 3:30 p.m.
Robert C. Voight Faculty Senate Chambers – 325 GMH
Vol. 50, No. 11
I. Roll Call.
A. Present: J. Anderson, B. Bennie, G. Cravins, S. Foley, R. Fowler A. Galbraith, T. Gendreau, D. Hart, K.
Hunt, H. Jones, S. Kelly, T King-Heiden, K. Kortenkamp, A Loh, J Longhurst,W. Maas, M Moeller, J.
Nunley, M. Rott, B. Seebach, T. Seddon, K. Terpstra
B. Excused: T. Docan-Morgan, J. Kirsch
II. Approval of minutes.
A. Minutes from 2-25-16 meeting approved as corrected.
III. Reports (Note: not presented in order of discussion)
A. Chancellor (Joe Gow), not present
B. iProvost (Betsy Morgan):
1. From Provost office: a recommendation for a task force for university level assessment will be
forth-coming in mid-April for feedback from FS regarding committee structure.
2. JPC will be submitting minor changes to guidelines.
3. Several reports/policies regarding SOE faculty will be forthcoming.
a) Report regarding hiring policies of SOE faculty will also be forth coming; it will have been
vetted through transition team, a larger review team, and SOE faculty prior to coming to FS.
b) Workload credit policy regarding supervision of students during student teaching.
4. Decisions regarding cuts to instructional positions resulting from overall $1.6 million deficit
a) Since source of lost funds associated with tuition, cuts needed to be made in GQA lines: (2)
CBA; (7.4) CLS; (7.4) CSAH; (1) SOE (DES).
b) Undergraduate student credit hours were used to determine where cuts needed; graduate
students could not be included because not associated with GQA lines.
c) Some colleges were able to absorb loss through cuts to S&E associated with GQA lines
d) VSIP: Voluntary Separation Incentive Program; nine of other comprehensive universities did
last year, but was not fiscally viable for UWL since did not make instructional cuts. This year
with instructional cuts, VSIP was fiscally viable, but only in departments/groups where a loss in
faculty member could be replaced, and where replacement hire would save money. The intent
was to identify faculty who may be retiring soon, such that this offer would be attractive.
Faculty members had to be ≥ 55 years old (aka eligible for retirement). Offers went out to ~30
faculty members across two colleges and 10 units where financially viable option. VSIP offers
do not reflect University’s goal of making changes to any programs.
e) Both BOR and La Crosse Tribune were notified of pending cuts to instructional lines.
5. Please remember to provide students with early feedback on their performance in classes, so that
they may identify ways to improve
6. Twenty-two undergraduate students will be presenting their research at the upcoming spring
celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creativity; several presenting at the rotunda and 16 will
attend NCUR.
C. CFO (Bob Hetzel):
a) No major reports
D. Faculty Representative (Georges Cravins)
1. Refer to recent email report
E. Student Senate Liaison
1. Not present
F. Faculty Senate Chair (Brad Seebach)
1. Search for new Faculty Senate Office Manager will be for a .42 ADA appointment that will be
shared with Philosophy/Environmental Studies (.50) for a total .92 position.
2. Another meeting has been added to calendar for next week, March 31. Please send any other
agenda items to Brad or Sibbie ASAP so can be scheduled.
IV. APR By-Laws (Undergraduate and Graduate, Sandy Grunwald and Dan Duquette), 1st reading
A. Friendly amendment regarding consistent language regarding SOE affiliated faculty for APR guidelines;
Discussed and approved, M/S/P
B. Friendly amendment regarding consistent language regarding SOE affiliated faculty for APR Graduate
and Undergraduate By-laws; Discussed and approved, M/S/P
V. APC Guidelines and Procedures (Sandy Grunwald and Melissa Bingham)
A. New guidelines for new minors or concentrations
B. Discussed and approved, M/S/P
VI. PTS equity recommendations (Kim Vogt)
A. Proposed that ~2% be allocated as (1) lump sum to defer upcoming increased health care costs, (2)
address gender inequity within college and rank, address faculty with egregious salary deficits, and
salary inequities in SOE unit, and (3) discretionary funds for Deans to distribute to faculty and IAS.
B. Lump sum discussions: % salary not large enough to offset health care costs for those making lowest
salary; discussed inequities particularly among ranked IAS
C. Discussed limitations of using CUPA and inability to include years of service in rank as this leads to
further salary compression
D. Discussed limitations of data regarding gender inequity
E. Senators asked to further review for discussion at next FS meeting.
VII.
Old business
VIII. New business: Statement of Request from UW System Faculty Reps on Additional revisions to
Regent’s Policies on post-tenure review and program discontinuance/Tenured Faculty Layoff
Procedures.
A. Discussion of the document ensued, including speculation on the likelihood that certain revisions would
be accepted.
IX. Adjournment at 5:40 p.m.
Submitted by T. King-Heiden