Faculty Senate
September 17, 2015 – 3:30 p.m.
Robert C. Voight Faculty Senate Chambers – 325 GMH
Vol. 50, No. 2
I. Roll Call.
A. Present: J. Anderson, C. Angell, B. Bennie, T. Docan-Morgan, S. Foley, R. Fowler, A. Galbraith,
T. Gendreau, K. Hunt, H. Jones, S. Kelly, T. King-Heiden, J. Kirsch, K. Kortenkamp, A. Loh, J.
Longhurst, W. Maas, M. Moeller, J. Nunley, M. Rott, B. Seebach, K. Terpstra
B. Excused: G. Cravins
II. Approval of minutes.
A. The minutes of the April 30, 2015 meeting were approved.
III. Reports
A. Chancellor (Joe Gow):
1. Chancellor Gow reiterated statements from his university address related to Budget Council
increases to be presented to Joint Planning & Budget to address living wage for lowest wage
people on campus, especially in light of changes in insurance costs. UW System was not
granted flexibilities to develop own pay plan, but did approve merit-based pay for faculty.
No across-the-board faculty compensation can occur, even if funded internally. System is
allocating additional funds ($215,000) to be allocated to faculty for merit only.
2. Discussions with student reps: segregated fees reduced, money to go towards rec center, and
exploring other options to allow for positive impact on students
3. Audit performed by the UW System Audit Committee found no criminal activity at UWL.
4. UW BOR seem amendable to take a strong stance against proposed state ban on research
using fetal tissue
5. Update on enrollment: overall good, although international student enrollment down, transfer
students near projections and graduation rate ok; overall there will likely be $800,000 loss in
tuition dollars
6. Deferred concerns related to the Dean of School of Ed appointment over the summer to next
Faculty Senate meeting
7. Chancellor Gow continues to press for student hall and field house building projects, but
doesn’t seem likely until next biennium
B. Provost (Betsy Morgan):
1. Reminder of HLC in spring, and invitation for feedback.
2. Requested to complete system survey. Feedback will be organized into bullet points and sent
out to campus.
3. Report regarding recent graduate education summit, with identified need to determine what
we want graduate education to look like at UWL
4. Update on WINGS: students will now be able to indicated preferred name if different from
given name on WINGS!
C. CFO (Bob Hetzel):
1. Not present
D. Student Senate Liaison (Rep Molly Davies)
1. Students are discussing how to best use payback money from state, including: increase charge
backs, undergraduate research, library, with focus on the library.
2. There is interest in changing the UWL grading scale to be more consistent across the UW
System.
3. There is interest in increasing opportunities for experimental learning into programs
(internships and original research projects)
E. Faculty Senate Chair (Brad Seebach)
1. Moving forward with self-funded compensation plans to honor what JPB suggested and
follow UW System rules (see below)
2. Update from BOR: Shared governance task force never met and was dissolved as considered
not necessary due to state statute changes. The Tenure Task Force has met and is focused on
post-tenure review & layoff policy.
3. When questioned about the new language in state law regarding faculty being “subordinate”
to Chancellor, Chancellor Gow reassured FS that the role of FS will be maintained as is.
IV. Faculty Senate appointment changes and SEC nominations
A. FS approved the appointment of John Nunley to replace Peter Haried on FS
B. FS approved the SEC nominations as described below
1. JPC: 3 yr- appointments for Cynthia Berlin, Gary Gilmore, Victor Macias-Gonzalez, and Rob
Wolf; 1 yr appointment for Carol Angell to replace Steve Simpson
2. IAS Promotion Committee: 3-yr appointments for Bonnie Bratina, Lisa Caya, and Kim Lyons
3. Committee on Faculty Committees: Joe Anderson, Barb Bennie, Kenny Hunt (Convener),
Katy Kortenkamp, Karen Terpstra
4. Senate elections: Samantha Foley, Janet Kirsch (Convener), and Tony Docan-Morgan
5. Faculty Ombudspersons: David Howard, Will Maas, and Darci Thoune
V. Math honors program
A. FS approved the Math Honors program
VI. Ad hoc Graduate APR subcommittee
A. The APR Committee was charged with identifying a way to better assess graduate programs on
campus, and to ensure our process was in line with sister institutions. They suggested that
Undergraduate and Graduate programs be assessed separately, and to initiate discussions of how
to implement this through an ad hoc subcommittee of APR.
B. Following discussion, FS approved the motion for development of an ad hoc task force to identify
procedures for graduate APR. The ad hoc subcommittee membership will include Sandy
Grunwald and other members from APR, and will include faculty in programs in which there are
both UG and Grad programs. The committee will consult with Steve Simpson and the SEC as
they develop guidelines and proposed bylaws.
VII.
Compensation
A. UWL funds available to address inversion/compression in salary and market adjustments has
been increased from 1% to 2%. In distributing those funds, funds must come from specific
funding sources (102 vs 131). In distribution of funds, effort was given to follow bring
faculty/staff to 80% of CUPA, and to honor the original plan from PTS.
B. FS approved suggestion from Provost to distribute those funds such that 1.5% of funds address
market adjustment, and 0.5% to address inversion/compression
C. System will provide an additional $215, 000 to UWL to address merit and market-based
adjustments. These funds are limited by UW System to 102 funding lines (note, 131 funds are for
GQA and are unique to UWL) and faculty (note, most IAS are at 100% CUPA).
D. FS approved motion to charge PTS to develop a distribution plan for the $215,000 to be presented
to FS by 10/1 meeting in an effort to have the associated changes in paychecks to be made by
Nov 1st.
VIII. Old business
IX.
New business
X.
Adjournment at 5:25p
Submitted by T. King-Heiden