45th Faculty Senate
April 28, 2011 – 3:50 p.m.
Robert C. Voight Faculty Senate Chambers – 325 Graff Main Hall
Vol. 45, No. 13
I. Roll Call.
Present: M. Abler, C. Angell, J, Baggett, J. Bryan, D. Buffton, B. Butterfield, T. Gendreau, K. Hoar, J.
Holman, K. Hunt, S. Jessee, E. Kraemer, D. Lake, R. LeDocq, M. Leonard, W. Maas, R. Mikat, M. Rott, S.
Senger, S. Shillinger , M. Tollefson, and B. Van Voorhis
Excused: G. Cravins, C. Lee
II. Minutes of April 14 FS approved.
III. Reports.
a. Chair:
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Student Association’s annual “Veggies with the Leggies” will be held on Monday,
May 2, in Valhalla from 5:00-6:00pm.
Joint Planning and Budget Report (Mike Abler):
 Proposed Change in Online Course Fee from the current $75 per credit fee for all
online courses to a $2 per credit fee for all students every semester. This is a revenue
neutral plan that will generate approximately $400,000.
o Questions: What is the money used for? Online related positions – e.g., course
coordinator and instructional designer Why the change? This may increase
the number of students taking online courses at UWL and make UWL more
competitive with other institutions – rather than having our own students taking
online courses elsewhere.
 Proposed Increase Graduate Tuition by $600 over 2 years: Currently, due mainly to
GQA tuition increases, there is only a few hundred dollars separating UWL’s graduate
and undergraduate tuition. The revenue generated would be used to make UWL
graduate assistantships more competitive with other institutions and to provide more
support for graduate students.
 Methods to Deal with Budget Reductions: If UW-Madison remains part of UWS, UWL’s
budget reduction will be about $975,000. Approximately $375,000 in tuition funds will
be used, along with $600,000 in budget offsets. Several scenarios are currently being
considered to cover the $600,000 shortfall:
o Reduce student hourly – reduction in hours, not wage;
o Not fill two open positions in Administration and Finance;
o $50,000 from Academic Affairs from summer instructional reserve;
o Auxilliary Units are still recovering from the last budget cut, so will not be used;
o Increase the number of transfer students by 65 (150 to 215 total). This will
generate $233,000.
o Institute a Registration Fee – currently students pay a $100 deposit, which is all
put toward tuition when the student registers for classes. JPB is proposing that
part of that deposit be a registration fee ($12 to $25). Such a fee would have
to be approved by BOR, but other UWS schools already charge such a fee. This
has not been voted on at SA, but a straw poll indicates support.
o FYI: UWL Faculty and Staff are paying just over $1 million toward the total $5
million cut.
o JPB will be voting next week.
Chancellor (Joe Gow): No Report
Provost (Kathleen Enz Finken): No Report
CFO (Bob Hetzel): No Report
Faculty Representative (Becky Ledocq): No Report.
Student Association Liaison (Cate Urbos): No Report
IV. New Business.
a. News from IT (Mohammed Elhindi & TJ Teegan):
 New 8.4 Username for faculty (not students). IT is recommending that we move to a
NET ID or Legal ID (rather than 8.4) of first letter of first name with full last name (could
use either legal or preferred first name). This would cause no interruption to service
and cause no security issues.
 Windows XP is no longer supported by Microsoft and WIL will move to Windows 7 over
the summer. Why can’t we continue to use XP anyway? Microsoft will no longer be
releasing security patches; therefore, it could cause security issues for users.
 GoogleApps Survey Results: There were 1300 responses (428 from faculty/staff).
Results show that students and instructional staff are happy with GoogleApps overall,
while non-instructional staff are satisfied, but not as happy. ITS has already started
using these survey results to enhance training.
b. Proposed SAA Department Proposal (Chris Bakkum, Jodi Wagner and Joe Tiffany):
This program has been in place since 1966 and is the oldest graduate program at UWL. It
is now one of only 156 such programs in the country. The program is represented by 27
states and over ½ of the current applicants for the on campus program are from out of
state. The program would like to become a department in order to add more stability to
the program and to make it more visible on and off campus. Departmental status would
not require any additional funds or space. The proposal received unanimous approval
from APR.
Motion to endorse proposal for forming a department of SAA, subject to final approval of
departmental bylaws (after Dean’s review).
Discussion: Tenure track faculty? The core faculty are not tenure track, but would hope to
add TT faculty. The program is currently housed in Psych, why not leave it as is? The
disciplines are not the same, so the program is seeking department status. As a
department, they would gain seat at CLS chairs council and some autonomy in
developing curriculum and lobbying for their own needs. Being a department would also
increase their visibility externally for competitive status with other programs. There are issues
with having a department with no tenured faculty. Tenure decisions would be made by
people outside the department. Would it be hold off until they have more tenured/tenure
track faculty? The department will always be a mix of tenure track and non-instructional
members. They hope to grow the department to 3 or 4 TT faculty plus some core faculty.
Would research and service be expected by non-instructional core faculty? Yes, but not
as much as TT faculty. Does this put a disproportionate burden on TT faculty to represent
the department on various governance groups? Why not become an institute or
independent program? They have been an independent program and it did not work
well. Bylaws: The bylaws would have to spell out much more than standard departmental
bylaws – e.g., FS bylaws require the department chair to be TT faculty, how the
department will deal with retention/tenure/promotion when 80% of the department is
administrative. The bylaws must spell out how these and other things will be addressed
both during the transition period and after.
Motion Approved.
c. APR Report – Sociology (Kim Vogt & Peggy Denton):
 Weaknesses: None that are under the control of the department – all faculty teach
4 courses each semester; high service obligations; salary inversion; support staff is not
full-time; limited travel budget; limited space; 1/3 of faculty will retire in the next 3
years.
 Motion to accept the APR report for Sociology. Motion approved.
d. APR Report – Archaeology (Kim Vogt & Glenn Knowles):
 External reviewer made recommendations that were not implementable here with
the resources available. The department has been doing assessment and has
made curricular adjustments as feedback from assessment. There are federal
standards that must be met in order to house certain artifacts and there is some
concern that funds may not be there in the future. The department will be getting
new lab for physical anthropology course;
 Motion to accept the APR report for Archaeology. Motion approved
e. IAS CPC Bylaws – second reading:
 Motion to approve IAS CPC Bylaws. Motion approved
f.
GEAC Bylaws – second reading:
 Motion to approve GEAC Bylaws. Motion approved.
g. Proposed Policy and Procedures for Appealing GEAC Form A Denials:
 Motion to approve the Policy and Procedures for Appealing GEAC Form A Denials.
Motion approved.
V. Old Business.
VI. Adjournment at 5:05 p.m. Next meeting on May 5.
Respectfully submitted,
Kerrie Hoar