Meeting Minutes, March 13, 2013
Skaggs Building, Room 169
Members
Present:
L. Ametsbichler, D. Beck, A. Belcourt, K. Bell, B. Borrie, M. Bowman,
S. Bradford, G. Burns, J. Cavanaugh, M. Chin, W. Chung, M.
DeGrandpre, L. Frey, E. Gagliardi, C. Galipeau, L. Gillison, J.
Glendening, S. Gordon, L. Gray, K. Harris, C. Henderson, W. Holben,
D. Hollist, H. Kim, A. Kinny, A. Larson, B. Layton, S. Lodmell, M.
Mayer, N. McCrady, K. McKay, J. Montauban, P. Muench, H.
Naughton, M. Neilson, C. Palmer, R. Premuroso, E. Putnam, M.
Raymond, S. Richter, D. Schuldberg S. Shen, A. Sondag M. Stark, S.
Tillerman, E. Uchimoto, R. Vanita, K. Wu, K. Zoellner
Members
Excused
N. Greymorning, J. Hirstein, M. Horejsi, J. Sears, D. Shively,
Members
Absent
J. Bardsley, A. Chatterjee, T. Crawford, H. Eggert, R. Fanning, C.
Hahn, C. Knight, D. MacDonald, J. Laskin, E. Plant, D. Sloan, D.
Shepherd, A. Szalda-Petree
Ex-Officio
Present:
Provost Brown, Interim Registrar Hickman, ASUM Business Manager
Hopkins
Chair Putnam called the meeting to order at 3:10p.m. There was a change in the order
of agenda to allow ASCRC Chair Henderson to attend to grant writing business. The
Committee Report will follow communication from ASUM.
Interim Registrar Hickman called roll. The minutes from 2-13-14 were approved and the
meeting started with several items for the UM Minute.
Chair Putnam noted that the Neural Injury Center was approved by the Board of
Regents. This solidifies many of the collaborations on campus, allows for fundraising,
and will help improve the lives of students with traumatic brain injuries.
Communication:
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Provost Perry Brown
Provost Brown had additional items for the UM Minute that shows our students are
doing fabulous things.
The University received accolades at the Board of Regents with regard to its work
with Veteran students and financial education for undergraduate students. Other
positive things include a major scholarship program of approximately $800,000 in the
Law School, a new professorship in Forestry for $1.5 million, and a $3 million
endowment for Director of the Museum of Art and Culture. The Washington
Foundation donated $2.4 million to extend Ed Ready (a program that helps students
increase math scores beyond developmental level) to the entire state of Montana
over the next few years. If successful, there will be a bigger grant to endow the
program. And later this evening the President will announce an additional $6 million
to an existing scholarship fund. So fundraising is going very well.
Last summer the University ran a pilot of the Ed Ready program with a grant from the
Gates foundation. Among the student participants 86% raised their ALEXS score by
at least 1 point and became eligible to enter college level math. And 91% of the
student participants past the subsequent college level math courses. The average
time spent on the Ed Ready computer program was 12 hours. A similar program is
being developed for writing. Montana is the national roll out for this program.
Search Updates
The Law School Dean search was reopened because the top candidate received an
offer from the White House. Interviews for the Journalism Dean position are
underway and interviews for the Dean of the College of Health Professions and
Biomedical Sciences will start soon.
Associate Provost Walker – Andrews is retiring at the end of the academic year. Her
position will not be replaced at this time. There will be a recruitment for one
Associate Provost Position, the vice-provost interim is Nancy Hinman. According to
Human Resources it is not advisable to extend the interim position. There are also
two vacant staff positions in the Provost’s Office that will not be filled. Recruitment
for the Registrar’s position will be postponed. Interim Registrar Joe Hickman will
serve for one more year.
Questions
Chair Putnam asked about the reduction in Graduate Teaching Assistants reported
in the Kiamin article. She asked that the Provost explain the rationale.
About four or five years ago there were approximately 180 teaching assistantships
funded centrally. Last year there were 205, so there has been some growth. The
Deans proposed to eliminate TAs because of the budget cuts. The tradeoff was to
eliminate 8 (about 25 sections) of the centrally funded TA positions rather than take
TAs from the colleges or schools. Although Academic Affairs is 70% of the budget, it
is only taking 20% of the budget reduction. The Provost does not see this reduction
affecting research.
Work on the new budget model is on hold until planning for the next budget does not
confuse the efforts.
Chair –elect Lodmell asked about the reassignment of Associate Provost WalkerAndrews’ Accreditation and Assessment responsibilities.
These responsibilities are in her role as Special Assistant to the President and have
not yet been reassigned in any of the reorganization of Academic Affairs. The
funding for these duties comes from the President’s Office. The President is
interested in having someone with expertise and interest in this area take on these
duties. It is likely the duties will not be attached to an Associate Provost.
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ASUM Business Manager Mike Hopkins
ASUM is proud of the Philosophy Club’s victory in the Ethics Bowl. Many of the
other college clubs’ preparation is financially funded and often linked to courses.
UM’s Philosophy Club does not receive anywhere near the same support.
The University is issuing another request for proposals (RFP) for refund providers to
replace Higher One. Students dislike the current refund process, so this in response
to their concerns. ASUM passed a resolution to send a letter to the UM Foundation
Board of Trustees asking them to provide the location of meetings if asked by a
student group, club, or member of ASUM.
ASUM Business Manager Mike Hopkins read the following statement:
“ASUM as an organization including all of our student groups as the sole
representative of students on campus elected to be so would like to express
disappointment and regret that this body decided to vote to approve the changes to
the language requirement and move it forward, but by the same token, ASUM as a
group would like to express gratitude for those faculty senators that voting against
the changes.”
Committee Reports
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ASCRC Colin Henderson
The curriculum consent agenda was approved. There was a brief discussion
regarding the existence of language courses outside of the Modern and Classical
Language Department. The courses in the Defense Critical Language Program are
designed for and only available for active duty military. Thus, they are not subject to
common course numbering. The courses are part of an immersion program and
mostly involve speaking and hearing. These are very different from courses taught in
the Modern and Classical Language Department.
The General Education Consent agenda was approved. The form for departments to
renew symbolic systems exemptions to the language requirement was available for
information. There was also a sample completed form for reference. Programs with
current exemptions will need to complete and submit the form next fall by the
curriculum review deadline.
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Senator Ron Premoroso - Faculty staff giving campaign
Senator Premoroso co-chairs the campaign and works closely with the University of
Montana Foundation. The campaign is designed to create a culture of philanthropy.
The foundation hopes to increase participation from 14% to 20%. Small donations
are appreciated and set the example of giving. You can direct where your money
goes. See:
http://supportum.org/guidetogiving/annualgifts/facultystaff/?utm_source=March+19+F
orUM&utm_campaign=March+19+ForUM&utm_medium=email
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Chair’s Report
Chair Putnam acknowledged the two individuals (Retired Professor Bill McBroom
and Michel Colville, the first women to earn a degree in Wildlife Biology at UM and
retired Professor Fred Allendorf’s wife) who recently died. There is a motion under
new business for Professor McBroom. The Wildlife Biology Program sent a letter
with information about how to make donations to help Fred and his family recover.
This was posted to the agenda for those who might be interested.
Memorandum of Understanding between the Missoula College and the School of
Business Administration.
Terry Herron, Associate Dean, School of Business Administration and Lisa Swallow,
Professor, Business Technology, Missoula College worked together to create the
MOU. The MOU would be an articulation agreement if Missoula College was a
separate college from UM. The purpose of the MOU is to formalize students’
transitions from the two-year program to the four-year program.
Students who start in the Associate of Applied Science program that decide to
transfer have coursework that doesn’t meet major requirements and get frustrated
because of this. The important component is advising. The MOU formalizes an
Associate of Arts Degree designed to transfer and includes prerequisites for the
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. Courses on the two campuses
were compared in order to create the MOU. Missoula College students wishing to
transfer will be required to attend group advising with current students at the end of
the sophomore year.
This agreement is a good example of the campuses working together to make
matriculation easier for students. Academic advisors were particularly helpful with
this collaboration. The MOU requires an annual review to assure it is still meeting
the needs of students. This is a good opportunity for quality control.
Question:
There is no change in campus offerings so there would not be movement of student
FTE from one campus to the other. The MOU should serve as a conduit for
Missoula College students to the four-year campus. There is potential to increase
the number of students that transfer.
The School of Business tracks students internally through the admission process in
terms of transfer location and performance after transfer. Now that common course
numbering is in place to assure ease of transferability it is important for majors to
know whether students are properly prepared by the courses deemed equivalent
from other MUS schools.
Board of Regents Update
The Board of Regents and the Commissioner of Higher Education are promoting
dual enrollment, which allows high school students to receive college credit for
courses taken in high school. Fall of 2012 there were 327 students enrolled through
dual enrollment at the Missoula College. This fall there were 421 students, 383 of
these students are from Missoula High Schools. We want to keep an eye on this
program and make sure we know how these students perform once they are enrolled
at UM. Part of the issue is that the courses are taken in a high school environment
from a high school teacher who meets the same qualifications as junior college
instructors. We need to make sure that the students are prepared properly to be
successful.
According to the Provost, some units on the Mountain campus are overseeing dual
credit courses, such as Journalism. These are sections of currently approved UM
courses. In this pathway the students are getting both high school and college credit.
Senator Holben participated in a program in New York his senior year in high school
where he took college courses. The program is still in place today, 40 years later.
There is also an Early College Program that involves high school students taking
university courses on campus. There were approximately 27 students from Hellgate
High School participating in the program this fall.
The Montana University System Faculty Associate Representatives (MUSFAR) meet
with the Board of Regents for a breakfast meeting on Thursdays at the BoR
meetings. This time the meeting was devoted to educating the Regents about tenure
and academic freedom. This helped to correct some misperceptions and provide a
better understanding of all that faculty do. The Regents are appointed by the
Governor to represent a cross section of the State. With the exception of Regent
Albrecht, none of the regents have any professional association with universities and
don’t have a day to day understanding of how the University runs. Senators should
relay any issues they would like discussed with the Regents to the Senate leadership
to bring up at the breakfast meeting.
The Regents have to provide a proposed budget for the governor to include in his
budget for the next legislative session. Some of the long range building priorities
include $10 million for the renovation and asbestos removal from the Clapp Science
Building, some funds for the Ceramic and Art Building, an addition to the Music
Building, and renovation of the Mansfield Library. Whether these make it through the
legislative process is unknown.
The Honorary doctorates were approved by the Regents and recipients have been
notified. Governor Bullock has agreed to speak at commencement.
Senate Elections
Faculty were sent an opt-in /out message this week and will receive another
reminder. You can use the link to make sure your department has representation.
The final ballot will be sent after spring break.
Performance Based Funding
The committee has been working with MSU to develop system-wide metrics as well
as research-university intensive metrics. The committee has looked at best practices
and what other states have done. There will be another group looking at metrics
appropriate for the two-year campuses. There are a series of forums scheduled for
faculty and staff to provide input. The forums will be held in UC 327 on Friday 3/21
from 10:00 AM -12:00 PM, Wednesday 3/26 from 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM and Thursday,
3/27 from 2:00 PM- 3:00 PM. The forums are open ended. It is not necessary to
attend the entire time. There will be at least two representatives from the Committee
consisting of Provost Brown, Associate Vice President Ressel, Chair Putnam and
Professor Crawford at each of the forums.
The proposed metrics will be made available on a website for faculty unable to
attend the forums. The Committee has drafted three sets of metrics. Ultimately a few
will be chosen from the system-wide category, the research intensive category, and
from a third set designed for quality assurance. We need to assure that the
measures used do not have a negative impact on educating students. Please
attend a forum or encourage your colleagues to make sure your unit is informed.
Unfinished Business
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The University Library Committee Membership Bylaw Amendment was approved. It
was revised from the last meeting with approval from both the University Library
Committee and ECOS. The membership is more prescriptive in terms of
representation.
New Business
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Chair Putnam read the motion honoring Professor Bill McBroom created by Senator
Mayer. It was unanimously approved. There were several sentiments of
remembrance for Professor McBroom. He will be missed.
Good and Welfare
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UMCUR still needs student volunteers.
The Ford Foundation Fellowship is available for students committed to diversity.
Please encourage students to apply.
The March 15th Odyssey of the Stars honors music educators Dean Peterson and
John Schuberg.
A bench will be placed on the M Trail to honor Adrienne Corti, a long term employee
of the University who passed away last year.
The meeting was adjourned at 4:30 pm.