Meeting, February 14, 2013
Law, Room 201
Members
Present:
L. Ametsbichler, D. Beck, A. Borgmann, B. Borrie, M. Bowman, J.
Carter, W. Chung, J. Crepeau, W. Davies, A. Delaney, R. Fanning, C.
Galipeau, J. Gannon, A. Glaspey, J. Glendening, L. Gillison, S.
Gordon, N. Greymorning, C. Hahn, K. Harris, J. Hirstein, M. Horejsi, D.
Jackson, S. Lodmell, M. Mayer, N. McCrady, M. McHugh, C.
Merriman, J. Montauban, P. Muench, H. Naughton, M. Neilson, C.
Palmer, E. Putnam, R. Premuroso, J. Renz, E. Rosenburg, M.
Rosulek, D. Shively, D. Sloan, P. Silverman, G. Smith, A. Sondag, D.
Spencer, M. Stark, N. Vonessen, A. Ware, K. Wu, K. Zoellner
Members
Excused
Members
Absent
Ex-Officio
Present:
Guest:
L. Gray, W. Holben, D. Hollist, J. Laskin, B. Layton, D. MacDonald, M.
Monsos, J. Munro, E. Plant, M. Raymond, J. Sears, A. Szalda-Petree,
S. Tillerman
B. Allen, J. Cavanaugh, T. Crawford, H. Eggert, J. Eglin, M.
Kavanaugh, S. Mills
President Engstrom, Provost Brown
ASUM Senator Topher Williams
Chair Renz called the meeting to order at 3:10 p.m. Camie Foos, the Faculty Senate
Administrative Associate called role.
The minutes from 12/6/12 were approved.
Communication:
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President Engstrom
Legislative update
The legislative session is going well. The thematic approach to presentations has been well received. The five themes are 1) Health Care, 2) Energy, 3) Arts &
Culture, 4) Business & Entrepreneurial, and 5) Agriculture & Food Production. There have been many representatives from the private sector as well as the Montana
University System.

The Governor’s budget including present-law-adjustments was moved out of the
Subcommittee. This is a major accomplishment. The increased budget requires a freeze on in-state tuition for the next two years. It also includes performance based funding. The Montana University System must establish performance measures in fiscal year 2014. The second year of the biennium half of the present-lawadjustment increase (7.5million) will depend on the system meeting performance measures such as retention or graduation rates.
There has been one hearing on the pay plan. There ’s talk that the proposed 5%/5% increase is too high. State appropriations fund 80% of the pay plan. The other 20% is funded by the University. This will likely require an increase in non-resident tuition.
The Missoula College building bill passed out of committee intact.
Chair Renz noted that the Board of Regents has constitutional authority over the
University System, and therefore the Legislature cannot mandate how the system spends appropriations.
The President’s Cabinet
Several cabinet level positions have been filled:
Vice President for Integrated Communications, Peggy Kuhr
Vice President for Research, Scott Whittenburg
Vice President for Administration and Finance, Michael Reid - starts March 25th
Chief Information Officer, Matthew Riley -starts April 5th
Legal Council, Lucy France -starts February 20 th
Professor Andrew Ware is chairing the search for a Provost. The list of Search
Committee members is available on the website. The Foundation President search continues with an expected hire sometime in the spring.
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Provost Brown
Celebrate Academics
Yesterday ’s Charter Day events included activities to celebrate academics. The feedback has been positive and people are excited to make the celebration an annual event. There were amazing presentations from students including solar technology and opera singing. Faculty also made presentations about teaching styles and addressing issues of student engagement. There was also a glimpse of
Theater and Dance’s original performance of Jumping into the Fire.
The Keynote address, Climbing a Different Mountain was given by Peter Schmidt,
Director of Studies at Gill St. Bernard ’s School in Gladstone, N. J. He recently won the Chronicle of Higher Education’s “Build Your Own College” contest. The address was recorded and will eventually be distributed to all faculty.
At the luncheon event, the Provost announced the creation of Teachers for the
Global Century as part of the Provost
’s Teaching and Learning Initiative. A number of faculty members are doing phenomenal things with new ideas and technologies in teaching. These innovations need to be showcased and shared.

The Missoula College/Mountain Taskforce is close to being finalized. He has nominations from the Senate and the Unions and will complete the charge next week.
The search committee for the Dean of Journalism has been appointed and will be chaired by Dean Kalm.
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ASUM Senator Topher Williams
ASUM Senator Topher Williams filled in for ASUM Vice President Bryn Hagfors.
March 7 th is Rotunda Day at the Legislature. A function of ASUM is to provide opportunities for students to be politically involved. This is best accomplished by getting students to interact with legislators. ASUM is organizing bus transportation for Rotunda Day and will be asking for financial assistance from the Faculty Senate. [The Faculty Senate’s budget consists of all state funds and cannot be used for political advocacy. In previous years the
UFA helped with this.]
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UFA President Shively
On January 21 st there was a State Employee Day of Action. Several faculty members visited
Helena and talked with legislators regarding the importance of the pay plan. There will be another State Employee Day of Action on Presidents Day, February 18 th . Please contact the
UFA if interested in participating. Travel support may be available. Training on how to speak with legislators to have the most impact will be provided.
On February 25 th there will be a conversation with Associate Commissioner of Higher
Education, Kevin McCrea and faculty representatives from across the System about inversion and compression issues. This is part of the Board of Regents’ strategic plan to address issues of compensation. The discussion will address what peer institutions to use for compensation comparators, how to quantify the magnitude of the problem, and how to make progress to resolve the issues.
There have been two bargaining sessions and things are going reasonably well. Faculty will receive communications when there is more to report.
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Chairs Report
Lottery drawing for participating in the evaluation of the administration
The Executive Committee of the Faculty Senate drew names earlier in the semester for the first pair of basketball tickets.
Professor Stewart Justman received these.
Professor Sue Bradford’s name was drawn for the second set of basketball tickets and Professor Steve Yoshimura’s name was drawn for the gift card to the Pearl
Restaurant.
Faculty Service Award
Nominations for the Faculty Service Award are needed. The deadline is February
21 st at 12:00 pm. [The deadline was extended to 5:00 p.m. on February 22 nd due to campus communications sent from t he President’s Office.]
Common Course Numbering and Crosslisting
The Commissioner’s Office is amenable to a system solution to crosslisting. Its primary concern is to avoid the proliferation of rubrics. A policy should be established with regard to what determines rubric eligibility. Discussions will

continue. Interim Deputy Commissioner Neil Moisey met with a group of UM Faculty on Charter Day to discuss the issue.
Interim Associate Provost Hinman attended the meeting and was asked by Chair
Renz t o provide an update. The Provost’s Office has permission from the
Commissioner’s Office to try another pilot project with a system solution similar to the
800 number courses. The new project will use the common course number and the old rubric as the crosslisted course. If the project is successful, this solution may be used at other campuses.
Renaming of Payne Family Native American Center basement to The Elouise Cobell
Land and Culture Institute
The renaming proposal is being forwarded as information by Dean Comer. Although the name includes the term “institute” it is a physical space only and does not meet the definition of an institute covered by Academic Policy 103.
Chair Renz requested that Senator Beck, Chair of Native American Studies provide additional information. The Institute is intended to be used for a land lab, culture lab, and theatre space for small groups. The Institute will provide a space to work on issues in Indian country, but will be available as a resource for other departments as well.
House Bill 453, “a Constitutional Initiative to Support Higher Education”
HB 453 introduced by Doug Coffin is coming up for a hearing. The information was available on the agenda for Senators to access. Senators were reminded that any political advocacy must be done on your own time and not using university resources.
Committee Reports
 ASCRC Chair Borrie
The curriculum consent agenda was approved. It consisted of items missed in the fall and prerequisite revisions. ASCRC again had a spring deadline for prerequisite revisions in anticipation of enforcement during Banner registration. Guidelines are now available to clarify what prerequisites are enforceable. Consent of instructor trumps all other prerequisites meaning other prerequisites will not be checked because the instructor is doing the checking. [Note: only the 600 courses already slated for implementation will be enforced in the fall. The prereq changes approved today will be entered into the catalog, but not yet programed into Banner.]
Prerequisite Enforcement is moving out of the pilot stage and into implementation so is no longer the responsibility of the Office of Student Success. It is managed by
Registrar’s Office.
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Graduate Council Consent Agenda
Senator Palmer provided background on the proposed PhD Program in Material
Science. Originally the joint proposal was with UM and Montana Tech. It is now a much stronger proposal and includes collaboration with MSU with some new core courses. The curriculum consent agenda was approved.

Chair Renz thanked Professors Palmer, Rosenberg and Putnam for their work on the xxx revisions.
New Business
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Resoluti on to support ASUM’s resolution regarding the Board of Regents Non-
Discrimination Policy 703
The Senate has approved non-discrimination resolutions in the past and ECOS requests that it reaffirms this commitment and supports ASUM’s efforts.
Chair Renz invited comments from ASUM representative Topher Williams. The campaign is a joint effort with MSU and UM. The Board of Regents Policy 703 does not include protections for sexual orientation or identity. Students feel it is important to have a system-wide policy that includes these protections. The Board is currently doing research to determine whether there are any unforeseen consequences if the policy is revised. There was some question as to whether there is campus and community support across the system and state or whether each campus should have a separate policy.
Students, faculty, alumni, and community members are encouraged to sign an online letter available at: http://703equality.blogspot.com/ . The resolution passed unanimously.
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The Senate moved into Executive Session. It was clarified that ex-officio members include the President and his cabinet members.
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The honorary degree candidates presented by President Engstrom were unanimously approved. The information is confidential until after approval at the
March Board of Regents meeting. The degrees are normally presented during May commencement.
Good and Welfare
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The Senate briefly discussed whether it would be appropriate to make a statement regarding Regent Pat William’s comments. This included arguments to defend freedom of speech, correct harmful inaccuracies, and acknowledge steps taken for improvement. The Senate did not want to inflame the situation given that Regent
Williams is a strong advocate for the University on the Board.
Chair Renz informed the Senate that a criticism from an official body takes the form of censorship and must be preceded by due process hearings. He discourages action by the Senate. This does not mean that members of the Senate cannot write letters to the press collectively or individually.
The meeting was adjourned at 4:19 pm.