School of Forest Resources
Faculty Meeting Minutes
February 16, 2010 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Anderson Hall Room 22
CALL TO ORDER
Call to order by Tom Hinckley, Interim Director. Approval of the Minutes David Briggs moved and Rick
Gustafson seconded the motion that the faculty approve the minutes of the January 19, 2010 and February 2,
2010 Faculty Meetings. Faculty voted to approve the minutes by a vote of 32 Approve, 0 Oppose, 4 Abstain of
47 eligible to vote faculty.
ATTENDANCE
PRESENT
Asah, Stanley
Bradley, Gordon
Briggs, David
Bura, Renata
Doty, Sharon
Edmonds, Robert
Franklin, Jerry
Gustafson, Richard
Harrison, Robert
Hinckley, Thomas
McKean, William
Perez-Garcia, John
Reichard, Sarah
Ryan, Clare
Toth, Sandor
Turnblom, Eric
Vogt, Daniel
West, Stephen
ABSENT
Agee, James
Allan, G. Graham
Alvarado, Ernesto
Bakker, Jonathan
Bare, Bruce
Bolton, Susan
Brown, Sally
Eastin, Ivan
Ettl, Gregory
Ewing, Kern
Ford, E. David
Fridley, James
Gara, Robert
Glawe, Dean
Greulich, Frank
Halpern, Charles
Hodgson, Kevin
Johnson, Jay
Kim, Soo-Hyung
Lawler, Joshua
Lippke, Bruce
Manuwal, David
Marzluff, John
Moskal, L. Monika
Paun, Dorothy
Peterson, David
Rabotyagov, Sergey
Schiess, Peter
Sprugel, Douglas
Strand, Stuart
Torgersen, Christian
Vogt, Kristiina
Wirsing, Aaron
Zabowski, Darlene
ALSO IN ATTENDANCE
Fink, Lois
Smith, Nevada
Trudeau, Michelle
The names that are grayed out are not eligible to vote during Winter Quarter 2010.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
• Dave Peterson will present a lecture on March 11, 2010 as part of the Sustaining our NW World lecture
series.
• There will be an all School meeting on February 25, 2010 at 3:30 p.m. in the Forest Club Room. The
discussion of School of Forest Resources names will take place at 2:30 p.m. before this meeting. Open to
staff and students.
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Update regarding CoEnv Dean’s search. Reviewed 12. There is one more Friday of this week. Tomorrow
will select 3 people for interview. Dates for 4 are already established. 1st date 3/2 and last 3/18. Will
prioritize the list so that the top 2 with most confidence will be invited first. Interviews have been diverse.
Are the candidates promising? There are 2 or 3 that have the full bill of goods. There are others that have
one quadrant that are absolutely astounding. The committee has a lot of paper from everybody, then
interview 13 people for 1.5 hours with scripted questions, then we will have a 2 day interview.
• The budget situation. We’ve asked centers and others to start examining 3.5, 5, 7, 10% levels. CoEnv has
asked for 10% which is not common across campus. Since we were hit hard last time and cuts will have
major impacts. We don’t know how much tuition recovery will help and don’t know how consistently it
will come. Dr. Hinckley has an open door policy for anyone who wants to come in regarding opportunities
and things to protect.
• SFR received 8 international student tuition waivers to use by the end of this academic year.
• SFR received the Graduate Opportunity Program fellowship award for 2010-11.
• Clare Ryan provided information about what’s been going on in the College Council. People are asking
Clare “what are you doing.” Terry Klinger of Marine Affairs is Chair of the Council. The council has met
three times and discussed operating procedures. They have had 4 promotion cases to review. Dean
Hartmann is trying to figure out how to engage the Council. They will attend an Executive Committee
meeting and discuss budget issues to determine principles. Council has to recruit 2 additional at large
positions. Clare welcomes feedback and discussion about how to recruit members. Procedures for the
promotion and tenure deliberations were carefully established. If have faculty have thoughts or questions
about at large memberships, please let her know. Or if they have suggestions regarding principles to bring
to the meeting about budget cuts. Will junior faculty face significant changes to what we did as a college
regarding promotions? What comes out of the school goes to the Dean with our vote recommendation.
Council considers this and the promotion materials and then makes recommendation to the Dean. What is
significant success in teaching and research. There are some things we could do more strategically to
clearly state what faculty have done. We used to be in our own little world and knew what each other did.
There is a real culture of respecting the units that are putting the recommendations forward. Every person
that is representing every unit is voting and participating in the discussions. Someone who is not from the
unit would summarize the case. Dean is present for the summary, but is not present for deliberations. He
can ask questions but is excused for deliberations. Qualifications have not changed but we should present
materials differently. Everything is ratcheted up at least a month because of timetables. Because many of
us are involved in collaborative efforts faculty who are considering developing packages should clearly state
what it your role is in a collaborative project. Provide more information about specific external reviewers
and why. No change what we do, but how we inform the rest of the process. Be more clear about
contributions in research, what are you known for, in effect pump yourself up. Talk about teaching
philosophy and approach show how you matured as a scholar and as a teacher. These sound like qualitative
things and the Council still looks at teaching evaluations, grants, and publications which are presented
without interpretation. Have a page to put your teaching, research, and scholarship in context. Yes, it will
be somewhat qualitative. Metrics are still present. There was discussion of the metrics we are looking at.
No one was questioning “is this a good journal?” There is an expectation of peer reviewed journal
publications. There are other ways of doing scholarship that may be recognized. Where are Ocean and Fish
in the RCEP process? Expect 16th of March SAFS and after the 20th for Ocean. Ocean making the case
that they should have more representatives on College Council. The By-laws state the CoEnv is to have one
representative from each unit and have two at large representatives.
• Have received a grant to look at food security and water resource issues.
PRESENTATIONS
• No presentations are scheduled.
DISCUSSION
• TA Allocation for Spring 2010. Everyone’s spring efforts are scored on the matrix that was included in the
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faculty meeting materials. Please note that UWEO will support ESRM 100 during Spring 2010. If a course
is co-taught and have a similar course score to a course that is not, then a subjective decision will need to be
made. If a faculty member is teaching more than one course in a quarter, the scores could be added
together, which is once again a more subjective decision. Courses that have safety issues will be examined .
There are a number of things to consider in safety. If there are a lot of students may need both an hourly
and TA. Eliminating accidents is our goal. A course with a safety designation doesn’t guarantee a TA.
Should we hear from Risk Management. Labs and moving machinery. What is the risk? And liability?
The EFAC matrix represents the faculty’s opinion. If the faculty are going to vote on a process should vote
on this. There is no alcohol or drugs on field trips. A qualitative decision will still need to be made at the
end. Sharon Doty moved and David Briggs seconded the motion that the faculty approve the Teaching
Assistant Allocation Process presented at the faculty meeting. The Teaching Assistant Allocation Process is
a revision by the Elected Faculty Advisory Council of the original process emailed to faculty by Dr.
Hinckley. This process uses a weighted calculation to determine a priority score for each course which are
then comparatively ranked. The Director will use the list as the major quantitative factor to help determine
assignments of reader graders and teaching assistants. Other elements that will be considered are coteaching, teaching more than one course in a quarter, and safety issues. Faculty voted to approve the
process by a vote of 25 Approve, 2 Oppose, 9 Abstain of 47 eligible to vote faculty.
FACULTY ACTIONS
• Approval of the Paper Science and Engineering (PSE) to Bioresource Science Engineering (BSE)
Curriculum Change
Rick Gustafson moved and Eric Turnblom seconded the motion that the faculty consider the
recommendation of the School of Forest Resources Curriculum Committee to approve the transformation of
PSE curriculum to the new Bioresource Science and Engineering (BSE) curriculum. The new curriculum is
to start in Autumn 2010. The PSE courses will have a new BSE prefix, and most of the courses will be
changed. The changes also include a sequential renumbering of the courses. Faculty voted to approve this
curriculum change by a vote of 34 Approve, 0 Oppose, 2 Abstain of 47 eligible to vote faculty.
• Proposed Affiliate Professor Appointment
Dan Vogt moved and Rob Harrison seconded the motion that the faculty consider Douglas J. Martin for
Affiliate Professor. This appointment is sponsored by Bob Edmonds. Dr. Martin received his Ph.D. in
Fisheries Science and Salmonid Ecology from the University of Washington College of Ocean and Fisheries
Science in 1985. He currently serves as the Science Coordinator of the Water Center and also serves on its
advisory board. He is helping to develop collaborative proposals among UW faculty and outside agencies
such as King County and has served on graduate student committees. He is an environmental consultant
and sole proprietor of Martin Environmental in Seattle. Faculty voted to approve this appointment. The
results of the vote are on file in the Director’s office.
• Proposed Visiting Professor Appointment
Gordon Bradley moved and Rob Harrison seconded the motion that the faculty consider Johann Köppel for
Visiting Professor. This appointment is sponsored by Clare Ryan. Dr. Köppel received his Ph.D. from
Technische Universität München in 1996; title of his dissertation is “Der Beitrag der Vegetation zum
Wasserhaushalt im Nationalpark Berchtesgaden.” He is currently a Professor at Technische Universität
Berlin (the Berlin Institute of Technology) and works with Environmental Assessment and Policy Research
Group. His visit is sponsored through a Fulbright Scholar project “Comparing policies in renewable energy
deployment in the U.S. and Germany by use of Constellation Analysis.” Dr. Köppel has been interacting
through an interdisciplinary research and doctoral training program in Urban Ecology funded by NSF and a
similar program in Germany. He has been collaborating with Dr. Ryan for several years. Faculty voted to
approve this appointment. The results of the vote are on file in the Director’s office.
UPCOMING EVENTS
• The next Faculty Meeting will be on Tuesday, March 2, 2010 from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. in Anderson Hall
Room 22.
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ADJOURNMENT
The meeting was adjourned at 11:25 a.m.
Attachments:
Minutes of the January 19, 2010 and February 6, 2010 Faculty Meetings
UW Form 1503 Curriculum Change Form
BSE Course Sequence Matrix
Catalogue Description for BSE
Douglas Martin Appointment Package
Johann Köppel Appointment Package
EFAC Proposed TA Allocation Proposal
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