Faculty Meeting Minutes
College of Forest Resources
Anderson Hall Room 22
Monday, March 26, 2007, 10:30 a.m.
CALL TO ORDER
The meeting was called to order at 10:32 a.m. by Gordon Bradley, College of Forest Resources Faculty
Chair. Dr. Bradley called for a motion to approve previously distributed minutes of the February 26, 2007
Faculty Meeting. The minutes were approved by a unanimous show of hands.
ATTENDANCE
PRESENT
Agee, James
Bakker, Jonathan
Bradley, Gordon
Bura, Renata
Doty, Sharon
Eastin, Ivan
Edmonds, Robert
Ettl, Gregory
Franklin, Jerry
Gustafson, Richard
Hodgson, Kevin
Kim, Soo-Hyung
Lawler, Joshua
Lippke, Bruce
Manuwal, David
Moskal, Monika
Reichard, Sarah
Ryan, Clare
Schreuder, Gerard
Sprugel, Douglas
Turnblom, Eric
Vogt, Dan
ABSENT
Allan, G. Graham
Bare, Bruce
Bolton, Susan
Briggs, David
Brown, Sally
Ewing, Kern
Ford, E. David
Fridley, James
Gara, Robert
Glawe, Dean
Greulich, Frank
Halpern, Charles
Hanley, Donald
Harrison, Robert
Hinckley, Thomas
Johnson, Jay
Lee, Robert
Mabberley, David
Marzluff, John
McKean, William
Paun, Dorothy
Perez-Garcia, John
Peterson, David
Schiess, Peter
Strand, Stuart
Torgersen, Christian
Vogt, Kristiina
West, Stephen
Wott, John
Zabowski, Darlene
ALSO IN ATTENDANCE
Davis, Amanda
Smith, Nevada
Trudeau, Michelle
ANNOUNCEMENTS
1. Woodam Chung, the first of the Natural Resource Informatics faculty candidates, is here today.
Please be sure to attend his seminar at 1:00 p.m. in the Forest Club Room. Be sure to look for and
review the itineraries of the other candidates.
2. The Dean will be here for the next meeting on April 9th. This is the rescheduled Winter Quarter
Meeting with the Dean. It is also hoped that the Promotion, Merit, and Tenure process discussion
will wrapped up at this meeting.
3. The April 23rd meeting will be dedicated to renewal of affiliate and adjunct faculty. Faculty sponsors
will receive a request to provide documentation of your sponsored affiliate and adjunct faculty’s
contributions to the College. If no contributions or comments are received, then the appointments
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will not be renewed. We will also consider the Emeritus appointments of Drs. Agee, McKean, and
Schreuder.
4. The faculty meetings in May will be dedicated to the Promotion, Merit, and Tenure review process
and recommendation consideration. For your information, the database work is coming along. A
couple of faculty reports will be printed this week and reviewed. In the next couple of weeks reports
will be sent to all faculty for review and revisions. Be sure to watch for them.
5. June 4th will be the Spring Quarter meeting with the Dean and the last meeting of the quarter.
6. If anything else should be added to the agenda for Spring Quarter please let Gordon know.
7. This is the last call for Faculty Portfolios. Portfolios that have been received thus far are: Forest
Ecosystem Science, Wildlife, Recreation/Amenities/Ecotourism, Society and Natural Resource, Fire
Science, and Entomology. These will be reviewed and will come back to the faculty at one of this
quarter’s meetings to be prioritized and a recommendation will be made to the Dean.
8. Course Fees need to be reviewed by UW Policy. Please be aware that faculty teaching courses with
course fees will be contacted and asked to provide information via a Course Fee survey form. This
work needs to be completed by 4/20/07.
9. This is a reminder to all faculty using Motor Pool vehicles that we are charged the FULL COST of a
rental if the reservation is not cancelled by 24 hours of the reservation. This is no longer a small fee,
but a substantial one.
10. The Motor Pool credit card is to be used for gas only.
11. Faculty are reminded to check Motor Vehicles for damage BEFORE taking them from the Motor
Pool lot, and to report all damage to Motor Pool as soon as possible.
12. The Dean had his annual meeting with the Provost. Bob Edmonds, Steve West, and Beverly
Anderson also attended. The Dean’s top budget priority was for 26 additional Teaching Assistant
Quarters. He also reported that we submitted $9.5 million in grants and contracts in the past year and
that $4.6 million of those submissions were made by new faculty.
PRESENTATIONS
No presentations were scheduled.
FACULTY ACTIONS
1. Proposed ESRM Curriculum Option Proposals
Discussion of the Options listed below took place at the meeting.
 ESRM Option Proposal in Landscape Ecology and Conservation: Jim Agee moved and
Bob Edmonds seconded the motion to approve this option. A call for vote was distributed
electronically. The Faculty voted to approve the ESRM Option in Landscape Ecology and
Conservation Approve 27, Oppose 1, Abstain 3.
 ESRM Option Proposal in Sustainable Forest Management: Doug Sprugel moved and
Bob Edmonds seconded the motion to approve this option. A call for vote was distributed
electronically. The Faculty voted to approve the ESRM Option in Sustainable Forest
Management Approve 28, Oppose 0, Abstain 3.
 ESRM Option Proposal in Restoration Ecology and Environmental Horticulture: Jim
Agee moved and Eric Turnblom seconded the motion to approve this option. A call for vote
was distributed electronically. The Faculty voted to approve the ESRM Option in Restoration
Ecology and Environmental Horticulture Approve 27, Oppose 0, Abstain 4.
 ESRM Option Proposal in Wildlife Conservation: Jim Agee moved and Bob Edmonds
seconded the motion to approve this option. A call for vote was distributed electronically.
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The Faculty voted to approve the ESRM Option in Wildlife Conservation Approve 26,
Oppose 1, Abstain 4.
DISCUSSION
Clare Ryan, co-Chair of the Curriculum Committee, began the discussion on ESRM curriculum options.
Dr. Ryan reminded faculty of the restructured Core and the reason for developing the options. The options
have been designed to provide critical training, to streamline advising, and to provide diverse options for
students who want to work toward a more specialized degree. The options are also a way to deliver the
capstone which is part of the restructured ESRM Core Curriculum. All students will be required to take a
core group of courses. The options build on the Core with no more than 35 required or elective courses that
are selected from currently available courses to build a curriculum option. A student’s degree can either
read Bachelor of Science in Forest Resources with a major in Environmental Science and Resource
Management or Bachelor of Science in Forest Resources with a major in Environmental Science and
Resource Management with (fill in option title here). Each option proposal was developed with
standardized criteria. One of the criteria was how the Option should or could be evaluated to determine
whether or not it was successful. Students are not required to enroll in one of the options. They can still
complete the general ESRM degree, and they still get a BS in Forest Resources with a major in
Environmental Science and Resource Management. Their course work in addition to the required core is
designed to meet their academic and career goals.
The Landscape Ecology option was considered first. Dr. Lawler is the lead faculty for this option. One of
the considerations in developing the Options was to look at when courses were taught to make sure the
students could develop a reasonable schedule. This option might have some overlap with Wildlife, but the
overlap is minimal.
Dr. Franklin brought up the idea that all the Capstones could cover the same geography and focus on real
world issues. He suggested that the Tiger Mountain property in the Department of Natural Resources
(DNR) would lend itself very nicely to the diverse options being presented today. If the students in the
individual curriculum options were to focus their efforts geographically their opportunity to interact would
greatly increase. This idea could also foster a long term relationship with the DNR. He believes the faculty
have the power to focus the capstone on a specific geography, that the focus would be from different
disciplines, would contribute to a partnership with a receptive land management organization, and that the
information and work coming out of the capstones would accumulate gravitas over time.
Other faculty expressed the opinion that they might want more flexibility and that going to the same place
over and over might get old. Dr. Franklin thought that a sustained measurements program at Tiger
Mountain would be beneficial to all. It was suggested that a monitoring program for wildlife and water
could be established and would be well received. It was also thought that there might not be enough
problems to go around yet it was also noted that problems evolve and are not static.
The suggested 200 level QSCI course will be replaced with another higher level course in ESRM that was
on the suggested list
Sustainable Forest Management was considered next. Dr. Turnblom is the lead faculty for this option.
This curriculum option was developed to lead students directly to the new Society of American Foresters
accredited Masters in Forest Resources program. Changes listed below were made to the option’s
curriculum and will be incorporated in the finalized curriculum document:
1) ESRM 350 (Wildlife Biology and Conservation) should be added to the list for Forest Ecology and
Biology
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2) ESRM 455 (Wildlife Seminar) should be added to the list for Forest Resources Management.
3) ESRM 315 (Natural Resource Issues: Old-Growth and Forest Management) should be added to the list
for Forest Resources Management.
4) ESRM 427 (Integrated Management of Forest Landscapes) should be moved from Forest Resources
Management to Forest Resources Policy, Economics, and Administration
5) ESRM 444 (Forest Ecosystems Protection: Insects and Diseases) should be added to the list for Forest
Resources Management.
Restoration Ecology and Environmental Horticulture was discussed next. Dr. Reichard is the lead
faculty for this curriculum option. While Sarah is on sabbatical next year, Dr. Fridley will assume the lead
role.
This curriculum option is at the 35 credit hour option limit. Capstones already exist under the Restoration
Ecology Network Capstone, but a senior thesis or other kind of capstone will also be offered. It is
anticipated that these will take shape as the curriculum option develops.
Dr. Ryan reiterated that next month the Curriculum Committee will be considering how these curriculum
options will be evaluated. Concern was expressed about course enrollment—what if it is too few? Clare
stated that we would conform to UW policy on minimum course enrollments. One of the reasons to develop
curriculum options that use courses that are already being taught is to support the viability of the option. In
addition, although the list of courses that contribute to the option might seem long, some of the courses are
taught in alternate years or are co-listed. Also, having more than one course choice provided will help to
keep students on track to completion. Faculty want to avoid the pitfall that classes are being taught simply
because they are part of a curriculum option. Clare underscored that evaluation of the options has not yet
been considered by the Curriculum Committee, but this pitfall will be part of that discussion.
The final curriculum option that was considered is Wildlife Conservation. Dr. Manuwal will be lead
faculty for this option. It was acknowledged that succession planning for the lead faculty role needs to be
considered since Dr. Manuwal anticipates he will retire after one more academic year. The capstone for this
curriculum has mostly been a thesis, but other capstones will be developed. It was brought up that Q SCI
courses are not currently allowed to be counted toward the ESRM degree. It was thought that this could be
handled by cross-listing the required Q SCI courses with an ESRM course number, which will be submitted
to the UW Curriculum Committee the same time the option is submitted.
Dr. Ryan again stated that there will still be a general ESRM degree and that students will still have the
opportunity to define their own curriculum (the self-defined curriculum cannot be stated on their degree). It
is hoped that having these diverse options will help the students and faculty, and will give the students the
opportunity to have their concentrated course work acknowledged on their degree. The Curriculum
Committee will undertake the evaluation criteria discussion and also be working with the faculty of the
different options to fill in the details of the individual capstones so they can be implemented by Autumn
Quarter 2007. It was also noted that the current thinking is students will not or should not be limited from
participating in a capstone for an option that is not their curriculum. The vote about whether or not to
approve these four curriculum options is reported above under “Faculty Actions.”
UPCOMING EVENTS
1. Next Faculty Meeting: Monday, April 9, 2007, 2:30 to 3:30 a.m. in Anderson Room 22
ADJOURNMENT
The meeting was adjourned at 11:18 a.m.
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