Faculty Representatives Council Meeting
Friday, February 19, 2010
Van Hise Hall, 19th Floor
Agenda
I. Discussion among Faculty Representatives
1. Bachelor’s Degree in Applied Arts & Sciences at selected campuses of the UW
Colleges
Mission creep;
Resource allocation;
Is the argument that the comprehensives can’t reach isolated students valid (given other
mediums that are available… online, video…);
Will lead to more dialogue or competition between comprehensives/colleges;
2. Growth Agenda: Educational Attainment
Proposal without funding;
System’s model basically tells State that we ‘really’ don’t need additional resources;
Timeline: very fast; no time for campus discussions;
Lack of faculty to teach these students, lack of physical space (classrooms, labs);
Do we become a collaborative group or are campus’ pit against each other;
Does this lead to more differential tuition requests (can all campuses, especially lower
income areas afford to do it?);
Will this push campuses into areas well outside of their primary missions?
3. Online “Portal”
UW-E campus housed through Extension (goal here is to make all our online courses
available through this portal); expected to begin in the Fall; questions were raised about
how quality will be insured…
In addition, UW-Extension is proposing providing resources for the development of
online courses and would look to work with certain campuses in developing programs
(ie: the campus provides the faculty, UW-Extension provides technology, services…)
4. Differential Tuition
Problematic trend: ‘band-aid’ solution to address tuition issues; Regents are looking to
establish a set of guidelines for granting differential tuition…. Regents are concerned
about the proliferation of differential tuition petitions;
5. Summer Remuneration for Faculty
Various campuses readdressing compensation structure;
6. Faculty Compensation for Developing Course Packets
Seeking System clarification;
7. System Policy on Contact Hour Load (how they are calculated, class size, overload
compensation, etc)
Comprehensives typically have 12 credit load; teaching load is a campus prerogative;
8. Senate Meetings and Structures
9. Electronic Voting
Increasing use of electronic voting;
10. Campus Prioritization and Planning for Building Projects
Need to have faculty involved in process;
11. Position Classification/Limited Appointees
Ongoing discussion of relation to faculty (typically reps. Looking at 50% teaching in order
to vote as faculty)
12. Other:
a. Competitive University Workforce Commission
first meeting held: mostly procedures; initial impression by faculty rep (Joe Heim),
appears to be some lack of enthusiasm from industry representatives;
II. Joint Session with Academic Staff Reps, Senior Vice President Martin
and Associate Vice President Kolison
1. Growth Agenda Planning (Kevin Reilly)
President Reilly presented on the Growth Agenda
Core Goals: More graduates, more jobs, competitive UW workforce.
Three main components for the more graduates:
1. need to enroll more students
2. need to retain the students
3. new delivery and credentialing methods (especially for adult students).
Timeline: Public discussion with Regents at the April meeting on the Growth Agenda.
A Research to Jobs Implementation Committee in place.
Directly connect the need for competitive compensation to this goal: Competitive
Workforce Compensation Committee beginning its work.
Discussion about the manner in which System is framing the argument…
Dialogues currently underway with each campus as to first sets of numbers realistic for
each… concern expressed over the pace of the process… System responded that this
is just an initial response and there will be some fluidity to the numbers… System
encouraged involvement of academic staff and faculty to be part of these discussions on
the campus…
Some discussion of increasing associate degrees on the comprehensives: questions of
whether that would actually lead to an increase or decrease of following through to a
baccalaureate.
Discussion about the problems of growth without infrastructure and that this becomes an
unfunded mandate… President Reilly agreed with these concerns but also noted that if
we don’t propose anything, we risk another cut… he also noted that all new students will
not be coming in as ‘freshman’… i.e.: online, working adult, transfer, alternatives to 15
week semester models, etc…
2. Responses to questions on BAAS Degree at UW Colleges (Rebecca Martin)
Rebecca provided a historical overview of the process, discussed the current state of the
entitlement process; there was an extensive dialogue on the concerns (listed in the first
part); Rebecca also noted that this degree is not intended to compete or overlap with
existing programs at the comprehensives and is specifically intended for a narrow
market of adult students who are place-bound…
3. Update on Textbook Policy (Stephen Kolison)
Continues to seek input from campuses in the next steps towards Board’s further future
development of a policy.
4. Legislative Update (Communications & External Relations)
III. Faculty Representative Discussion with Rebecca Martin, Senior Vice
President for Academic Affairs and Stephen Kolison, Associate Vice
President for Faculty and Academic Programs