Academic Staff Committee - University of Wisconsin

Academic Staff Committee
Minutes
August 6, 2012
2596 S. Shore Dr., Milwaukee, WI 53207
12:30pm
Present:
Absent:
Guests:
J. Salzer (Chair), S. Zlotocha (Co-Chair), C. Aguilar-Diaz, E. Frazier, H. Hickson, B. Hinshaw,
K. Koch, P. Richards
W. Volz-Daniels
A. Azarian, A. Cook, D. Fuhrman (newly elected ASC members)
I.
Call to order: The meeting was called to order at 1:30, following a get-acquainted lunch.
II.
Automatic Consent
a. Agenda: The agenda was approved as distributed.
b. Minutes of July 2, 2012: The minutes were approved as distributed.
III.
Chair’s Report
a. Welcome new members
Salzer welcomed new members Andrea Azarian, Ann Cook, and Daniel Fuhrman, and
thanked outgoing members Carmen Aguilar-Diaz, Emily Frazier, and Wendy Volz-Daniels
for their service on the ASC.
b. ASC meeting overviews
Salzer reviewed the meeting schedule for the year – first and third Mondays each month from
9 until approximately 11:30 am. ASC members are also automatically members of the
Academic Staff Senate, which meets the second Tuesday of every month at 2:30 pm.
IV.
Old Business
Dean meetings updates
Richards and Hinshaw met with Rodney Swain, Dean of the College of Letters and Science, on
July 17. Dean Swain acknowledged the important role of academic staff on this campus, and was
very receptive to the idea of academic staff in a variety of appointments, including probationary.
Swain also talked about salary compression among academic staff and the difficulty of coming
up with comparative data. He expressed concern regarding the evaluation process and the need
to stress the importance of yearly evaluations.
V.
New Business
a. Committee Appointments/Nominations
1. Student Affairs – Non-academic Misconduct: Richard Sims, Jessica Stein, Jessica Berndt
Children’s Center Review Board: Rachel Daniels
2. STEM Working Group: Daniel Fuhrman
3. ERM (Enterprise Risk Management): Brian Hinshaw, additional member from the AS
Senate – Lenore Wilkas (Nursing), and Michelle Schoenecker (CEAS) as alternate.
b. August Senate Agenda
1. Fall meetings – new location will be AUP 179, which allows members to see one another
more easily and is more conducive to conversations among the group
2. New Senators – elections need to take place in the Graduate School, Peck School of the
Arts, and in General Education Administration for vacant Senate seats
3. Protected Status update – resolution/letter might be ready for Aug 20 Senate meeting
4. ASHAC procedures update: draft documents from Codification Committee still need
review by ASHAC and ASC, more likely to be ready for September than August meeting
5. Mentoring Plan update – also more likely to be ready for September than August meeting
Based on the uncertain status of most agenda items, there was consensus to cancel the August
Senate meeting. Salzer will provide update and request participation in ERM via email.
VI.
Committee Updates/Announcements
a. Budget Group Kickoff – Koch
Representatives of the ASC (Koch), UC (Marcia Parsons), APBC (LeeAnn Garrison), and
the Classified Staff (Randy Holper) met on Thursday, July 19, with Larry Goldstein, the
consultant for the group charged with developing a new budget model. Some shortcomings
of the current model (marginal tuition) were seen as the potential to lose revenue even if your
enrollment increased, because it did not increase as much as that of another school/college,
and the lack of support for graduate education. Some concerns expressed were determined to
be a function of how budgets are implemented at the school/college level, and not directly
related to the budget model itself. Desired outcomes of a new model included the ability to
project course offerings at least one year in advance, having a more even/less erratic funding
stream, and provisions for space and support staff (e.g. custodial, admissions, graduation,
advising) especially when adding new programs. Zlotcha will report on the all day session,
Friday, July 20, at a future ASC meeting.
b. Professional Development/Faculty Development group
Phyllis King has been asked to coordinate professional development programs, including the
Center for Instructional and Professional Development, the Learning Technology Center, and
MyDev. She has hired Michelle Jackson, faculty member with University of ColoradoBoulder, as a consultant to assist with this task. Jackson has completed a campus visit as well
as a organization report.
VII.
Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 3:20 pm.