DRAFT

FACULTY SENATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MINUTES

3:30pm – 327 Graff Main Hall
February 23, 2010

Members: Joe Heim, Kerrie Hoar, Becky LeDocq, Adrienne Loh, and Bart Van Voorhis
Visitors: Chuck Lee, Kathleen Enz-Finken and Bob Hoar

1. Minutes from the February 16 SEC meeting will be approved at the next SEC
meeting.

2. Chair’s Report and Discussion:

a. Update on FS Elections: There were 9 petitions for 8 seats. Only CLS will have an
election (4 candidates for 3 seats).
b. Update from Faculty Reps Meeting:
i. Educational Attainment: Our draft response was circulated. Most Reps knew
very little about the initiative.
ii. Collective Bargaining: Eau Claire, Superior and La Crosse have established
organizing committees.

3. Provost’s Report and Discussion:

a. Faculty Recruitment and Retention Funds:
i. The amount available this year is the approximately the same as last year -
$135,000. All decisions will be finalized by the end of March.
ii. Each college has its own process for how recipients are chosen. These
processes must follow UWS guidelines. College recommendations are then
forwarded to the Provost.
b. Update on GQA Positions:
i. This funding model requires a certain number of students enrolled in order to
fund the faculty hires proposed in the model. We had a difficult time making
the Fall 2010 enrollment target and the Fall 2011 target is higher.
ii. In response to the slow freshman enrollment numbers that are coming in now,
the following decisions have been made in consultation with college deans
and department chairs and have been endorsed by JPB. Four new GQA
faculty positions will be directly affected in the following manner: one failed
search will not be continued, one search with low applicant pool will be
stopped and two GQA positions currently being searched will be moved to 102
funds. In addition, four non-instructional positions have been suspended and
some S & E dollars have been reduced.

4. New Business:

a. Discussion of Textbook Policy Revisions (Chuck Lee):

i. Many of the changes to this policy have been driven by HEOA (Higher
Education Opportunity Act). The policy will be reviewed on a regular basis.
ii. The fine for late returns was discussed. The fine has been $5 for many
years, but is this amount a deterrent? Fall semester return time was affected
by the fact that textbook rental was inventorying and bar coding books, this
could have increased the number of late returns. The committee voted to
monitor the number of late returns and continue to monitor this issue on a
routine basis.
 iii. A discussion of the priority for ordering new texts resulted in the suggestion
that Existing Courses, Increased Enrollment should have priority over Existing
Courses, Time Period Fulfilled.
iv. Finally, the idea of bookstore inventory of consumables was discussed. The
bookstore policy is to not have excess inventory on hand; however, Chuck
suggested that departments send a request for the bookstore to maintain a
supply of particular items.

b. Discussion of Online Handbook meeting:

i. This item will be on the March 11 FS agenda. SEC will discuss this topic at
the March 2 meeting.

c. Discussion Faculty Response to Educational Attainment:

i. Kevin Rielly and Rebecca Martin were at the Feb. 19 Faculty Reps meeting.
They are now downplaying the option of increasing enrollment with not
increase in funds. Our response should reflect this.

5. Faculty Senate Meeting Agendas:

a. February 25:
i. Grad Council ESL waiver
ii. Online Handbook

Meeting adjourned at 6:00pm.

Respectfully submitted,
Kerrie Hoar, secretary