Approved 08-28-25

ASEC Minutes

1:00 – 3:30 p.m. Thursday, July 24, 2025

https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/95285572667 

Members Present: Richard Barajas, Hanna Blazel, Alissa Ewer (chair), Albert Muniz, Terry Paape, Nicole Senter, Diane Stojanovich, Nola Walker

Members Absent: Aaron Crandall

Guests: Emily Beach, Rob Cramer, John Horn, Jen Oasen, Irina Punguil Bravo, Scott Wildman, John Zumbrunnen

The meeting was called to order at 1:02 p.m.

The minutes of July 10 were approved.

General Reports

Alissa Ewer, ASEC Chair, reported that at the request of Interim Provost, John Zumbrunnen, ASEC leadership advanced five names for consideration to an ad hoc advisory workgroup on the institutional workload requirement.

Mallory Musolf, Secretary of the Academic Staff, reminded ASEC to complete the poll for scheduling the Fall 2025 ASEC Listening Sessions.

Liaison Reports

Richard Barajas reported that the Ad Hoc Review Committee on Academic Staff Teaching Professor Titles and the Professor of Practice Title discussed the survey and a plan for drafting the final report.

Nicole Senter reported that the School of Medicine and Public Health Committee on Academic Staff Issues (CASI) discussed budget impacts and concerns regarding long wait times for career counseling services.

Terry Paape reported that the Personnel Policies and Procedures Committee discussed Academic Staff Policies and Procedures, Chapter 7.

Guest: John Zumbrunnen, Interim Provost

Interim Provost Zumbrunnen said that he values working with academic staff governance and looks forward to ASEC’s partnership, collaboration, and dialogue. The recently passed 2025-27 state biennial budget includes statutory requirements for faculty and instructional academic staff workload. The budget also requires the Board of Regents to submit an instructional workload policy to the Joint Finance Committee on Employment Relations (JCOER) for approval. Campus is engaged with the Universities of Wisconsin Administration (UWSA). UWSA has charged a workgroup to develop a draft policy; Interim Provost Zumbrunnen will serve on the workgroup. The campus will also form an ad hoc advisory workgroup. He thanked ASEC for recommending academic staff to serve on the campus workgroup and shared formal invitations will go out soon.

Motion to convene in closed session pursuant to Wis. Stats. 19.85(1)(c), and (f) to discuss appointments to the Protest Administrative Review Team, Campus Planning Committee and the University Academic Planning Council (Paape). Seconded. Approved.

Motion to reconvene in open session (Paape). Seconded. Approved

Business

• Appointments – for vote

Motion to appoint Diane Stojanovich to the University Academic Planning Council and Nola Walker to the Campus Planning Committee (Paape). Seconded. Approved.

• Liaison Assignments

ASEC finalized liaison assignments for the CASIs and the standing committees.

Recessed at 2:25 p.m.

Reconvened at 2:32 p.m.

Guest: Rob Cramer, Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration

LinkUW is an initiative to centralize some services in the HR and finance areas to deliver timely and customer-centered support to partnering units. LinkUW is in phase one and involves selected academic and administrative units from across campus which had indicated a need for these services. ASEC encouraged campus-wide communication on LinkUW. For more information: finadmin.wisc.edu/linkuw/

Business

• September Assembly Agenda

ASEC reviewed the September Assembly agenda. ASEC will vote on the assembly agenda at its next meeting on August 28.

• Topics for Guests

VCFA: Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) Impacts

Meeting adjourned at 3:37 p.m.

Minutes submitted by Mallory Musolf, Secretary of the Academic Staff