Academic Staff Executive Committee Minutes 02-21-13
Approved 2-28-13
ASEC MINUTES
2:00-4:30 Thursday, February 21, 2013
67 Bascom Hall
Members present:
Heather Daniels, Past-Chair; Jim Maynard, Heather McFadden, Vice-Chair; Robert
Newsom, Jeff Shokler, Chair
Members absent: Marwa
Bassiouni, Denny Hackel, Erin Silva
Guests: Darrell
Bazzell, Vice Chancellor for Administration; Eden Inoway-Ronnie,
Provosts-Office; Robin Kurtz, ASEC Member-Designate, Diane Turner, LLPC; Karen
Tusack, CEBC; Sarah Van Orman, UHS/Campus Public Health Officer.
Chair Jeff Shokler
called the meeting to order at 2:12 p.m.
The minutes for Thursday,
February 11, 2013, were approved as distributed.
GENERAL REPORTS
ASEC Chair: Jeff
Shokler: Members of the academic staff have shared concerns about some
implementation decisions and capabilities for the Office 365 e-mail system so
representatives from this program are being invited to an upcoming Assembly
meeting. Jeff shared information about the campus memo regarding weapons
possession during off-campus field trips. PDRC has been informed that their
request for funding was not forwarded to the Chancellor. The CCF data should be
distributed to the CEBC/BIPS working groups in mid-March.
Interim Secretary of the Academic Staff – Jo Ann Carr: There
are now 8,011 academic staff members, 183 of whom have registered for the
academic staff institute. All twenty registrations for the Big Learning
Institute have been used. The PDRC call for proposals for the next round of
professional development grants have been sent out with brown bags scheduled
for March 5th and 6th.
A Doodle poll to schedule the spring meeting with the CASI’s will be
sent soon. The Office of the Academic Staff has hired two student staff.
AE-Heather McFadden: A future state decision making team
has been appointed to review IT decisions. ASEC will want to make certain that
this team reflect broad needs as well as IT needs.
UW Systems Representatives-Heather McFadden: The theme of
the U.W. System wide conference this summer is the “Changing nature of higher education”. The Representatives Council also discussed appointment
types for academic staff.
ASSEMBLY STANDING COMMITTEE REPORTS:
CEBC: Karen Tusack asked
about the status of the System Fringe Benefits Advisory Committee. She also
asked which shared governance committee addresses issues of changes in faculty
and instructor’s ownership of intellectual property in a distance learning
environment as well as student uploading of faculty documents to CourseHero.
Guest: Diane Turner, LLPC: Diane reviewed the committee’s discussions
regarding Palermo and the PT Kizone situation in Indonesia. ASEC and Diane then engaged in a discussion
about a perceived pattern of LLPC going public with issues before
investigations have been completed and the decision making processes to
investigation has been completed. The discussion included a clarification of
the responsibility that academic staff members of committees have to ASEC and
the Assembly. ASEC asked that as the
representative of academic staff that Diane communicate plans made by LLPC with
ASEC and the Assembly and to share LLPC minutes with ASEC. ASEC thanked Diane for her service.
PROVOST OFFICE UPDATE: Eden Inoway-Ronnie: The Search and
Screen Committee for the Secretary of the Academic Staff includes Marwa
Bassiouni, Mo Bischof, Bruno Browning, Barb Gerloff, Robin Kurtz, Kevin Niemi,
Jeff Shokler, and Brenda Spychalla as Chair. ASEC recommended that the PVL be
posted on campus and on the other UW System campuses. The committee will be
asked to nominate 3-5 unranked candidates for the position. The committee and
ASEC should work together to develop a public presentation so the candidates
can meet with academic staff across campus.
[ASEC lost quorum at this point of the meeting-discussion
continued with guests.]
Guests: Darrell Bazzell and Sarah Van Orman: Sarah reviewed the work of a special committee
to review campus policy and practices regarding the serving of alcohol at
university events. The new policies address the serving as alcohol at catered
events or those held at a licensed venue as well as the serving of alcohol by
university employees at university events (whether on or off campus). The new policy places more authority and
responsibility for granting permits for serving alcohol by a non-licensed
university employee at the School/College/Division level; prohibits the serving
of alcohol if two thirds of the participants are below the legal drinking age,
and limits groups to smaller than 50 individuals.
ASEC asked about the
records retention schedule for Alcohol Beverage Service Permits and the need
for careful delineation of penalties and responsibility.
BUSINESS (Deferred
until February 28th due to lack of quorum.)
·
Convene
in closed session pursuant to Wisconsin Stats. 19.85(1)( c), and (f)to dsicuss
Nominating Committee slate and committee appointments
·
Reconvene
in open session
·
Discussion
of academic staff assembly engagement
·
Discussion of Chancellor’s Search
·
Discussion of University Committee response to LCLC.
·
Suggestion
that PPPC begin work on progression series for titling
Adjourned at 4:02.
Submitted by Jo Ann
Carr, Interim Secretary of the Academic Staff.