UW-Madison Faculty Senate February 1, 2016 Transcription of recording >> Chancellor: I'm going to call the meeting to order until we need two more people for a quorum but I'm optimistic that by the time we do minutes, we will have two more people in the room. So, could I ask everyone to rise as you are able for the reading of memorial resolutions. And let me call on Professor Irwin Goldman to present the memorial resolution for Professor Emeritus Gail E. Beck. >> Prof. Goldman: Thank you. Gail Beck was born on July 25, 1923 and passed away on May 12, 2015. Gail was raised in a Wisconsin farm and served in the army in World War II fighting in Germany. He was awarded the Purple Heart Medal. Gail studied at Michigan State University and at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He built the floriculture program in the department of Horticulture and spent 36 years as a faculty member here. He studied cold hardiness in ornamental plants and worked extensively with students [inaudible] think completely through a challenge, something they considered extremely valuable in their education. A memorial scholarship was dedicated in his honor at the Allen Centennial Gardens on campus >> Chancellor: Thank you Irwin. Let me call on Professor John Pfotenhauer to present the memorial resolution for Professor Emeritus William Feiereisen. >> Prof. Pfotenhauer: William Bill J. Feiereisen, Emeritus Professor of mechanical engineering died May 9th, 2015 in Madison, Wisconsin at the age of 94. Bill loved laboratory instruction believing that students learn best when exposed to actual machinery. He was instrumental in developing the department's thermal science laboratory and received many teaching awards from the college's student groups. His dedication to students was also shown through his 17 years of advising the student chapter of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers professional society. He will be missed by all of us who knew him and especially, by the family he love so much. >> Chancellor: Let me recognize Professor Lee Pondrom to present the memorial resolution for Professor Emeritus Robert March. >> Prof. Pondrom: Robert March, Emeritus Professor of physics died at the age of 81 on August 4th, 2015. He graduated from the University of Chicago in 1960. He joined the faculty of University of Wisconsin in 1961. He became full professor of physics in 1971 and in 1981 acquired a joint appointment with ILS. He was subsequently chair of ILS. He represented the Wisconsin Idea of excellence in research, teaching and outreach. He received the US Steel Science Writing Prize twice, Amoco Distinguished Teaching Award and was frequently on Wisconsin Public Radio. He was preceded in death by his parents and he's survived by two brothers, William and Richard March, by his son Thomas and his grandson Andrew. >> Chancellor: And I want to recognize Richard March and Kathryn Holtgraver [assumed spelling] who are both here in honor of our commemoration of Professor March. Thank you for coming. [ Applause ] Let me recognize Professor Connie Flanagan to present the memorial resolution for Professor Emerita Bernadine Peterson. >> Prof. Flanagan: Dr. Bernadine Peterson, Professor Emerita of School of Human Ecology passed away in July 27, 2014 at the age of 90. She was born in Neillsville, Wisconsin, the daughter of Effie and Bernhardt Peterson. Her science classes at Neillsville High School where she learned about the role of vitamins and minerals in children's development were the foundation for her career in human ecology and cooperative extension. Bernadine earned her undergraduate degree at Stevens Point and her PhD here. After a brief time at Kansas State University, she returned to the University of Wisconsin, Madison where she was a resident faculty member in home economics with the joint appointment with the University of Wisconsin Extension where until her retirement in 1985, she served as professor and district program leader for family living programs encompassing 17 counties in the state. Bernadine put her education to good news for the people of Wisconsin. Long before distance education became common, she designed, evaluated and disseminated low-cost family life education focused on parenting, nutrition and consumer decision making. Following retirement, Bernadine was a generous benefactor for the School of Human Ecology and enjoyed meeting the students her scholarship supported. >> Chancellor: And let me recognize Professor Emeritus Victor Hilts to present the memorial resolution for Professor Emeritus Robert Siegfried. >> Prof. Hilts: Robert Siegfried pioneer and historian of science died at age 93 on September 2nd, 2014. In 1952, Seigfried received one of Wisconsin's first two PhD's or work in the history of science and he thought in the history of science department from 1963 until the mid 1980's. As chairman of the history of science department, from 1964 to 1975, Siegfried helped to guide the department's expansion of its mission. He's remembered by his colleagues for his qualities of honesty, openness, fairness and mutual respect. >> Chancellor: Thank you all very much. You may be seated. I am going to declare the presence of a quorum. I think we have enough people in the room now. I just have a number of quick things that I want to make sure people are aware of and let me start with the-- at least some of the many good pieces of news around the university. A couple of faculty awards that have been announced and some last we met. The Lewis Thomas Prize is going to be awarded to Professor Sean Carroll from CALS, who's been instrumental in building the field of evolutionary developmental biology, known locally as Evo Devo, I understand. So, congratulations Professor Carroll. Astronomer, Sebastian Heinz has been recognized for demystifying the star system. He's going to receive a Mid-Career Award from the American Astronomical Society for his work to unravel the mystery of-- I'm going to pronounce this right-- Circinus X-1, a bizarre binary star system in our galaxy that exploded about 2500 years ago. And UNESCO selected Yoshihiro Kawaoka as winner of the Carlos J. Finlay Prize. As you know, Yoshi is a prominent influenza and Ebola researcher and was selected for his overall contributions to the field of microbiology. I'm sure that if I pulled the group here, you could probably name 10 or 12 other awards that you know of that have been given in the last, you know, since we met in early December and it's always a sign of the productivity and great intellectual contributions of our faculty that there's always a good list when I want good news. Let me say a couple of things on the legislative front, where I think there's also good news. The fetal tissue and the campus carry bills will not be moving forward in the current session. Thanks to efforts by the campus community and many, many others who worked with legislators on this. And I want to thank profs and all of the different groups, both inside and outside the university that particularly worked with us on the fetal tissue research bill. We do expect several bills related to college affordability and student debt to pass and there's some other things we're advocating forward including the ability to use our parking revenues a bit more flexibly and CALS is looking for the ability to sell and trade agricultural land. And we're hoping that that legislation will pass. In an effort to continually reach out to the state, I continue to do my state ride outreach work. I was recently on a trip to Milwaukee where I met with the new Milwaukee public school superintendent, Darienne Driver and among other things I visited was State Senator Harris Dodd in a TRIUMPH site which is an SMPH program specializing in training people to work in intercity medical urban medicine situations, which was a fascinating visit. Sexual assault, which I know you-- we all continue to read about and to be concerned about. We here at the university have supported legislation recently sponsored by Representative John Ballweg and Senator Jerry Petrowski that would provide amnesty of kids being ticketed for underage drinking if you report or assist a victim of sexual assault. That mirrors our current practices in terms of what the police already do but it codifies it if this passes into state law. And I think, that just makes it a little clearer that we really want people to report and to help when they are present and see someone in trouble. We have been, as you know, had a major survey that got conducted and you're going to see the sort of the final report in those survey results later in this meeting today. We've been engaging in a series of presentations, conversations, listening sessions with faculty, students, staff, based on this survey to develop some specific action plans. And to tell you about one of them, which I'm really very pleased about, that survey, among other things, gave us some pretty clear evidence that a disproportionate number of assaults were occurring at events sponsored by the Greek system. And a number of people from across the Greek system came together to talk about that and to put together a plan as to how they might reduce this effect. And they're implementing a series of training and responsible action guidelines at Greek events and for leaders in the Greek system that I think are really not only major steps forward, but also a real model that I hope Greek systems around the country at other universities will pick up and use as well. So, you know, this is one of those things that you're never done. You're always in making progress and I do think we are making progress even though we, someday, seem to be a far ways away from where we want to be. Another such issue where you are never done but are always working, is of course, the issue of diversity, a topic that has gotten a great deal of publicity in the national press on college campuses across the country. We've been having what I would only characterize as some really, really good conversations with a number of our students here on campus who have essentially come and said, "Look, we want to work with you to do something that makes a difference." Right. And, you know, there's a whole variety of things that that can and may include and that we're in the midst of discussing one event I want to make sure, is all on your calendars if you're available is February 24th. About a year ago, we held a campus-like conversation over at the Union South around these issues. We're going to hold a followup conversation on February 24th from 4 to 6. In Gordon commons, both as an update on what have we done over this past year, what are the issues in front of us, where do we need to be going and this is not talking at you. There'll be a short amount of that, but really, getting people to talk together in small groups about, you know, what the ongoing agenda is and where we come, where we need to be going? On that same day, our deans are going to be participating in the first ever, dean's diversity retreat with Vice Provost Patrick Sims talking about-- it's both a training retreat and a strategizing session for them inside the schools and colleges as well. So, this is one that I know a number of you have been involved with, will continue to be involved with and we will certainly continue working on. The regents are meeting on Thursday and Friday of this week. We officially host the regent meeting in February. It's hard to tell that because they often meet at Madison, but we're actually hosting them for this meeting and that means we get to make some special presentations. I will be talking to the regents on Thursday afternoon. You are more than welcome to come by. The regent meeting is at Union South or to watch online. I'm hoping this got a little less attention than last year, but nonetheless if you want to hear what I have to say tune in at 1:15. It's also true that in every one of the regent committees, we have the opportunity to present what we're doing. So, Darrell Bazzell, Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration will be talking in the finance and budget committee. The provost will be talking in the education committee. And Interim Vice Chancellor for University Relationships Charley Hoslet will be talking in the economic and innovation committee. So show up to any of those and you can hear what's going here on campus. Finally, two things to say about two searches, as you know, we're close to the end, I hope, of our search for a new permanent by vice chancellor for university relations. There are three candidates whose names within the next week or two, are going to be publicly announced and they will be visiting in the middle of February. And I encourage all of you to show up in those events, there'll be a public discussion area with each of them. And I encourage anyone who wants to show up to that, you'll see that inside Wisconsin. And then, another search that I must say I was hoping I would not have to do, but unfortunately, we do have to do. As you know, Darrell Bazzell is leaving, so we will be searching for a new vice chancellor for finance and administration. And I think this might be the last faculty Senate meeting which Darrell will be present. And I just really want to publicly thank him for the last 13 and a half years of work handling human resources, budgets, finance, facilities, internal controls and auditing auxiliaries, I could keep going. And all of you have-- even if you didn't know it, felt the effect of Darrell's leadership over these last 13 years. So thank you, Darrell for all of that. [ Applause ] I tried to keep him, but I was not successful. We will be naming a search committee, I hope, very soon. We've asked the governance committees to give us names. I'm going to be appointing a few people who are experts in some of the areas that Darrell covers and we need to launch this search because we really need someone in place come the first of September. So, anyone on that search committee is going to have to work until we've got names, which is probably going to be through the end-- middle to the end of June. And I'm quite hopeful this is a, you know, this is a big job but it's a very good job and I think we're going to get some very good candidates. In the meantime, Darrell is leaving in very early in March and I would be naming an interim within another week or so and I actually have a platter of good candidates for that job as well, which I think is a good sign for the permanent job. But we will have an interim for about four to six-month period here while we're searching. So, that's the next big search going on. All right. That's what's on my list and I'm now going to call on the provost as a member of the Tenure Task Force with the system to talk a little bit about that task force and where things are. Dorothy Farrar Edwards is on that task force is-- had to go elsewhere this afternoon for something else she needed to do and Patricia McManus, I believe, is not here either. The three of them are our representatives. So, the provost is going to stand in for all three of them and give you a quick thumbnail sketch of where we are. >> Provost: So the UW System Tenure Task Force met five times beginning last August and as the chancellor said, our campuses representatives were Patricia McManus, Dorothy Farrar Edwards and I. And we did our best to represent the views of our faculty and staff on this campus. We received the most recent version of the three documents from system on Friday, January 22nd. The three documents are one on faculty tenure, one-- the second on procedures relating to financial emergency or program discontinuance and the third on periodic post-tenure review. Our understanding is that the education committee of the board of regents will be discussing and voting on these policies at their board meeting later this week. However, the policies will not be voted on by the whole board of regents until their March meeting, at the earliest, and hence, can and probably will be modified between now and the final vote. Thus, we have been reviewing the policies and trying to get our best sense and we have our lawyer Ray Taffora here. In that sense, a degree to which the system policies as they're currently proposed are or not consistent with the campus policies that you have all been involved in developing for the UW Madison. We will work with the regents in system to try to get the policies at the system level to be written as broadly as possible to allow the specific campuses of the UW system to provide the specific details of the policies as they relate to their campuses. Because having served on this system task force, I can tell you, these campuses are all very, very different and they're organized in very, very different ways than do-- and so, a one size fits all policy with very specific ways of doing things will not work for any of the campuses. The UC will be working on gathering feedback to send to the regents because we think it's wise to have a letter that comes from the campus, that's not to say, people-- multiple people can send letters and post comments on it. But, the UC will be preparing a document. We do believe that in the end, we will set, I'm going to say something that I know a lot of you won't like, but we'll end up-- we think we'll end up with a set of policies very similar to the policies of many of our peer institutions. I know this is not a comfort to you. In fact, one of you said to me last year, "You know, it's really not comforting to us when you and the chancellor say that we will have a tenure policy similar to our peers because our policy was better than our peers." I do want you to know that we understand that sentiment, that having our policy in state law something that, by the way, only happened when UW Madison became part of the UW system in the 1970's. Before that, we had our own policy, it wasn't in state law. And I believe, that you thought it was-- made it stronger to have it in state law. As a relative newcomer, who only moved to Madison in the summer of 2014, I personally felt that having our tenure policy in state law seem to make it more vulnerable, not less. But I do understand your feelings and we-- I know, this is all hard. It's hard for all of us. In any case, we will do the very best that we can to have the best policies we can for UW Madison. Now, I will ask Beth Meyerand to explain our process for getting feedback to UC to get us the regents. >> UC Chair: So, many of you have seen the announcement. We had a special UC meeting on Friday, the goal of which was to have some one-on-one time with people who wanted to give us feedback for the letter that we'll be sending to the regents. But also, if you didn't have a chance to attend that meeting or you've thought of additional comments between then and now, please feel free to send comments to Steve Smith, the secretary of the faculty, either email or give him a call because we'd like to get those comments so we can get that letter written and get feedback to the regents so they can make changes. >> Chancellor: Yes. While you're here, is there anything else that you want to say in terms of announcements. >> UC Chair: No. >> Chancellor: All right. Are there questions, comments, things that others here want to say to any of us? Yeah. >> Mark Etzel: Mark Etzel, District 11. I had a question that's related to sexual assault on campus. And as you're aware, there's a-- there was that professor in the Madison campus that had a sexual relationship with his student on whose thesis committee he served and she worked in his lab and he wound up transmitting HIV to her. And she quit without her PhD and left. And I was wondering if you were aware that the definition of sexual assault is wider than you might-- maybe you didn't think about this, but this student was incapable of providing consent while the professor served on her thesis committee. And he had the power to determine if she graduated or didn't. And actually knowingly transmitting HIV to a student is sexual exploitation and falls under the definition of sexual assault. It's actually a felony in Wisconsin. So, this case happened on the Madison campus. I'm not done yet. So, one question is, are you aware of what those definitions of sexual assault are? And then, the other one is Pat Schneider wrote an article in The Capital Times about the case that the federal government is investigating in the Madison campus and other campuses. And one of the students in the paper said, "I feel like they betrayed me. I felt they were protecting him, not me." And the professor I'm referring to is still on the faculty here but the student quit without her PhD. And I felt like that almost like she would say this. And her lawyer said, "UW has a big advertising campaign against sexual assault going on. They have ads during basketball games, they have ads all over campus. That's what they portray themselves to be versus what the process actually looks like on the ground. Whether or not, they are actually trying to support victims of sexual assault or whether it's a media campaign to make UW look better. I don't know." That's what the student's lawyer said in The Cap Times piece by Pat Schneider. And then, I read that your introductory message to the sexual assault report that we'll hear about later today and you say, "Sexual assault concerns me deeply, not just as a leader of this university but as a mother of a college sophomore." The question on the mind of every parent dropping their son or daughter off at college is always, will they be safe here. And it just seems like there's conflicting things going on where people say one thing and do another behind closed doors. And it makes me and other people including this writer in the Cap Times and these female undergrads that have complained now about the process. In my own, you know, experience, it just seems like the-- there's, say one thing in public, do another in private. >> Chancellor: So, I appreciate the comment and I don't think anyone in leadership on campuses is not concerned about sexual assault. The resources, the time, the energy from my office, from the student office, from the health services office that goes into this has been very steady and very extensive from the legal offices. I'm not familiar with the example that you've given. That must have happened before my time. That's not a current case. >> Mark Etzel: It was investigated by your office. >> Chancellor: That may have been but it must have been before I came because that's not a current case in front of us, I'm certainly certain. The concern about graduate students as well as undergraduates is one reason when we did the survey. We did it for all students and one of the things that came out of that, which we are indeed talking about how we follow up on appropriately. For undergraduates, they, you know, over-- well over 90%. The vast, vast majority of undergraduate cases involve students, people they knew who were their peers. For graduate students, particularly female graduate students, something close to 25% involves staff or faculty as opposed to their peers in graduate school, which I found a very concerning statistic and one that we're working with the office for research and graduate education to do additional training and outreach both to graduate students as well as to the staff and faculty that work with graduate students because that is not an acceptable number, you know. And I realize there's a lot of media around this and it's very concern media for all the right reasons. I will also say that, you know, we-- this is true of almost media issue. You really want to know about the specific cases and what's going on and what you hear in the media is not always accurate in every case. But, I really can't emphasize enough that the amount of time and energy that our people who deal with sexual assault had put into keeping up to date with the department of education guidelines and hiring additional staff, training people, trying to do as good a job as possible is extensive. Do we do a perfect job? Not at all. Do we make mistakes? Yes we do. Is the standards for what we should do always changing which makes that increasingly difficult? Yes it is. But, you know, any of you who want more information about this, I know that our people who train and work with the whole process of how we handle sexual assaults would be more than happy to meet with you and give you a full briefing on what we're doing and how seriously we take this. So, you know, people are not always happy coming out of that process, I can tell you, because it is a hearing process in which weighs evidence and oftentimes, there simply isn't evidence, either than the testimony of individuals with no external evidence and that makes it very hard to draw conclusions, right? We do, you know, we-- Both of these people in these hearings tend to be our students and we have to be very impartial as a result of that and that often leaves individuals feeling, you know, they didn't get what they wanted out of it and I wish I could change that. But that is the nature of those sorts of hearings and disciplinary processes, OK? But I'd be happy to talk to you more later. Yeah, David. >> Michael Kissick: Oops sorry. Hello, sorry to follow such a sad story and change the topic. Michael Kissick, District 88. This is about the tenure and I'd first want to thank everybody for all your hard work on this. I would not want to be in your shoes and-- But it's not just the state law issue. It's the strength of the whole policy and the history that goes back-- and the special part that this university played in it, Professor Eli [assumed spelling] and the whole thing. And, you know, here we are, we are going to be the generation of folks here where it changes and becomes like everybody else. And I'm very sad about this. I think we all should be sad about this. I've submitted an op-ed at Wisconsin's Sate Journal. I hope they print it. Maybe as everybody walks out here today, you can look at that plaque out there. I hope it just doesn't end up as some sort of cute passe thing that we all say, "Oh yeah, that was once us." It's very sad. >> Noah Feinstein: Noah Feinstein, community and environmental sociology. Two notes, one on the more serious side of that and one fairly logistical. I have just been appointed the chair of a search committee which is a celebration in the time of this sort to be able to chair a search committee. But I'm already thinking about how I'm going to field questions about these changes. And I imagine there may be some guidance forthcoming on that issue from various offices around the campus. Such guidance would be appreciated. A more logistical issue, concerning a body called the University Research Council, which now, it's in the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education and is currently operating in an ad hoc form. If you go to the website for the URC, the text says, "At a future date to be decided by the vice chancellor and the university committee, UC and Senate will incorporate URC functions into FPNP." We're getting to a point where it's probably time to start doing that. And I'm wondering if someone could speak to the timeline for that and when this body will get to vote on that. Thank you. >> UC Chair: So, we have been working on a transition plan to transition that committee over to a more of a traditional committee where you actually have members of it would be elected and would have term limits and things like that. We've worked through most of the details and we-- we're planning on presenting it to the Senate this month, but other things have been distracting us, the policies and what not, March if we can manage it. We're getting really close. >> Noah Feinstein: They're presented in March for vote in April? >> UC Chair: Does it have to go twice? Yeah. Yes. >> Noah Feinstein: Thank you. >> Chancellor: I know the intention is to get that done this spring so we can start with a fully implanted committee in the fall. Anything else? All right. In that case, if you look at the agenda on pages 10 and 11, there are minutes from the meeting of December 7th. Are there any additions or corrections to those minutes? If none, the minutes are approved as distributed. Let me recognize Professor Judith Burstyn who's going to present the report of the nominations for election to the Committee on Committees, which is in your agenda and the annual report of the Committee on Committees. Judith. >> Prof. Judith Burstyn: So annual report is document 2600 which reports all the nominations to the committees. The nominees for the Committee on Committees for the seat representing the Arts and Humanities division are Professor Ivy Corfis, District 28 and Professor Venkat Mani, District 59. The election will open on April 4th and close at midnight on April 17th. So that's a fairly narrow window, don't forget to vote. Only senators may vote in this particular election for the Committee on Committee members. Any questions about that slate? If there are none, let's move on to Item 6, which is the slates for the other elected committees. It says, "The slates for these committees were on slides shown before the meeting started," perhaps there are slides? >> They were up [inaudible]. >> Prof. Burstyn: It's on the annual report page. But usually, we do display the elections, I mean these slates. Here are the slates. OK. So, now we have our slate. We did have our slates. OK. So, the slates for-- This is-- Let's see, what have we got here? This is the commission on-- excuse me, on faculty compensation and economic benefits who's first, and then-- wait. OK. There is the slate. They will be on the ballot. The next slate is the Committee on Faculty Rights and Responsibilities and this committee-- this slate is not complete. We are still looking for nominees for the Committee on Faculty Rights and Responsibilities and we will present the final slate in March. The next committee is the Library Committee. The slate is shown and they will appear on the ballot. And the next committee is the University Committee and the slate for the University Committee is also not complete. And we are looking for volunteers, nominees and we will present the final slate in March. >> Chancellor: Is that all the committees? >> Prof. Burstyn: Yup. That's it. >> Chancellor: Are there any nominations from the floor? In that case, I declare that nominations are closed. And you will be receiving all the information you need to vote on this. Let me recognize Professor Doug Reindl who's going to present for informational purposes only the Recreational Sports Board annual report found on pages 14 and 15. >> Prof. Reindl: The Rec Sports Board was busy last fiscal year primarily working on the master plan that was approved by the students in 2014, the spring of 2014 shepherding that through the process which is-- as phase one is on its way. That will include Near West playing fields and also Southeast recreational facility. There's other information that's included in the report. I will also mention that an activity that's ongoing this year is preparing a surge plan for the close of the surf building which is going to be pretty disruptive. But the Rec Sport staff and the board are working to try to minimize that impact on students and the users of that facility. I'd also like to recognize John Horn. John is the Director of the Division of Rec Sports and he's been a real big champion for all of the work that goes on there and the students that use those facilities. And I really appreciate his support of the board's efforts as well. >> Chancellor: Thank you. Are there any questions? All right. Let me recognize Professor Scott Lutz who will present for informational purposes-- I'm tempted to it the Kemper K. Knapp Bequest Committee. That's Kemper K. Knapp, their annual report. >> Prof. Lutz: Hi. The Kemper Knapp Bequest Committee meets once a year to consider requests for funding for the next academic year. When considering these requests, we keep in mind the spirit expressed in Kemper K. Knapp's will and quote, "In general, it is my wish that such funds be used for purposes outside the regular curriculum of the university to cultivate the student body ideals of honesty, sincerity, earnestness, tolerance and social and political obligations." In the last-- In 2015, 2016 funding cycle, we received 21 requests and we're able to provide funds to 17 of these. The committee was composed of Julie Allen from Scandinavian Studies, Alberta Gloria from counseling psychology, Tracey Holloway from the Nelson Institute and Laurie Mayberry from the office of the provost. We've attached our annual report and minutes for today. Thank you. >> Chancellor: Are there any questions? All right. Thank you. Let me recognize Professor Bret Payseur who's going to present for information on the AAU Climate Survey on Sexual Assault. That's pages 18 to 36 and I do encourage all of you to look at this. It will not necessarily make pleasant reading, but it's important reading and then a related resolution on page 37 that they're bringing to the faculty Senate. >> Prof. Payseur: I guess that's on [inaudible]. Stand away from it. Everyone hear me? OK. Thanks for this opportunity to share some results from this important survey that I'm really here as-- I'm pushing the button. There we go. As a representative of the Climate Survey and Sexual Assault task force that was chaired by Sarah Van Orman and Lori Berquam was involved as well as some other constituents on campus. My name is Bret Payseur. As I said, I'm here representing the Climate Survey Task Force. I'm also a senator from genetics. This is anticipation, OK. So just a little bit of background on the survey. Gender-based violence include sexual assault, stalking, intimate partner violence and sexual harassment. By the way, everything I'm going to present here, as the Chancellor said is in the report that's in your packet. We've had a slate of recent federal actions. It have been encouraging, the violence against women act reauthorization amendment to the Clery Act in 2013. This is now famous April 2011 to your colleague letter that clarified purposes of Title IX as it regards gender-based violence. We had the Title IX questions and answers and the White House Not Alone report. The survey was administered by 26 out of 62 AAU institutions including UW Madison in the spring of 2015 in April. The goals were to ascertain the frequencies of gender-based violence and sexual misconduct on campus to assess perceptions of climate on campus and also to appraise student knowledge and evaluation of university response and resources for addressing sexual assault and misconduct. So we're interested in both the actual rates of sexual assault and misconduct and the perceptions among students. The participation at UW Madison, it would have been great for it to be higher but it was actually pretty good at 22%. This is obviously a voluntary survey and it-- all the students on campus undergraduates, graduate students and professional students had an opportunity to participate. And so now, I'm just going to briefly present some key findings and then I'll move on to a few recommendations that came from the task force. So, since entering college almost 28% of female undergraduates reported having experience a sexual assault involving force or incapacitation. This is a remarkable number. As in keeping with what previous research suggest, but it's pretty devastating you just consider it for a moment. And that includes 12% or 13% of female undergrads reporting having experienced nonconsensual penetration. Additional information here, which was already mentioned, sexual assault incidents occurred in places of residence mostly private off campus residence, on campus residence halls, sororities and fraternities. It's helpful to know that. As suspected, alcohol is a common factor in sexual assault. It is not the same thing to say that it's alcohol that is responsible for sexual assault it's just a correlate. And you can see the results here on the right in particular, there's a strong association of perpetrators having using alcohol during the assault. And one thing I want to clarify here is, you know, there are a number of-- this survey is extremely useful to us but there are number of drawbacks. This was-- The survey was created by a company called Westat over an ambitious timeframe that didn't allow for as much-- let's say, scholarly debate about how to design the survey. So, one of the major drawbacks from the point of view of the task force is that there weren't any questions directed towards perpetrators, which is a big problem since people don't assault themselves. OK. So, another thing that we see is that there are disparities among groups on campus among students. Sexual assault and misconduct were disproportionally reported by female students, LGBTQ students, students who identify as an American Indian or Alaska native and students with disabilities. Suggesting that these populations need special assistance. Now we're moving to talk about sexual harassment briefly. Sexual harassment including by coworkers and university faculty and other employees is reported to be incredibly common. OK. So female undergraduates on campus you have 66% reporting sexual harassment. One of the statistics you see in the report is that about 26% of students report being harassed 3 to 5 times a year. So these are really high numbers and you can see that the sexual harassment is really cutting across a number of lines just as sexual assault does. Some additional information here. And this was-- This point was already erased that about the perpetrator association with the university by far and away the largest class of perpetrators according to the victims is other students. But we also see that other employees of the universities including faculty, staff, and administrators are involved as well. And as was drawn attention to before, if you look on the right here that red part for-- of the pie, for graduate and professional students, it's actually 22% reported having been sexually harassed by a faculty member. So, key finding number 5 and we've known this again from previous research that assault-- sexual assault and misconduct often go unreported. So, fairly high numbers. Low numbers of reporting. Oops. Go back. Another interesting finding was that undergraduates reported greater knowledge about sexual assault and awareness of campus resources. So, graduate and professional students who are not necessarily getting exposed to resources on campus or that seems to be reflected in the survey. Wait what's the-- Oh you got it? OK. And peers are the primary resource for students who experience sexual assault and misconduct yet seldom report intervening as bystanders. So you can see that among students reporting forced penetration, female students reporting forced penetration, the 84% of them reported telling a friend, OK. But when we look at, you know, on the right graph here, students who witnessed a drug person heading for a sexual encounter and took action or students who witnessed someone acting in a sexually violent or harassing manner and took action. There are some students doing that but we're still well below where we'd like to be. Students report mixed attitudes about campus climate resources and response, which means there are many opportunities to improve particularly among graduate and professional students. And, you know, we see, for example, 71% of all students believe that campus officials would take a repost seriously, but 46% think that that would lead to some action against the offender. So again, it's lower than we'd like to see, OK. These findings were carefully examined by the Climate Survey Task Force over the course of a few months, because that was the time that we had. And we engaged with a number of shared governance groups on campus. Students on the climate task force actually held listening sessions and engagement sessions that were well-attended. And so, the recommendations that I'm going to share with you today came from those discussions as well as consultation with stakeholders and many experts on campus. And the recommendations are spelled out in much more detail in the report that's in your packet. Some of them are already happening because they represent extension of programs that seem to be working based on the feedback from the students. And others are a bit new here. But I'll just go through them quickly before we move on to the new business. The first one is to strengthen targeted prevention efforts for incoming students in housing. This includes the tonight program which seems to be successful. Secondly, we'd like to continue efforts to reduce high risk alcohol consumption through education enforcement. Address the disproportion amount of sexual assaults and off campus Greek housing trough the kinds of efforts that you just heard about. A big target for improvement here is to reduce the gap and knowledge among graduate students about sexual assault and misconduct by instituting a required training program in similar spirit to the programs that we have our freshmen and sophomores do. But, with information that is specific to the position a graduate student or professional student finds themselves in. We also recommend appointing a task force to address this graduate and professional student reports of harassment and stalking by faculty and university employees before devising a policy in a way forward. We think this problem is significant enough that we need to carefully examine the possibilities. We also need to find a way to address mixed student experience with campus resources, address student's limited knowledge of campus resources. Improve support for groups who are disproportionately affected. Create opportunities to engage the campus community in a capacity building for addressing sexual violence. So this has more to do with messaging and overall campus climate to make sure we all understand that anytime someone is sexually assaulted, you know, it's on all of us to try to prevent that. And just to point out that addressing potential perpetrators must remain a priority. As I mention, that wasn't really assessed in the Climate Survey, but getting a better sense of the characteristics of perpetrators and how we can intervene proactively through, for example, leadership programs involving young men on campus which exist. Sending more resources in that direction certainly seems in order. Another point that we wanted to stress was a hope that we could have appointed a high level advisory group on sexual violence that would provide not only overarching analysis and leadership but to accountability, right, because we can list all of these recommendations and send them out to different groups who are already overtaxed. But we really need to make sure that there are deliverables here given the scope and importance of the problem for our students. And finally, the results from the Climate Survey were really useful in understanding campus dynamics. And so, all of the students we talked to and many of the faculty were interested in conducting periodic Climate Surveys to get a sense of whether we're making progress in the right direction. I think that's it for the report. So I'll stop there and take questions. >> Mark Etzel: Mark Etzel, District 11. So, I think it's great that you're getting all these data. And it shows that Wiscon is not doing too good on this topic. And that we could do a better job. My experience is that the university is kind of in a-- trying to strike a balance between a good public image, which means you cover up these scandals, versus dealing with the scandals and punishing the offender, which makes it a public issue, right? And so, a lot of times they cover it up so that it looks good on outside and very rarely do you see any-- at least from my experience, it's like the student that was interviewed in The Cap Times, but I have my own experience, there's a lot of cover up going on. Things are swept under the rug. And so, to me-- So let me give you another example. In my-- I live downtown and there's lots of people that walk their dogs in the park even though there's a sign there and they park in the yellow zone even though it's not supposed to be done. But if you see one police officer come by, everybody goes out and moves their car. What I don't see on this campus is any kind of punishment or what would you call that? Penalties for offenders, and it's like the student in The Cap Times she says, "I felt like the university was standing behind the perpetrator and I was the victim," or I was the bad person. And so to me, I think, you know, in addition to getting data, we have to talk about what happens when bad things happen? How do we prevent this from happening in the future? And just posting signs, I'll tell you, it doesn't work. >> Prof. Payseur: Yeah. I think-- I maybe not going to comment on the first part but, I will say that I totally agree with you that moving towards a more proactive stances is not only-- I mean, it's absolutely necessary. And I think that the way over the years that universities and most public institutions have addressed this question is, you know, to support victims, which is very important. But, we should, you know, try to end the victimization, right? We need to talk about the people who are doing these and how we're going to get them to stop. So, I think that being proactive in investing in prevention is absolutely pivotal, in the same way that we need to be doing that with healthcare. Yup, sure. >> Chancellor: So every single freshman that comes into this campus goes to a required a sexual assault training? Now is that enough? Obviously not, if you look at these results and that saying that both getting students to participate actively if they see something happening as well giving people information about resources and about situations that may make them vulnerable, as well as what they shouldn't be doing in terms of assuming, you know, misreading signals and assuming things. And they call themselves out on basis of, you know, it's aimed at the men as well as the women. All of that said, I can tell you that nothing that I say, is going to change this culture unless the students themselves work on at changing and that's not to say it's not on my shoulders. It's included on my shoulders to provide the resources and the assistance and the help and the training. But at the end of the day, we also have to change the culture and I am very heartened by the number of students involved particularly this year as the survey has come out. In the Greek system, among our athletes, among students on campus who've organized in a number of ways and, you know, if we're going to move the needle on this, not just 2 percentage points by doing a little bit more training but really moving the needle. It's got to be a joint effort between students, staff, faculty and all of us. And, you know, I think we're getting a little closer to that, but as you can see through this numbers with a long ways to go. >> Michael Kissick: Michael Kissick, District 88. It occurs to me the one thing we can do is make reporting as absolutely easy as possible. I think the idea with that bill of removing any penalties that might have been, you know, anonymous and many different places to call. >> Prof. Payseur: Yeah. And just to reiterate what I think the Chancellor said before that that amnesty has long been the policy of the university. And so, codifying that in the law seems like a good step forward. Yeah. >> Erika Marín-Spiotta: Erika Marín-Spiotta, geography. I notice that, well, I'm aware that the overwhelming majority of perpetrators are students. But the numbers of faculty who are doing sexual assault on grad students and students is also appalling. So, I agree we should do training for students. But how about required training for faculty and staff, absolutely? And then also, I want to follow up on the earlier comments about follow up form the university. I'm not aware with what's going-- been going on at the University of Wisconsin. Madison so much but at other universities, there's very real disciplinary action and very little real professional consequences for faculty who harass students. And so, I think, the university can also take a leadership role, if when situations happen to actually, you know, punish the perpetrator. There are very, very few consequences for people who do this and we need to address that as well. >> Prof. Payseur: Excellent point. Anyone else? OK, yeah. OK. Well, I think we're going to moved to the resolution, you mean? >> Chris Walker: I have one quick question Chris Walker, Dance, district something. I am-- This is an issue that is very close to my heart and from the energy in this room, you know, it's clear it's just really important everyone. Earlier this year, January, February of last year, February of 2015, the dance department was in the faculty concert at the Union Theatre, and the work that I did addressed raped culture specifically. On a broader, broader context, why I'm bringing that to the spaces because I sat in the back of the theater with some former students, who had driven down from Milwaukee-- from Minnesota to see the work. And we're in the back of the theatre were witness to a row of young women, there was one guy in the group, who were watching the work and could not help himself-- could not stop themselves from giggling throughout. First action, there was a smile, there was a light, they made a joke among themselves and it just continued and it continued and it continued. Half way through the piece one of the former student reach forward an said, "You know, you are disturbing us." And they calmed down at the end of the piece, they turned around and apologized, you know, I have friends who had these experiences, so didn't mean to. But the point is, for about another 20 minutes, those students and former students engaged in this beautiful dialogue about what they experienced, what discomforts they had and all that projected in the way it did. And why I brought that up was because, if we target groups who we think are affected, then we're not addressing what indeed is a cultural problem. The violence, the physical violence in someone's person is a very small part of the mindset that takes us there in the first place, and I'm wondering what cultural shift is the university going to propose. Are we going to show up here in a September morning and the book that everybody is reading deal with these issues, the concepts that we're seeing dealing with these issues, the papers that we are writing and the conferences that we're attending, how do we create a cultural shift in a way that would be impactful enough for change to last. >> Prof. Payseur: Yeah. >> Chris Walker: Because we can't-- I don't think this is an issue that we can creep in and try this here and try that there, it has to be large enough where the entire campus is responsive. >> Prof. Payseur: Absolutely, that's the question. And I wanted to make maybe two points in response there, the first one is that, this set of recommendations that the task force came up with is maybe what we view as the minimum, right. So, we're interested in other recommendations, we're interested in being more aggressive. So, any ideas you have, we should definitely discuss them at some point. And then, I guess one other observation I'll make is that the university is moving forward with the Green Dot program which is a curriculum that provides training bystander intervention, which is an evidence-based practice that's shown to reduce the rates of sexual assault and misconduct and to really try to change the culture in a more systematic way. So, that is one effort that UW is about to undertake. I saw a preview of this curriculum last week and it's really exciting, I think that it really opens up these kinds of discussions. So, that's one piece. But, I know that people in UHS and the administration, in general, are really interested in your ideas about how to engage the campus community, as was raised not just among students but with faculty and staff, who themselves experience sexual assault and misconduct. So thanks a lot for questioning. Yeah. OK. Shall we move on to the new business? Do you want me to? OK, there's a resolution concerning this-- the survey results here in front of you and I would move to adopt this resolution. >> Chancellor: Page 37, of the-- we can't read it up here. >> Prof. Payseur: I think I need a second. >> Chancellor: We need a second-- >> Prof. Payseur: OK, good, thank you. >> Chancellor: Discussion, there's a resolution in front of us that's been made and seconded If people are ready to vote? All those in favor of the resolution indicate by saying "Aye" >> [Simultaneously] Aye. >> Chancellor: Any opposed? The resolution passes. Thank you very much Bret and thanks to the work that all of your group has done, I know there is more work ahead. [ Applause ] Thank you. Let me recognize Associate Dean Sue Zaeske who's going to submit for informational purposes only several program changes in the College of Letters and Science. >> Dean Zaeske: Thank you Chancellor. The first recommendation I have comes from the Department of African Languages and Literature, which wishes to change its name to the Department of African Cultural Studies, simply to reflect the new focus of its curriculum. This recommendation has gone through all shared governance within the department and the College of Letters and Science and the University Academic Planning Council and the leadership in that department has done a wonderful job on consulting its faculties, undergraduate, graduate students and also its alumni >> Chancellor: Any questions on this? This informational, there's no vote. OK. >> Dean Zaeske: The second recommendation comes from multiple departments, it is a recommendation to merge the Departments of Germat-- the Department of German, the Department of Scandinavian Studies, and the Department of Slavic Studies and Literature to become the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic. This recommendation also comes after extensive discussions over a number of years with faculty, staff, students and alumni in the departments as well as having gone through the L and S Academic Planning Council, the University Academic Planning Council and also having consulted GFAC. >> Chancellor: Questions on that? >> Dean Zaeske: Third recommendation is to merge two departments, the Department of East Asian Languages and Literature and the Department of Languages and Cultures of Asia into an exciting new TransAsian department, the Department for Asian Languages and Cultures, the same procedures were used for this merger recommendation. >> Chancellor: Questions? >> Chad Goldberg: Chad Goldberg, District 71. Sue I have a question about this recommendation on page 48 in the faculties and documents. It notes that in the Department of Languages and Cultures of Asia, the university staff who voted against the merger proposal expressed concerned about their job security in relation to the restructuring. And so, my question is how have these concerns been addressed? >> Dean Zaeske: No lay offs have resulted from mergers-- of any of the mergers and the Dean has pledged all along that no lay offs of staff will occur from mergers of departments. In fact, in the last few days, the academics and university staff have been-- job searches have been conducted and in fact I think today we actually issued the recommendation on hiring. So, no one has lost a job. Individuals have changed jobs because if you have two departments, and you have two departmental administrators you only need one but no one has lost a job. >> Chad Goldberg: Thank you. >> Chancellor: Any other questions? OK. >> Dean Zaeske: The fourth and final recommendation is to change the name of what is now the School of Music in the College of Letters and Science to the Mead Witter School of Music in the College of Letters and Science. >> Chancellor: Questions? Thank you very much, appreciate all your work on these. I know some of them have been years in the making. >> Dean Zaeske: Yeah. >> Chancellor: Let me recognize Professor Aaron Hoskins who will present a motion to incorporate the committee for Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender and Queer people in the university into a Faculty Polices and Procedures Committee. >> Prof. Hoskins: So thank you, this is a proposal to add to faculty FPNP Chapter 6, the committee for the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender and Queer people in the university, this is detailed and faculty document 2609. We made slight modifications to the language in membership to be consistent with other Chapter 6 committees and this included a slight name change. Any questions? >> Chancellor: Yes sir. So, there's a motion on the floor, we need to second although-- to that motion. Is there a second? All right. Discussion. >> Chad Goldberg: Chad Goldberg, District 71. My only question about this proposal is, can you or somebody else explain why is it that the members are appointed rather than elected? >> Prof. Hoskins: I'll just say history mainly, I think this is consistent with several other committees on campus. Yeah, so the Committee on Women is where we've taken our language and modeled our committee language from. >> Chancellor: Are there other questions? If so, if you're ready for a vote, all those-- I'm sorry. [ Inaudible Remark ] We're voting [ Inaudible Remark ] Ready to vote? All those in favor of the resolution to change this ad hoc committee in to a permanent committee covered by FPNP indicate by saying "Aye" >> [Simultaneously] Aye. >> Chancellor: Any opposed? Motion passes. Thank you. Let me recognize Professor Beth Meyerand head of the UC who will present the biannual report on Senate districts and apportionment. >> Prof. Meyerand: All right. We get to end with a very exciting report. As specified in faculty polices and procedures Chapter 2, every other year, the office of the secretary of the faculty reviews the apportionment of faculty into Senate districts, I present you that report for your review and approval. The faculty count from December 2015 was used to organize departments into Senate districts which will be in effect starting fall 2016 through spring of 2018. In the report, districts that are highlighted in yellow, the Senator count has changed because of the FTE of the department or departments. These districts are to hold a special election to change their number of senators. Districts get one senator for every 10 faculty FTEs. I also want to point out, there's a clerical error and an update. District 59, German, Nordic, and Slavic should show 31.5 FTE and three senators. Also, linguistics and Jewish studies FTEs were omitted from the total, the total faculty FTE should be 2273 and the senator count is 223. Any questions? >> Chancellor: This is a--You want to make a motion to accept the report? >> Prof. Meyerand: Yes. I move to accept the report. >> Chancellor: This does not require a second, because it comes from the UC? Are there comments or questions or controversy? If not, if you're all ready to vote, all those in favor of accepting the report indicate by saying "Aye". >> [Simultaneously] Aye. >> Chancellor: Any opposed? The report is accepted. That is the end of the agenda for today. So, thank you all for coming and we'll see you in a month. Thank you.