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University Committee Meeting Minutes 2022-02-14
University Committee Meeting Minutes
Minutes approved 02/21/2022UC
members present: Babcock, Sandgren (chair), Tejedo-Herrero, Thibeault
Others:
Jane Richard, Jake Smith, Lesley Smith, Greg Bump
Sandgren
call the meeting to order at 1:30.
The
minutes of the meeting of February 7, 2022 were approved by consent.
PROFS
staff Jack O’Meara and Michelle Felber, and PROFS chair Professor Michael
Bernard-Donals, reported on a meeting with Representative Sheila Stubbs. They
also reviewed some recently introduced bills, among the topics PROFS registered
in favor and against: allowing that ethnic studies requirements can be
fulfilled through a course on the constitution or the bill of rights; reviewing
tuition reciprocity agreements; increasing UW-Madison’s flexibility in
investing and finances; constructing a new engineering building; and
prohibiting certain relationships between university research and “foreign
missions of China.”
Lori Reesor, Vice Chancellor for
Student Affairs, reported on a revival of the work in developing an overall and
departmental strategic plan. This work was started just prior to the pandemic
and was on hold.
Karl Scholz, Provost, remarked on
the record number of admissions applications in the last round- over 60,000—
including a 12% increase in first time applicants. Professor Lori Lopez (a
member of the Campus Diversity and Climate Committee) is reviewing data from
departmental diversity reports and how to present the trends broadly. Dane
County is dropping the COVID-19-related masking order as of March 1. There were
a few questions.
Karen
Massetti-Moran, Total Rewards Director, and Patrick Sheehan, Interim Chief
Human Resources Officer, Office of Human Resources gave an update on the Title
and Total Compensation Project (TTC). TTC was implemented in November 2021 and
affected 16,000 employees. They are resolving or have resolved over 300 issues
like missing titles, incorrect compensation, mismatch of duties, etc., and over
500 formal and informal appeals.
Sandgren moved to convene in closed
session; it was seconded and approved at 2:52. One academic staff hire of a
former tenure-track faculty member was approved.
Sandgren moved to reconvene in open
session; it was seconded and approved at 3:10.
Sandgren adjourned the meeting at 3:11.