Minutes for April 8, 2024

UC members present: Bernard-Donals, Jones, Li, Tejedo-Herrero, Thibeault, Zweibel
Others present: Julie Scharm

Chair Thibeault called the meeting to order at 2:08 pm. 

Jon Eckhardt, Stephanie Furlong, and Chris Kozina, who serve on the Entrepreneurship working group charged by the Chancellor to look for ways to improve entrepreneurship on campus, outlined their work. They will be identifying challenges and opportunities, doing some benchmarking and provide recommendations on next steps. They will provide a report towards the end of June summarizing their findings to date. The working group has been further divided and looking at the areas of idea management; entrepreneurial talent; capital financing; regulation and policy; and infrastructure. They have conducted over 100 formal interviews so far. 

The minutes from April 1, 2024, were approved by automatic consent.

The University Committee discussed discrepancies in the campus approval processes for track transfers. They decided that when assistant professors move from tenure-track to clinical or CHS, both provost and university committee approval should be required. This should also be the case when clinical or CHS faculty are transferring to the tenure-track more than 3 years of the initial clinical or CHS assistant professor appointment. Secretary Daniels will work with the necessary schools and colleges to align the approvals. 

Susan Thibeault shared that there was a new task force for the budget approach on the Wisconsin Idea chaired by Karl Martin. The coordinating committee is set to receive information from the indirect cost and undergraduate tuition task force in the next several days.

Bernard-Donals motioned, and it was seconded and approved, to convene in closed session pursuant to Wis. Stats. 19.85(1)(c) and (f) to discuss waivers and committee appointments at 3:02 pm. One tenure clock extension and one Leave of Absence were approved.

Bernard-Donals motioned to reconvene in open session at 3:16 pm. It was seconded and approved. 

Thibeault adjourned the meeting at 3:24 pm.

Minutes submitted by Heather Daniels, Secretary of the Faculty