Minutes for May 12, 2025

UC members present: Bernard-Donals, Jones, Kendall, Li, Zweibel

Others present: Michelle Felber, Genevieve Lamber, Julie Scharm, Jenny Skibba

Chair Li called the meeting to order at 1:00 pm.

The minutes from May 5, 2025, were approved as distributed.

Taylor Odle, who has been serving as the UW System Representation, shared that the copyright working group has produced their final documents. The word “automatically” was added to the policy to indicate transfer of copyright to the faculty member upon creation. The FAQs were revised. UW System will go through another round of policy comments in the fall.

The UW System Policy Prioritization Group has indicated their policy priority would be tuition remission for UW System employees. UW-Parkside has been working on this issue. There has been a task force established to look at the process to identify academic programs for review for possible elimination or suspension.

Zweibel motioned, and it was seconded and approved, to convene in closed session pursuant to Wis. Stats. 19.85(1)(c) and (f) to discuss a waiver at 1:31 pm. One tenure clock extension was approved.

Bernard-Donals motioned, and it was seconded and approved, to reconvene in open session at 1:41 pm.

The University Committee discussed possibly sending a joint letter with ASEC regarding the faculty and instructional academic staff survey and urging a short delay so additional feedback could occur at the beginning of the academic year.

In regards to dual-role waivers, the University Committee discussed the possibility of an ad hoc committee to look at the classification/description of academic staff and faculty. They also agreed that dual-role waivers could be for the cumulative time of 6 semesters.

They discussed further review of Faculty Legislation 303 and possibly having a new formed ad hoc committee on academic freedom conduct a review of the policy. Other items discussed included having EAB present to the senate and possibly all faculty, forming a student well-being committee, and having a UC member attend chair meetings at each of the schools/colleges to talk about shared governance.

Li adjourned the meeting at 2:42 pm. 

Minutes submitted by Heather Daniels, secretary of the faculty.