1993-94 UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA No. 3
TWIN CITIES CAMPUS ASSEMBLY MINUTES
MAY 19, 1994
The third meeting of the Twin Cities Campus Assembly for 1993-94 was
convened in 25 Law Center, Minneapolis campus, on Thursday, May 19, 1994, at
3:30 p.m. (immediately following the Faculty Senate meeting). Checking or
signing the roll as present were 106 voting faculty/academic professional
members, 16 student members, 2 ex officio members, and 5 nonmembers.
Professor Hyman Berman, Assembly Vice Chair, presided.
I. MINUTES FOR FEBRUARY 17, 1994
Action
APPROVED
II. ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSE TO ASSEMBLY ACTIONS
Information
A. AMENDMENT TO ASSEMBLY CONSTITUTION ESTABLISHING A VICE CHAIR
POSITION
Approved by: the Assembly on February 17, 1994
the Administration - no action required
the Board of Regents on April 8, 1994
III. COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIPS, 1994-95
Information
In recent elections to fill faculty vacancies on the Assembly Steering
Committee, Carl Adams (School of Management) and Michael Steffes (Medical
School) were elected for 3-year terms (1994-97). The committee's membership
for 1994-95 includes:
John Adams, Chair College of Liberal Arts
Carl Adams, Vice Chair School of Management
Sara Evans College of Liberal Arts (winter & spring
quarters 1995)
Roberta Humphreys Institute of Technology
Robert Jones College of Agriculture
Karen Seashore Louis College of Education
Geoffrey Maruyama College of Education
Michael Steffes Medical School
Gerhard Weiss College of Liberal Arts (fall
quarter)
Student representatives will be reported fall quarter. In addition, the
vice chair of the Twin Cities Campus Assembly serves as an ex officio
representative.
IV. ELECTION OF VICE CHAIR FOR 1994-95
Action
The Constitution provides that a vice chair be elected by the Assembly
at its spring quarter meeting for a term of one year from among its members.
DISCUSSION:
Mr. Raybun Taylor, graduate student, was elected as the 1994-95 vice
chair of the Twin Cities Campus Assembly.
APPROVED
V. REPORT OF THE NOMINATING COMMITTEE FOR
COMMITTEE ON COMMITTEES ELECTION
Action by Faculty and Academic Professionals
MOTION:
That the Faculty Assembly approve the following slate of nominees to
fill two 1994-97 vacancies on the Assembly Committee on Committees:
DAVID BIESBOER, Associate Professor, Plant Biology, College of Biological
Sciences. Senate membership: University Senate, 1993-96, 1987-90; Finance and
Planning Committee, 1987-92; Student Academic Support Services Committee,
1986-89; Animal Care Committee, 1981-84.
ANN BURKHART, Associate Professor, Law School. Senate membership: University
Senate, 1988-91; Equal Employment Opportunity for Women Committee, 1992-95.
MARTIN DWORKIN, Professor, Microbiology, Medical School. Senate membership:
University Senate, 1992-95, 1988-91, 1986-87, 1981-84, 1973-76; Judicial
Committee, 1982-85; Academic Freedom and Responsibility Appeals Committee,
1980-83.
DAVID STORVICK, Professor, Mathematics, Institute of Technology. Senate
membership: University Senate, 1987-90, 1983-86, 1976-79, 1966-70; All-
University Honors Committee, 1991-94; Finance and Planning Committee, 1983-86;
Educational Policy Committee, 1967-70.
INFORMATION:
The Twin Cities Campus Assembly Bylaws specify that the Assembly shall
elect by written ballot at its spring quarter meeting faculty/academic
professional members to fill vacancies on the Assembly Committee on Committees
from a slate of candidates provided by a special nominating committee. Other
candidates may be nominated by petition of 12 members of the Assembly.
Petitions to nominate candidates not on the slate must be in the hands of the
Clerk of the Assembly on the day before the meeting at which the election is
to be conducted.
The elected Twin Cities faculty/academic professional members of the
committee whose terms continue at least through 1994-95 are:
W. Andrew Collins (College of Education)
Marcia Eaton (College of Liberal Arts)
Jean Quam (College of Human Ecology)
Carolyn Williams (School of Public Health)
GEOFFREY MARUYAMA, Chair
V. RAMA MURTHY
DONALD RASMUSSON
MARIAH SNYDER
CRAIG SWAN
DISCUSSION:
The slate of nominees was approved and Professors Ann Burkhart and
Martin Dworkin were elected.
APPROVED
VI. ASSEMBLY STEERING COMMITTEE
EDUCATIONAL POLICY COMMITTEE
Twin Cities Campus Calendar, 1996-97
Action
MOTION:
To approve the following 1996-97 Twin Cities campus calendar:
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
TWIN CITIES CAMPUS CALENDAR, 1996-97
Fall Quarter, 1996 (50*)
September 26 Thursday Fall Quarter classes begin
November 28-29 Thursday-Friday Thanksgiving holiday-no
classes
December 6 Friday Last day of instruction
December 7-8 Saturday-Sunday Study days
December 9-14 Monday-Saturday Final examinations
Winter Quarter, 1997 (49*)
January 6 Monday Winter Quarter classes begin
January 20 Monday Martin Luther King Holiday-no
classes
March 14 Friday Last day of instruction
March 15-16 Saturday-Sunday Study days
March 17-22 Monday-Saturday Final examinations
March 24-28 Monday-Friday Spring Break
Spring Quarter, 1997 (49*)
March 31 Monday Spring Quarter classes begin
May 26 Monday Memorial Day holiday-no
classes
June 6 Friday Last day of instruction
June 7-8 Saturday-Sunday Study days
June 9-14 Monday-Saturday Final examinations
Summer Session I, 1997 (25*)
June 16 Monday (tentative) First CEE Summer Session
classes begin
June 17 Tuesday First Summer Session classes
begin
July 4 Friday Independence Day holiday
July 22 Tuesday Last day of instruction/final
exams
Summer Session II, 1997 (25*)
July 24 Thursday Second Summer Session classes
begin
August 27 Wednesday Last day of instruction/final
exams
* = number of instruction days
1996-97 HOLIDAYS (TOTAL: 11)
July 4, 1996 Thursday Independence Day
September 2 Monday Labor Day
November 28 Thursday Thanksgiving
** November 29 Friday Floating Holiday
** December 24 Tuesday Floating Holiday
December 25 Wednesday Christmas
January 1, 1997 Wednesday New Year's Day
January 20 Monday Martin Luther King Day
** March 28 Friday Floating Holiday
May 26 Monday Memorial Day
** (Unassigned) (One personal floating
holiday)
**Applies to civil service and non-academic bargaining unit employees.
JUDITH GARRARD, Chair
Assembly Steering Committee
KENNETH HELLER, Chair
Educational Policy Committee
DISCUSSION:
With minimal discussion, the 1996-97 Twin Cities Campus calendar was
approved.
APPROVED
VII. 1993-94 ANNUAL REPORTS
Information
COUNCIL ON LIBERAL EDUCATION
Annual Report, 1993-94
This is the third annual report from the Council on Liberal Education
(CLE). It comes as the first phase of implementation is being concluded.
Therefore, this report is more comprehensive and evaluative than prior
reports.
CLE was established by the Twin Cities Assembly in late October, 1991 in
response to a recommendation from the Twin Cities Campus Task Force on Liberal
Education whose report the Assembly approved in May, 1991. The first members
of CLE were appointed by Vice President Hopkins by the end of January, 1992.
The first task of CLE was to implement the liberal education
requirements recommended by the Task Force (Figure 1). Among the innovative
features are:
1. a redefined breadth requirement, the diversified core,
2. a designated themes of liberal education requirement,
3. a writing skills requirement that includes writing intensive
courses,
4. applicability of the requirements to all undergraduate students on
the Twin Cities campus,
5. campus wide implementation of the requirements, and
6. participation by professional and graduate schools and colleges in
teaching courses that satisfy the requirements, and
7. approval of courses for a fixed period of time to encourage
continuous review.
At its first meeting (February 5, 1992) CLE agreed to a two stage
implementation, with the diversified core and designated themes in the first
stage and writing skills in a second stage (see the time line in Figure 2).
For the first two months, CLE divided into subcommittees to begin
drafting policies and criteria for courses to satisfy the diversified core and
designated themes requirements. CLE then revised the subcommittee
recommendations and produced the first draft of policies and criteria in early
May, 1992. The first draft was distributed widely and discussed with faculty,
staff, and students including CLE liaisons in each college, the Advising
Network, collegiate educational policy committees, departmental educational
policy committees, associate deans for academic and/or student affairs, and
individual faculty members, staff, and students. A second draft was written
and distributed in the summer of 1992 for comment.
CLE completed a third and final draft of policies and criteria in the
first half of the fall, 1992 quarter. Distribution of a call for proposals was
delayed pending a decision on whether to attempt to change to a semester
academic calendar. The call for proposals was mailed to all Twin Cities
faculty and administrators in early January, 1993. Two "deadlines" for
proposals of courses: May 1 and November 1, 1993. Since the second "deadline"
CLE has continued to review course proposals and will continue to do so once
each quarter.
It was clear by the middle of December, 1993, that courses approved
included sufficient seats to meet the demand if courses were scheduled as
proposed. In late December, CLE wrote to unit chairs urging that courses be
scheduled as proposed. By the end of February, 1994, the courses scheduled
for the 1994-95 academic year confirmed that new curriculum could be required
of new high school students matriculating in the fall of 1994.
At the end of April, 1994, approximately 600 courses had been proposed
to satisfy the diversified core and/or designated themes requirements. Of the
courses proposed, approximately 400 were approved by CLE. These courses come
from 66 units in 11 colleges and schools. The two tables that follow give the
contributions by colleges and schools to each of diversified core and to each
of the designated theme requirements. The courses do not sum to 400 because
diversified core courses may also satisfy a designated theme requirement and a
single course may satisfy two designated themes.
DIVERSIFIED CORE
College Physical and History and Social Arts and Mathematical
Biological Sciences Sciences Humanities Thinking
CALA* 7
CBS 4
CHE 2 3 2
CLA 4 63 81 3
CNR 4
CoA 10 2 5
GC 3 4 5 2
IT 32 16 10
EDU 5 1 1
MED 4
Total Courses 59 97 101 16
Total Seats
per Year 26,500 34,550 17,300 8,150
* CALA--College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, CBS--College
of Biological Sciences, CHE--College of Human Ecology, CLA--College of
Liberal Arts, CNR--College of Natural Resources, CoA--College of
Agriculture, GC--General College, IT--Institute of Technology, EDU--
College of Education, MED--Medical School.
DESIGNATED THEMES
College Cultural Environment International Citizenship and
Diversity Perspective Public Ethics
CALA 2
CBS 5
CHE 4 5 4
CLA 37 4 82 22
CNR 20 1 1
CoA 5 10 9 4
EDU 1 1
GC 4 1 1 2
IT 2 10 13
MED 1
CSOM 1
Total Courses 53 51 114 34
Total Seats
Per Year 11,700 11,200 14,200 4,250
* CALA--College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, CBS--College
of Biological Sciences, CHE--College of Human Ecology, CLA--
College of Liberal Arts, CNR--College of Natural Resources, CoA--
College of Agriculture, GC--General College, IT--Institute of
Technology, EDU--College of Education, MED--Medical School, CSOM--
Carlson School of Management.
The vast majority of the courses are from the College of Liberal Arts
and the Institute of Technology--over 67% with 55% from CLA alone. The
College of Agriculture, the College of Human Ecology, and the College of
Natural Resources contributed a sizable number of courses. Professional
schools and colleges are, for the most part, conspicuous by their absence.
Clearly, one of the primary goals of the central administration and CLE should
be to increase participation by professional schools and colleges as required
by the educational policy on liberal education on the Twin Cities campus.
Nearly all of the courses proposed and approved were currently existing
courses. Few new courses were submitted. Most of the existing courses were
proposed in a revised form to meet the criteria for the diversified core or
the designated themes. Approximately $600,000 was used by Vice President
Hopkins to improve large classes for the new requirements. Approximately
$425,000 was granted on a continuing basis (as long as the funds are expended
for the purposes proposed) to add discussion sections or reduce the size of
existing discussion sections for purposes of active learning or more intensive
writing. The departments to which continuing funds have been allocated
include history, political science, psychology, child psychology, astronomy,
anthropology, food science and nutrition, classics, and physics.
Approximately $175,000 was allocated for one-time costs especially for
computer equipment (biology program) and lecture demonstration equipment
(chemistry).
The number of seats available in the Citizenship and Public Ethics theme
is fewer than the Council prefers. Efforts at course development for this
theme are occurring at the Center for Democracy and Citizenship, in the Office
of the Vice President for Arts, Sciences, and Engineering, and through the
Summer Session. The Council has agreed that if the number of seats in this
theme does not increase in the next three years, it will be waived for
students whose progress toward graduation is adversely affected.
At the request of the Council, undergraduate colleges agreed that
courses approved for the new diversified core curriculum will be accepted for
the corresponding or most appropriate distribution requirement in the current
individual collegiate requirements. This procedure should minimize the impact
on continuing students of elimination of or reduction in the size or frequency
of courses that "counted" under the old requirements but not under the new
requirements. Indeed, this policy generally increases the range of course
options available to continuing students.
The diversified core and theme requirements become effective for New
Advanced Standing (NAS) students in the fall of 1996. Evaluation of transfer
credits toward the liberal education requirements will be done centrally in
the admissions office. There will be a procedure by which decisions can be
appealed to the Council. Transfer credit evaluation for the diversified core
will not be significantly different from today and should be straightforward
to implement centrally. Evaluation for the designated themes is more
problematic; a data base of courses that satisfy the theme requirements will
have to be built during the next two years by the admissions office in
cooperation with the Council and the Colleges.
The Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MTC) will be very important in making
transfer of students from other Minnesota public post-secondary systems
easier. The MTC is an agreement among the four Minnesota public post-
secondary system that specifies 10 competency areas the completion of which
satisfies the lower division liberal education requirements. The sending
institution certifies completion and that certification is accepted by the
receiving institution. The 10 competency areas are virtually identical with
our new liberal education requirements including the designated themes
requirements. Thus, transfer students from Minnesota public post-secondary
institutions will bring with them courses that are easily recognizable to us
even if they have not completed the full MTC. The Council on Liberal
Education approved the MTC for the Twin Cities campus on March 17, 1994 and
asked Vice President Hopkins to put it into effect on our campus with the fall
quarter, 1994.
CLE is now fully engaged in implementing the writing skills requirements
including writing intensive courses. Information from many sources locally
and nationally are under review. The Council plans to have a first draft of
goals and criteria for writing intensive courses and for "freshman" writing
skills courses by the end of the spring 1994 quarter. These goals and
criteria will be discussed with colleagues over the summer and early in the
fall. It is anticipated that the call for course proposals will be issued as
soon as possible in the fall. The Council will then turn other important
issues necessary for effective implementation of the new writing skills
requirements.
These are:
1. improved entrance placement,
2. a writing center to which students having difficulty with
writing intensive courses can be referred, and
3. assistance for faculty members and teaching
assistants who are instructing writing skills courses.
The Council anticipates that a number of writing skills courses will be
available in the fall of 1995 and the full system in place by the fall of
1996.
Richard H. Skaggs, Chair
VIII. OLD BUSINESS
NONE
IX. NEW BUSINESS
NONE
X. ADJOURNMENT
The meeting was adjourned at 3:45 p.m.
MARTHA KVANBECK
Abstractor
APPENDIX A
ATTENDANCE OF MEMBERS, 1993-94
The Twin Cities Campus Assembly met 3 times during 1993-94.
(fm=forfeiture of membership for nonattendance)
Notified Clerk of
Nonattendance or
Attended Alternate Attended
FACULTY
Akehurst, F. Ronald 3 0
Albertson, Vernon 1 2
Altholz, Josef 3 0
Anderson, John 3 0
Bache, Robert 1 1
Banker, Rajiv 0 1
Bantle, John 1 0
Bauer, Jean 3 0
Baxter, John 3 0
Beatty, John 2 0
Bebeau, Muriel 2 0
Beebe, David 2 0
Befort, Stephen (apptd. 2/94) 2 0
Berman, Hyman 3 0
Biesboer, David 2 0
Bitterman, Peter 2 0
Bland, Carol 3 0
Bloom, Paul 2 0
Bloomer, Joseph 2 0
Bohn, Dorothy 3 0
Bomash, William 2 1
Bouchard, Thomas 3 0
Buchwald, Henry 2 0
Busta, Francis 3 1
Canafax, Daniel 1 2
Caplan, Arthur (resigned 2/94) 1 0
Carter, Clarence 3 0
Chaplin, Johnathan 1 1
Clayton, Thomas 3 0
Connett, John 3 0
Copa, George 2 0
Corcoran-Perry, Sheila 3 0
Cummings, Larry 1 1
Davidson, Kris 2 0
Dempsey, Mary 3 0
Deno, Stanley 2 0
Dunn, David 1 1
Durgan, Beverly 3 0
Dworkin, Martin 2 1
Eagon, John 3 0
Epley, Richard 2 1
Feeney, Daniel 1 2
Ferrieri, Patricia 2 0
Fogelman, Edwin 3 0
Foreman, Gertrude 3 0
Frank, David 2 0
Galaskiewicz, Joseph 3 0
Gardner, Gary 3 0
Giebink, Scott 1 0
Goldstein, Richard 1 2
Gross, Cynthia 2 1
Hancher, Michael 3 0
Hansen, Leslie 2 0
Hasselmo, Nils 3 0
Hatch, Jay 3 0
Heros, Roberto 0 1
Hertz, Marshall (resigned 2/94) 0 0
Holtan, James 1 2
Hoover, Emily 3 0
Hostetter, Margaret 0 2
House, James 3 0
Hughes, Jack 0 0
Ibele, Warren 3 0
Jernberg, James 1 2
Johnson, Fred 3 0
Jordan, Peter 0 2
Kac, Michael 3 0
Kain, Richard 3 0
Kane, Robert 2 1
Kanee, Stephen (resigned 9/93) 2 0
Kaplan, Edward 3 0
Karni, Karen 3 0
Kautz, Barbara 1 0
Kersey, John 1 1
King, Jean 1 2
Kittelson, David 1 2
Klee, Carol 3 0
Kuhi, Leonard 2 0
Kumar, K.S.P. 1 2
Lange, Dale 1 1
Lehmberg, Stanford 3 0
Leppert, Richard 3 0
LeRoy, Stephan 1 2
Levy, Robert (resigned 12/93) 0 0
Lewis, Marsha 2 1
Liu, Hung-Wen 2 0
Lodge, Tim 2 0
MacKenzie, Thomas 2 0
Malmberg, John 3 0
Martin, Judith 2 0
Mason, H.E. 2 1
Masten, Ann 2 0
Mc Avoy, Leo 2 1
Mc Keever, Patrick 2 1
Mc Murray, Peter 3 0
Messer-Davidow, Ellen 3 0
Meyers, Sue 3 0
Miller, Roger 1 1
Miller, Willard 3 0
Moller, James 2 3
Morris, C. Robert (apptd 2/94) 2 0
Murphy, Paul 2 0
Murthy, V.R. 2 1
Naussauer, Joan 2 1
Nelsestuen, Gary (apptd 12/93) 3 0
Nolting, Earl 3 0
Oehlert, Gary 2 1
Olson, David 1 1
Orf, James 2 1
Osborn, Joy 3 0
Overmier, J. Bruce 2 1
Perry, Cheryl 2 1
Perry, James 2 1
Polla, Dennis 1 2
Pratt, Douglas 3 0
Quie, Paul 3 0
Ragsdale, David 2 0
Reyes, Angelita 2 0
Rhodus, Nelson 3 0
Richter, Wayne 2 1
Robinson, Elaine 1 1
Rose, Susan 3 0
Rose, Thomas 2 0
Sellew, Phillip 3 0
Seybold, Virginia 3 0
Sheldon, Amy 3 0
Shocker, Allan 3 0
Shulman, Yechiel 2 1
Sirc, Geoffrey 2 0
Sivanandan, V. 0 3
Sparber, Sheldon 3 0
Snover, Dale 3 0
Steffes, Michael 2 1
Swan, Craig 2 1
Swanson, Bert 2 1
Takemori, Akira 3 0
Ward, David 3 0
Warren, Kent 3 0
Weckwerth, Vernon 3 0
Welsch, Delane (retired 5/94) 1 0
Weiss, Gerhard 2 0
Wildung, David 3 0
Williams, Oliver 2 1
Wolf, Susan (apptd 2/94) 1 1
Wood, Frank 3 0
Zaimont, Judith 2 1
Notified Clerk of
Nonattendance or
Attended Alternate Attended
FACULTY STEERING COMMITTEE
Adams, John 3 0
Bognanno, Mario 3 0
Garrard, Judith 3 0
Jones, Robert 2 0
Louis, Karen Seashore 2 0
Maruyama, Geoffrey 3 0
Mc Naron, Toni 0 0
Zimmerman,Shirley 3 0
Notified Clerk of
Nonattendance or
Attended Alternate Attended
STUDENTS
Abel, Gordy 1 0
Aleman, Narciso(apptd 12/93 fm 4/94) 0 0
Allen, Francis (fm 4/94) 0 0
Allen, Kristine (apptd 4/94) 1 0
Askelson, Mary 3 0
Athanasiou, Maria (fm 3/94) 0 0
Beer, Michael 2 0
Bennett, Rosina (fm 2/94) 1 0
Bester, Joseph (fm 4/94) 2 0
Bloemke, Nancy (fm 2/94) 0 0
Boler, Daniel (resigned 9/93) 0 0
Book, Nancy (apptd 2/94) 1 0
Bossard, Nancy 1 2
Bursch, Craig 2 0
Canham, Brad (resigned 2/94) 0 1
Centala, Sandra 0 2
Cowgill, Terry (fm 4/94) 0 1
DeJune, Heather (fm 2/94) 0 0
Dews, Barney (resigned 3/94) 1 0
Eddy, Jody 1 0
Ellenson, Alayna (fm 4/94) 0 1
Freitag, Brett 0 1
Gallup, Christina 2 0
Glenn, Chris (resigned 12/93) 0 0
Hamidi, Jinous (fm 2/94) 0 0
Hardy, Cynthia (fm 12/93) 0 0
Honer, Chris 1 0
Johnson, Carl (resigned 2/94) 1 0
Karr, Boone 1 2
King, Lana (fm 4/94) 1 0
Kriesel, Steve (fm 12/93) 0 0
Lander, Tim 2 0
Leiker, Chad 1 0
Mielke, Brian (apptd 4/94) 1 0
McDonald, Rhonda 2 0
Michelson, Lisa 0 2
Najjar, Willow 2 0
Nguyen, Khoi (fm 4/94) 0 1
Nystrom, Judd 0 0
Ortalo-Magne, Francis 2 0
Ottman, Gerda 3 0
Paulson, Marc 3 0
Reichwald, Chad 2 1
Rust, April (resigned 1/94) 0 1
Saxena, Retu (resigned 2/94) 1 1
Shier, Tess (resigned 1/94) 0 0
Smith, Aynsley (fm 2/94) 0 0
Sullivan, Linda 0 2
Smith, Cecil 3 0
Swanson, Peter 2 0
Sobieski, John (fm 12/93) 0 0
Strauss, Eric 2 1
Thornley, David 3 0
Van Drasek, Barb 1 0
Wilcox, Andrea 0 1
Walsh, Michelle (fm 2/94) 0 0
Walztoni, Kirk 2 0
Zum-Mallen, Mike 2 0
STUDENT ASSEMBLY STEERING COMMITTEE
Geist, Amanda Kay 3 0
Jensen, Derek 3 0
Pham, Linda 3 0
Phan, Phoung (resigned 11/93) 0 0
Sales, Anna (resigned 2/94) 1 0
Taylor, Rabun 3 0
Thompson, Barb (apptd 4/94) 1 0