1994-95 UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA No. 2
TWIN CITIES CAMPUS ASSEMBLY MINUTES
FEBRUARY 16, 1995
The second meeting of the Twin Cities Campus Assembly for 1994-95 was
convened in 25 Law Center, Minneapolis campus, on Thursday, February 16, 1995,
at 2:00 p.m. Checking or signing the roll as present were 115 voting
faculty/academic professional members, 23 student members, 3 ex officio
members, and 5 nonmembers. Mr. Rabun Taylor, vice chair, presided.
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CONSENT AGENDA
Action
Agenda items I. and II. are considered to be noncontroversial or
"housekeeping" in nature and are offered as a "Consent Agenda" to be taken up
as a single item with one vote. Any item will be taken up separately at the
request of a Senator. A majority of those members present and voting is
required for approval.
I. MINUTES FOR NOVEMBER 3, 1994
II. COMMITTEE ON COMMITTEES
Committees of the Assembly, 1994-95
[The following are additions to those approved at the November 3 meeting.]
STUDENT BEHAVIOR: Students: Patrick Duffy, Amy Forseth, Douglas Holtz, April
Isola, David Khemakhem, Kari Krogseng, Tung Nguyen, Jason Rey Phillips, Joshua
Tamminen, Amanda Trippler
INFORMATION:
COMMITTEE ON COMMITTEES: Students: Sam Black, Melissa Sandmeier, Phil
Ziermann
COUNCIL ON LIBERAL EDUCATION: Faculty/PA: Steven Smith, Matthew Tirrell,
James Tracy, Billie Wahlstrom, Constance Walker Students: Steven Fifield,
Carrie Johnson
STEERING: Students: Brandon Lujan Ex Officio: Joel Bergstrom
JEAN QUAM, Chair
Committee on Committees
DISCUSSION:
The consent agenda was approved without discussion.
APPROVED
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III. ASSEMBLY STEERING COMMITTEE
NOMINATING COMMITTEE, COMMITTEE ON COMMITTEES
Action by Faculty/Academic Professional Assembly Members
MOTION:
To approve the following membership of a Nominating Committee to select
Twin Cities faculty/academic professional candidates for election to the
Senate/Assembly Committee on Committees: Sheila Corcoran-Perry, Jean Kinsey,
Geoffrey Maruyama (chair), Timothy Nantell, Eileen Sivert.
COMMENT:
The Nominating Committee is responsible for identifying Twin Cities
faculty and academic professionals interested and willing to stand for
election to the Senate/Assembly Committee on Committees. A slate of
candidates will be presented to the Assembly at its next meeting and, if
approved, the faculty/academic professional membership of the Assembly will
elect two to serve 3-year terms on the Committee on Committees.
JOHN ADAMS, Chair
Assembly Steering Committee
APPROVED
IV. REPORT OF THE NOMINATING COMMITTEE
FOR THE TWIN CITIES ASSEMBLY STEERING COMMITTEE
Action by the Faculty Assembly and UMD Faculty Senators
MOTION:
That the Faculty Assembly and UMD Faculty senators approve the following
slate: Carole Bland, Victor Bloomfield, Sara Evans, Virginia Gray, Kenneth
Heller, Roberta Humphreys.
INFORMATION:
The Nominating Committee appointed by the Assembly November 3, 1994, to
fill three 1995-98 Twin Cities/UMD faculty positions on the Senate
Consultative Committee presents the following six names, from which three are
to be elected by mail ballot by the Twin Cities faculty and the non-
represented UMD faculty:
CAROLE BLAND: 1974*, Professor of Family Practice and Community Health,
Medical School. University Senate member: 1991-94. Committee participation
(present and past): Senate Faculty Affairs Committee, Senate Judicial
Committee, Health Sciences Senate Assembly (chair), Transition Advisory
Committee (ex officio), University Commission on Women, University Grievance
Committee, Sexual Violence Advisory Council, Health Sciences Research Ethics
Steering Committee, Health Sciences Faculty Development Advisory Committee,
Medical School Educational Policy Committee, Medical School Dean Search
Committee, Medical School Primary Care Task Force. Other: 1989-90 American
Council on Education Leadership Fellow.
VICTOR BLOOMFIELD: 1970*, Professor of Biochemistry, College of Biological
Sciences. Committee participation (present and past): Senate Educational
Policy Committee; Council on Liberal Education; Graduate School General
Research Advisory Committee; Advisory Board, University Without Walls;
Presidential Search Advisory Committee (chair); Task Force on Faculty
Workload; China Center Advisory Committee; CBS Educational Policy Committee
(former chair); Morse-Alumni Teaching Award Evaluation Committee; Advisory
Committee to Vice President for Research. Other: former head, Department of
Biochemistry; former director, Biotechnology Research Center; director,
Molecular Biophysics Training Program.
SARA EVANS: 1976*, Professor of History; Adjunct Professor of American
Studies, Public Affairs, and Women's Studies; College of Liberal Arts.
Committee participation (present and past): Senate and Faculty Consultative
Committees (one year interim appointment, 1994-95); Assembly Steering
Committee (one year interim appointment, 1994-95); Senate Equal Employment
Opportunity for Women Committee; Senate Educational Development Committee;
Senate Research Committee; CLA Assembly (chair); CLA Council of Chairs
(chair); Faculty Workload Taskforce; all-University Operations Steering
Committee; Search Committees for Director of Office of Equal Opportunity and
Affirmative Action and for Health Sciences Provost; Women's Salary Settlement
Committee; Strategic Planning for Research Committee; Task Force on Conflict
of Commitment and Conflict of Interest. Other: former director, Center for
Advanced Feminist Studies; former chair, Department of History.
VIRGINIA GRAY: 1973*, Professor of Political Science, College of Liberal Arts.
University Senate member: 1991-93 and 1986-89. Committee participation
(present and past): Senate Finance and Planning Committee (chair, 1994-95);
Senate and Faculty Senate Consultative Committees (ex officio, 1994-95);
Assembly Steering Committee (ex officio, 1994-95); Senate Committee on
Committees (former co-chair); Assembly Intercollegiate Athletics Committtee;
Senate Extension and Community Programs Committee; Single Quarter Leave
Committee; Transition Advisory Committee; CLA Assembly (former chair); CLA
Budget Advisory Committee; CLA Promotion and Tenure Committee (former chair);
CLA Scholastic Conduct Committee (former chair); CLA Women's Studies
Committee; CLA Appeals Committee on Academic Freedom and Responsibility; CLA
Distinguished Teacher Award Committee; Task Force on Support Services; Task
Force on Faculty Salary Equity; numerous college and university search
committees, including CLA Dean, Director of Student Support Services, General
Counsel. Other: former Legislative Liaison for the Faculty Consultative
Committee; former president of University of Minnesota Faculty Association;
former president of Campus Club; former department chair; former director of
Graduate Studies.
KENNETH HELLER: 1978*, Professor of Physics, Institute of Technology.
Committee participation (present and past): Senate Educational Policy
Committee (chair, 1993-95); Senate and Faculty Consulative Committees (ex
officio, 1993-95); Assembly Steering Committee (ex officio, 1993-95); Senate
Educational Development Committee; President's Committee on Teaching and
Learning (co-chair); Teaching Enrichment Advisory Council; Transition Advisory
Committee; Strategic Planning Advisory Group; Provost's Council; IT Curriculum
Committee; CLA Curriculum Committee; Review Committee on Advanced Placement;
Task Force on Improving Undergraduate Education; IT Committee on Library
Consolidation. Other: director of Undergraduate Education.
ROBERTA HUMPHREYS: 1972*, Professor of Astronomy, Institute of Technology.
University Senate member: 1990-91 and 1983-86. Committee participation
(present and past): Senate and Faculty Consultative Committees (one year
interim appointment, 1994-95); Assembly Steering Committee (one year interim
appointment, 1994-95); Senate Educational Policy Committee; Senate Faculty
Affairs Committee; IT Consultative Committee (chair, 1992-93); Arts, Sciences,
and Engineering Provost Search Committee.
The Assembly Steering Committee serves as the executive committee of the
Twin Cities Campus Assembly and forms the Twin Cities membership of the Senate
Consultative Committee. Recent Senate and Assembly legislation has merged the
Twin Cities faculty and the non-represented UMD faculty for purposes of Senate
Consultative Committee/Assembly Steering Committee elections. Should a non-
represented UMD faculty member be elected, that individual will be a member of
the Senate and Faculty Senate Consultative Committees, but shall not be a
member of the Assembly Steering Committee.
Additional nominations, certified as willing to stand for election, may
be made by (1) petition of 12 voting members of the faculties, provided that
the petition is in the hands of the Clerk of the Twin Cities Campus Assembly
the day before the Twin Cities Campus Assembly meeting, and (2) nominations on
the floor of the Assembly. The faculty representatives of the Twin Cities
Campus Assembly shall reduce by vote the slate to twice the number to be
elected.
Currently serving with terms continuing at least through next year are:
John Adams, College of Liberal Arts
Carl Adams, School of Management
Robert Jones, College of Agriculture
Geoffrey Maruyama, College of Education
Michael Steffes, Medical School
The terms of Judith Garrard (School of Public Health), Karen Seashore
Louis (College of Education), and Toni McNaron (College of Liberal Arts)
expire at the end of this academic year.
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*Date of initial appointment at the University
JOHN HOWE, Chair
LOUISE HAWLEY
MARIAH SNYDER
DAVID STORVICK
FRANK WILDERSON
SHIRLEY ZIMMERMAN
APPROVED
V. INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS COMMITTEE REPORT
Professor Mary Lou Fellows, chair of the Intercollegiate Athletics
Committee (ACIA), discussed the process for conducting academic audits of
athletic teams at the University. The process will focus on three areas: a)
improving follow up where necessary, b) reviewing teams with significant
problems, and c) looking at systemic problems instead of taking quick
"snapshots." The presence of academic audits and faculty looking at
individual teams is essential if the University is going to act responsibly to
its student athletes. The athletic directors and coaches clearly care that
faculty are involved and taking the initiative with respect to the audits,
said Professor Fellows. It is clear to the ACIA that it must maintain a
prominent presence in that operation.
VI. 1993-94 ANNUAL REPORTS
Information
INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS COMMITTEE
The 1993-94 Assembly Committee on Intercollegiate Athletics (ACIA) had a
productive year. The major accomplishments were:
1. Evaluation and recommendation to the President on the legislation
proposed for action at the 1994 NCAA Convention held in January
1994 in San Antonio.
2. Completion of nine athletic team audits. (This was a substantial
revitalization of the academic audit process.)
3. Completion of the search process for the replacement of Robert
Stein as Faculty Representative for Men's Athletics to the Big Ten
and NCAA.
4. Identification of an initial set of issues to be examined by the
1994-95 ACIA under the general rubric of "improvement of student-
athlete welfare." (A portion of the initial list of items to be
discussed in this 1994-95 Committee initiative revolve around ways
to make the team academic audits more valuable -- see item #2
above.)
NORMAN CHERVANY, Chair
STUDENT BEHAVIOR COMMITTEE
The Student Behavior Committee (CCSB) officers presided over an early
fall orientation for committee members that featured discussions on legal
implications, procedural requirements, victimization and mental health issues.
Gary Pavela, noted national judicial affairs expert, presented a special
session on due process considerations to further define the institution's
obligation to fundamental fairness in handling student conduct matters.
Two Student Conduct Code complaints were forwarded to the committee for
adjudication during the year with neither proceeding to a full formal hearing.
One complaint, a falsification charge, was resolved through a pre-hearing
resolution between parties prior to the scheduled formal hearing. In the
other case, the accused student failed to appear as scheduled for the formal
hearing which involved charges of scholastic dishonesty and identification and
compliance. In accordance with CCSB hearing provisions, the accused student
was subsequently suspended as a student by the CCSB panel assembled and will
remain in that status until the complaint has been fully resolved. In both
instances, CCSB panels were appointed and fully prepared to hear the
complaints in their entirety had the formal process continued.
The committee did not receive any appeals from administrative hearing
bodies.
JAMES E. HOLTE, Chair
VII. OLD BUSINESS
NONE
VIII. NEW BUSINESS
NONE
IX. ADJOURNMENT
The meeting was adjourned at 2:18 p.m.
Martha Kvanbeck
ABSTRACTOR