1998-99 UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA (No. 1)

TWIN CITIES CAMPUS ASSEMBLY MINUTES

OCTOBER 15, 1998

The first meeting of the Twin Cities Campus Assembly for 1998-99 was convened in the Whiting Proscenium Theatre, Rarig Center, Minneapolis campus, on Thursday, October 15, 1998, at 2:40 p.m. Checking or signing the roll as present were 102 voting faculty/academic professional members, 23 voting student members, 5 ex officio member, and 3 nonmembers. Twin Cities Campus Assembly Vice Chair Jesse Berglund presided.

I. MEETING SCHEDULE

Other 1998-99 meetings of the Twin Cities Campus Assembly are scheduled as follows:

Thursday, November 5
Thursday, February 18
Thursday, April 22
Thursday, May 20

II. ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSE TO ASSEMBLY ACTIONS


A. Twin Cities Undergraduate Academic Policies and Practices
Approved by the: Twin Cities Campus Assembly May 14, 1998
Administration May 27, 1998
Board of Regents - no action required
B. Proposal to Stagger Classes on the Twin Cities Campus
Approved by the: Twin Cities Campus Assembly May 14, 1998
Administration May 27, 1998
Board of Regents - no action required
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CONSENT AGENDA
Action

Agenda Items III. through V. 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 simple majority is required for approval.

III. MINUTES FOR APRIL 16 AND MAY 14, 1998

The Assembly minutes are available on the Web at the following URLs:

http://www.umn.edu/usenate/tcca/tcca41698.html
http://www1.umn.edu/usenate/tcca/tcca51498.html

IV. ASSEMBLY OFFICERS

The chair of the Twin Cities Campus Assembly recommends the following officers for 1998-99:

Clerk -- Virginia Gray
Parliamentarian -- Josef Altholz

V. COMMITTEE ON COMMITTEES
Committees of the Twin Cities Campus Assembly, 1998-99


MOTION:

To approve the following Twin Cities Campus Assembly committee memberships for 1998-99:

EDUCATIONAL POLICY - Faculty/PA: Judith Martin (chair), Gordon Hirsch, Laura Koch, Kathleen Newell, Palmer Rogers, Richard Skaggs, Thomas Soulen, 1 to be named Students: 4 to be named. Ex Officio: Darwin Hendel, Christine Maziar, Craig Swan.

INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS - Faculty/PA: Kathryn Sedo (chair), Fred Amram, William Flanigan, Denise Guerin, Geoffrey Maruyama, 1 to be named. Faculty Representatives: Norman Chervany, Mariah Snyder. Civil Service: Duane Nelson. Alumni: Annette Margarit, Darrell Thompson, Leon Trawick. Students: 3 to be named. Ex Officio: McKinley Boston, Mark Dienhart, Colleen Evans, Chris Schoemann, Chris Voelz.

STUDENT BEHAVIOR - Faculty/PA: Nancy Ehlke (chair), Brian Abery, John S. Anderson, Jessie Daniels, Jay Hatch, Robert McCaa, Louis Pignolet, Luis Ramos-Garcia, Bruce Schelske. Students: at least 10 to be named. Ex Officio: Betty Hackett.

FOR INFORMATION:

ACADEMIC HEALTH CENTER PROVOSTAL FACULTY CONSULTATIVE - Faculty: Muriel Bebeau, David Hamilton, election of remaining members is in progress.

ACADEMIC HEALTH CENTER PROVOSTAL STUDENT CONSULTATIVE - Students: Michael Vollmer (chair), 7 to be elected

COMMITTEE ON COMMITTEES - Faculty/PA: Sally Gregory Kohlstedt (chair), John S. Anderson, Mary Jo Kane, Karen Karni, Naomi Scheman, 1 to be named. Students: Ryan Falk, Brandon Lacy, Jessie Roos, 1 to be named.

STEERING - Faculty: Sara Evans (chair), Linda Brady, Mary Dempsey, David Hamilton, Roberta Humphreys, Fred Morrison, V. Rama Murthy, Matthew Tirrell. Students: Jesse Berglund, Ryan Falk, Nathan Hunstad, Brandon Lacy, Martin O'Hely, Gita Uppal. Ex Officio: Jesse Berglund, Stephen Gudeman, M. Janice Hogan, Judith Martin.

SALLY GREGORY KOHLSTEDT, Chair
COMMITTEE ON COMMITTEES

DISCUSSION:

The Consent Agenda was approved with no discussion.

APPROVED

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[End of Consent Agenda]

VI. COMMITTEE ON COMMITTEES
Change in Membership, Committee on Educational Policy

MOTION:

To amend the Assembly Bylaws, Article III, Section 3, Educational Policy Committee, as follows (deletions are struck out, additions are underlined):

3. EDUCATIONAL POLICY COMMITTEE

The Educational Policy Committee is concerned with all matters that influence the quality of education on the Twin Cities campus. It deals primarily with those affairs which affect educational policy and procedures on a campus-wide basis.

Membership

The Educational Policy Committee shall be composed of faculty/academic professional and student representatives from the Twin Cities campus to the Senate Educational Policy Committee. It shall be composed of 8 10 faculty/academic professional members, 4 5 students, and ex officio representation as specified by vote of the Assembly. Members shall be nominated by the Committee on Committees with the approval of the Assembly. The chair of the committee shall serve as an ex officio, nonvoting member of the Assembly Steering Committee.

DISCUSSION:

This amendment parallels the amendment offered to change the membership of the Senate Committee on Educational Policy.

The Assembly Committee on Educational Policy (ACEP) requests its membership be expanded by two faculty members and one student. In recent years, and especially owing to the start of semester conversion, the workload of the committee has become too great for the existing membership to handle. ACEP has divided itself into a number of subcommittees this year, and there are not sufficient committee members available to carry out the work of the subcommittees as well as complete the other work of the committee. ACEP therefore requests that its membership be enlarged.

JUDITH MARTIN, Chair
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON EDUCATIONAL POLICY

DISCUSSION:

With no discussion, the amendment was approved with 91 votes in favor and no votes against.

APPROVED


VII. OLD BUSINESS

NONE


VIII. NEW BUSINESS

NONE


IX. ADJOURNMENT


The meeting was adjourned at 2:45 p.m.

Rebecca Hippert
Abstractor