1993-94 UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA No. 2
UNIVERSITY SENATE MINUTES
DECEMBER 2, 1993
The second meeting of the University Senate for 1993-94 was convened in
25 Law Building, Minneapolis campus, on Thursday, December 2, 1993, at 3:15
p.m. Coordinate campuses were linked by telephone. Checking or signing the
roll as present were 144 voting faculty/academic professional members, 38
voting student members, 5 ex officio members, and 9 nonmembers. President
Nils Hasselmo presided.
I. MEETING SCHEDULE
Information
Other 1993-94 meetings of the University Senate are scheduled as follows:
Thursday, February 17, 1994
Thursday, April 14, 1994
Thursday, May 19, 1994
II. ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSE TO SENATE ACTIONS
Information
A. POLICY STATEMENT ON CLASS HOUR-CREDIT RATIO
Approved by: the University Senate on April 1, 1993
the Administration during summer 1993
the Board of Regents - no action required
B. PROTOCOLS FOR STUDENT EVALUATION AND PEER REVIEW OF FACULTY TEACHING
CONTRIBUTIONS
Approved by: the University Senate on April 1, 1993
the Administration during spring quarter 1993
(Student evaluation implemented fall quarter
1993, and peer review to be developed by colleges
and departments during 1993-94 with
implementation fall quarter 1994.)
the Board of Regents - no action required
C. ACADEMIC PROFESSIONAL REPRESENTATION IN THE SENATE
Approved by: the University Senate on May 20, 1993
the Administration during summer 1993
the Board of Regents on October 8, 1993
D. DOMESTIC PARTNERS BENEFITS RECOMMENDATION
Approved by: the University Senate on May 20, 1993
the Administration on June 9, 1993
the Board of Regents on September 10, 1993
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CONSENT AGENDA 1
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 majority of those members present and voting is
required for approval.
III. MINUTES FOR MAY 20, and OCTOBER 4, 1993
IV. SENATE OFFICERS
The chair of the University Senate recommends the following officers for 1993-
94:
Abstractor and Clerk--Martha Kvanbeck
Parliamentarian--Fred Morrison
V. COMMITTEE ON COMMITTEES
Committees of the Senate, 1993-94
COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS - Faculty/PA: Thomas Burk (chair), Stephen
Campbell, Gertrude Foreman, James Olson, David Weiss, George Wilcox, Tzvee
Zahavy. Students: Daryl Leibel, Paul Pazandak. Ex Officio: Donald Riley,
Mike O'Connor.
DISABILITIES ISSUES - Faculty/PA: Terence Collins (chair), Dennis Ahlburg,
Gary Birnbaum, Nancy Eustis, Glenice Johnson, Lance Johnson, Stephen Kanee,
Marie Knowlton, Harold Levy, Larry McKay, Glenn Scudder, James Slagle. Civil
Service: Tim McCluske, Ruanne Pearson. Students: Mary Jo Rawson. Ex
Officio: Sue Kroeger, Paul Tschida.
EDUCATIONAL POLICY - Faculty/PA: Kenneth Heller (chair), Anita Cholewa,
Thomas Clayton, James Cotter, Sue Donaldson, Megan Gunnar, Robert Johnson,
Manuel Kaplan, Carla Phillips, William Van Essendelft, Gayle Graham Yates.
Students: Daniel Boler, Craig Bursch, Tim Swierczek, Darren Walhof. Ex
Officio: Darwin Hendel.
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY FOR WOMEN - Faculty/PA: Mariah Snyder (chair),
Silvia Azar, Ann Burkhart, Wesley Hackett, Essie Kariv-Miller, Marty Roth,
Sharon Stewart. Academic Professionals: Karla Klinger, Kathryn Sedo. Ex
Officio: Patricia Mullen, Norma Peterson.
FACILITIES MANAGEMENT SUBCOMMITTEE - Faculty/PA: Mark Davison (chair), Martin
Gwinup, David Kittelson, Roger Martin, Mary Sue Simmons, Fay Thompson, Mary
Walser. Civil Service: Ginger DeRoiser. Students: 2 to be named. Ex
Officio: Clint Hewitt, Sue Markham, Vilis Vikmanis, Dennis Cabral, Elizabeth
Grundner.
FINANCE AND PLANNING - Faculty/PA: Irwin Rubenstein (chair), William
Gerberich, Karen Karni, Craig Kissock, Fred Morrison, Doris Rubenstein,
William Rudelius, Dianne Van Tasell. Civil Service: Michael Hoey, Gerald
Klement. Students: Mary Askelson, David Dahlgren, Karen Geronime, Susan
Torgerson. Ex Officio: Carl Adams, David Berg, Mark Davison, Roger Paschke,
Richard Pfutzenreuter, Thomas Scott, Mary Sue Simmons, Albert Yonas.
LIBRARY - Faculty/PA: Kay Cooper (chair), Frank Akehurst, John Cogan , Ed
Cushing, Michael Hancher, Harold Hinds, Roberto Leon, John McConnell, David
McLaughlin, Sheila McNally, Marian Pour-El, Roderick Squires. Students:
Joleen Kuennen, Gary Kowalkowsky, Mara Rutten, Emelia Swisher. Ex Officio:
Karen Fischer, Joan Howland, Bill Sozansky, Harold Opgrand, Donald Riley,
Thomas Shaughnessy.
RESEARCH - Faculty/PA: Albert Yonas (chair), Sara Evans, Daniel Feeney, Allen
Goldman, Eric Klinger, Jeylan Mortimer, Stephen Rich, Paul Sackett. Civil
Service: John Basgen. Students: Kirk Allison, Khoi Nguyen, Kirk Walztoni.
Ex Officio: Signe Betsinger, Liz Eull, N. L. Gault, Anne Petersen, Tony
Potami.
SOCIAL CONCERNS - Faculty/PA: Frank Wood (chair), John Dickey, Warren Gore,
Dorothy Hatsukami, Gary Senske, Barbara Walden, Jacquelyn Zita. Civil
Service: Sharon Day, Marilyn Hofler, Ellen Stewart. Alumni: Lynn Boldt,
Julie Johnson, Ellen Sorenson. Students: Amanda Eidsvoog, Emily Jackson,
Carl Johnson, Jennifer McKeever, Chad Reichwald, Traci Toomey, Donna Warren.
Ex Officio: Clint Hewitt, Juan Moreno, Anne Truax.
STUDENT AFFAIRS - Faculty/PA: Thomas Soulen (chair), George Brauer, Evelyn
Franklin, Glenn Hendricks, Guillermo Rojas, Beverly Stewart. Civil Service:
Nancy Hugg Wilson. Alumni: Michael Coyle. Students: Rachel Brand, Jinous
Hamidi, Chad Leiker, Gary Lind, Gerda Ottman, Sandy Pham, Marsha Ried, Denise
Tolbert, Michelle Walsh, Ex Officio: Marvalene Hughes.
INFORMATION:
ALL-UNIVERSITY HONORS - Faculty/PA: Ellen Berscheid (chair), Wilbert Ahern,
Eville Gorham, Willard Hartup, Alice Larson, Paul Quie. Alumni: Wally Hilke,
Steve Kreitz, Cathy Milota, Barbara O'Leary, Lee Paulson. Students: Jesse
Rosen. Ex Officio: Margaret Carlson, Gerald Fischer, Marcia Fluer, E. F.
Infante.
COMMITTEE ON COMMITTEES - Faculty/PA: Michael Steffes (chair), Subir
Banerjee, W. Andrew Collins, Marcia Eaton, Barbara McGinnis, Cleon Melsa, Jean
Quam, Carolyn Williams. Students: Kirk Allison, David Kelly, Willow Najjar,
Cindy Pham, Retu Saxena, Michael Whitt.
CONSULTATIVE - Faculty: Judith Garrard (chair), John Adams, Mario Bognanno,
James Gremmels, Robert Jones, Karen Seashore Louis, Geoffrey Maruyama, Toni
McNaron, Harvey Peterson, Shirley Zimmerman. Students: Anne Sales, Amanda
Geist, Love Goel, Derek Jensen, Tom Lopez, Linda Pham, Phoung Phan, Rabun
Taylor, Dale Vatthauser. Ex Officio: Lester Drewes, Erick Harper, Kenneth
Heller, Sandy Pham, Irwin Rubenstein.
MICHAEL STEFFES, Chair
Committee on Committees
DISCUSSION:
Consent Agenda I was approved without discussion.
APPROVED
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CONSENT AGENDA 2
Action
Agenda Items VI. through VIII. 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 the total membership (115) is required
for approval.
VI. SENATE CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE
Student Membership on the Senate Consultative Committee
MOTION:
To amend Article III, Section 4, of the Senate Bylaws, as follows (new
language is in CAPS, language to be deleted is [bracketed]):
4. Consultative Committees
. . .
Student Consultative Committee
Membership
The Student Consultative Committee shall be composed of:
- one student from the Crookston campus
- one student from the Duluth campus
- one student from the Morris campus
- five students from the Twin Cities campus, as follows:
1993-94 4 UNDERGRADUATES, 1 GRADUATE/PROFESSIONAL
1994-95 3 UNDERGRADUATES, 2 GRADUATE/PROFESSIONAL
1995-96 4 UNDERGRADUATES, 1 GRADUATE/PROFESSIONAL
1996-97 3 UNDERGRADUATES, 2 GRADUATE/PROFESSIONAL
1997-98 4 UNDERGRADUATES, 1 GRADUATE/PROFESSIONAL
the chair and vice chair of the Student Senate
[The numbers of undergraduate and graduate/professional students on the
Student Consultative Committee from the Twin Cities shall be in proportion to
the numbers of students represented by their respective assemblies, rounded to
the nearest whole number. The Assembly Steering Committee of the Twin Cities
Campus Assembly shall determine the time and measures to be used in
ascertaining the number of positions allocated to the two groups.] Student
members shall be elected in accordance with the procedures determined by the
respective campuses' student constitutencies, . . . .
COMMENT:
This amendment, intended to resolve the recurring question of
undergraduate and graduate/professional student membership on the Senate
Consultative Committee, was adopted by the Twin Cities Campus Assembly last
spring. This amendment to the Senate bylaws will bring the Senate bylaws into
accord with the Twin Cities Campus Assembly bylaws.
JUDITH GARRARD, Chair
Senate Consultative Committee
VII. SENATE CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE
Ex Officio Representation on the Senate Consultative Committee
MOTION:
To amend Article III, Sections 4, 8, and 9 of the Senate Bylaws, as
follows (new language is in CAPS; language to be deleted is [bracketed]):
4.Consultative Committees
. . .
Faculty Consultative Committee
Membership
. . .
The chairs of the Educational Policy, FACULTY AFFAIRS, and Finance and
Planning Committees shall be ex officio, non-voting members of the
committee.
8.Faculty Affairs Committee
. . .
Membership
The Faculty Affairs Committee shall be composed of at least 10 members
of the faculty . . . (no change in membership proposed). The chair (or
his or her designee) shall serve as an ex officio nonvoting member of
the [Finance and Planning] FACULTY CONSULTATIVE Committee.
9.Finance and Planning Committee
. . .
Membership
The Finance and Planning Committee shall be composed of 8
faculty/academic professional members, 4 students. . . . The chairs (or
[their] HIS OR HER designees) of the [Faculty Affairs] and Research
Committees shall be AN ex officio, nonvoting members of the committee.
(The representatives from the Facilities Management Subcommittee. . . .)
COMMENT:
These three bylaw changes remove the chair of the Faculty Affairs
Committee from ex officio membership on the Finance and Planning Committee and
places him or her on the Faculty Consultative Committee with ex officio,
nonvoting status, parallel to the positions occupied by the chairs of the
Educational Policy and Finance and Planning Committees.
The Faculty Consultative Committee has found that so many of its agenda
topics deal with issues of faculty welfare that it would be helpful to have
the chair of the Faculty Affairs Committee serve on it. The chair of the
Faculty Affairs Committee has repeatedly been invited to join FCC meetings.
This more direct link between the two committees should help to coordinate the
timeliness and flow of information and discussion between them.
If approved, appropriate editorial corrections will be made to Article
III, Section 2, of the Senate rules
(Ex Officio Members of the Senate).
JUDITH GARRARD, Chair
Senate Consultative Committee
VIII. SENATE CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE
Faculty Consultative Committee Membership
MOTION:
To amend Article III, Section 4, of the Senate Bylaws, as follows (new
language is in CAPS):
ARTICLE III. Senate Committees
4.Consultative Committees
. . . .
Faculty Consultative Committee
Membership
. . .
The chairs of the Educational Policy, Faculty Affairs, and Finance and
Planning Committees shall be ex officio, non-voting members of the
committee. IF A NON-FACULTY MEMBER IS ELECTED AS CHAIR OF ONE OF THE
THREE COMMITTEES, THEN THE FACULTY MEMBERS OF THAT COMMITTEE SHALL ELECT
FROM AMONG THEMSELVES A REPRESENTATIVE TO THE FACULTY CONSULTATIVE
COMMITTEE.
COMMENT:
The present bylaws, as written, would require that a student or academic
professional or any other non-faculty individual elected as chair of one of
these three committees would also serve on the Faculty Consultative Committee.
This bylaw amendment provides that if a non-faculty member is selected as
chair of one of the three committees represented on FCC, the faculty members
of that committee will select a representative to FCC.
The wording of this amendment presumes that the bylaw amendment placing
the chair of the Faculty Affairs Committee on FCC is approved. If it is not,
but this amendment is approved, the language of this amendment will be
editorially changed to recognize that only the Educational Policy and Finance
and Planning chairs sit ex officio on FCC.
If approved, appropriate editorial corrections will be made to Article
III, Section 2, of the Senate rules
(Ex Officio Members of the Senate).
JUDITH GARRARD, Chair
Senate Consultative Committee
DISCUSSION:
Consent Agenda II, consisting of a series of bylaw amendments, was
approved 120 to 0.
APPROVED
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IX. SENATE CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE
Faculty Senate Vice Chair
Action
MOTION 1:
To amend Article III, Section 6, of the University Senate Constitution,
as follows (deleted language is [bracketed]; new language is in CAPS):
ARTICLE III. University Senate
. . . .
6. University Senate, [and] Student Senate, AND FACULTY SENATE Officers
a. The president of the University shall chair the University Senate.
A vice chair shall be elected by the Senate at its first meeting
in the spring of the academic year from among its current members
for a term of one year and shall be eligible for re-election. The
president, with the consent of the Senate, shall appoint a clerk
and a parliamentarian of the Senate (non-members of the Senate),
whose duties shall be prescribed in the Senate Bylaws.
b. The officers of the Student Senate shall be . . . .
C. THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY SHALL CHAIR THE FACULTY SENATE. A
VICE CHAIR SHALL BE ELECTED BY THE FACULTY SENATE IN THE SPRING OF
THE ACADEMIC YEAR FOR A TERM OF ONE YEAR AND SHALL BE ELIGIBLE FOR
RE-ELECTION. THE PRESIDENT, WITH THE CONSENT OF THE FACULTY
SENATE, SHALL APPOINT A CLERK AND A PARLIAMENTARIAN OF THE FACULTY
SENATE (NON-MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY SENATE) WHOSE DUTIES SHALL BE
THE SAME AS THOSE OF THE CLERK AND PARLIAMENTARIAN OF THE
UNIVERSITY SENATE.
MOTION 2:
To amend Article III, Section 4, of the University Senate Bylaws, as
follows:
ARTICLE III. Senate Committees
. . . .
4. Consultative Committees
. . . .
Faculty Consultative Committee
Membership
The faculty of the Twin Cities campus and those faculty members on the Duluth
campus eligible to vote in elections for the Senate shall elect 8 members, and
the faculties of the Crookston and Morris campuses shall each elect one
faculty member. . . .
In case of a faculty vacancy. . . .
THE VICE CHAIR OF THE FACULTY SENATE SHALL SERVE AS AN EX OFFICO, VOTING
MEMBER OF THE FACULTY CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE. The chairs of the Educational
Policy and Finance and Planning Committees shall be ex officio, nonvoting
members of the committee. (IN THE INSTANCE WHEN A FACULTY MEMBER IS ELECTED
VICE CHAIR OF THE UNIVERSITY SENATE, THAT INDIVIDUAL SHALL ALSO SERVE AS VICE
CHAIR OF THE FACULTY SENATE.)
There shall also be one ex officio, nonvoting member of the committee who
shall represent the faculty on the Duluth campus. . . .
COMMENT:
These two motions, one a constitutional amendment requiring Regental
approval and one a bylaw amendment that the Senate can approve on its own
authority, create a vice chair of the Faculty Senate, to be elected by the
membership of the Faculty Senate when the vice chair of the UNIVERSITY Senate
is a student. The vice chair of the FACULTY Senate will also serve as a
voting member of the Faculty Consultative Committee (but not the SENATE
Consultative Committee) when the UNIVERSITY Senate vice chair is a student.
When the UNIVERSITY Senate vice chair is a faculty member, that individual
will also serve as vice chair of the Faculty Senate--and serve as a voting
member of both the Senate and Faculty Consultative Committees.
The Faculty Consultative Committee believes it necessary to establish the
position of vice chair of the Faculty Senate for two reasons. First, if the
President of the University is unable to chair a meeting of the Faculty
Senate, there is no one who is designated to assume that responsibility.
Second, it is sometimes the case, by accident of election outcomes, that major
units of the University are not represented on the FCC; establishment of this
position would present an opportunity for FCC to nominate an individual from
an un- or under-represented unit when the position of University Senate vice
chair is occupied by a student. Whilte the FCC recognizes that those elected
to the Consultative Committee "shall represent the faculty and students at
large and not the individual campuses, institutes, colleges, schools, or
departments of the University" [from the Senate Bylaws], FCC nonetheless finds
it helpful to have the perspective and experience of faculty members from as
wide a variety of colleges and campuses as possible. Having the chairs of the
Educational Policy and Finance and Planning Committees serve as ex officio
members of FCC has contributed to that diversity of perspective; the bylaw
amendment placing the chair of the Faculty Affairs Committee on FCC enhances
that diversity. Creation of the vice chair of the Faculty Senate will provide
the opportunity to ensure that the appropriate perspectives are present among
the members of FCC.
The result of these changes, plus the bylaw proposing to place the chair
of the Faculty Affairs Committee on FCC as an ex officio, nonvoting member,
would be that FCC would have 11 voting members and 4 ex-officio nonvoting
members (chairs of the Educational Policy, Faculty Affairs, and Finance and
Planning committees and a representative from the Duluth campus). Ten of the
voting members would be elected by the faculty at large; the one who serves as
vice chair would be elected by the members of the Faculty/University Senate.
If approved, appropriate editorial corrections will be made to Article
III, Section 2 of the Senate rules
(Ex Officio Members of the Senate).
JUDITH GARRARD, Chair
Senate Consultative Committee
DISCUSSION:
Motion 1, an amendment to create the position of Vice Chair of the
Faculty Senate, received 121 affirmative votes. As a constitutional
amendment, 153 affirmative votes at one meeting or 115 at each of two meetings
was required for approval. Motion 1 will be brought back to the Senate for a
second reading at the next Senate meeting and Motion 2 was withdrawn pending
approval of motion 1.
NOT APPROVED
X. SENATE CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE
SOCIAL CONCERNS COMMITTEE
U of M Investments in South Africa
Action
MOTION:
That, contingent upon approval by the Social Concerns Committee, the
University Senate approve the following resolution:
RESOLUTION RELATED TO
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA INVESTMENTS IN
COMPANIES WITH OPERATIONS IN SOUTH AFRICA
WHEREAS, the Board of Regents recognizes that a number of recent developments
indicate that the Republic of South Africa is beginning to evolve
away from a system of apartheid; and
WHEREAS, these developments include a request by the African National Congress
(ANC) and its President, Nelson Mandela, that economic sanctions
against South Africa be lifted, the policies of educational
institutions and pension funds that prohibit investment in companies
doing business in South Africa be rescinded, and that American
business return to South Africa to facilitate the economic recovery;
and
WHEREAS, a number of businesses have re-entered the South african market and
additional businesses appear likely to do so in the future; and
WHEREAS, free elections to include all South Africans have been scheduled in
South Africa for April 1994; and
WHEREAS, the University of Minnesota has a policy that prohibits investments
in companies with operations in South Africa; and
WHEREAS, the University of Minnesota wishes to support economic and political
changes in South Africa that lead to equality of opportunity for all
South Africans;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that:
1) the current policy prohibiting investments in companies with existing
operations in South Africa is rescinded effective when free elections
are held in South Africa in April, 1994; and
2) to avoid a potentially adverse impact on investment performance due to
companies re-entering the South African market prior to the date of free
elections, investments in companies entering the South African market
after December 31, 1993 will no longer be prohibited.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that if, as determined by the African National
Congress, elections are not conducted in a free, open, and appropriate manner,
a moratorium will be placed on any changes to the University's South African
related investment policy until such time as free elections are held.
COMMENT:
The Resolution relating to University of Minnesota investments in
companies with operations in South Africa was discussed by the Social Concerns
Committee at its November 8, 1993, meeting and will be voted on at its
November 30, meeting. The Senate Consultative Committee discussed and
approved the Resolution at its November 18, 1993, meeting. Action of this
item by the University Senate on December 2, is contingent upon its approval
by the Social Concerns Committee on November 30.
JUDITH GARRARD, Chair
Senate Consultative Committee
FRANK WOOD, Chair
Social Concerns Committee
DISCUSSION:
Professor Frank Wood, chair of the Social Concerns Committee, presented
the Resolution Related to University of Minnesota Investments in Companies
with Operations in South Africa. In the 1970s the University took a lead in
adopting policies that restricted in various ways the investment of University
funds in companies that were doing business in South Africa. In 1985 a
resolution was approved by the Board of Regents that required total divestment
of South African related investments by June 1987. On September 24, 1993,
Nelson Mandela, President of the National African Congress, called for the
immediate lifting of all sanctions on investments in South Africa. Professor
Woods said there was some concern among Social Concerns Committee members
about moving too quickly on this issue. However, President Mandela's
recommendation has been supported by a majority of the political groups in
South Africa, by the major trade federations, and by the Council of Churches.
In conjunction with this, the trade federations and the Council of Churches
have developed codes of conduct for corporations doing business in South
Africa. President Mandela and others, Professor Wood said, have requested
that reinvestment in South Africa not be made conditional on adoption of those
codes of conduct. The Social Concerns Committee is only aware of one
organization that opposes President Mandela's resolution--the Pan African
Congress (PAC), a militant organization supporting rights for black South
Africans. The PAC has opposed the African National Congress position
throughout most of the negotiations, believing that sanctions should not be
lifted until successful elections have taken place in the spring of next year.
A number of other institutions, Professor Wood said, have approved resolutions
favoring reinvestment, and in view of the evolving political situation in
South Africa, the Social Concerns Committee believes the University should
also adopt such a resolution. It is important to note that the resolution was
developed in cooperation with the Office of the Vice President for Finance.
One senator recommended the language in the final paragraph of the
resolution be amended to identify that the Social Concerns Committee and the
University Senate shall make recommendations to the Administration regarding
placing a moratorium on changes should free and open elections not be
forthcoming in the spring. The current language suggests the University will
follow the recommendation of the African National Congress.
Professor Wood responded that there undoubtedly will be individuals and
groups of individuals who are not happy with the outcome of the elections in
April and that the African National Congress has been the organization to
which the University has looked for guidance in their actions.
At this time, the resolution was approved on a voice vote.
APPROVED
XI. SENATE CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE
RESEARCH COMMITTEE
Policy on Hazardous Biological Materials Controls and
Institutional Biosafety Committee
Action
MOTION:
To approve the following Policy on Hazardous Biological Materials
Controls and Institutional Biosafety Committee:
OUTLINE OF PROPOSED POLICY
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA BOARD OF REGENTS
HAZARDOUS BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS CONTROLS AND
INSTITUTIONAL BIOSAFETY COMMITTEE
I. Statement of Policy of the University of Minnesota with Regard to the
Institutional Biosafety Committee and the Safe Use of Biological
Materials
A. University Policy on Research Involving Recombinant DNA Methods.
B. University Policy on Research Using Organisms or Biological
Materials of Potential Biological Hazard Where Recombinant DNA
Methods are Not Being Used
II. Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC)
A. Administration
B. Composition of the Committee
C. Selection/Appointment
D. Duties and Responsibilities of the Committee
E. Duties and Responsibilities of the Biological Safety Officer (BSO)
III. Procedures for Review and Implementation of Research Involving
Biological Materials Manipulated Using Recombinant DNA Methods or
Biological Materials of Potential Hazard
A. Reporting Requirements of Investigators
B. Certification of University Research Facilities, Equipment, and
Decontamination Procedures
C. Periodic Facility Inspections
IV. Reporting Accidental Release of Biological Materials
A. Responsibilities of the Investigator
B. Responsibilities of the Biological Safety Officer (BSO)
V. Compliance
A. Responsibilities of Investigators
B. Appeals of Committee Decisions
C. Noncompliance.
[The proposed policy is to replace Regents' Policy "Hazardous Biological
Materials Control, Recombinant DNA," adopted September 9, 1977, and adopted
into the Board of Regents' Policy Book March 8, 1991.]
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COMPLETE TEXT OF PROPOSED POLICY
I. Statement of Policy of the University of Minnesota with Regard to the
Institutional Biosafety Committee and the Safe Use of Biological
Materials
A. University Policy on Research Involving Recombinant DNA Methods
The University of Minnesota reaffirms its established policy with
regard to research and teaching involving organisms manipulated
using recombinant DNA methods with regard to:
1. The establishment of an Institutional Biosafety Committee
(IBC) as mandated by the "Guidelines for Recombinant DNA
Research" issued by the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
(Fed. Reg. 41, no. 131 (1976), as subsequently revised) and in
compliance with the State of Minnesota regulations of the
Minnesota Environmental Quality Board (MEQB), under the
authority of Minnesota Statutes 116C.91-96, "Genetically
Engineered Organisms," as amended.
2. The responsibility of the IBC for monitoring all research and
research facilities involved in biological research using
agents or materials derived by recombinant DNA methods to
certify compliance with all federal guidelines and regulations
established by the State of Minnesota Environmental Quality
Board or other state agencies.
B. University Policy on Research Using Organisms or Biological
Materials of Potential Biological Hazard Where Recombinant DNA
Methods are Not Being Used
The University of Minnesota reaffirms its established policy with
regard to research involving organisms (other than human subjects
or animals) or biologically derived materials or toxins of NIH-CDC
biosafety level 2 or higher (as defined by the National Institutes
of Health and Centers for Disease Control in Biosafety in
Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories, 2d ed., USGPO
17-40-508-3, May, 1988) where recombinant DNA methods are not
being used. In particular, the University reaffirms the following:
1. The responsibility of the IBC for monitoring all research and
research facilities involved in manipulation of biological
materials using agents or biologically derived materials of
biosafety level 2 or higher where the materials are not
derived using recombinant DNA methods.
2. The authority of the IBC to inspect research facilities and
halt research where inappropriate or unsafe manipulation, or
incomplete decontamination, of biologically derived materials,
or inadequate decontamination of facilities used to manipulate
biologically derived materials, may be occurring.
II. Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC)
A. Administration
The IBC reports to the office of the Vice President for Research.
B. Composition of the Committee
1. The Institutional Biosafety Committee includes:
a. Chairperson
b. Secretary
c. Biological safety officer (BSO)
d. Faculty members familiar with biological safety and
recombinant DNA techniques, from each campus where there
is active research
e. At least twenty percent of its members from the community
outside the University with expertise in public health and
biological safety.
2. The biological safety officer (BSO) will have professional
training and expertise related to biological safety and public
health.
3. The membership of the committee may be expanded as needed by
the chairperson who will establish standing faculty
subcommittees in order to provide the IBC with expertise in
all major areas related to biological safety.
C. Selection/Appointment
1. The chairperson will be appointed by the Vice President for
Research for a three year period. This appointment may be
renewed.
2. The biological safety officer will be a staff position in the
Department of Environmental Health and Safety and appointed by
the director of the department.
3. Faculty and community appointments to the IBC will be made by
the Vice President for Research and will last three years.
Committee appointments will be staggered.
4. The chairperson will appoint a secretary to the committee.
D. Duties and Responsibilities of the Committee
1. The IBC is responsible for monitoring proposals submitted by
faculty investigators where recombinant DNA methods of
manipulation of the genetic material are proposed.
2. The IBC is responsible for formulating and updating all
necessary forms (such as the "Recombinant DNA Activity Form")
and/or other means of reporting in order to monitor proposed
and ongoing research.
3. The IBC will review proposed research and where appropriate
request modification of any University facilities prior to
initiation of the proposed research that are not in compliance
with the guidelines established by the state and the federal
agencies for safe and contained manipulation of biological
materials of potential biological hazard.
4. The IBC will determine whether the proposed research meets
federal guidelines and State of Minnesota statutes for
contained manipulation of organisms altered by recombinant DNA
methods.
5. The IBC will review, approve, and suggest appropriate
alterations to protocols or facilities, or reject proposals
from investigators, within 30 days of receipt of information
supplied on the University of Minnesota Recombinant DNA
Activity Form. Research cannot commence prior to IBC approval.
Approval will be by one of the following:
a. Recommendation of the BSO
b. Consensus of an IBC subcommittee with recommendation of
the BSO
c. Consensus of the entire IBC.
6. The IBC will be responsible for certifying to federal agencies
and the State of Minnesota on behalf of the University that
all current research and facilities being used for
manipulation of recombinant DNA meet the existing guidelines
such as the containment facility certification requirements of
the MEQB.
7. The IBC secretary will be responsible for submitting an annual
update of Committee activities to all state and federal
agencies regarding compliance documentation.
8. The IBC has the authority to immediately halt, investigate or
request modification of any procedures that use recombinant
DNA methods or other methods for manipulation of biologically
derived materials of biosafety level 2 or higher that do not
meet federal and State of Minnesota guidelines.
E. Duties and Responsibilities of the Biological Safety Officer (BSO)
1. The BSO reviews research proposals submitted by faculty where
the research involves manipulation of organisms using
recombinant DNA methods or manipulation of biological agents
or biologically derived toxins classified as biosafety level 2
or higher, where no manipulations involving recombinant DNA
methods are proposed.
2. Within 10 days of receipt of a completed University of
Minnesota Recombinant DNA Activity Form signed by the
investigator, the BSO will determine whether the proposed
research is exempt from current state and federal guidelines
or whether additional information is needed from the
investigator in order to make this determination.
3. The BSO has the authority to approve the proposed research and
certify that the proposed research activities are either
exempt from or meet current state and federal guidelines.
4. The BSO can request that the proposed research, facilities
modifications, or protocols be reviewed by an IBC subcommittee
or the entire IBC for determination of the appropriateness of
the proposed procedures in meeting existing federal and State
of Minnesota guidelines. The investigator will be invited to
participate in the discussion of the proposed research with
the IBC subcommittee or the entire IBC as appropriate.
5. The BSO has the authority to inspect research facilities and
certify that they meet federal guidelines and any additional
containment guidelines mandated by the Minnesota Environmental
Quality Board for carrying out recombinant DNA research.
6. In the rare instance of imminent risk to personnel, public
health, or the environment, the BSO has the authority to
immediately halt any inappropriate research activity and
decontaminate or safely sequester and remove any biologically
derived hazardous agent.
III. Procedures for Review and Implementation of Research Involving
Biological Materials Manipulated Using Recombinant DNA Methods or
Biological Materials of Potential Hazard
A. Reporting Requirements of Investigators
1. All investigators on all campuses of the University are
encouraged to communicate with the BSO or a subcommittee of
the IBC prior to submission of a grant application (federal,
state, private, or internal) where recombinant DNA
manipulations are proposed or for investigation of biological
materials of potential hazard where recombinant DNA methods
are not proposed.
2. All investigators will submit a completed University of
Minnesota Recombinant DNA Activity Form to the BSO in the
Department of Environmental Health and Safety when submitting
grant applications to the Office of Research and Technology
Transfer Administration (ORTTA).
3. Each investigator must update the information provided to the
IBC on a biannual basis by submission of a revised Recombinant
DNA Activity Form or submit a revised form at any time
significant changes in the original biological agent(s) or
material(s) proposed have occurred as a result of the progress
of the research. A revised form must be submitted with each
grant renewal.
4. Sufficient detail will be provided to the BSO and IBC by each
investigator for all protocols, descriptions of facilities,
and appropriate measures proposed for containment and
decontamination of biological materials with potential
biological hazard to be used in their research regardless of
whether recombinant DNA methods are proposed. This includes
any protocols for proposed field trials involving terrestrial,
airborne, or aquatic organisms that involve purposeful release
of organisms into the environment that have been modified by
recombinant DNA methods.
5. All investigators are required to submit copies to the BSO of
any request to state or federal agencies for permits to
release genetically engineered organisms into the environment.
Copies of these requests must be submitted to the BSO at the
same time as submission to the MEQB or other state(s) or
federal agencies.
6. All investigators must submit to the IBC proposed protocols
for handling large volumes of biological materials that might
present the potential for accidental release of organisms
altered by recombinant DNA methods into the environment.
7. The confidentiality of the proposed protocols and descriptions
of proposed research will be maintained by the IBC if
requested by the investigator. Sufficient detail, however,
must be presented to the IBC by the investigator in order for
the IBC to determine whether the appropriate federal and state
guidelines will be met. The IBC can request any additional
information it deems appropriate for its determination.
B. Certification of University Research Facilities, Equipment, and
Decontamination Procedures
1. The BSO will coordinate an annual inspection and certification
of autoclaves, biological safety hoods, and other biological
decontamination methods or containment devices currently being
used for conducting research involving recombinant DNA methods
(where appropriate containment devices are specified by the
biological agent) or manipulation of biological agents or
toxins not involving recombinant DNA methods.
2. The BSO will request that any equipment or decontamination
devices found not to be functioning correctly be immediately
repaired or replaced prior to commencement of the research.
3. It is the responsibility of each investigator to validate
routine decontamination of biological materials based upon the
protocol described in the information provided to the IBC with
the research proposal.
C. Periodic Facility Inspections
1. The BSO will periodically inspect each facility equipped with
containment and decontamination devices in order to certify
that appropriate facilities, equipment, and effective
procedures are currently being used to contain and
decontaminate agents of potential biological hazard.
2. The BSO will report the results of these inspections in
writing to the chairperson of the IBC and to the investigator
within 10 days following the inspection date.
IV. Reporting Accidental Release of Biological Materials
A. Responsibilities of the Investigator In the event of an accidental
spill, failure of a containment device, or release of agents or
material of potential biological hazard, it is the responsibility
of the investigator to immediately report the situation to the BSO
and to implement the emergency procedures as established by the
Department of Environmental Health and Safety.
B. Responsibilities of the Biological Safety Officer
1. The BSO will immediately determine the appropriate measures to
be taken to contain further accidental release of the
biological material, ensure the safety of personnel, and
decontaminate the area.
2. Accidental release of significant quantities of viable
organisms or potentially hazardous biological materials will
be immediately reported by the BSO to the IBC chairperson, to
the appropriate local public health officials, and to the
appropriate state and federal agencies.
V. Compliance
A. Responsibilities of Investigators All investigators at the
University of Minnesota on all campuses and field stations are
expected to comply with this regents' policy.
B. Appeals of IBC Decisions
1. Decisions of the IBC can be appealed by resubmission of a
revised Recombinant DNA Activity Form or by presentation by
the investigator of additional information to an IBC
subcommittee or the entire IBC for reconsideration.
2. Requests for reconsideration of an IBC decision must be made
in writing to the chairperson, who will determine how to best
resolve the situation within 30 days of receipt of the
request.
C. Noncompliance
1. In the event of establishment of noncompliance with this
policy by the BSO, the biological safety officer will notify
the investigator in writing. The investigator will have 10
days from receipt of this notification to correct the
situation and comply with policy.
2. Failure to comply will result in notification by the secretary
of the IBC of the investigator's supervisor and termination of
the research by the BSO until compliance is met.
JUDITH GARRARD, Chair
Senate Consultative Committee
ALBERT YONAS, Chair
Research Committee
DISCUSSION:
Professor Albert Yonas, chair of the Senate Research Committee, presented
the motion to replace the Regents' Policy "Hazardous Biological Materials
Control, Recombinatant DNA." The policy, he said, has been rewritten to take
a rather long detailed document and divide it into two sections; one that
describes policy issues and a second detailed addendum. Dr. Michael
Flickinger, chair of the Institutional Biosafety Committee, was available to
respond to comments or questions. Hearing none, the motion was approved on a
voice vote.
APPROVED
XII. STRATEGIC PLANNING
Discussion
Professor Judith Garrard, chair of the Senate Consultative Committee,
called on Professor John Adams, vice chair of the Faculty Consultative
Committee and Ms. Anne Sales, chair of the Student Senate Consulative
Committee to provide brief reports on strategic planning actions taken by the
Faculty Senate and Student Senate earlier in the day.
Professor Adams reported that the Faculty Senate approved a resolution
(116 to 14) endorsing the need for a strategic plan and five strategic
directions identified in U2000. It also called for a continuation of active
consultation, clearer elaboration of University College and the cluster
planning process, clarification of the steps remaining in the planning
process, and for the administration to submit for action, through the regular
governance structure, major matters of implementation or action prior to their
submission to the Board of Regents.
Ms. Sales reported that earlier in the day the Student Senate reviewed a
resolution that was generally in support of U2000. The motion, however, was
tabled because of inadequate consultation prior to the meeting. It was
referred to the Student Senate Consultative Committee for consideration and
referral to appropriate committees. Ms. Sales also reported that both the
Minnesota Student Association and the Graduate and Professional Student
Assembly approved resolutions on strategic planning. Both resolutions, she
said, generally favor U2000 and call for greater student involvement in the
implementation phase.
XIII. PRESIDENT'S POLICY AGENDA, 1993-94
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PRIORITY: DEVELOP A STRATEGIC PLAN TO GUIDE THE FUTURE COURSE OF THE
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA.
* Develop a plan that builds upon on-going initiatives including:
Undergraduate Initiative K-12 Initiative
Council on Liberal Education Diversity Task Force
Crookston 4-Year Program Outreach Council
Rochester Center Partnership Strategic Planning for Research
T.C. Higher Ed Partnership Financial Strategies, including
International Education Tuition Policies
Enrollment Management President's Forum on Teaching
Restructuring Twin Cities Student Committee on Teaching and
Admissions & Financial Aid Learning
* Presentation of working hypothesis, "University 2000: the University of
Minnesota for the 21st Century" to the Board of Regents. September 2-3
* Consultation with University constituencies. September 7 through early
December
* State of the University speech discusses "U 2000." October 4
* Statewide communication and consultation plan implemented. October 4
through early December, 1993, with continuing reports.
* Link the working hypothesis with the mission statement and the
institutional goals and objectives statement.
* Determine the financing strategies needed to support the working
hypothesis.
* Board action on mission, vision, and critical measures statement.
January 14, 1992
* Guide teams from each academic cluster in first phase of planning.
December, 1993, through February, 1994. (Preliminary report due
February 28, 1994)
* Draft of "Strategic Planning: Status and Progress Report, 1994." For
review and consultation with governance groups, September--October,
1994; with Board, October--November, 1994.
* Renegotiating the contract with the State based on strategic plan.
December, 1993, and continuing. Especially: June, 1994--March, 1995.
PRIORITY: STRENGTHEN AND CLARIFY THE MANAGEMENT INFRASTRUCTURE INCLUDING
PERSONNEL AND SYSTEMS, TO ENSURE THE CAPABILITY OF THE ORGANIZATION
TO EXECUTE THE STRATEGIC PLAN AS WELL AS THE POLICIES OF THE BOARD
AND MANAGEMENT.
* Review and evaluate the organization of central administration to
determine the effectiveness of the structure to implement the strategic
plan and priority tasks, to enhance the utilization of the experience,
skills and vision of the administrative team and to strengthen
accountability. Preliminary report to Board, December, 1993.
* Restructure central administration, as warranted, to redefine roles,
responsibilities, and authority to meet objectives stated above.
Recommendations to the Board, Spring quarter, 1994.
* Examine the organizational structure of the Health Sciences and
University Hospital/Clinic to strengthen the management and to ensure
the resilience of the enterprise in this period of dramatic change and
competition.
* Restructure the Health Sciences and University Hospital/Clinic, as
warranted, to redefine roles, responsibilities, and authority to meet
objectives stated above. February, 1993--Spring quarter, 1994.
University of Minnesota Health System approved by the Board, October,
1993. Search for Health Sciences Provost initiated Nov. 1993.
* Examine the organizational structure of the Twin Cities campus other
than the Health Sciences to strengthen the management and to ensure the
resilience of the enterprise in this period of dramatic change and
competition.
* Restructure Twin Cities campus other than the Health Sciences as
warranted, to redefine roles, responsibilities, and authority to meet
objectives stated above. June--July, 1994
Recommendations to the Board. June--July, 1994
* Examine and revise Board and administrative personnel policies so that
they clearly differentiate human resource policy principles from
management implementation procedures. Consult with University
governance groups and bring forward for Board approval a defined set of
human resource principles that include: compensation, training and
development, recruitment, renewal and retention, leaves, and diversity.
June--July, 1994
PRIORITY: IMPROVE THE OPERATING AND CAPITAL BUDGETING PROCESSES TO PROVIDE
THE BOARD AND MANAGEMENT THE CAPABILITY TO ALLOCATE RESOURCES IN
ACCORD WITH THE STRATEGIC PRIORITIES SET BY THE BOARD.
* Outline the resource allocation reform effort and define the essential
elements of budget process to Board of Regents. Completed May, 1993.
* Develop budget model that measures performance, demonstrates progress to
achieve institutional goals, that strengthens accountability and
productivity, and that supports and advances the strategic plan and
present to the Board of Regents. Completed September 3, 1993
* Examine and revise the resource allocation timeline including the timing
of Board of Regents adoption of budget principles and present to the
Board of Regents. Completed September 1993.
* 1994-1995 Capital Budget and updated Six-Year Capital Budget Plan to
Board for Review and Action. In progress, April--May, 1994.
* 1994-1995 Operating Budget to Board for review and action. In progress,
April--May, 1994
* Full integration of institutional strategic planning, unit planning, and
resource allocation reform effort. In progress, September--October,
1994.
* Biennial request based on Strategic Plan to Board of Regents.
September--October, 1994.
PRIORITY: DEVELOP AN EXTERNAL RELATIONS PROGRAM TO PROVIDE THE BOARD AND
MANAGEMENT WITH AN ONGOING MEANS OF ENSURING THAT INSTITUTIONAL
GOALS ARE RESPONSIVE TO THE NEEDS OF MINNESOTANS AND TO ENABLE THE
UNIVERSITY TO SECURE SUPPORT FOR CRITICAL PRIORITIES.
* Develop a comprehensive public relations plan that will replace the
communication plan of 1989 and define staff capability and budget needs.
Interim report to the Board in January, 1994. Final report, June, 1994.
* Initiated search for Vice President for External Relations, Nov. 1993.
* Enhance the legislative campaign plan, develop measures to demonstrate
progress toward our goals, and continue implementation. Reported to
the Board in November, 1993.
* Strengthen the contribution of external relations units to the
University, especially in connection with the implementation of the
strategic plan, through joint projects that utilize unit skills,
expertise, and networks. Among these project would be: the statewide
communication plan for strategic planning, a TQM project for the Data
Management System, and the student recruitment and scholarship project
undertaken by the MAA and the UMF. July, 1993--July, 1994. Report to
Board by request.
XIV. PRESIDENT'S COMMENTS
President Hasselmo briefly reviewed his policy agenda outlined under
XIII above and thanked senators for their show of support by approving the
resolution on strategic planning earlier in the afternoon. He said he
realizes many of the specifics are not included in the proposal and
welcomes the opportunity to work with faculty, students, and staff to fill
in the details. There are a number of mechanisms for that, including the
governance structure both at the central level and in the colleges and he
encouraged senators to work with their colleagues in this endeavor. The
clusters, he added, are intended to bring faculty, staff, and students
together to look at the agendas in the various disciplinary areas. A
number of task forces have also been established, including one on
compensation and another on user-friendliness. Moreover, a forum on
teaching has been established as a means for faculty to share their
teaching methods, ideas, and innovations.
The President further reported on a number of positive developments at
the University, including the dedication of the new art museum and the
completion of the women's sports pavilion. He congratulated two
outstanding students who recently became finalists for Rhodes scholarships-
-Rachel Paulose and Timan Odegard and announced the awarding of a number of
Fulbright fellowships.
XV. QUESTIONS TO THE PRESIDENT
QUESTION:
Will planning discussions include consideration of changing to
the semester system?
RESPONSE:
That issue will come up again and the University should
consider moving away from the rigidities of its current
scheduling--perhaps even to a 12-month use of its facilities.
QUESTION:
What will be the role of athletics in the planning process?
RESPONSE:
Athletics has been an integral part of American college and
university life for a long time and it certainly is a part of
the educational tradition in the United States. Athletics will
continue at the University and should be self-financing. The
University must continue to ensure that educational values are
maintained as it attempts to be competitive in its various
athletic programs.
XVI. SENATE CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE REPORT
Professor Judith Garrard, chair of the Senate Consultative Committee
(SCC), reported that the SCC has focused most of its attention on strategic
planning during fall quarter. It is in the process of finalizing the
appointment of a Joint Task Force on User-Friendliness that will include
students, faculty, academic professional, civil service staff, and
representatives of the three unions on the Twin Cities campus. Other tasks
have included review of the resolution relating to investments in companies
with operations in South Africa, the biosafety policy, and budget-related
issues.
XVII. 1992-93 ANNUAL REPORTS
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COMMITTEE ON COMMITTEES
Annual Report, 1992-93
The Committee on Committees primary task each year is to prepare
faculty, academic professional, and student nominations to Senate and
Assembly committees and to some non-Senate committees. In order to gather
as many nominations as possible, faculty committee members surveyed all
faculty and eligible academic professionals regarding their interest in
committee service. Letters were also sent to deans and department heads,
committee chairs, Senate members, and the Academic Staff Advisory Committee
soliciting nominations. Additionally, announcements were placed in BRIEF
and FOOTNOTE. Student committee members gathered nominations by posting
announcements, advertising, and participating in informational fairs.
Several meetings were then held to prepare the nominations for 1993-94
committees. Consideration was given to appropriate representation by race,
gender, academic rank, campus, and collegiate unit.
The committee also addressed a number of other issues during the year
that related to Senate and Assembly representation. One of which involved
amending the Senate and Assembly constitutions to change the eligibility
requirements for academic professional representation in those bodies. The
intent of the amendment was to correct an inequity that had occurred over
time as changes in academic professional class titles and positions changed
but Senate rules did not. In many instances academic professionals who
were eligible to participate in University governance became ineligible as
their class titles and positions changed. During the discussions of this
issue, other issues relating to Senate/Assembly representation arose, such
as the faculty:student ratio, representation of non-collegiate units, and
civil service representation. The committee concluded that the Senate and
Assembly constitutions should be amended to correct the inequity concerning
academic professional representation and recommended that a special
committee be established by the Senate Consultative Committee to review the
broader issues of representation that were raised. An amendment relating
to academic professional representation was subsequently approved by the
Senate and Assembly and a Task Force on Governance was appointed by the
Senate Consultative Committee.
This year Committee on Committees filled 75 faculty and academic
professional positions on various Senate and Assembly committees and, as
presented each year, the chart below indicates the proportions of NEW
faculty and academic professional appointments by rank and gender, with
comparable all-University figures.
Geoffrey Maruyama, Chair
COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS COMMITTEE
Annual Report, 1992-1993
The Senate Committee on Computing and Information Systems (SCCIS) met 15
times during 1992-92 and dealt both with issues that were in the news
headlines as well as more complex issues that will affect most members of the
University community. Among the major topics of discussion were the
following: Review and comment on the "vision statement" for computing at the
University. SCCIS endorsed the statement and brought it to the Consultative
Committee; SCC, in turn asked SCCIS to consider more specifically how
supercomputing should be incorporated in it. After reconsidering the "vision
statement," SCCIS endorsed it once again, with the clear understanding that
supercomputing was to be considered part of the statement and was to be
included in the information technology planning process. The "vision
statement" was then presented to the University Senate. The information
technology planning process was the subject of discussion at several SCCIS
meetings. The Committee emphasized the need for faculty and staff user
participation in the process as well as the appropriate role of the governance
system. A number of the members of SCCIS, both ex officio and regular, were
also active participants in the information technology planning process, so
the Committee was kept well informed of the proceedings. Committee members
advised those individuals on major issues it believed the process must
address. Supercomputing was also discussed repeatedly during the year; the
Committee was joined by Senior Vice President Infante and by Vice President
Petersen, at different meetings, to discuss supercomputing. The chair of the
committee also served as co-chair of the Task Force on Supercomputing
appointed jointly by President Hasselmo and FCC Chair Bognanno. The Committee
considered at length the issues raised by the Legislative Auditor's report on
supercomputing and made recommendations to the administration, a number of
which were reiterated in the report of the Task Force on Supercomputing.
SCCIS endorsed the Task Force report. SCCIS also discussed with Dr. Truhlar,
Director of the Minnesota Supercomputer Institute, the policies governing the
allocation of time to supercomputing. SCCIS was satisfied that the policies
in place accommodate, at least for now, the needs of supercomputing users.
SCCIS also took up a number of other issues. It heard from Mr. Stephen
Cawley, Director of Telecommunications, about the financing and operations of
the telecommunications system and about how a new system will be needed within
the next seven to ten years. It heard from Messrs. S.P. Yen and Philip
Kachelmyer about site licenses at the University. It commented on the
position descriptions for the Associate Vice President for Operations
Development and AIS and for the Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs
with responsibility for Computing and Information Systems (CIS); the
Committee's concerns were incorporated in the final descriptions. Committee
members also participated in the searches that were conducted to fill the two
positions, in accord with the protocol on Senate Committee participation in
administrative searches. It heard a report from Dr. Donald Riley, Acting
Associate Provost for Computing and Information Systems on the status,
financing, usage, and technology issues in CIS.
The Committee recommended, and both the Consultative Committee and the
Senate agreed, that is should continue to exist for another four years. The
list of issues for 1993-94 appears to be lengthy, so the Committee anticipates
a busy year.
Thomas Burk, Chair
DISABILITIES ISSUES COMMITTEE
Annual Report, 1992-1993
The work of this committee during the 1992-1993 year had the potential to
overlap needlessly with Central Administration's Task Force on Implementation
of the Americans With Disabilities Act. In fact, Committee membership and ADA
task force membership did overlap significantly. To avoid wasted effort, the
committee spent its time gathering information not currently in the committee
files.
Changes in technology in the University are of special interest to the
committee, since the potential benefits (and barriers) to people with
disabilities are so great. Associate Provost Don Riley met with the committee
to review planning initiatives and to hear committee input on technology
planning. Technology planning will include access considerations at all
levels.
Barriers in the physical plant persist. Linda McCracken Hunt and Harvey
Turner of Facilities Management met with the committee to review the status of
the buildings which do not meet minimal accessibility standards and to review
access rules adopted in Regents procedures for capital improvements.
Inadequate funding for improvements in physical access persists, without
promise for change.
Day-to-day barriers and hazards on campus likewise persist. In general,
snow and ice removal to accommodate people with disabilities has improved.
Parking privileges need re-examination for abuses. Increasingly, bicycles
locked to stair handrails and ramp rails threaten the safety of some members
of the community, such as those with visual limitations, and block access to
others with mobility limitations. Vice President Tschida was apprised of
significant committee concerns.
Finally, the committee wishes to note the service of Doretha Risher, who
has provided clerical support to this committee for over a decade.
Terrence Collins, Chair
EDUCATIONAL POLICY COMMITTEE
Annual Report, 1992-1993
The principal business of SCEP for 1992-1993 was to draft protocols for
implementation of the policy of evaluation of teaching contributions, drafted
by SCEP and passed by the Senate in the spring of 1992. Dealing mainly with
procedures for peer review of these and other materials by the tenure home
unit, the protocols were adopted by the Senate on 8 April 1993.
In addition, SCEP received and endorsed the reports of the Morse Alumni
Awards Committee (Chaired by Gayle Graham Yates) and of the ad-hoc Committee
on Undergraduate Honors (chaired by Michael Simmons); had two discussions of
University documents on tuition principles, the second in conjunction with the
Consultative Committee; declined requests to take up the issue of plus minus
grading again, in light of indications that students remain opposed to the
idea; received the portion of the Task Force Report on Gay, Lesbian and Bi-
Sexual Concerns - the portion relating to the establishment of academic
programs belong not to the Senate, but to college curriculum committees;
discussed (Subsequent to approval by the Regents) the outline plans for the
new polytechnic degrees at Crookston; and had a preliminary discussion of
experimental degree programs proposed under the Minnesota Partnership, a
discussion that will carry over into next year.
James Tracy, Chair
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY FOR WOMEN COMMITTEE
Annual Report, 1992-1993
EEOWC met nine times during the 1992-93 academic year. In addition, five
subcommittees were created and met during the year to address the following
issues: (1) Tenure and continuous appointment policy for tenure track faculty
and probationary academic professionals with exceptional care giving
responsibilities; (2) Pay equity; (3) Hiring practices; (4) Spousal
exemptions; and (5) The effect of retrenchment on diversity. EEOWC also
worked on a variety of other matters, including those described below.
"STOPPING THE CLOCK" FOR NEW PARENTS. This year's Committee continued
work on a policy that would permit a new parent to postpone a decision on
tenure or permanent appointment. The Committee presented the most recent
version of the proposed policy to all concerned University committees, the
University Senate, and the Board of Regents. The policy now has been adopted
and has been implemented by the Office of Human Resources.
POLICY FOR CARE GIVING RESPONSIBILITY. In the process of reviewing the
policy to "stop the clock" for new parents, the Senate Consultative Committee
and the Faculty Consultative Committee requested that EEOWC consider expanding
the policy to include tenure track faculty members and probationary academic
professionals with exceptional care giving responsibilities. Therefore, a
subcommittee of EEOWC reviewed policies and operating experiences at other
universities, experiences at the University of Minnesota, and potentially
relevant legislation. Based on this review, EEOWC has finalized a proposal,
which will be presented to the appropriate committees for their review at the
beginning of the 1993-94 academic year.
PAY EQUITY STUDY. A subcommittee was created to determine where new
disparities have arisen between men's and women's salaries at the University
since the pay equity petition settlement. The subcommittee worked with
University personnel to create a mechanism for data analysis. The
subcommittee has presented its initial findings to EEOWC. It will continue
its work during the next academic year.
HIRING PRACTICES STUDY. A subcommittee was created to evaluate annual
hiring practices in each University unit since implementation of the Rajender
Consent Decree. The subcommittee worked to gather the necessary data and to
analyze it to determine the effects of the Rajender Consent Decree and of
post-Rajender hiring practices. The subcommittee has presented its initial
findings to EEOWC and will continue its work during the next academic year.
SPOUSAL EXEMPTIONS. In response to concerns that spousal exemptions were
defeating the goal of gender desegregation, a subcommittee was created to
gather and to analyze data concerning the impact of hires made pursuant to
spousal exemptions since implementation of the Rajender Consent Decree. EEOWC
reviewed the current spousal exemption policy in light of the data and has
made recommendations concerning the policy and its implementation.
EFFECT OF RETRENCHMENT ON DIVERSITY. A subcommittee was formed to gather
and to analyze data concerning the impact of retrenchment on diversity. The
subcommittee had worked to generate the data necessary to make this
determination and will continue its work during the next academic year.
EXCEPTIONAL HIRES. EEOWC reviewed University policies and practices with
respect to exemptions from regular search procedures for (1) exceptional hires
of academic administrators and (2) acting academic administrators. EEOWC
recommended revisions to these policies and has met with University
administrators. Work on these policies will continue during the next academic
year.
Patricia Mullen and Janet Spector, EEOWC's ex officio members, deserve
special thanks for their work on behalf of the Committee. Vickie Courtney,
the Executive Assistant to EEOWC, also deserves special recognition for her
outstanding service. Mariah Snyder, School of Nursing, has been appointed
Chair of EEOWC for the 1993-94 academic year.
Ann M. Burkhart, Chair
FACILITIES MANAGEMENT SUBCOMMITTEE
Annual Report, 1992-1993
This academic year brought several planning issues regarding University
buildings and space cost policies before the Subcommittee.
A thorough review of the Minnesota Facilities Model (1992 Revision)
resulted in a committee report which both praised the model as a tool for the
management of University space and criticized it for its lack of vision for
the campuses into the year 2000.
The committee monitored the progress on the steam plan renovation and the
clean coal technology grant which ultimately failed to be granted by the
Department of Energy. Campus safety, environmental health, deferred
maintenance and campus master planning issues and policies were reviewed. The
quality of University work space will need to be a continuing topic for the
subcommittee in 1993-94.
Finally, the group critiqued the OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE OF FACILITIES
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: RECOMMENDED PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES, drafted
by the Brenner Committee. This document essentially outlines who pays for
what in terms of supported and non-supported University space.
Mary Sue Simmons, Chair
FACULTY/SENATE CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE
Annual Report, 1992-1993
Throughout the year, the Faculty/Senate Consultative Committee provided
counsel to University administrators, and to the Board of Regents on an
unusually wide range of issues. Issues receiving significant attention during
FY93 include the following: (1) SUPERCOMPUTING and the establishment of a
special Administration-Faculty Task Force on Supercomputing whose report was
made public during the Spring term; (2) COMPENSATION and the need to establish
an all-University compensation policy that strategically links the mission and
quality envisioned for the University, with pay and benefit levels needed to
attract, retain, reward and motivate the quality and mix of faculty and staff
required to achieve the University's strategic vision (i.e., it probably will
take a "world class" compensation policy to maintain the "world class"
university); (3) the urgent need for a STRATEGIC PLAN and for a strategic
planning process that deals on the governance system's expertise and vision
(e.g., the Senate Committees on Finance & Planning, and Faculty Affairs); (4)
the FY94 & FY95 BIENNIAL BUDGET, and funding prospects for the foreseeable
future; (5) sagging faculty and staff MORALE occasioned by a large number of
management and accountability problems, salary freezes and increasing out-of-
pocket charges, and the absence of a concrete strategic vision needed to guide
priority determinations, resource allocation decisions, and decision-making
processes, particularly with respect to matters of scholarship; (6) GOVERNANCE
and the establishment of a Task Force on Governance that will engage a number
of fundamental issues going to the structure, size and composition of the
University's various units of governance.
The details of the issues and consultative exchanges attached to the
above-referenced points are too lengthy to report in this summary. However,
it is important to observe that F/SCC consultation in these areas continue,
and that the Administration has been working closely with representatives from
the governance system in addressing them.
A list of the actions taken by various governance assemblies is presented
below. Moreover, the F/SCC is particularly pleased to be able to present the
specific dates on which Senate/Assembly actions were taken, and the status of
each of these initiatives. The ability to track the status of governance
actions was occasioned by the enactment and administrative approval of the so-
called "Protocol for Administrative Responses to Senate Actions" (referenced
below). Measures such as the Twin Cities Smoke-Free Policy, University
Grievance Policy, Protocols for Student Evaluation and Peer Review of Faculty
Teaching Contributions, Faculty Workload Policy and Parental Leave, among
others, took a great deal of faculty, staff, and administrative time. The
F/SCC is grateful for all of you who so generously served the University
through work on committees, task forces, and study groups. Special thanks go
to the members of the Senate staff--Vickie Courtney, Gary Engstrand, Linda
Inman and Martha Kvanbeck-- for without their timely and dedicated service,
governance as we know it would surely grind to a halt.
Mario Bognanno, Chair
FINANCE AND PLANNING COMMITTEE
Annual Report, 1992-93
The Senate Committee on Finance and Planning (SCFP) met 27 times during
1992-93 and discussed a wide variety of items. The Committee was joined by
Senior Vice President Erickson at virtually all of its meetings; it welcomed
both his participation as well as the increased quality and timeliness of the
information provided to it. The Committee particularly appreciated the
contributions of Associate Vice President Richard Pfutzenreuter. Senior Vice
President Infante also attended several of the meetings.
Among the major topics the Committee dealt with during the year were
these:
-- The 1993-94 budget. Beginning in the late fall and continuing
through its final meetings in June, the Committee deliberated
extensively about the projected budget for next year. At a number
of meetings the Committee expressed criticism of the principles
guiding the establishment of the budget as well as the specifics
of the budget plan as they became available later during the
academic year. Of particular concern were the salary freeze (for
its likely long-term impact on the quality of the University) and
the across-the-board cuts of 2.64%. With respect to the latter,
the Committee strongly urged the administration that there be no
more cuts of this nature. The Committee urged that the budget be
driven by the planning process, rather than by the need to seek
short-term solutions to financial problems. The Committee also
noted that the magnitude of the cuts forced on the University by
the legislative appropriation dwarfed the funds to be moved around
by the Restructuring and Reallocation plan.
At the close of the year, the Committee met twice with the
President to review the budget proposal and urged that a number of
changes be considered before the budget was adopted.
-- The planning process. The Committee dealt with the planning
process at a significant number of its meetings, and occasionally
expressed frustration at the slow pace of the process. In this
context it considered the mission of the University, the means by
which all appropriate constituents could participate in the
process (rather than having it be a centralized endeavor), and the
critical issues that the process must address prior to the
development of the 1995-97 biennial request. The Committee
repeatedly expressed concern that the slow pace of the planning
process would mean that it could not be effectively integrated
with the 1993-94 budget process or the 1995-97 biennial request.
The Committee also adopted a brief "vision/mission statement"
which it recommended to the President to guide the planning
process; the Committee was informed that the President's Cabinet
had reacted favorably to the statement.
-- CUFS. The Committee met several times with Acting Assistant Vice
President Michael O'Connor to learn of the progress in making CUFS
more usable. Committee members frequently voiced dismay at the
progress in remedying the problems and the approaches being taken
to do so. In particular, the Committee advised Mr. O'Connor that
there must be user participation in any decisions made to make the
system function as it is supposed to. The Committee did, however,
support the expenditure of funds necessary to make the system
work.
-- Tuition. Several discussions were devoted to the relationship
between tuition, financial aid, and the funding of the University,
as well as tuition levels at peer institutions. The Committee
expressed strong opposition to plans, primarily from the Governor,
to increase the percentage of instructional costs funded from
tuition and to concomitantly increase the amount of student
financial aid. The Committee believed such a major change in
public policy required more widespread discussion than it had been
afforded. In this vein, the Committee also considered the
reciprocity agreements with surrounding states and the impact that
the Governor's proposal would have on the competitiveness of the
University in attracting students.
The Committee was also chagrined (as was the administration) to
learn late in the year of the unexpected tuition shortfall and its
severely negative impact on the 1993-94 budget.
The Committee also took exception to the adoption of a resolution
by the Board of Regents, without consultation with the faculty and
staff governance system, proposing to limit tuition increases.
The Committee was later satisfied when both the Board of Regents
and the administration affirmed that consultation on such actions
should have occurred.
-- The Capital Budget and Budgeting Process. The Committee was
informed of, and generally approved, proposals to regularize the
capital budgeting process. Late in the year, the Committee also
reviewed the proposed capital budget; it expressed reservations
when the administration proposed to seek funding only for
facilities (the archives and the new Carlson School) which would
not require that the University pay the one-third debt service now
required for capital projects. Relatedly, and a subject on which
the Committee heard from Associate Vice President Roger Paschke,
the Committee was informed about the debt capacity of the
University and the effect on its ability to issue bonds for
capital construction.
-- The Minnesota Facilities Model. The Committee devoted three
meetings to a discussion of the revision of the Model and the
issues associated with identification of the costs of space. A
report on the Model was received from the Subcommittee on
Facilities Management; the Committee endorsed the recommendations
for changes in the Model proposed by the Subcommittee.
Other issues the Committee took up included the following:
-- The Minnesota Sea Grant College, and the proposed change in the
location of the Director's office to Duluth. The Committee heard
discussion, including comments from Vice President Petersen and
Dr. Spangler.
-- The report from Associate Vice President Brenner on how and what
space and facilities costs would be paid centrally and which would
be paid from department funds; this remains an agenda item for the
Committee for 1993-94.
-- A report from Associate Vice President Brenner on the collection
and distribution of ICR (Research Support Funds). The Committee
also heard from Associate Vice President Potami about setting ICR
rates and the plans afoot to re-set the rates the University is
able to charge, provided that additional information can be
assembled to defend the change in rates. The Committee supported
this plan.
-- A report from Associate Vice President Markham on the economics of
the steam plant proposal.
-- The income and activities of the University of Minnesota Foundation
were reported on by Associate Vice President Fischer.
-- The Committee declined to endorse the proposed increase in parking
rates, after hearing from Messrs. Erickson and Baker about the
reasons for the increases.
Many of these items will continue to be the subject of discussion during
1993-94.
Irwin Rubenstein, Chair
LIBRARY COMMITTEE
Annual Report, 1992-1993
The Senate Library Committee met seven times during the academic year.
William DeJohn, director of MINITEX, met with the committee at its initial
meeting to describe the extent of services provided by MINITEX and answer
questions regarding the service and its circulation statistics. University
Librarian, Tom Shaughnessy presented a draft of the Mission and Vision
Statement for the Twin Cities Libraries at the November meeting and noted the
questions and reactions of the committee members to the drafts.
Members of the committee listened to presentations on copyright issues by
Jill Braaten, Copyright Permissions Center, and Greg Brown, Associate General
Counsel, regarding current copyright issues and how they affect the Libraries.
The pertinent and lively discussion following the presentations extended well
beyond the official end of the meeting.
Additional topics of consideration by the committee included a
demonstration of the Internet followed by discussion on its use and potential
and an initial look at OCLC's FirstSearch data base use statistics in the
fall. At the May meeting the committee returned to FirstSearch for a
demonstration and a report and discussion with Library personnel on the use
statistics and the decision-making process being used to decide whether or not
to continue to offer the service.
Due to letters received from faculty members, the committee reviewed the
Libraries' circulation policies and sanctions and discussed the issue in depth
at several meetings. The policies are being revised and the committee input
is being considered during the revision process. Tom Shaughnessy described
the current space issues, including planning for future archive storage, and
the committee reacted very positively to the plans being considered.
Several members of the committee travelled to the Duluth campus for the
April meeting and met in the UMD library. The agenda of the meeting included
a demonstration of the new on-line library catalog at Duluth and updates from
all the coordinate campus libraries (Duluth, Morris, Crookston).
The committee members recognized the financial restraints of the
Libraries and sent a letter to that effect to University Administration
supporting a continued level of funding for the Libraries' acquisitions budget
and to offset the spiralling costs of serials.
Presentations by University Librarian, Tom Shaughnessy and a number of
staff members from the Libraries, and participation by those members in
follow-up discussions was greatly appreciated by the committee members.
Kay Cooper, Chair
RESEARCH COMMITTEE
Annual Report, 1992-1993
The Committee was involved with a wide range of research-related issues
during the 1992-1993 academic year. The committee reviewed and approved
changes to the Policies and Procedures on Academic Misconduct. Professor Al
Yonas presented the changes to the Senate on behalf of the committee; the
changes were approved by the Senate. The committee met with Dr. Fay Thompson,
Director of Environmental Safety and Health, to review proposed changes in the
standards for training for laboratory employees who work with hazardous
chemicals. The committee monitored current developments on the issues of the
setting of Indirect Cost Recovery rates and the use of ICR funds within the
University. The committee met with Mr. Richard Bianco of the Animal Care
Committee to review the activities of that Committee. The committee reviewed
University policy regarding access to research data in light of an incident
involving a request for raw data from ongoing research under the Minnesota
Data Practices Act. The committee encouraged the administration to take a
strong position supporting the privacy of research data prior to publication.
The committee met with Ms. Moria Keene of the Human Subjects Committee to
review the activities of that committee. The committee met with Dr. Mark
Brenner, Associate Vice-President for Research, to review Guidelines on
University-Wide Research Centers. The committee met with Dr. William Jacott,
Assistant Vice-President for Health Sciences, and Dr. Pat Manning, Director of
Research Animal Resources, to review proposed modifications in the Policy and
Procedures for Animal Care Usage. The committee met with Dr. Michael
Flickinger, Chair of the Biological Process Technology Institute, and Mr.
James Lauer, Biosafety Office of the Dept. of Environmental Health and Safety,
to review proposed changes in the university Policy on Hazardous Biological
Materials Controls. The committee addressed the issue of climate for research
and support for research activities throughout the university, with particular
attention to programs that do not undergo periodic review by the Graduate
School. The committee endorsed periodic review of all academic programs as
mechanism for insuring adequate attention to all aspects of the teaching,
research, and service missions of the university. I wish to express my
appreciation to all of the members and ex-officio members of the committee for
their efforts throughout the year.
Paul R. Sackett, Chair
SOCIAL CONCERNS COMMITTEE
Annual Report, 1992-1993
The Social Concerns Committee met eight times in 1992-93. The major
issues considered by the Committee were: 1) The recommendations from the
Select Committee on Gay, Lesibian and Bisexual Concerns. The Select Committee
was appointed in the fall of 1990 to investigate "the campus climate as
experienced by lesbians, gays and bisexuals within the University of
Minnesota." Throughout 1991-92 the Committee received reports from the Select
Committee since that committee offiacially reported to us. During 1992-93,
the Select Committee produced an Interim Report which included five
recommendations. The Committee took action on three of the recommendations,
unanimously supporting them. Two of the recommendations were referred to
other governance committees. 2) Bovine Growth Hormone research (BGH). A
motion asking that the University of Minnesota discontinue its research, field
trials, promotion and all other activities that pertain to Bovin Growth
Hormone was forwarded to the Social Concerns Committeee form the Faculty
Consultative Committee. This motion was forwarded to the FCC by a CLA
student. The Committee reviewed and heard presentations, both the pros and
the cons, on BGH. A working committee was formed to work over the summer on a
resolution relative to the bGH issue. The Committee agreed that this item
would by carried forward for the next year. 3) A working committee was
formed to discuss the consideration of a recommendation that the University
recommend to its financial managers that they divest their holdings of tobacco
stocks. The committee met with Roger Paschke, Associate Vice President for
Asset Management would be considered by the Board of Regents. The committee
plans to continue its work in 1993-94. 4) The Social Concerns Committee
unanimously endorsed the draft Smoke-Free Policy. 5) As part of the
Committee's regualr work, it advised the Office of the Vice President for
Finance and Operation with regard to shareholder resolutions filed with
corporations in which we hold stock. Committee volunteers looked at
background materials and discussed a seried of issues including: resolutions
regarding arms sales to South Africa and other countries; the McBride
Principles regarding coroporate activities in Northern Ireland; equal
employment opportunity; marketing of tobacco products and smoking policies;
and, the Ceres Principles regarding corporate activities that affect the
environment. The University followed the advice of the Committee in casting
or withholding its proxies on these issues. Special thanks is extended to
Marjorie Cowmeadow, Chair of Select Committee and to Roger Paschke, Associate
Vice President for Finance and Operation, for their assistance to the
Committee
Frank Wood, Chair
STUDENT AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
Annual Report, 1992-93
During 1992-93 the Committee approved revisions in the constitution of
the Board of Student Publications, including its name change to the Minnesota
Daily Board of Directors; approved changes in the hearing procedures of the
Campus Committee on Student Behavior; supported the 1992-93 Boynton Health
Service fee request and reaffirmed the previously made decision to commit $2.1
million of reserve funding for remodeling; approved revisions in the language
of the Student Conduct Code; and endorsed the proposed Twin Cities Campus
smoke-free policy.
Members also heard reports on activities and accomplishments of the
Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs and of the newly formed
Student Health Advisory Committee and also on the preliminary findings and
recommendations of the Task Force on Student Employment. Additional topics
discussed included multiple problems some students encounter with notification
and receipt of financial aid, security at some campus events, and how academic
advisors are selected and trained. Next year's Committee will examine these
topics further and will suggest priorities among the Student Employee Task
Force final recommendations.
Thomas Soulen, Chair
STUDENT SENATE CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE (SSCC)
Annual Report, 1992-93
The Student Senate Consultative Committee met sixteen times during the
course of the 1992-93 academic year. The committee was composed of Jamie
Hodgson (res. February 1993), Paul Carrier (app. February 1993) of Crookston,
Dan Sinclair and Love Goel (Vice Chair of the Student Senate) of Duluth, Sonja
Hoheisel (Vice Chair-SSCC), and Tom Lopez (Chair of the Student Senate) of
Morris. David Dahlgren, Derek Jensen, Malaika McKee (res. March 1993), Phoung
Phan (app. March 1993) Anne Sales, Tess Shier, and P. Denise Tolbert, (Chair-
SSCC) of the Twin Cities; June Nobbe (Consultant-SSCC); and Linda Inman
(Secretary-SSCC). The committee was an impressive group full of creativity
and a sincere desire to goals and outcomes in the best interest of the
University of Minnesota. I extend a personal thank you to each of them for
their confidence in my leadership and for all of their fine work during the
course of the year.
The committee met to consider, discuss and act on a variety wide ranging
issues relating to the University Community as a whole Several issues of note
are the following:
* The SSCC established a subcommittee called the "STUDENT SENATE
OPERATING PROCEDURES WORKING GROUP" . The SSCC charged the subcommittee with
developing a set operating procedures by which Student Senate can govern
itself by without conflict to the University Senate Constitution, and to
distinguish their role and responsibilities in relation to the University
Senate. The operating procedures was adopted by the Student Senate on May 20,
1993.
* The SSCC worked with the Academic Staff Advisory Committee to
ensure their representation on the University Senate. Their representation
was approved by the University Senate unanimously on April 1, 1993.
* The SSCC worked with the Student Committee on Committees to ensure a
proper ratio of proportional representation on the University Senate. The
Senate Consultative Committee (SCC) felt a review of the governance structure
as a whole was necessary, and established the TASK FORCE ON UNIVERSITY
GOVERNANCE to address and make recommendations on governance questions.
* The SSCC worked with Student members of the Senate Committee for
Educational Policy (SCEP) by distributing surveys to the various campus
assemblies regarding the establishment of a system-wide plus-minus grading
system. Those surveys were the determining factor in SCEP's decision not to
proceed forward with the idea.
* The SSCC received the final recommendations of the Select Committee
on Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Concerns with regard to Domestic Partnership.
The committee discussed the issue at some length, and while there was not
complete consensus, the committee forwarded our approval of the recommendation
to the SCC. The University Senate moved to adopt the recommendation on
Domestic Partnership and forwarded it to the Board of Regents for review and
approval.
* The SSCC established the BIENNIAL BUDGET RESOLUTION which was
adopted by campus assemblies, the Student Senate, the Student Representatives
to the Board of Regents, and the Board of Regents. The resolution called for
the Board of Regents to hold tuition to 3.5% or roughly the rate of inflation.
The resolution that was finally passed by the Board of Regents stated that
they would "make every serious effort to hold tuition increases to 3.5% or
roughly the rate of inflation." The actual result was a 5.2% increase for
students: average increase for undergraduates on all campuses 3.0% general
increases, and the 2.2% directed at "quality increases."
* The SSCC worked closely with Central Administration to establish a
set of guidelines with regard to student participation on Search Committees.
These guidelines are published and updated each year by the committee. The
SCC developed "Protocols to Search Committees" in order to clarify
composition and role of Search committees with regard to positions sought to
be filled.
The report could go on with a further listing of issues that were
discussed with the Senate Consultative Committee (SCC), but are assured they
will be covered in the SCC's Annual Report and need not be repeated here.
Many thanks go to all the guests who were able to attend our meetings,
President Nils Hasselmo, Provost Ettore Infante, Senior Vice President for
Finance and Operations Robert Erickson, Chair of the Student Representatives
to the Board of Regents Rachel Paulose, UMC Student Body President Rebecca
Fritel, UMD Student Body President Eric Maki, UMM Student Body President Eric
Carter, MSA-TC Student Body President Ronald Merckling, Student Committee on
Committees (ConC) chair Sandra Pham, Assistant to the President Kathleen
O'Brien, Senate Consultative Committee (SCC) chair Judith Garrard, Clerk of
the Senate Martha Kvanbeck, MSA Volunteer Coordinator Ralph Leonard,
Legislative Director Martin Conroy, Associate Vice President of Facilities
Management Sue Markam, Associate Vice President Josie Johnson, Assistant
Provost Janet Spector, Associate Vice President Robert Kvavik, Academic Staff
Advisory Committee chair Professor Earl Nolting, and Associate to the Vice
President for Ag, Forestry, & Home Econics Jeanne Markell. A special thank
you to President Nils Hasselmo for the incredible commitment he made to the
SSCC in attending our meetings on a regular basis.
Special thanks go the Staff who keeps this University running on a day-
to-day basis. The SSCC wishes to express their heartfelt appreciation to the
following individuals for without whose help we would not have been as
effective: Linda Inman, Martha Kvanbeck, Vickie Courtney, and Gary Engstrand
of the University Senate Office; Karen Benson, Executive Assistant,
President's Office; Carol Balthazar, Executive Assistant, Academic Affairs;
Florence Funk, Assistant to the Provost; Sylvia Brown, Executive Assistant,
Student Affairs; Barbara Muesing, Executive Director, Board of Regents; Kay
Fuecker, Principal Secretary, Board of Regents; and Diane Gihl, Executive
Secretary, Student Affairs.
A personal and sincere thank you goes to June Nobbe. Her wise counsel
has been immeasurable to the members of the committee and will greatly benefit
each of us well beyond our years at the University of Minnesota.
P. Denise Tolbert, Chair
XVIII. OLD BUSINESS
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XIX. NEW BUSINESS
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XX. TRIBUTE TO DECEASED MEMBERS OF THE UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY
FACULTY
Walter L. Baeumler
1928-1993
Walter L. Baeumler, 65, Professor of Sociology for 28 years at the
University of Minnesota-Duluth, died Friday, June 18, 1993, in his home.
Professor Baeumler will be sadly missed by his colleagues at the University of
Minnesota as well as by the thousands of students he taught and mentored.
Walter's life was devoted to the issues of international peace and
justice which was reflected in his academic work and his commitment to
community service. His background as a German immigrant, induction into the
German army at 16, surviving capture and escape from a Russian POW camp, and
his work in settlement house in Bremen allowed him a rich reserve of insight
into the complex phenomena of international relations.
Walter immigrated to Omaha, Nebraska in 1955 where he pursued a Bachelors
and a Masters degree in Sociology and the University of Nebraska-Omaha while
continuing his work in a settlement house in Omaha. He went on to receive his
Doctorate in Sociology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He began his
career as a sociologist teaching at Dana College in Vlair, Nebraska before
coming to the University of Minnesota-Duluth in 1965. He was the driving
force in creating the Sociology/Anthropology Department at UMD.
Walter was active throughout his career in creating opportunities for the
utilization of the sociological perspective to gain insight into social
problems. He consistently bridged the gaps between the theoretical and the
practical through his active life in the local and international communities.
He served on the board of the United Nations Duluth Chapter and played a key
role in establishing the Royal D. Alworth, Jr. Institute for International
Studies. Because the Holocaust was one of the most extreme abuses of human
justice, Walter dedicated his life to a continuing awareness of the travesty.
He initiated an annual Holocaust Commemorative Series at UMD. He taught
classes on the subject even though it was personally a difficult topic for
him.
Professor Baeumler will be best remembered as an insightful and skilled
teacher, someone who reached out to students and touched them intellectually,
personally, and with compassion. We are all fortunate to have been able to
work with him and learn from him.
Edwin Emery
1914-1993
Edwin Emery, internationally known press historian, died of leukemia at
the Midwest Community Hospice after a brief illness. He was 79.
Author or editor of 11 books, Emery taught in the University of
Minnesota's School of Journalism and Mass Communication for 39 years and in
six foreign countries. He was best known for his book, THE PRESS AND AMERICA,
regarded as the leading work in the mass media history field. It has been
translated into Chinese, Spanish, French and Portuguese.
Emery's prolific scholarship won him five national journalism research
awards, two from the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), two from the
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) and one
from the American Journalism Historians Association (AJHA). He was a
Guggenheim Fellow in Europe and a Fulbright visiting lecturer in Afghanistan.
Popular among teaching colleagues, Emery was elected president of the
AEJMC in 1975 after serving for 9 years as editor of its internationally-
circulated research journal, JOURNALISM QUARTERLY. He was a consultant to the
American Newspaper Publishers Association, the United States Information
Agency, UNESCO and book publishers.
His visiting faculty invitations came from the Institute of Journalism in
Beijing, Nanyang University of Singapore, National Changchi University in
Taipai, the University of Navarra in Pomplona, Spain, and the University of
Moscow. As part of his worldwide travels he gave lectures for the USIA in 20
Asian and European nations.
Born on a Chino, CA, ranch on May 14, 1914, Emery received his B.A.
degree in 1935 and Ph.D. in 1943, both in history, at the University of
California, Berkeley. He was editor of the student paper, the DAILY
CALIFORNIAN, and was a reporter for the SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER.
During World War II he was a desk editor and bureau manager for the
United Press in San Francisco, handling some of the Pacific Theater's most
dramatic stories, including the invasion of Iwo Jima and the resignation of
Japanese prime minister Togo. He went to Minnesota in 1945 where he began his
diverse publishing career.
There he eventually became mentor for dozens of Ph.D. candidates and
assisted them in finding media history teaching positions across the United
States. One of his delights was to supervise the study of foreign students
whom he met overseas and encouraged to come to Minnesota. Active in campus
affairs, he was director of the School's graduate studies, chairman of the
Senate Committee on Student Affairs, and a member of the All-College Council
in Liberal Arts.
While history was his major area, Emery taught reporting and opinion
writing and spent several summers as an editorial writer for the St. Paul
Pioneer Press. He chaired the Upper Midwest News Executive Conference, was
president of the Minnesota Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America,
and was campus advisor of Phi Beta Kappa.
Nationally he was involved with the National Conference of Editorial
Writers, the American Society of Newspaper Editors, the Associated Press
Managing Editors Association, and the Society of Professional Journalists,
which honored him with its outstanding university professor award, he advised
the Minnesota SPJ student chapter for three decades.
Other awards included a Social Science Research Council grant, a
distinguished fellowship of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and the
Special Chair of Taiwan's National Science Council.
First published in 1954, THE PRESS AND AMERICA became a joint enterprise
in 1978 between Emery and his son, Michael, also a trained historian, and
former press association reporter. A journalism professor at California State
University, Northridge, he has been a freelance foreign correspondent. The
book's 7th edition appeared in 1992.
Beginning in 1960, Emery teamed with Warren K. Agee and Philip H. Ault as
co-authors of Introduction to MASS COMMUNICATIONS, the pioneering textbook in
the mass communications field. The 11th edition is scheduled for publication
in October, a record for such a book.
Emery's doctoral thesis, HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS
ASSOCIATION, was published by the University of Minnesota Press in 1950 and
won the first of his research awards. His other books included collections of
newspaper front pages, reporting books, and books of media readings.
In their round-the-world travels the gregarious Emery and his wife, Mary,
routinely met clusters of former students both from Minnesota and various
overseas campuses. He was in regular correspondence with journalism educators
and students worldwide. For one example, in 1985, in Hong Kong the Emerys
Banqueted with eight holders of Minnesota graduate degrees and in Singapore
met with eight members of a 1980 honors seminar taught there.
Besides his wife, Mary McNevin Emery of Minneapolis, and son Michael of
Woodland Hills, CA, he is survived by two daughters, Laurel Emery of Tustin,
CA, and Alison Emery of Minneapolis, and three granddaughters, Maria Emery of
Gresham, OR, Andrea Scott of Thousand Oaks, CA, and Nicollette Emery of Santa
Monica, CA.
George S. Hage
1914-1993
George S. Hage, professor emeritus of Journalism and American Studies at
the University of Minnesota, died Friday, October 29, at Abbott Northwestern
Hospital, Minneapolis, of cancer after a lengthy illness. He was 78.
In his 37 years on the University faculty, Hage taught both in the School
of Journalism and Mass Communication and in the American Studies Program. In
1983, the year he retired from full-time teaching, Hage was presented a
Distinguished Teacher Award from the College of Liberal Arts-University
College Alumni Society. The same year he was honored by the Distinguished
Teaching in Journalism Award of the national Society of Professional
Journalists. In May, `993, he became one of the first group of inductees into
the Minnesota Daily Hall of Distinction.
During the 1976-77 school year Hage was acting chairman of the American
Studies Program. He served five terms on the American Studies Executive
Committee and two terms on the University Senate.
Off-campus, Hage's activities reflected the wide range of his interests.
He served on the Minneapolis Planning Commission from 1963 to 1971, and two
terms on the board of trustees of Actors Theatre of St. Paul, one of them as
president.
As co-chairman of a citizens group, the Committee for Integrated
Education, Hage was one of the plaintiffs, on behalf of his son David, in a
class action lawsuit against the Minneapolis School Board in 1971 that
resulted in federal court-ordered desegregation of the Minneapolis schools.
Hage was senior author of the 1976 journalism textbook, NEW STRATEGIES
FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS REPORTING, now in its second edition. He also wrote
NEWSPAPERS ON THE MINNESOTA FRONTIER, 1849-1860, published by the Minnesota
Historical Society in 1967; and he edited a history of the Minnesota Newspaper
Association, 125 YEARS OF SERVICE TO THE STATE, ITS PEOPLE AND TO JOURNALISM,
published by the Association in 1992 to observe its 125th anniversary.
Born November 4, 1914, in Madelia, Minnesota, Hage remained active in
professional journalism throughout his career. In 1981 he was the writing
coach for the Rochester (MN) POST-BULLETIN. For six months in 1980 he was
acting readers' representative at the Minneapolis TRIBUNE and when the
Newspaper Guild struck the paper, he walked the picket line. He was an
editorial writer at the Minneapolis STAR during the summers of 1976-78, and a
copy editor at the Minneapolis TRIBUNE during the summers of 1973-75.
He was an editorial intern at the SATURDAY EVENING POST in the summer of
1958 and published there as well. Other publishers of Hage's work include
JOURNALISM QUARTERLY and MINNESOTA HISTORY.
Hage's interest in the practice of journalism was reflected in his early
career. After receiving his Bachelor of Arts in journalism from the
University of Minnesota in 1937, Hage spent two years as a reporter at the
Columbus (OH) CITIZEN, then three as the newspaper's music critic and
entertainment writer.
After World War II service of four years in the Ninth Air Force, he
returned to the University of Minnesota to teach in its journalism school and
undertake graduate work. He earned his Master of Arts in 1950 with a major in
journalism and a minor in political science. His Ph.D. in 1956 was in
American Studies.
Hage's versatility as a professor was evident in the breadth of
journalism courses he taught: basic reporting, public affairs reporting,
literary aspects of journalism, magazine writing, editing and production, and
interpretive reporting.
He held a number of positions within the School of Journalism and Mass
Communication, among them head of the news-editorial sequence and director of
the Minnesota Journalism Center. He was the school's representative on the
University's Board of Student Publications for many years and also served as
advisor to the Minnesota DAILY.
His University committee appointments included a number of terms on the
Senate Committee on Student Affairs, the American Studies Graduate Committee
and advisor to Kappa Tau Alpha (the scholarly honorary society in journalism)
and the student chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. Volunteer
jobs in his retirement included executive secretary of the Minnesota
Conference of American Association of University Professors and a term on the
original advisory board of the Center for Arts Criticism. Another part-time
job was director of the Minnesota Journalism Center, the conference-planning
arm of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
He is survived by his wife, Anne; sons Phillip, and spouse Kathleen
Franzen, of St. Paul, and David, and spouse Therese Sexe, of Washington D.C.,
and a daughter Elizabeth Hage, and spouse Frank Isaaks, of Minneapolis, and
two grandchildren.
Memorials preferred to the Minnesota Daily Alumni Association or the
donor's choice.
E. Adamson Hoebel
1906-1993
E. Adamson Hoebel, Regents' Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the
University of Minnesota and one of America's pre-eminent authorities on pre-
literate societies, died Friday morning (July 23) at his home in St. Paul. He
was 86.
Born in Madison, WI, in 1906, Hoebel joined the University in 1954 as
professor and chair of the anthropology department. He was in the first group
of faculty members to receive the title of Regents' Professor, the
University's highest faculty distinction, in 1966.
Hoebel's pursuits ranged from American Indian tribes to East-West
relations and the evolution of law and culture. His book, ANTHROPOLOGY: THE
STUDY OF MAN (1949) was updated five times and used for decades in university
classrooms nationwide. He was among the first scholars to insist-over his own
mentor's objections-that pre-literate societies such as the American plains
Indians had systems of legal controls worthy of documenting. Two of his
books, THE CHEYENNE WAY (1941) and THE LAW OF PRIMITIVE MAN (1949), are
considered classics and used increasingly by legal scholars today.
Hoebel received his bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin,
his master's from New York University (NYU) and his doctoral degree from
Columbia University. Before coming to the University, Hoebel served on the
NYU faculty from 1929 to 1948 and as chair of the anthropology department at
the University of Utah from 1948 to 1954.
Upon his retirement in 1972, Hoebel served as adjunct law professor at
the university and as visiting law and anthropology professor at the
University of Arizona, and wrote three books.
Hoebel's first wife, Frances died in 1962. He is survived by his second
wife of 30 years, Irene; son Bradley, a Princeton psychology professor; and
five grandchildren.
Robert Lindsay
1925-1993
Robert Lindsay, University of Minnesota Professor Emeritus of Mass
Communication and International Relations, died September 26, in St. Paul. He
was 68.
He joined the University faculty in 1957 and retired in 1986.
A specialist in the role of mass communication in world affairs and Third
World development, Professor Lindsay for many years headed the University
School of Journalism and Mass Communication's program in international
communication. He also taught broadcast journalism and news reporting
courses.
In 1968-69 he served in the Paris headquarters of the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization as head of satellite
communications policy and projects.
He began his academic career on the faculty of the School of Journalism,
University of Wisconsin-Madison.
He was a frequent speaker on global journalism and broadcasting issues at
conferences throughout the world. In recent years he was a consultant on
communication projects for multinational companies, governments and
universities.
Professor Lindsay published numerous articles and research reports in
professional and academic journals, in several languages, and in books on
international communication, broadcasting and public relations. His book,
This High Name, a history of military public relations, was published by the
University of Wisconsin Press in 1956.
He was an officer and member of more than a score of international
scholarly and mass media organizations and of the London, Manila and Minnesota
Press Clubs. He was listed in the WHO'S WHO IN THE WORLD, WHO'S WHO IN
INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION and WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA.
He was for several years a news director and reporter for radio and
television stations in Wisconsin. He won the Ariel Award of the Twin Cities
Citizens Committee on Public Education in 1960 for his current affairs program
on KTCA-TV.
Born in Durham, NC, he attended private and public schools in
Massachusetts and Cambridge, MA, High and Latin School. He earned bachelor's
and master's degrees in literature, political science and journalism at the
University of Wisconsin and the doctor of philosophy degree at the University
of Minnesota in 1965. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps, 1941-45, with the
First Marine Division in the Pacific theater of operations and was recalled to
active duty during the Korean War, 1950-52. He retired as a captain in the
Marine Corps Reserve in 1962. He was a member of the Disabled American
Veterans.
He is survived by his widow, the former Mary Anne Phillips; son, Phillips
S., Minneapolis; daughter, Nancy B. (Mrs. Michael Seldonridge), Madison, WI;
and brothers Albert A., Washington, D.C., and Roger S., Noblesville, IN.
Vernal S. Packard
1930-1993
Vernal S. Packard, Jr., Professor Emeritus and Extension Specialist in
Dairy Technology, died of cancer on September 28, 1993. He had been on the
faculty of the University of Minnesota for 36 years, retiring from the
Department of Food Science and Nutrition on June 30, 1992.
Dr. Packard earned a Ph.D. in Dairy Technology from the University of
Minnesota in 1960. As a faculty member, he conducted continuing education
programs for dairy and food plant management, production and field personnel,
dairy farmers, and the general public. His specialty was milk analysis and
quality evaluation: his programs emphasized new and emerging production and
processing technologies; analytical and quality control procedures; product
composition, wholesomeness, nutrition, and safety; and regulations, standards,
and labeling.
He wrote two books and numerous research papers and Extension bulletins.
He was a member of the International Association of Milk, Food, and
Environmental Sanitarians, American Dairy Science Association (member of the
editorial board, JOURNAL OF DAIRY SCIENCE), Institute of Food, Technologists,
Association of Official Analytical Chemists, Minnesota Sanitarians
Association, Minnesota Dairy Science and Technology Association, Sigma Xi, and
Gamma Sigma Delta.
Dr. Packard is survived by his wife, Kathryn; two sons--William (and his
wife, Patricia) and Stephen; three daughters--Mary ( and her husband, Wyman
Collier), Susan, and Amy; one grandchild, his mother, and a sister.
William E. Pruitt
1919-1993
William Pruitt was born on May 11, 1934, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He
attended Classen High School in Oklahoma City and graduated in 1951. He
received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Oklahoma State University.
There he met Parsala Kleinhofs in his freshman year. They were married in
1956 after Bill finished his master's degree in statistics and Parsala
completed hers in mathematics.
Bill went to Stanford on a National Science Foundation Fellowship for
graduate studies in statistics. After finishing his Ph.D. in 1960 he joined
the University of Minnesota. Except for a year in the U.S. Army and three
years of sabbatical leaves, he did his teaching and research in probability
theory at Minnesota. He was promoted to Full Professor in the School of
Mathematics in 1970. Although Bill's research interests were quite diverse,
he is best known for making definitive contributions to the theory of Levy
processes and sums of independent random variables. He wrote some fifty
mathematical articles and produce several Ph.D. students who have subsequently
continued to make noteworthy contributions to the field. He was a Special
Invited Speaker at two meetings of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
(the papers based on these lectures appeared in the Annals of Probability in
1981 and 1990). Bill also served on the Editorial Board of the Annals of
Probability.
As a colleague and a teacher Bill set a remarkable example. He
collaborated extensively with many colleagues, students and friends of
mathematical research, and always provided very penetrating insight into the
problems considered. Bill was a powerful mathematician who relished
challenging mathematical problems. He was an excellent lecturer, and as a
teacher always demanded a lot of his students and in return gave a lot.
Bill passed away on July 25, 1993, at the age of 59 after a long battle
with leukemia. He will always be remembered with deep respect and affection
by his colleagues and friends.
Bill is survived by his wife Parsala, sons Ron and Robert, daughter Lisa
Fosdick, his mother Bertha Pruitt, and a sister Jo Lee Wilsher.
Patarasp R. Sethna
1923-1993
Professor Patarasp (Pat) R. Sethna of the Department of Aerospace
Engineering and Mechanics died in the University of Minnesota Hospital on
November 4, 1993, after a year long struggle with cancer. Pat Sethna was born
in Bombay, India, on May 23, 1923. In 1946, he received his bachelor's degree
in engineering from the University of Bombay. An exceptional student, he
ranked first, university-wide, in the final exam and was awarded the
University's Rajadyakshat Foal Medal in the field of mechanics. The Indian
government granted him a full fellowship to study abroad for a master's
degree, with a guaranteed job as a senior member of the Indian Civil Service
upon his return. Fortunately, Pat's intellect and abilities drew him into
academia.
Although he had been admitted to universities in Zurich and Lausanne, and
to the London Imperial College, Pat Sethna had a strong desire to come to
study in the United States, the land of Lincoln and Jefferson. He received a
fellowship to attend the University of Michigan, where he was awarded the
M.S.E. and Ph.D. in Mechanics. Immediately following completion of his Ph.D.
in 1953, Pat joined Bendix Aviation Corporation's research laboratories in
Detroit. There he worked for three years on practical problems of automobile
dynamics research which earned him a patent. Pat's primary interest, however,
was an academic career, and in 1956 he accepted a position as Assistant
Professor at the University of Minnesota.
Pat was promoted to Associate Professor and was awarded tenure in three
years and was promoted to Full Professor in seven years. In 1966, he was
appointed Head of the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics. He
had an outstanding record of twenty-six years of dedicated service to the
Department, the Institute of Technology, and the University. His strong
leadership by example contributed significantly to the vision and standards of
the academic program. In his Department, Pat maintained an atmosphere of
collegiality and mutual respect which contributed in large measure to the
success of the Department in both teaching and research. As Department Head,
Pat was dedicated to the recruitment and retention of superior faculty
members. He took great pride in his recent success in recruiting ten new
faculty members over a four-year period, including two women with outstanding
academic credentials. In the past two years, three of these junior faculty
members have been awarded McKnight-Land Grant Professorships, and one of these
also received a Packard Fellowship. In recognition for his service to the
Institute of Technology, Pat was awarded the George Taylor Award for Service
in 1993.
Pat's administrative work did not diminish his research and teaching
accomplishments. During his long and illustrious research career, he
continually maintained the utmost quality and scientific rigor in all his
scientific endeavors. He was one of the world's leading experts in the field
of nonlinear dynamical systems for almost four decades and received many
honors and awards for his work in this area. These honors include election to
Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Fellow of the American
Academy of Mechanics, and Associate Fellow of the American Institute of
Aeronautics and Astronautics. Pat maintained a well-funded research program
with grants from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and from the
National Science Foundation. Through his collaborative research efforts with
world-renowned engineers and mathematicians, he brought strong new
mathematical techniques to physical and engineering problems in the area of
dynamical systems. He advised many Ph.D. students who have themselves been
successful in both academia and industry. Pat taught courses ranging from the
introductory undergraduate to the advanced graduate level. His ability to
take the most difficult and sophisticated of mathematical ideas and to
translate them into a language easily understood and appreciated by the
dynamics community was one of his rare gifts. In recognition of his
contributions to the field of dynamical systems a recent issue of the journal
Nonlinear Dynamics was dedicated to Pat.
Remaining at the forefront of research in his field, Pat spent his
sabbatical leave in 1991-92 visiting the University of Michigan, the
California Institute of Technology, and the University of Pisa, Italy. He was
an invited speaker at universities, international workshops, and conferences
in India, Austria, Italy and Scotland. It was especially rewarding for him to
be able to return to India, after an absence of a great many years.
During Pat's student days at Ann Arbor, he met and married Shirley Sue
Smith. Pat and