1994-95 UNIVERSITY
OF MINNESOTA No.
2
UNIVERSITY
SENATE MINUTES
FACULTY
SENATE MINUTES
STUDENT
SENATE MINUTES
NOVEMBER
3, 1994
The
second meeting of the University Senate for 1994-95 was convened in 25 Law
Building, Minneapolis campus, on Thursday, November 3, 1994, at 2:00 p.m. Coordinate campuses were linked by
telephone. Checking or signing the
roll as present were 115 voting faculty/academic professional members, 34
voting student members, 3 ex officio members, and 2 nonmembers. President Nils Hasselmo presided.
I. ORIENTATION
Professor
John Adams, Chair, Senate Consultative Committee, welcomed senators to the
first full Senate meeting for the year and introduced each of the 20 Senate and
Assembly committee chairs. Most
Senate business, he said, is initiated and developed within the committees and
he encouraged senators to contact chairs regarding issues they are working
on. Senators were then provided
with a listing of the major agenda items for 1994-95 for each of the committees
along with the appropriate contact person.
II. MEETING SCHEDULE
Information
Other
1994-95 meetings of the University Senate are scheduled as follows:
Thursday,
February 16, 1995
Thursday,
April 20, 1995
Thursday,
May 18, 1995
III.
ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSE TO SENATE ACTIONS
Information
A. Policy
Relating to the Use of Human Subjects in Research
Approved
by: the
University Senate on May 19, 1994
the
Administration on May 24, 1994
the
Board of Regents on July 10, 1994
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CONSENT
AGENDA
Action
Agenda
items IV. through VI. 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.
IV.
MINUTES FOR MAY 19, 1994
V.
SENATE OFFICERS
The
chair of the University Senate recommends the following officers for 1994-95:
Parliamentarian--Karen
Brown
Abstractor
and Clerk--Martha Kvanbeck
VI.
COMMITTEE ON COMMITTEES
Committees
of the Senate, 1994-95
COMPUTING AND INFORMATION
SYSTEMS - Faculty/PA: David Weiss (chair), Thomas Burk , Stephen Campbell, Thomas Hoffmann,
James Olson, Marcia Pankake, George Wilcox, Tzvee Zahavy. Students: Donald Ness, Paul Pazandak. Ex Officio: Steve Cawley, Donald Riley.
DISABILITIES ISSUES -
Faculty/PA: Judith Gaston (chair), Gary
Birnbaum, Nancy Eustis, Richard Hanson, Lance Johnson, Stephen Kanee, Marie
Knowlton, Harold Levy, Ken Myers, Glenn Scudder. Civil Service: Tim
McCluske, Ruanne Pearson. Students: Leigh Clemons. Ex Officio: Sue Kroeger, Paul Tschida.
EDUCATIONAL POLICY - Faculty/PA: Kenneth Heller (chair), Anita Cholewa, James Cotter,
Elayne Donahue, Megan Gunnar, Robert Johnson, Manuel Kaplan, Laura Koch, Judith Martin,
William Van Essendelft, Gayle Graham Yates. Students: Jeff
Bauer, Rachel Brand, Sara Hornstra, Ryan Nilsen, Darren Walhof. Ex Officio: Darwin Hendel.
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
FOR WOMEN - Faculty : Janet Ahern, Silvia Azar, Ann Burkhart, Wesley Hackett, June LaValleur,
Marcia Odom, Naomi Scheman. Academic
Professionals: Kathryn Sedo (chair), Bev Stewart. Ex Officio: Patricia Mullen, Norma Peterson.
FACILITIES MANAGEMENT
SUBCOMMITTEE - Faculty/PA: Mark Davison (chair), Martin
Gwinup, David Kittelson, Christopher Loring, Roger Martin, Faye Thompson, Mary
Walser. Civil Service: Ginger DeRoiser.
Students: 2 to be named. Ex Officio: Elizabeth Grundner, Clint Hewitt, Don Kelsey, Sue Markham,
Vilis Vikmanis.
FINANCE AND PLANNING -
Faculty/PA: Virginia Gray (chair), Mark
Davison, William Gerberich, Thomas Hoffmann, Karen Karni, Roger Martin, Patrice
Morrow, Doris Rubenstein, Craig Swan, James Van Alstine. Civil Service: Gerald Klement, 1 to be named. Students: Mary
Askelson, Carl Erickson, Ryan Fuller, Anne Sales. Ex Officio: David Berg, Allen Goldman, Roger Paschke, Richard
Pfutzenreuter, Thomas Scott.
LIBRARY - Faculty/PA: Harold Hinds (chair), Frank Akehurst, John Anderson, John
Cogan , Kay Cooper, Ed Cushing, Michael Hancher, Marci Hoffman, Anita Krevans,
David McLaughlin, V. Rama Murthy, Roderick Squires. Students: John
Fahey, Stephanie Hill-Simione, 2 to be named. Ex Officio: Karen
Fischer, Joan Howland, Harold Opgrand, Donald Riley, Thomas Shaughnessy, Bill
Sozansky.
RESEARCH - Faculty/PA: Allen Goldman (chair), Henry Buchwald, Susan Hupp, Jean
Kinsey, Eric Klinger, Jeylan Mortimer, Paul Sackett, Mark Snyder. Civil Service: John Basgen, 2 to be named. Students: Dongli-Su,
2 to be named. Ex Officio: Signe Betsinger, Mark Brenner, Liz Eull, N.L. Gault, Tony
Potomi.
SOCIAL CONCERNS -
Faculty/PA: Barbara Walden (chair), John Dickey, Gayle Foreman, Dorothy Hatsukami, Cleon Melsa, Gary
Thomas, Frank Wood. Civil
Service: Sharon Day, Ellen Stewart, 1 to be
named. Alumni: Georgiann Errigo, Julie Johnson, Priscilla Nauer. Students: Brenda Ellingboe, Amy Siqueland, Derek Veerkamp, 3 to be
named. Ex Officio: Clint Hewitt, Juan Moreno, Anne Truax.
STUDENT AFFAIRS -
Faculty/PA: Evelyn Franklin (chair), George
Brauer, Glenn Hendricks, Joel Nelson, Guillermo Rojas, Thomas Soulen. Civil Service: Nancy Hugg Wilson.
Alumni: Michael Coyle. Students: Samar
Barakat, Joel Bergstrom, John Buch, Nikki Caillier, Dan Chapman, Jordan
Fineberg, Alison Han, 2 to be named.
Ex Officio: Jack Imholte.
INFORMATION:
ALL-UNIVERSITY HONORS -
Faculty/PA: Eville Gorham (chair), Wilbert
Ahern, Willard Hartup, Alice Larson, Benjamin Liu, Paul Quie. Alumni: Mark Bregmann, Wally Hilke, Steve Kreitz, Barbara Luehmann, Lee
Paulson. Students: Quiana Edwards,
2 to be named. Ex
Officio: Margaret Carlson, Gerald Fischer,
Marcia Fluer, E.
F. Infante.
COMMITTEE ON COMMITTEES -
Faculty/PA: Jean Quam (chair), Ann Burkhart,
W. Andrew Collins, Martin Dworkin, Marcia Eaton, Barbara McGinnis, Cleon Melsa,
Carolyn Williams. Students: Kirk Allison, Lisa Olson, 5 to be named.
CONSULTATIVE - Faculty: John Adams
(chair), Carl Adams (vice chair), Thomas Burk, Sara Evans (winter and
spring quarters), James Gremmels, Roberta Humphreys, Robert Jones, Geoffrey
Maruyama, Harvey Peterson, Michael Steffes, Gerhard Weiss (fall quarter). Students: Rabun Taylor (chair), Derek Jensen, Jason Mork, Don Ness, Linda Pham,
Chad Reichwald, Tim Stanislawski, Barbara Thompson. Ex Officio: Sheila Corcoran-Perry, Lester
Drewes, Virginia Gray, Kenneth Heller.
JEAN
QUAM, Chair
Committee
on Committees
DISCUSSION:
The
Consent Agenda was approved without discussion.
APPROVED
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VII.
U2000 UPDATE
Discussion
President
Hasselmo called senators attention to the several documents recently mailed to
Senate members concerning U2000.
They included an October 14 Planning, Budgeting, and Evaluation
document, a draft document on Critical Measures, U2000 Status Report 5, and a
table outlining the process for the development of additional critical measures.
U2000
is a basic agenda for the development of the University to the year 2000 and
into the 21st century, said President Hasselmo, and the biennial request
recently submitted to the State Finance Department laid out the first set of
major financial strategies for its implementation. It also begins to build greater specificity into the way the
six different agendas that comprise U2000 will be implemented.
Associate
Vice President Robert Kvavik was then introduced to discuss the planning,
budgeting, and evaluation activities.
One of the first goals of the planning team, Professor Kvavik said, was
to set some objectives that would create a much more systematic planning
process than had been used in the past--one that was predictable,
understandable, and simple to use.
It must be a "rolling" process rather than a fixed plan and it
must be cumulative. Furthermore,
he said, there seemed little purpose in forcing colleges into planning modes
that made no sense to those colleges.
As a result, colleges were requested to prepare a summary of plans
presented in a way that the administration can aggregate the information to
write institutional plans, to write Twin Cities plans, to inform the capitol
planning process, to take a look at enrollment projects, etc. Taking the directive from the Senate,
the process also is consultative with directions in the protocol outlining that
process. There is also an emphasis
on performance, which is discussed under institutional measures and performance
goals below. Planning must drive
the allocation process, added Professor Kvavik, and presumably the protocol
will drive that discussion in the proper manner. A three year calendar has been designed to synchronize
planning, budgeting, and capitol planning with lead time built in in order to
allow for appropriate consultation.
Professor
Kvavik then briefly reviewed the October 14 planning document.
One
senator inquired about the staff costs associated with planning
development. Professor Kvavik
replied that graduate students from the College of Education were recruited to
work with the planning office with approximately one-quarter of their time
devoted to this effort.
Before
turning to the critical measures discussion, Professor John Adams said he had
not seen in his 25 years as a faculty member at the University the kinds of
external and internal pressures that are being placed on the institution at
this time. It is the Faculty
Consultative Committee's sense that if the University and the faculty do not
act in appropriate ways now, they are going to be pushed to do things that they
might find inappropriate to the University's overall mission. As senators it will be important to
take responsibility for commenting on the planning process and to take the
materials back to colleges and units to galvanize some response and
action. Professor Adams also
reviewed the resolution that will be presented to the Board of Regents in
November noting recent revisions.
It was the original expectation, he said, that the five critical
measures would be presented as general areas within which the University would
define specific goals it would work toward. Subsequent to that discussion the Board decided it wanted to
be more specific--not just deal with general measures of performance but rather
specific items. That led to
discussions about how to do that recognizing the wide variety of operations
occurring on all the campuses, in the colleges, and in departments. It is one thing, he said, to talk about
the quality of something and another to translate that into specific numbers
that will then be used as measuring sticks. He identified the committees that have been working with the
administration in the development of the critical measures and noted that the
chairs were present to respond to questions.
Professor
George Copa was then introduced to lead the discussion of the critical
measures. When the Board of
Regents approved U2000, he said, it charged the University's central and unit
administration with the development of critical measures and benchmarks for
measuring institutional, campus, and unit performance in realizing the goals of
U2000. The purpose of the measures
is to confirm success in teaching and stated goals, to link performance with
budgeting, to meet the increasing demands of outside agencies and groups for
demonstrated performance, to provide a means of comparison with other
institutions, and to guide and facilitate self-improvement by the University.
Professor
Copa reviewed the overall principles, technical principles, principles for
using measures, and the sources used to develop the measures. The latter included review of U2000;
review of preliminary strategic plans submitted by colleges, campuses, and
support units; review of similar efforts being made in other states; and
emerging reporting requirements for the University from the state and federal
government.
Consultation
in the process has been extensive, Professor Copa said, including University
Senate committees, senators, student groups and associations, all categories of
employees, and numerous external organizations.
Drawing
senators attention to the critical measure handout, Professor Copa briefly
reviewed the eighteen recommended critical measures. They have been divided into "input measures,"
"process measures," and "outcome measures." Plans for implementation of the
critical measures was also reviewed.
The first phase will be presented to the Board of Regents in November
for action, the second phase is expected to be ready by spring quarter, and the
third phase during the 1995-96 academic year. The critical measures to be presented to the Regents later
in the month include: characteristics of entering students, graduation rate,
underrepresented groups/diversity, sponsored funding, and investment per
student.
Senators
were also provided with a table outlining how Senate committees and other
groups will be involved in the development of additional critical measures.
Last,
Professor Copa reviewed the resolution that will be presented to the Board of
Regents. The first part reaffirms
the purpose, the second points out that appropriate consultation took place,
the third section identifies the five measures, the fourth sets particular
performance goals, and the last part of the resolution speaks to the Regents
encouraging the University to move forward with the continued development of
performance goals for the five measures and instructs the administration to
incorporate them into the long-term and annual academic planning and budgetary
process, the biennial request, and the capital planning process.
One
senator inquired whether it will be a goal of the University to have a more
diverse group of minority students than it presently has. Specific goals have been set for each
of the underrepresented groups, Professor Copa said, in order to address that
very issue.
In
response to another question concerning graduation rates, Professor Copa said
goals have been set not only for five years but for eight years to be
responsive to a university that includes students who never intended to
graduate in five years.
Another
senator inquired whether there was any data that indicate that years to
graduate are somehow related to success later in life? If the University is going to develop a
policy in which it has very measurable goals, such as graduation rates, it may
need to have data to show why it is such an important goal. Professor Copa said the rationale for
the five year rate is that it has become a standard that is looked at across
universities in our country. More
importantly, there is an expectation from parents that their children will be
able to move through the institution in a reasonable amount of time. It doesn't really relate so much to
success as it does to resources--family resources and the resources of the
state.
To
what extent is the development of the critical measures in response to a
legislative mandate, queried one senator?
This has been a University initiative, President Hasselmo said; however,
he believes that if the University does not pursue their development it is very
likely that external mandates may be imposed upon the institution. The academy will be much better served,
he added, if it develops its own measures.
One
of the concerns of the Senate Research Committee, said its chair, is that the
critical measure relating to sponsored research might actually distort the
planning of the University because there are certain channels of funding which
are more lucrative than others, and essentially emphasizing those may not be in
the interests of developing a balanced program in the University. What sort of strategies are there to
prevent that kind of misuse of a critical measure? Professor Copa said that each of the measures has the
opportunity to distort which is why it is very important that the process very
quickly becomes part of the planning, budgeting, and evaluation cycle.
Professor
Heller, chair of the Senate Educational Policy Committee, pointed out that in
the graduation rate measure the 38 percent who graduate in five years is really
made up of two numbers: 1) the people who actually graduate and 2) those who never graduate at
all. About one-half of entering
freshmen never graduate, he said, and if you look just at the people who do
graduate, then statistics show that about 75 percent graduate in five
years.
In
response to a final question concerning graduation rates for graduate and
professional students, Professor Copa said that he and his colleagues are
currently working with the Graduate School and with the colleges to gather
information both for transfer students and for graduate and professional
students. It is their hope that
this will be accomplished before the end of the academic year.
VIII.
PRESIDENT'S POLICY AGENDA, 1994-95
Information
PRIORITY: Continue the
development of University 2000 as a strategic plan: specifically, develop action plans for the implementation of
strategic directions of University 2000; research; graduate and professional
education; undergraduate education; access and outreach; user friendliness, and
diversity, with good stewardship of resources and in partnership with other
institutions.
A. Develop action plans
to implement strategic directions regarding:
¡ Research
¡ Graduate
and Professional Education
¡ Undergraduate
Education
¡ Access
and Outreach
¡ User
Friendliness
¡ Diversity
B. Formulate critical
measures and performance goals.
C. Review resource
stewardship and accountability initiative.
D. Expand linkages with
other institutions.
PRIORITY: Continue to
develop a program to ensure that institutional goals are responsive to the
needs of Minnesotans, are properly understood, and properly supported: specifically, organize a major campaign
to inform Minnesota leaders and the public about the University's ongoing
contributions to the state, the importance of the University 2000 plan, and the
need for continued state and private investment in the University.
A. Secure
understanding and endorsement of U 2000 Partnership short-term and long-range
goals.
B. Develop
a strategy for uniting/activating key internal/external partners who can help
the University achieve the objectives of the U 2000 Partnership initiative.
C. Monitor
implementation of the Outreach Council's recommendations.
PRIORITY: Continue to clarify
and strengthen 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 the administration: specifically, implement the new organization
for the Twin Cities campus and recruit and reassign personnel to new or redefined positions.
A. Complete
the reorganization of the central administration.
B. Review
and propose changes in the collegial governance structure.
C. Review
and restructure student financial aid and administration of scholarships.
D. Complete
the Comprehensive Classroom Study.
PRIORITY: Continue to
improve the operating and capital budgeting processes to provide the Board and
the administration the capability to allocate resources in accord with the
University's strategic priorities: specifically, determine the extent to which
further decentralization of resource management to responsibility centers
should be undertaken and assign appropriate authority and accountability to
provosts, deans, directors, and department chairs.
A. Define
and articulate the planning, budgeting, and evaluation process; implement a
revised planning, budgeting and evaluation process.
B. Develop
and recommend for Regents' action the biennial operating and capital requests.
C. Prepare
contingency and reallocation plans.
D. Further
develop and monitor the decentralization of resource management to
responsibility centers.
E. Review
the assignment of authority and accountability to provosts, deans, directors,
and department chairs.
F. Review
the activities of the Master Planning Committee and Capital Improvement
Advisory Committee.
PRIORITY: Continue to
improve the personnel policies, processes, and practices: specifically, review and revise as
necessary the policies, processes, and practices for recruitment, career
development, compensation, retention, and retirement for faculty and staff, and
preservation of morale in a time of change.
A. Develop
and implement policies regarding:
¡ Recruitment
of a diverse and competent work force
¡ Maximization
of workforce productivity
¡ Administration
of legal mandates
¡ University
relationship as employer with faculty/staff
¡ Roles
and responsibilities of human resources
administration
¡ Information
necessary for effective management
¡ Adequacy
of promotion/retention system
¡ Safe
and healthy work environment
B. Review and revise
policies/procedures regarding:
¡ Administrative
compensation
¡ Faculty
and P/A compensation
¡ Student
employment
¡ Management
of grants/contracts
¡ Oversight
mechanisms for academic and grievance processes
¡ Conflict
of commitment, intellectual property, and research data
IX.
PRESIDENT'S REPORT
Before
turning to his report, President Hasselmo introduced and welcomed to the Senate
meeting Dr. Mel George, Vice President for Institutional Relations and Dr.
William Brody, Provost of the Academic Health Center.
Vice
President George, speaking from the Crookston campus, said he was delighted to
have an opportunity to address the Senate. His first weeks at the University have been spent getting
acquainted with faculty, students, and staff members and learning about the
variety of teaching, research, and outreach activities at the University. Looking at President Hasselmo's Policy
Agenda outlined above, Vice President George said it is the second priority
that he is charged with--to continue to develop a program to ensure that
institutional goals are responsive to the needs of Minnesotans, are properly understood,
and properly supported, and specifically to organize a major campaign to inform
Minnesota leaders and the public about U2000 and the institution. That is now being called the U2000
partnership initiative, he said.
Provost
Brody expressed appreciation for the warm welcome and said he is excited and
challenged to be at the U of M with the kind of breadth and diversity that it
offers. He is most
enthusiastic about the number of cross-cutting relationships in the Academic
Health Center not only within the colleges but also within the community.
The
President then briefly addressed three issues:
1. What is U2000
really all about?
U2000 is about the maintenance and enhancement of a scholarly community,
the President said. That is what
universities have been for the past thousand years and what they must continue
to be if they are going to be universities. That is the very nature of a university--to be a scholarly
community, a community for free and open inquiry for exploration, discovery,
analysis, and synthesis, and to develop an understanding of life and our
existence. This healthy source of
scholarship for our society must be maintained. We are doing that in an environment where society is
questioning whether we are meeting our responsibilities, looking at the way we
provide learning opportunities, and questioning whether we are really meeting
our mission. Under U2000 the
University is looking at how it can enhance the learning environment for our
students and how as a land-grant university it can reach out to society with
the knowledge that this kind of university alone can produce.
2. How does the
biennial request for 1995-97 relate to the aspirations of University 2000? The biennial request really is the
first major installment in U2000, said President Hasselmo, a first set of
financial strategies to implement U2000.
"Investment," he said, is a key word. It is a very real economic concept
because what the State of Minnesota is doing is investing in the University of
Minnesota with tremendous returns, not just financial returns but returns in
terms of learning, knowledge and service.
Twenty-eight percent of the University's budget comes from the State of
Minnesota and seventy-two percent from
resources generated by the University community itself, such as
sponsored research, private fundraising, tuition, self-financing activities,
etc. The University is a
tremendous entrepreneurial enterprise that multiplies the State investment many
times. That is what the financial
strategy is trying to make clear to the State and why the University talks
about a "partnership."
The University has laid out an investment scenario that includes $143.7
million which it needs to invest in University teaching, research, and outreach
if it is going to be the kind of
quality institution that it must be by the year 2000. The partnership comes in, said the President, in that
the University is asking the state for $87.7 million for the biennium. That request is being coupled with some
tuition increases, on the average of 4.8 percent, and a reallocation within the
University of $28 million.
3. What must the
University community do to support the aspirations of U2000 and the investment
scenario? Again, the
word partnership comes in, the President said. The University must find a way to close ranks, standing
united around the priorities of the University.
X.
QUESTIONS TO THE PRESIDENT
QUESTION: What
is Responsibility Centered Management (RCM) and what are the expected costs and
benefits for faculty, staff, and students?
RESPONSE: As
a concept RCM means that all costs and all income are attributable to each
academic unit and assigned to that particular unit. It identifies the flow of revenues and the costs associated
with certain activities. It is
also intended to provide appropriate incentives for academic units to increase
income and reduce costs. The
overhead associated with activities such as student services and the library
will also be allocated to the academic units. RCM is a part of decentralization and a change in how the
University manages itself. It will
give students, faculty, and staff a more direct sense of financing of
particular activities. For
example, space has tended to be a free commodity to units but it costs the
University alot. If space can be
allocated in such a way that there is a financial incentive, it will probably
be utilized more efficienty.
Similarly, the curriculum
must be structured in such a way that it meets the educational needs of
students and at the same time maximizes the University's ability to serve
students. Effective structuring of
the curriculum can result in lower costs and help keep tuition costs down.
QUESTION: Will
RCM be implemented at the University?
RESPONSE: RCM
is still under review but is expected to be introduced at the University within
the next few months.
QUESTION: What
consultative procedure was used in reaching the decision to drop the Route 52
bus subsidy and what will the savings be compared with the costs of
constructing the new parking facilities?
RESPONSE: A
response will be provided in writing as the President did not have the
necessary information available at the meeting to respond to the question.
QUESTION: Will
the cost centers also include an allocation of tuition as well as the state
budget?
RESPONSE: Tuition
generated by a college would be identified and would be one of the resources
available to that unit.
QUESTION: Has
there been any progress in reallocations of indirect costs in federal or other
grants?
RESPONSE: Regardless
of the RCM issue, the University intends to go to a full formula-based
allocation of indirect cost recovery.
XI.
SENATE CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE REPORT
Professor
John Adams called senators attention to two resolutions that were approved by
the Faculty Consultative Committee during the summer months, both of which were
distributed to senators as they entered the room. The resolutions supported the president's plan to reorganize
central administration and move to a provostial structure. Professor Adams also drew senators
attention to his quarterly report that was presented to the Board of Regents in
October. This is an opportunity,
he said, to let the Board know what is on the minds of the faculty. In the most recent report five items were
called to their attention: 1) the FCC's support of the partnership budget
proposal, 2) the need for improved
communication and consultation within the University, 3) the importance of
addressing the issue of salary competitiveness, 4) transition activities
associated with the restructuring of central administration, and 5) the status
of the Senate's review of the Regents Policy on Academic Freedom and
Responsibility.
XII.
1993-94 ANNUAL REPORTS
Information
COMMITTEE
ON COMMITTEES
The Committee on Committees met
several times during the 1993-94 academic year. Primarily to fill vacancies on the various Senate and
Assembly committees during the year and to establish new committees for the
94-95 academic year. Thus, in that sense it was an uneventful year for the
committee.
With the new structure occurring
in central administration with the several provostial units being formed, the
committee structure is being reviewed University-wide. It can be felt that its role within the
new central administration structure will be very important over the next few
academic years as the Senate committees are revised and the need to fill the
committees represent challenges to the Committee on Committees.
As outgoing chairman, I wish to
thank all members of the committee for making these activities not only
manageable but also very pleasant.
I wish Jean Quam and her colleagues the best for the current academic
year.
Michael
Steffes, Chair
EQUAL
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY FOR WOMEN COMMITTEE
Equal Employment Opportunity for
Women Committee (EEOWC) membership:
Mariah Snyder (Chair), Siliva Azar, Ann Burkhart, Wesley Hackett, Essie
Kariv-Miller, Marty Roth, Sharon Stewart, Karla Klinger, Kathryn Sedo. Ex-officio members: Pat Mullen and Norma Peterson
The committee met seven times
during the year. Four
subcommittees were created to facilitate the committee's work. These were pay equity, exceptional
hires, hiring practices, and impact of U2000 on women on campus.
Policy for Caregiving
Responsibility. Work was
completed on the Policy for Caregiving Responsibility. The policy was forwarded for review and
approval by the appropriate University committees. The policy was approved by the Senate on May 17, 1994. The policy allows probationary faculty
members to request a one-year extension of their tenure years when a family
member for whom they are a major caregiver has an extended serious illness,
injury, or other debilitating condition.
Hiring Practice. The committee continued to examine
hiring practices at the University.
Specifically, EEOWC had concern about the composition of search
committees for top administrative positions. This became a greater concern with the re-structuring of
central administration and the exit of several females in top administration
positions. Letters requesting that
search committees include women and persons who represent diversity were sent
to administrators.
Pay Equity. Although no overall pay increases
occurred during 1993-1994, the committee had concern about the impact that
retention increases could have on pay equity. Attempts have been made to obtain data about retention
monies given by departments/schools in 1993-94. The committee also requested the administration to
distribute the post-Rajender guidelines along with the 1994-95 pay increase
guidelines to all units.
Impact of Retrenchment and
U2000 on Women. The committee
spent considerable time discussing issues related to retrenchment and
U2000. Kathleen O'Brien presented
information about U2000 to the committee at its October meeting. During the year the subcommittee
monitored the progress of U2000 and examined the possible implications that the
changes may have on women on campus.
The committee is appreciative of
the reports and information provided by Patricica Mullen and Carol Carrier and
their offices. Vickie Courtney,
the Executive Assistant to the EEOWC, provided excellent support for the
committee.
Mariah
Snyder, Chair
FACILITIES
MANAGEMENT SUBCOMMITTEE
Much of the Subcommittee's time
was spent reviewing the document entitled Operation and Maintenance of
Facilities at the University of Minnesota: Recommended Principles.
The report outlines recommended
principles and standards for the operation and maintenance of University
facilities. It should be noted
that the report covers only maintenance and operation; it does not deal with
capital replacements.
Recommendations in the report would need to be implemented over an
extended period of time. The
report is neutral on space charges to supported units although it does endorse
accountability for space.
The committee endorsed the major
elements of the report: the definition of supported and nonsupported space, the
definition of support areas and responsibilities for supported space, the
principle that the university should have flexible standards for hours of
building operation, and the plan for financing the cost of supported
space. It also endorsed the
principle that units should be accountable for their space utilization.
In it's report to the Finance and
Planning Committee, the subcommittee expressed several opinions about
implementation of the recommended principles only two of which are noted
here. First, to the extent
possible, nonsupported units should pay the full cost of their space operations. Otherwise, there is an implicit
shifting of costs to supported units.
Second, there needs to be some mechanism to ensure that both supported
and nonsupported units receive full value for their operations and maintenance
dollar.
The Subcommittee also spent
substantial time discussing the process by which academic priorities for
facilities should be established.
It was noted that there currently is a campus master planning committee
and a statewide commission on the stewardship of state facilities whose
findings will inform facilities planning at the University. Academic priorities need to guide
facilities planning, and therefore, long range planning at the unit level
(department and college) needs to include facilities needs. Based on our own, admittedly limited,
experience, the subcommittee members have the impression that facilities
planning has been uneven across the University's units. Planning seems to proceed best when
someone is specifically assigned to plan for facilities needs.
Mark
Davison, Chair
LIBRARY
COMMITTEE
The Senate Library Committee met
seven times during the academic year.
Peggy Johnson, Assistant Director, St. Paul Campus Libraries, joined the
committee at its initial meeting to present the newest draft of the Libraries'
Strategic Plan and respond to questions and concerns of the committee
members. Joe Branin, Associate
Librarian for Public Services, and Ellen Nagle, Director of the Bio-Medical
Library, presented information at the November meeting regarding the current database
search situation and the need to initiate a charge system. The committee members supported the
policy changes needed.
Members of the committee held an
in-depth discussion on a proposed "Course Packets and Library Reserves
Policy" presented by Chis Loring, Head, Wilson/Walter Access Service Tom
Shaughnessy from the Libraries.
Erika Brant, Copyright Permissions Center, and Greg Brown, Associate
General Counsel, also attended the meeting to provide an informal perspective
regarding current copyright issues and how they affect the Libraries. The discussion resulted in a motion to
have the Chair send a letter to Robert Kvakik, Associate Vice President for
Academic Affairs, recommending that a University-wide copyright policy be
developed. Following receipt of
the letter, Vice President Infante appointed a Copyright Task Force which will
begin its work this summer.
In February the group revisited
the Libraries' Strategic Plan and formally approved the plan as revised and
submitted to Central Administration.
At the March meeting University Librarian Tom Shaughnessy explained the
proposed CIC "Virtual Electronic Library," a cooperative effort of
the Big Ten libraries.
Panelist representing different
aspects of distance education at the University discussed their roles, projects
they are involved with, and where they see distance education moving to at the
University. Presenters included
William De John, Director of Minitex; Sheldon Goldstein, Director of University
Media Resources; Tom McRoberts, University of Minnesota-Morris; and Richard
Weatherman, Educational Psychology.
The final meeting featured
updates from Joe Branin, University Libraries and Don Riley, Associate Vice
President for Academic Affairs and Associate Provost for Academic Computing and
Information Technologies. The
reports included the pending grant proposals, the funded proposals, and the
plans for the New Media Centers Program Dr. Riley is establishing.
The committee members recognized
the financial ramifications for the Libraries resulting from the Governor's
veto and sent a letter to Judith Garrard, Chair of the Senate Consulting
Committee, and to Vice President Infante drawing attention to the issue.
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
SOCIAL
CONCERNS COMMITTEE
The Social Concerns Committee met
11 times during 1993-94. Major themes
addressed by the Committee were: (a) welcoming and supporting diversity on
campus; (b) maintaining a healthy environment; and (c) responsible University
investment policy.
Diversity on Campus: (1) During the year,
the Committee monitored the potential impact of U 2000 plans on the
University's commitment to welcome and support diversity on campus. Concerns include proposals to modify or
eliminate programs that have been entry points for non-traditional students and
students from groups that have been historically underrepresented or
discriminated against on campus.
Wayne Sigler and Praticia Jones-White met with the Committee to discuss
recruitment, retention, and graduation rates as they relate to diversity
issues. (2) The Committee reviewed
the handling by the Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs of a
freedom of speech issue involving materials distributed at the Fall Student
Orientation meeting by the College Young Republicans. (3) In 1992, the President established a Select Committee to
report on the status of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender members of the
University community. The report
with its five major recommendations were presented to President Hasselmo in
November 1993. While the report
was in preparation, the Select
Committee communicated to the University governance structure through
the Social Concerns Committee.
While the report has been completed, the process of institutional change
begun by the Select Committee is only beginning. To provide a continuing channel for input to the Senate and
its committees during this period, the Chair of the Social Concerns Committee,
with the support of the Committee, appointed a Subcommittee for Gay, Lesbian,
Bisexual, and Transgender Concerns to be active until June 1996, at which time
a decision will be made about whether it should be continued. (4) The Reserve
Officer Training Corps (ROTC), which has a program on the University campus,
has consistently followed the policies of the Defense Department rather than
those of the University by openly discriminating against persons on the basis
of their announced sexual orientation.
A resolution of the Senate, adopted in February in 1991 , recommended to
the Regents that if this policy conflict was not resolved by June 1993 the
University should begin severing its relations with ROTC. The Regents did not accept this
recommendation, and since the June 1993 date is passed, the
Committee has asked the
Subcommittee on GLBT Concerns consider what further action is appropriate.
Well-Being of the Environment: (1) The Committee
discussed various biotechnology issues, particularly the use of Bovine Growth
Hormone to stimulate greater milk
production from dairy cows, but took no formal action. (2) Following
considerable discussion, the Committee adopted its own resolution opposing the
introduction of dry cask storage at the Prairie Island Nuclear Power
Facility. The resolution was
adopted by a one vote majority and there were several abstentions. The narrowness of the majority reflected
the difficulty of a responsible decision on this important issue. (3) The
University community is committed to providing a smoke-free environment in its
building on campus. However, the
University has continued to hold investments in companies marketing tobacco
products and the Student Unions have continued to sell cigarettes. Traci Toomey, a member of the
Committee, assisted by Tom Wesley, a student in the School of Public Health,
introduced resolutions on these issues together with a supporting report. The Committee approved a resolution
calling on the Board of Regents to direct the Office of Finance and Operations
to sell its remaining holdings in tobacco companies and not to invest in them
in the future that will be forwarded to the Senate Consultative Committee for
review. The Committee also adopted
resolutions calling on the Student Union Boards to cease the sale of tobacco
products and commending the Boyton Health Service for its stop-smoking programs.
Responsible Investment Policy: (1) In Fall 1993, the
Committee supported action by the Senate recommending that the Regents suspend
the policy of not investing in the stocks of companies doing business in South
Africa so long as the government of South Africa continued its move toward full
democracy. (2) The Committee reviewed resolutions presented at the annual
meetings of corporations in which the University holds voting stock. University proxy support was
recommended for the resolutions calling for to fair employment practices at
home and abroad, sound procedures to protect the environment, and limits on
tobacco advertising.
The charge to the Social Concerns
Committee is broader than that of most of the standing committees of the
Senate. The Committee can only respond to a few of the many social issues that
affect our University community.
The Chair expresses his appreciation to those members of the Committee
who took an active role in its work during the year and to others who provided
valuable input during the Committee's discussions, in particular, Roger
Paschke, Associate Vice President (Finance and Operations), Derrick Veerkamp,
student (IT), and Tom Wesley, student (Pub H). Barbara Walden will chair the Committee for the 1994-95. Frank Wood will continue as chair of
the Subcommittee for GLBT Concerns.
Frank
H. Wood, Chair
STUDENT
AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
During
1993-94 the committee prepared new languages to be inserted into the Policy
Manual for Registered Student Organizations (currently being revised),
clarifying relationships and responsibilities among the committee, the Office
of Student Activities, and the Office of Student Affairs; approved amendments
to the constitution of the Minnesota Daily Board of Directors; supported the
Boynton Health Service 1994-94 fee request and approved a subsequent proposed
reduction in its budget; established a task force to explore ways to improve
health care for female students on the Morris campus; and supported proposed
construction of an upper-class dormitory/conference center at Morris.
The
committee also discussed Strategic Planning; heard regular reports on the
activities and accomplishments of the Office of the Vice President for Student
Affairs; heard regular reports on progress of the Greek Initiative; expressed
concern about the low proportion of staff support allotted to student
government relative to the Greek system; recommended exploring whether diplomas
could include reference to a student's campus and /or major, at extra cost for
those students requesting it; recommended exploring whether a universal ID card
might be developed that could, perhaps among other things, replace use of a
current fee statement as ID; expressed strong support for the Community
Building initiatives; and suggested various means of increasing communication among
the campuses, including greater exchange of information about student concerns
and cooperative efforts to address them.
A
major issue discussed during the year was the lack of sufficient acceptable
student housing. Next year's
committee, working with Student Affairs, Housing Services, and student
governments, will begin to assess the needs on all campuses, working toward
making appropriate recommendations.
Thomas
Soulen, Chair
UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE ASSEMBLY
The
Assembly was involved with discussions of the long-range planning activities of
the college and its two programs, Inter-College Program (ICP) and the Program
for Individualized Learning (PIL).
The members of the Assembly concurred with program initiatives regarding
systematic outreach to students and faculty, and modification and development
of materials and process for communicating the missions of the college and its
programs. The Assembly also
supported the efforts of the college to assess and respond to needs for other
undergraduate interdisciplinary degree possibilities.
The
Assembly reviewed programmatic plans to examine issues related to admission
decisions and graduation rates.
The Program for individualized Learning's planning document
"Assuring Academic Progress" and the planning directions identified
by the Inter-College Program were supported as appropriate steps for the
college.
Attention
was focused on the name of the college.
With President Hasselmo's decision to use the name University College
for a new University structure, the current UC has been directed to adopt a new
name. Options were discussed and
the Assembly gave support to Dean Anne Hopkins to make a decision and act on it
as necessary.
The
Assembly assisted the Program for Individualized Learning in the process of
integrating new CLE requirements into its criterion-based educational
format. Members reviewed,
critiqued, and initially approved the approaches and requirements proposed to
meet both CLE and PIL goals. The
integration plan was submitted to CLE and was approved by that body prior to
final approval by the Assembly.
Robert
Pepin, Chair
XIII.
OLD BUSINESS
A
question was raised concerning the high fringe benefit rates for graduate
students and whether steps have been taken to alleviate the burden that these
high rates are placing on research programs. Senior Vice President Infante responded that the task force
established to study this issue has recently completed its work and has
suggested three possible options: 1) to stay with the present system, which
obviously offers both advantages and disadvantages, 2) to go to a method of
direct charging, and 3) to eliminate tuition benefits altogether. The administration is currently
reviewing all three options and hopes to reach a decision within the near
future.
XIV.
NEW BUSINESS
NONE
XV.
TRIBUTE TO DECEASED MEMBERS OF THE UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY
FACULTY
Irving
Bernstein
1918-1994
Dr.
Bernstein, clinical professor of psychiatry, in the Department of OB/GYN, died
on June 22, 1994, at the age of 76.
Dr.
Bernstein was born on April 15, 1918, in Chicago, Illinois, and graduated from
Central High School in St. Paul.
He graduated from the University of Minnesota with distinction in 1940
and from the medical school in 1943.
Thereafter, he served in the United States Army in France during World
War II. In 1947 he took a medical
internship at the University of Utah and then became a resident in psychiatry
at the University of Colorado. He
returned to Minneapolis to the private practice of psychiatry and became a
clinical instructor in the Department of Psychiatry. In 1955 he also became part of the Department of Obstetrics
and Gynecology to which he made major contributions as a teacher and lecturer. He published more than 25 papers,
mainly concerning psychiatric aspects of obstetrical and gynecologic
conditions. There is a lectureship
in his name in the Department of OB/GYN.
He also had an appointment as a clinical psychiatrist in the Department
of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego, and was a teacher
there. In addition, he was active
in the Minnesota Psychiatric Society and the University of Minnesota Medical
School Alumni Association.
In
1948 he married another physician, Dorothy Milzer, whom he met in
Colorado. They have three
children, all of whom are physicians.
His daughter, Gail, is an associate professor on the faculty at the
University of Minnesota in the Department of Psychiatry.
Despite
his retirement he continued to be interested and active in psychiatry. Even in May of this year he attended the
national American Psychiatric Association meetings. He was an examiner for the American Board of Psychiatry.
Dr.
Bernstein was a marvelous example of how an ideal town/gown relationship can
develop and flourish.
Dr.
Bernstein was the epitome of a professional who revered our Medical School and
our University. He was
instrumental in developing the model for interdisciplinary collaboration
between departments in our Medical School.
Stephen
J. Boros
1941-1994
Stephen
J. Boros, Professor of Pediatrics, was born in Aurora, Illinois in 1941. He died from cancer at home in
Minneapolis, Minnesota on July 23, 1994.
A
lot happened during that far too brief 53 years. He learned to love baseball from a terrific mentor, Bill
Veeck. He married a wise woman, a
reporter. She reminded him that
even professional writing could be elegant; that short, declarative sentences
worked best; that brevity was a gift to the reader. He became a doctor, earning his MD degree in 1966 at the
University of Illinois College of Medicine. Following an internship at Rush-Presbyterian/St. Luke's
Medical Center, he entered the Navy.
He ran a leprosorium and hospital in the highlands of Vietnam while
attached to an Army Special Forces unit.
He came home intact, and became a pediatrician following residency at
Rush. After a brief stint as a
general pediatrician at Group Medical in Minneapolis, he trained in neonatology
at the University of Minnesota. He
learned, taught, and researched throughout his life.
Stephen
took care of little babies beginning in the early 70's. Neonatology then was not what it is
today. The NICU was a place where
you could find high adventure, terrible misfortune, and unbelievable good luck
all in the same day. Most babies
of 1000 grams or less didn't survive.
There was very little equipment actually designed for babies, and what
there was didn't work very well.
The University of Minnesota had one of the early fellowship programs to
train specialists in this new area of pediatrics, and Stephen was one of the
first fellows. He was introduced
to clinical research, and saw the obvious: so much needed to be done to improve the care of these most
vulnerable of our patients! So he
got to it. He realized very early
that the NICU by its very nature was an ongoing experiment, with evolving
protocols and changing outcomes.
He couldn't imagine a neonatology practice that didn't include teaching
and research. He became director
at St. Paul Children's Hospital when he finished his fellowship and got
rolling.
It
was never in Stephen's nature to pursue the grandiose or to build empires. He taught that it was no sin to go
after an achievable, short-term goal and to let the grand plans look after
themselves. He managed to get a
small lab outfitted in the basement of the hospital. Much of the original equipment was cast off from the
clinical side, and cost next to nothing.
He took great pleasure in teaching residents and neonatal fellows. He taught a style of research which was
done by necessity on a shoestring.
Yet over the next 20 years, he established himself as an international
expert in the area of newborn respiratory failure and its treatment. He was an active participant in the
strange process of sharing knowledge which we call the scientific meeting. He gave invited presentations
throughout the world. Each of his
projects had a common goal: to figure out better ways to treat the problems we
saw every day in NICU. Stephen was
nothing if not practical! All told,
he published 63 papers, 85 abstracts, and a number of book chapters and
commentaries.
Stephen
will be missed. He is survived by
his wife, Karen, and his parents, John and Helen. In the NICU, at the SPC, in Carmel at the Western Society
for Pediatric Research, his favorite.
His friends, his patients, his family, his peers go forward with a keen
sense of loss.
M.
Virginia Fredricks
1919-1994
Professor
Emeritus and former Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts Virginia
Fredricks died September 29, 1994 of lung cancer at St. Joseph's Hospice in St.
Paul. She is survived by her
sister Agnes Fredricks of St. Paul, with whom she lived for the past several
years, her brother Dr. Robert Fredricks of Los Angeles, and her stepmother,
Anna Fredricks. A memorial service
in St. Paul was attended by many of Professor Fredrick's friends and
colleagues. Professors Emeritus
David Thompson and Jean Congdon, former colleagues in the Department of Theater
Arts, read selections from Professor Fredrick's favorite poems.
Professor
Fredricks' service to the University, the College, and the Department of
Theater Arts spanned 30 years.
She
was born in a North Dakota farmhouse in the middle of a blizzard in 1919. Her gifts as a performer emerged early. As a girl in the midst of the Great
Depression, she entertained her friends and family by putting on plays.
Her
neighbors in Jamestown paid a penny each to watch the children wear ragtag
costumes and use odds and ends as props.
Subject matter included fairy tales, issues of the day and exotic
stories from the girl's imagination.
She would do the casting, the writing and the directing of the
production.
She
went on to study at Jamestown college, and then transferred to what is now
North Dakota State University in Fargo, N.D., graduating with a bachelor's
degree in English in 1941.
Following graduation she toured North Dakota, South Dakota, and
Minnesota with the Prairie Players, a professional theater company.
From
the time she was 2, Virginia knew she wanted to be a teacher. She loved learning and wanted her
students to love it, too. She
taught English and drama at high schools in North Dakota and Minnesota for 13
years. During her first year, she
taught 13 subjects.
With
her mother's encouragement, she attended graduate school at the University of
Minnesota, where she received her master's degree in 1955 and became an
instructor. She earned her
doctorate in 1961. She began
working as an assistant professor of theater, teaching courses in oral
interpretation of fiction, poetry and drama, bringing her love of language and
its expression to many students.
She also co-authored a book, Oral Interpretation of Fiction.
Virginia
Fredricks became the first woman Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts
in 1971. Her former colleague,
Professor Jean Congdon remembers her fondly as saying, "I'm not organized
enough. See, I file my shoes in my
file drawer." Professor
Congdon continued, "...they weren't fooled. They knew she had the respect of her peers." She served as Associate Dean until
1974, then returned to teaching.
She was active in the Speech, Communication Association of America.
Robert
Moulton
1922-1994
Robert
Moulton, Professor Emeritus of Theater Arts and Dance, died in June of
complications related to cancer.
He was 72. Professor
Moulton spent a lifetime teaching, directing, and choreographing theater and
dance productions at the University and around the country. He began his dancing career in Fargo,
North Dakota, where he tapdanced on the back of a flat-bed truck as a
child. Moulton first studied dance
at high school in Duluth, continuing training with such notables as Martha
Graham. He came to the University
of Minnesota to earn his doctorate in theater after serving in the 75th
Infantry Division during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II.
As
a pioneer of stage movement for actors, Bob Moulton had a distinguished career
as actor, director, dancer, costumer, and choreographer extraordinaire. He was a beloved teacher, a caring
mentor, and a respected colleague.
He will be best remembered for his involvement with "Showboat"
and the Stage Coach Players, which he co-founded. Moulton brilliantly choreographed scores of productions at
the University, Minnesota Opera Company, and Duluth Civic Opera, including
dances for the Winnipeg Ballet, Canadian Contemporary Dancers, Calgary Ballet,
and the Guthrie Theater.
Professor
Moulton is survived by his wife, daughter, Miranda Marland, son, Charles, and
one grandchild. Contributions to a
memorial scholarship fund can be made by contacting Professor Barbara Reid,
Chair, Theater Arts and Dance, at 625-6699.
Herman
Ramras
1907-1994
Herman
Ramras, Professor Emeritus in the Department of German, died suddenly on May 9,
1994, while visiting his daughter and her family in Minneapolis. Ramras was born in Brody, Poland (then
part of Austria) on October 29, 1907.
After emigrating to the United States, he received his BA degree from
the College of the City of New York in 1929. He received his M.A. degree in 1930 and his Ph.D. in 1949,
both from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He was an Instructor at the University of Wisconsin from
1930-1938, and at the Crosby-Ironton Junior College from 1938-1942. During World War II, he served as
translator for the Military Intelligence Branch of the War Department in
Washington, D.C. Ramras joined the
faculty of the German Department at the University of Minnesota in the fall of
1946 and served as chair from 1954
to 1963. He retired in June 1975,
and subsequently moved to San Diego, California. Professor Ramras was an active participant in the affairs of
the College of Liberal Arts, serving on many committees. He played a major role in the
development of the Jewish Studies program and for several years offered a
special course in Yiddish. Ramras
was deeply involved with the annual German play and with the summer total
immersion program of the "Deutsches Haus." He reached out to the community with his lecture on Goethe,
televised by channel 2. Herman
Ramras is fondly remembered by his students and colleagues for his dedication
to teaching, his intellectual integrity, and his personal warmth. He is survived by his wife Clara, his
son Dr. Donald Ramras of San Diego, CA., his daughter Sara-Jane Wilson of
Minneapolis, and six grandchildren.
Richard
D. Springer
1913-1994
Richard
D. Springer, Professor Emeritus with the Department of Mechanical Engineering,
died September 1, 1994.
He
served the University and the Department of Mechanical Engineering for more
than 50 years as a professor in mathematics and engineering graphics, Head of
the Graphics Department, Professor, and Professor Emeritus of Mechanical
Engineering.
He
directed the Mechanical Engineering/Aeronautical Engineering Industrial Intern
(Co-op) Program for many years.
During his tenure, it doubled in size. He recruited many new companies to the program and carefully
matched them with students, to the advantage of both. He served as advisor, continuously, to about 150 students,
and almost 1000 students went through the program under his guidance. The program served as a model for other
Universities all over the world to follow. in 1983 he presented an invited lecture on the mechanics of
the operation of the Minnesota model to an international conference in
Australia.
Dick
was a pioneer in the Mechanical Engineering Design Program for upper division
students and taught design to a generation of them, continuing for years after
his official retirement. He had an
extraordinary ability to inspire students to work on a broad, imaginative range
of projects that would be of benefit to the University, the community, and
society-at-large. His student
groups worked on such diverse projects as sail-assisted cargo ships for the
Great Lakes, a community planning project for Atwater, Minnesota, a
total-community design project which integrated the 10% of a community who are
physically or mentally handicapped into its physical and social structure, and
many devices designed to permit handicapped individuals to be integrated and
work in the community.
Moreover,
he, himself, applied the virtues he communicated to his students to the service
of the community. He was a member,
Director, and President of the Minnesota Association for Children with Learning
Disabilities. He recruited and
advised a team of students in the St. Croix Valley Housing Project to provide
guidelines for energy-efficient, attractive housing. He played a major role in the engineering analysis and
design of the corrugated roof structure of the Minneapolis-St. Paul
International Airport Terminal, as well as the balcony and stage of the Tyrone
Guthrie Theater, and introduced contoured planning in his development of the
Charleston Estates Community.
He
was an ardent sailor and author.
He and his wife, Ruth, took great joy in travel. They gloried in the archaeological
sites they visited in Central and South America and their studies of the
history of the art of these places.
He
is survived by his wife, Ruth, a daughter, Gail McMillan, two sons, Don, of
Hudson, Wisconsin, and Bob, of Lakeville, and four grandchildren.
Elmer
L. Thomas
1916-1994
Elmer
L. Thomas, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Food Science and Nutrition
at the University of Minnesota died on March 19, 1994, at Crestview Nursing
Home in Columbia Heights, Minnesota, of complications from emphysema. Dr. Thomas earned his M.S. and Ph.D.
degrees in dairy technology at the U of M and joined the faculty in 1951 as an
assistant professor. He became
associate professor in 1955, professor in 1961, and retired in 1981. Following retirement, he worked for
many years as a part-time consultant for Schwan's Sales Enterprises in
Marshall, Minnesota.
During
his years in the Department he developed and taught courses in dairy
manufacturing, worked in the area of sensory testing of foods and in dairy
products judging, advised numerous undergraduate and graduate students
(including present leaders of the dairy industry), and was author or coauthor
of 67 research publications. He
was recognized as one of the world's foremost experts on fluid milk and ice
cream, their processing, texture, and flavor.
Thomas
coached every U of M dairy products judging team from 1949 to 1980 except in
1970 and 1977 when he was on sabbatical leave. His teams never finished out of the top ten in national
competition. They won first place
in the All Products category on two occasions, and in individual product areas
almost every year.
In
addition to advising students, he was also consulted by alumni on the hiring of
new graduates, and for many years he acted as the department's informal
placement officer. He was chair of
the scholarship committee and coordinator of the Professional Experience
Program activities.
In
1977 he was given the Milk Industry Foundation Teaching Award. He received the Distinguished Alumni
Award of Ohio State in 1974, was named Honorary State Farmer by the Minnesota
FFA in 1968, and in 1955, in recognition of his services rendered at the International
Trade Fair in Bogota, Colombia, he was designated U.S. Dairy Ambassador by the
Dairy Society International.
Dr.
Thomas was active in professional organizations and in his community. He chaired several committees of the
American Dairy Science Association, served as president of the Minnesota Dairy
Technology Society, was a member of the Joint Conference and Long Range
Planning committees of St. John's Hospital, and was a long-term member of its
Board of Directors.
He
is survived by his children: David
and his wife, Mary, Alexandria, Virginia; Carol Sue and her husband, Bob
Ostergren, Madison, Wisconsin; Jim and his wife, Joanne, of Fridley, Minnesota;
seven grandchildren; and his sister, Ethel Lobaugh, of Columbus, Ohio. Memorials are preferred to The Dr.
Elmer L. Thomas Scholarship Fund at the University of Minnesota.
John
Turnbull
1913-1994
John
Turnbull was born in Milwaukee. He
enrolled in the School of Forestry at the University of Minnesota at the start
of the Great Depression, but was forced to drop out of school for financial
reasons. He studied economics at
Denison University after working for E.A. Pierce, a brokerage firm and
precursor of Merrill Lynch. He
received a BA degree in 1938, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and was awarded
the senior prize in Economics at Denison.
He did a year of graduate work at Brown University, studied Economics at
the University of Chicago in the summer and served as an instructor at Denison
before enrolling in the Ph.D. program at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. With an interruption
for four years of service in the United States Navy, John received his Ph.D.
from MIT in 1947.
After
serving as an instructor at MIT and on the staff of the Social Science Research
Council, John came to Minnesota in 1949 where he was a member of the Department
of Economics for 33 years, a member of the graduate faculty of the School of
Public Affairs and active in the Industrial Relations Center in the School of
Management. He retired in 1982.
John
received the Outstanding Alumni Award from Denison University in 1969 and a
Distinguished Teaching Award from the College of Liberal Arts in 1973. John was recognized as one of the
country's leading labor economists.
He was a consultant to a number of local, state, and national boards and
agencies. With C. Arthur Williams,
Jr., and Earl F. Cheit, he was the co-author of Economic and Social Security, a
widely used college text. He was a
devoted teacher and especially enjoyed his Extension teaching because of the
variety of backgrounds students brought to the classroom.
John
served as chair of the department of Economics in the early 1960's, initially
filling in when Walter Heller went to Washington to join the Kennedy
administration. He served as Associate
Dean in the College of Liberal Arts from 1963 to 1973, first as Associate Dean
for the Social Sciences, then as Associate Dean for Administration and the
College's first Executive Officer.
He served as Acting Dean in 1972 and again in 1973. John's service as Executive Officer and
Acting Dean coincided with major financial retrenchments in the early
1970's. E. W. Ziebarth, Dean of
the College of Liberal Arts, said of Turnbull, "As his nickname may imply,
Honest John is a man of Absolute integrity, vast common sense, and
straightforward approach. His
canny Scotsman's eye for economy is most useful during the present period of
financial stress." He was a
thoughtful man who, in spite of having to deliver unwelcome financial news,
commanded the trust of people from diverse parts of the College and University.
Following
his retirement from the University John started a second career as a
teacher-naturalist at the Dodge Nature Center in St. Paul. This work was really a continuation of
his life long interest in the outdoors and people.
ACADEMIC
STAFF
Lawrence
A. Brogger
1922-1994
Eivind
Hoff
1927-1994
Merle
P. McGrath
1922-1994
Theresa
A. Neil
1948-1994
STUDENTS
Liz
T. Atac
Graduate
School
Steven
C. Black
Institute
of Technology
Timothy
J. Crossman
General
College
Jody
L. Dover
College
of Agriculture
Gregory
R. Kitlinski
College
of Liberal Arts
John
W. Smith
Graduate
School
James
J. Wimbiscus
Graduate
School
XVI.
ADJOURNMENT
The
meeting was adjourned at 3:35 p.m.
Martha
Kvanbeck
Abstractor