The first meeting of the University Senate for 1999-00 was convened in the Whiting Proscenium Theatre, Minneapolis campus, on Thursday, September 30, 1999, at 3:15 p.m., as a joint meeting of the University Senate, Faculty Senate, and Twin Cities Campus Assembly. Coordinate campuses were linked by telephone. Checking or signing the roll as present were 112 voting faculty/academic professional members, 31 voting student members, 3 ex officio member, and 5 nonmembers. Vice Chair Roberta Humphreys presided.

Professor Fred Morrison, Chair of the Senate Consultative Committee (SCC), welcomed all senators to the meeting. He said that a few changes have been made in the operations of the meetings. First, the University Senate, Faculty Senate, and Twin Cities Campus Assembly meetings have been consolidated into a single meeting. As a result, there are some items on the agenda which involve a subset of the full Senate. Agenda items have been grouped together depending on what group they pertain to and different colored voting cards are available for each group. Second, the agenda is no longer being printed on the large newspaper-like pages, which amounts to a savings of more than $1000 per meeting.

New business may be introduced during that heading at the end of the meeting, but motions will automatically be referred to committee unless there is a motion to suspend the rules. For items appearing on the agenda, amendments should be filed with the Senate Office at least 24 hours in advance of the meeting so that committees can decide whether or not to accept them as a friendly amendment or propose alternatives.

Lastly, he pointed out that these meetings are to represent the interests of the faculty and students of the University, and to allow these groups to be involved in the governance of the institution.

Other 1999-00 meetings of the University Senate, Faculty Senate, Student Senate, and Twin Cities Campus Assembly are scheduled as follows:

Members are also asked to hold Thursday, December 9, as another possible meeting date.

University Senate

Resolution Regarding Paratransit Services
(http://www1.umn.edu/usenate/resolutions/paratransitres.html)

Approved by the:

University Senate February 18, 1999 Administration April 1999 Board of Regents - no action required

Resolution Regarding Research Data
(http://www1.umn.edu/usenate/resolutions/researchdatares.html)

Approved by the:

University Senate February 18, 1999 Administration April 1999 Board of Regents - no action required

Policies on Syllabi and Collection of Grading Data
(http://www1.umn.edu/usenate/policies/syllabi.html)

Approved by the:

University Senate February 18, 1999 Administration July 1999 Board of Regents - no action required

Education in the Responsible Conduct of Sponsored Research and Grants Management Policy

Approved by the:

University Senate April 22, 1999 Administration May 1999 Board of Regents PENDING

Principal Investigator Eligibility on Sponsored Projects Policy

Approved by the:

University Senate April 22, 1999 Administration July 1999 Board of Regents PENDING

Amendment to the Semester Conversion Standards
(http://www1.umn.edu/usenate/policies/semestercon.html)

Approved by the:

University Senate April 22, 1999 Administration July 22, 1999 Board of Regents - no action required

Amendments to the University Senate Constitution

Approved by the:

University Senate November 5, 1998, April 22, 1999, May 20, 1999 Administration July 1999 Board of Regents PENDING

Policy on Awards for Outstanding Contributions to Education
(http://www1.umn.edu/usenate/policies/awards.html)

Approved by the:

University Senate May 20, 1999 Administration July 29, 1999 Board of Regents - no action required

Policy on Academic and Administrative Reorganization
(http://www1.umn.edu/usenate/policies/reorganization.html)

Approved by the:

University Senate May 20, 1999 Administration June 16, 1999 Board of Regents - no action required

Faculty Senate

Amendments to Faculty Tenure

Approved by the:

Faculty Senate April 22, 1999 Administration PENDING Board of Regents PENDING

Interpretation of Faculty Tenure

Approved by the:

Faculty Senate April 22, 1999 Administration July 1999 Board of Regents PENDING

Amendment to the Judicial Committee Rules of Procedure

Approved by the:

Faculty Senate April 22, 1999 Administration PENDING Board of Regents PENDING

Intellectual Property Policy

Approved by the:

Faculty Senate May 20, 1999 Administration July 1999 Board of Regents PENDING

Twin Cities Campus Assembly

Resolution Regarding Food Services
(http://www1.umn.edu/usenate/resolutions/foodsrvcres.html)

Approved by the:

Assembly February 18, 1999 Administration May 1999 Board of Regents - no action required

Amendments to the Twin Cities Campus Assembly Constitution

Approved by the:

Assembly April 22, 1999 and May 20, 1999 Administration July 1999 Board of Regents PENDING

Academic Progress Policy
(http://www1.umn.edu/usenate/policies/academicprogress.html)

Approved by the:

Assembly April 22, 1999 Administration July 15, 1999 Board of Regents - no action required

Annual reports for each of the following committees may be found on their web pages, which can be found at the following URL: http://www1.umn.edu/usenate/comlist.html:

Professor Fred Morrison, Chair of the Senate Consultative Committee (SCC), said that these committees will have a large agenda for the coming year. The Faculty Consultative Committee (FCC), has been busy through the summer and now the Student Senate Consultative Committee (SSCC) has started to meet. There are several main issues that the committees will be dealing with this year.

Health Care: there is a task force looking at the health care options available to University employees. One of the issues, which might be included on the December 2 meeting, is a discussion of the option of separating the University from the state employees' system.

Task Forces: two task forces have been created over the summer to deal with issues that were raised by, but are not totally related to, the athletic allegations. The first is dealing with Student Academic Integrity and is headed by Regents' Professor Tom Clayton. It will be examining how the University should deal with issues of academic misconduct. A preliminary report is expected at the December 2 meeting. The second task force, appointed by the President, is dealing with issues of sexual misconduct and procedures for dealing with sexual assault cases at the University. It should be making a report to the President in the near future. Some of these issues may require Senate action at the December meeting. The Twin Cities Campus Assembly Steering Committee will be looking at the entire athletics issue with some care as soon as the report is released by the President.

Joint Task Forces: two task forces, which are joint ventures between the faculty and administration, are also continuing this year. The first one is handling academic appointments, which was addressed by a joint Senate subcommittee last year. The second task force is addressing budgeting and other processes associated with IMG.

Additionally, Senate committees, such as Faculty Affairs, Educational Policy, Research, and Finance and Planning, will also be addressing various issues as the year progresses.

The Senate rose to pay tribute to the following members of the University Community. Memorials appear in an appendix to these minutes.

Agenda Items 7. through 11. are considered to be non-controversial or "housekeeping" in nature and are offered as a "Consent Agenda" to be taken up as a single item with one vote. Any item will be taken up separately at the request of a senator. (A simple majority is required for approval.)

The University Senate, Faculty Senate, Student Senate, and Twin Cities Campus Assembly minutes are available on the Web at the following URLs:

The chairs of the University Senate, Faculty Senate, Student Senate, and Twin Cities Campus Assembly recommend the following officers for 1999-00:

University Senate committee memberships for 1999-00:

DISABILITIES ISSUES - Faculty/PA: James Carey (chair), Deborah Brown, Harvey Carlson, William Durfee, Lucinda Hall, Barbara Leonard, Elizabeth Lightfoot, Virgil Mathiowetz, Ken Myers, Joe Reichle, Kimerly Wilcox, David Wuolu. Civil Service: Suann Mitchell, 1 to be named. Students: 2 to be named. Ex Officio: Kathryn Brown, Julie Sweitzer.

EDUCATIONAL POLICY - Faculty/PA: Judith Martin (chair), Wilbert Ahern, Gordon Hirsch, Emily Hoover, Karen Seashore Louis, Kathleen Newell, Marsha Odom, Riv-Ellen Prell, Richard Skaggs, Suzanne Bates Smith, Thomas Soulen, Steven Sperber. Students: 5 to be named. Ex Officio: Darwin Hendel, Christine Maziar, Craig Swan.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY FOR WOMEN - Faculty/PA: Marti Gonzales (chair), Cathy Carlson, Mindy Kurzer, Elaine Tyler May, Mary McEvoy, Julia Robinson, Delane Welsch. Academic Professionals: Kathleen Peterson, 1 to be named. Ex Officio: Nancy Barcelo, Julie Sweitzer.

FINANCE AND PLANNING - Faculty/PA: Stephen Gudeman (chair), Jean Bauer, Charles Campbell, Catherine French, Wendell Johnson, Michael Korth, Terry Roe, Charles Speaks. Civil Service: Gerald Klement, Susan Carlson Weinberg. Students: 4 to be named. Ex Officio: Cynthia Gillett, Eric Kruse, Terrence O'Connor, Jim Perry, Richard Pfutzenreuter, Peter Zetterberg.

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES - Faculty/PA: William Peterson (chair), James Chelikowsky, Stephen Downing, Susan Galatowitsch, Phil Goodrich, Harold Grotevant, Laura Gurak, Andy Lopez, Marcel Richter, April Schwartz. Civil Service: 1 to be named. Students: 3 to be named. Ex Officio: Steve Cawley, Ann Hill Duin.

LIBRARY - Faculty/PA: Robert Seidel (chair), Peter Firchow, Jill Gidmark, Mathur Kannan, Barbara Martinson, Lisa Norling, James Orf, James Parente, Phillip Portoghese, Richard Richards, Paul Ruden, Warren Warwick. Students: 4 to be named. Ex Officio: Karen Fischer, Joan Howland, Geri Malandra, Thomas Shaughnessy, Bill Sozansky, Owen Williams.

RESEARCH - Faculty/PA: Leonard Kuhi (chair), Daniel Brewer, Bianca Conti-Fine, John Finnegan, Lorraine Francis, Eric Klinger, Scott McConnell, Richard Poppele. Civil Service: Amy Levine. Students: 3 to be named. Ex Officio: Victor Bloomfield, Phillip Larsen, Mark Paller, 1 to be named.

SOCIAL CONCERNS - Faculty/PA: George French (chair), John Beatty, Robert Brown, Margaret Kuchenreuther, Joel Nelson, Luis Ramos-Garcia, Angelita Reyes. Civil Service: Catherine Forseide-Hussain, Jean Niemiec, 1 to be named. Alumni: Mike Davey, Wesley Matson, Mary Steinke. Students: 7 to be named. Ex Officio: Julie Sweitzer, Sheila Warness, Amelious Whyte.

STUDENT AFFAIRS - Faculty/PA: Jesse Berglund (chair), Ted LaBuza, Maren Mahowald, John Romano, Diane Wartchow, 2 to be named. Civil Service: David Lenander. Alumni: 1 to be named. Students: 8 to be named. Ex Officio: Jane Canney.

FOR INFORMATION:

ALL-UNIVERSITY HONORS - Faculty/PA: V. Rama Murthy (chair), Vernon Cardwell, Margaret Davis, Lester Drewes, Shirley Garner, Jooinn Lee, G. Edward Schuh, 1 to be named. Alumni: Arnold Bigbee, Howard Juni, Jean LeVander King, Sandy Morris, Beth Patten. Students: 3 to be named. Ex Officio: Robert Bruininks, Gerald Fischer, Cheryl Jones, Peg Wolff.

COMMITTEE ON COMMITTEES - Faculty/PA: Sally Gregory Kohlstedt (acting chair), John S. Anderson, Muriel Bebeau, Karen Karni, Dian Lopez, Omelan Lukasewycz, Ken Myers, Naomi Scheman, 1 to be named. Students: Ben Bowman, Irene Kao, Annette McNamee, Hoang Uyen Nguyen, Barbara Van Drasek, 2 to be named.

CONSULTATIVE - Faculty: Fred Morrison (chair), Linda Brady, Susan Brorson, Mary Dempsey, David Hamilton, Mary Jo Kane, Joseph Massey, V. Rama Murthy, Paula Rabinowitz, Jeff Ratliff-Crain. Students: Jed Ipsen, Jason Reed, Chaz Rice, Tiffany Stedman, Aaron Street, Kerstin Trimble, Mark Uszenski, 2 to be named. Ex Officio: Lester Drewes, Stephen Gudeman, Roberta Humphreys, Reid LeBeau, Judith Martin, Barbara Van Drasek.

Faculty Senate committee memberships for 1999-00:

FACULTY AFFAIRS - Faculty: Richard Goldstein (chair), Josef Altholz, Avner Ben-Ner, Carole Bland, Daniel Feeney, John Fossum, Roland Guyotte, Andrea Hinding, Cleon Melsa, Larry Miller, Marcia Pankake, James Perry, Geoffrey Sirc, Thomas Walsh, Carol Wells. Academic Professional: Charlene Mason. Ex Officio: Carol Carrier, Robert Fahnhorst, Harlan Smith, Sheila Warness, 1 to be named. Students: 2 to be named.

JUDICIAL - Faculty: George Sheets (chair), David Born, William Brustein, Edward Cushing, John Dahler, Amos Deinard, Timothy Dunnigan, Arthur Erdman, Ilene Harris, Joan Howland, Cynthia Jara, Sharon Neet, Takashi Okagaki, Phyllis Pirie, Michael Sadowsky, Alan Sinaiko, T. Michael Speidel, Roderick Squires, Billie Wahlstrom, Robert Yahnke.

FOR INFORMATION:

FACULTY CONSULTATIVE - Faculty: Fred Morrison (chair), Linda Brady, Susan Brorson, Mary Dempsey, David Hamilton, Mary Jo Kane, Joseph Massey, V. Rama Murthy, Paula Rabinowitz, Jeff Ratliff-Crain. Ex Officio: Lester Drewes, Richard Goldstein, Stephen Gudeman, Roberta Humphreys, Len Kuhi, Judith Martin.

Twin Cities Campus Assembly committee memberships for 1999-00:

EDUCATIONAL POLICY - Faculty/PA: Judith Martin (chair), Gordon Hirsch, Emily Hoover, Karen Seashore Louis, Kathleen Newell, Riv-Ellen Prell, Richard Skaggs, Suzanne Bates Smith, Thomas Soulen, Steven Sperber. Students: 4 to be named. Ex Officio: Darwin Hendel, Christine Maziar, Craig Swan.

INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS - Faculty/PA: Kathryn Sedo (chair), David Bernlohr, Geoffrey Maruyama, 3 to be named. Faculty Representatives: Norman Chervany, 1 to be named. Civil Service: Duane Nelson. Alumni: Walter Bowser, Darrell Thompson, 1 to be named. Students: 3 to be named. Ex Officio: John Blanchard, McKinley Boston, Mark Dienhart, Chris Schoemann, Chris Voelz.

STUDENT BEHAVIOR - Faculty/PA: Nancy Ehlke (chair), John S. Anderson, John Brownbill, Jessie Daniels, Jay Hatch, Luis Ramos-Garcia, Eden Torres, John Vessey, at least 1 to be named. Students: at least 10 to be named. Ex Officio: Betty Hackett.

FOR INFORMATION:

ACADEMIC HEALTH CENTER PROVOSTAL FACULTY CONSULTATIVE - Faculty: Muriel Bebeau (chair), James Boulger, Patricia Ferrieri, Judith Garrard, Kathleen Krichbaum, Robert Miller, Stephanie Valberg, Timothy Wiedmann. Ex Officio: Daniel Feeney, 1 to be named.

ACADEMIC HEALTH CENTER PROVOSTAL STUDENT CONSULTATIVE - Students: Bruce Trimble (chair), Emily Irwin, Resa Jones, Gina Lee, Heather McCurdy, 3 to be named.

COMMITTEE ON COMMITTEES - Faculty/PA: Sally Gregory Kohlstedt (acting chair), John S. Anderson, Muriel Bebeau, Karen Karni, Naomi Scheman, 1 to be named. Students: Ben Bowman, Irene Kao, Hoang Uyen Nguyen, Barbara Van Drasek.

STEERING - Faculty: Fred Morrison (chair), Linda Brady, Mary Dempsey, David Hamilton, Mary Jo Kane, Joseph Massey, V. Rama Murthy, Paula Rabinowitz. Students: Jed Ipsen, Jason Reed, Tiffany Stedman, Aaron Street, 2 to be named. Ex Officio: Stephen Gudeman, Roberta Humphreys, Judith Martin, Barbara Van Drasek.

SALLY GREGORY KOHLSTEDT, Acting Chair
COMMITTEE ON COMMITTEES

Part A:

Amendment to Twin Cities Campus Assembly Rules, Article III, Section 2 (additions are in CAPS; deletions are in [brackets]):

2. Ex Officio members of Assembly Committees

Ex officio members shall be appointed from each of the offices listed below and are non-voting positions unless otherwise noted.

- Educational Policy--Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost (two representatives, including the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education); Dean[,] OF THE Graduate School

- Intercollegiate Athletics--2 Faculty Representatives (voting); Director[,] OF Men's Intercollegiate Athletics; Director[,] OF Women's Intercollegiate Athletics; Director[,] OF Academic Counseling for Intercollegiate Athletics; Athletic Compliance Coordinator; central administrative officer responsible for Intercollegiate Athletics

...

- Student Behavior--[Office of the Vice President, Student Development and Athletics] UNIVERSITY GRIEVANCE OFFICE

Part B:

Amendment to University Senate Rules, Article III, Section 2 (additions are in CAPS; deletions are in [brackets]):

2. Ex Officio Members of Senate Committees

Ex officio members shall be appointed from each of the offices listed below and are non-voting positions unless otherwise noted.

- All-University Honors--Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost; OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT FOR INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS (THREE REPRESENTATIVES, INCLUDING ONE FROM ALUMNI RELATIONS AND ONE FROM THE UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT OFFICE) [Alumni Relations; University Development Office; University Relations]

...

- Educational Policy--Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost (two representatives, including the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education); Dean[,] OF THE Graduate School

- Equal Employment Opportunity for Women--Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost (TWO REPRESENTATIVES, INCLUDING ONE FROM THE [;] Office of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action)

- Faculty Affairs--Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost; OFFICE OF THE TREASURER [office of chief financial officer] ([one from] Asset Management [and one from Employee Benefits]); Chair (or his/her designee) of the Equal Employment Opportunity for Women Committee; representative of the UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA Retirees Association; Office of the Vice President for Human Resources (TWO REPRESENTATIVES, INCLUDING ONE FROM EMPLOYEE BENEFITS

...

- Finance and Planning--CONTROLLER'S ORGANIZATION [office of the chief financial officer (two representatives)]; Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost ([two representatives, including] one from [the Office of Planning and Analysis] INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH AND REPORTING AND ONE FROM THE OFFICE OF BUDGET AND FINANCE); OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT FOR UNIVERSITY SERVICES

- Information Technologies--Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost (TWO REPRESENTATIVES, CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER AND THE VICE PROVOST FOR INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY AND UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIPS) [; office of the chief financial officer]

- Library--Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost; Director of University Libraries, Twin Cities campus; DIRECTOR [Supervisor] of LIBRARY SERVICES [Learning Resources], Crookston campus; Director of Libraries, Duluth campus; LIBRARY DIRECTOR [Head Librarian,] , Morris campus; DIRECTOR OF THE Law [Librarian] LIBRARY, TWIN CITIES CAMPUS

- Research--Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost (TWO REPRESENTATIVES, INCLUDING THE DIRECTOR OF AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATIONS); [office of the chief financial officer;] OFFICE OF THE TREASURER; Office of the Senior Vice President[,] FOR Health Sciences; Dean[,] OF THE Graduate School[; Director, Agricultural Experiment Stations]

...

- Social Concerns--Office of the Vice President[,] FOR Student Development and Athletics; OFFICE OF THE TREASURER (ASSET MANAGEMENT); OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT AND PROVOST (OFFICE OF EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY AND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION) [office of the chief financial officer; Office of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action]

- Student Affairs--Office of the Vice President[,] FOR Student Development and Athletics

Part C

Amendment to University Senate Rules, Article III, Section 3 (new language is underlined):

3. Terms of Membership, Chairing of Committees, and Removal of Members for neglect of Meetings

Faculty/academic professional appointments to committees of the Senate shall be made for terms of three years, with appointments so adjusted that the terms of approximately one third of the members expire each year. Academic professionals eligible to vote in Senate elections may serve on all committees that report to the Senate except the Consultative Committee. Faculty/academic professionals with administrative appointments (class titles 9302-9329) of 50 percent or more time are ineligible to serve on Senate committees, except ex officio.

Student appointments to committees of the Senate shall be made for terms of one year. Student members of committees must be registered for at least six credits for each semester in the academic year. University College students must be registered for at least one course in each major term in the academic year. Graduate students who have completed course work and are not required to maintain continuous registration during interim periods of study in preparation for written and oral examinations must be certified by the individual department director of graduate studies.

No faculty/academic professional member is eligible to serve more than two consecutive full three-year terms on any one committee. No committee member is eligible to serve on more than two committees of the Senate at a time. These rotation procedures and limitations do not apply to ex officio representatives.

Notwithstanding the preceding provisions, faculty, academic professionals, and civil service staff appointed to the four-year terms of membership on the Finance and Planning Committee shall be eligible to serve two consecutive four-year terms, for a total of eight years.

(No other changes proposed.)

COMMENT:

Several years ago, the Senate changed the membership term on the Finance and Planning Committee from three years to four, in order that non-student committee members served through two full biennia. The bylaws of the Senate provide for four-year terms. The Committee on Committees, however, has interpreted the language of Article III, Section 3, of the Rules to require that no one serve more than six years, so that someone appointed to a second term on Finance and Planning receives only half a term. This language is intended to clarify that a non-student re-appointment to the Finance and Planning Committee means the individual may serve two consecutive full four-year terms, for a total of eight years. The Committee believes that this is beneficial to the faculty and staff, because the operating and capital budgets and the political process surrounding them are complex enough that faculty and staff are better served by having experienced colleagues serve on the Finance and Planning Committee.

STEPHEN GUDEMAN, Chair
FINANCE AND PLANNING COMMITTEE

Amendments to the University Senate Bylaws, Article III, Section 8 (additions are underlined):

8. FINANCE AND PLANNING COMMITTEE

The Finance and Planning Committee serves as the consultative body to the president and senior academic officers on all major issues of budget and planning, including the capital request.

The Committee may, from time to time, act as a Twin Cities campus committee, and take up matters exclusively of concern to the Twin Cities, and may appoint subcommittees to deal with issues that pertain only to the Twin Cities Campus.

Membership

The Finance and Planning Committee shall be composed of 8 faculty/academic professional members, 4 students, 2 civil service staff members, and ex officio representation as specified by vote of the Senate. Faculty/academic professional and student members shall be nominated by the Committee on Committees with the approval of the Senate. Civil service members shall be appointed by the president in consultation with the Civil Service Committee. All terms (except student terms) shall be for four years. The Committee may, on its own authority, add to its ex officio membership by requesting that faculty or student chairs and/or other members of standing subcommittees serve on the Committee.

COMMENT:

For a number of years, the Committee on Finance and Planning (SCFP), by provisions in the Senate bylaws, had two representatives from the former Subcommittee on Facilities Management. When reference to the subcommittee was deleted from the Senate bylaws, provision for the membership of the subcommittee on SCFP was also deleted. The Subcommittee has, however, been reconstituted as the Subcommittee on Twin Cities Facilities and Support Services, has worked diligently and productively on issues for the last several years, and SCFP has invited its chair and another representative to join SCFP meetings. Those individuals, however, had no formal status at the meetings; SCFP wishes them explicitly to be recognized as valuable and contributing members of SCFP.

STEPHEN GUDEMAN, Chair
FINANCE AND PLANNING COMMITTEE

DISCUSSION:

The Consent Agenda was approved with no discussion.

APPROVED

Good afternoon, Regents, members of the University Senate, faculty, staff, students, alumni, friends of the University, and guests. The State of the University speech is a wonderful tradition, that gives me the opportunity to talk to many of you about how I feel about this great university.

I haven't seen many of you since our New-Student Convocation, to kick off the school year. You may remember the strategy on the Convocation - we gave away free ice cream and U of M tee-shirts that day, and they were such a hit, that I have some reflections to share with you and department heads about tee-shirts that you might want to distribute to your students, which reflect the various disciplines.

For example, to attract physics students, for example, the copy would read:

• Quantum mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of.
  
• CLA: Liberal Arts Major...will think for money.
  
• Biology: Support bacteria -- the only culture some people have
  
• The Law School: Gravity... not just a good idea. It's the law!
  
• Aeronautical Engineering: If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is definitely not for you.
  
• Philosophy: First things first -- but not necessarily in that order.

It seems to me that life within America's great institutions is frequently bound together by a web of legalistic relationships. To an extent this is true in academia as well. But at our best, the University of Minnesota is a community built on trust, a trust built on a shared respect for pluralism, professionalism, and public service. At the core lies integrity, marked by self-conscious efforts to nurture community, to nurture cooperation, to produce enlightened self-interest, altruism, and reciprocal relationships.

Today I would like to focus on the reciprocity, the explicit and implicit promises we make to each other, as faculty members, as administrators, that we make to students and staff, and to the people of Minnesota. I am not very much concerned today about legally binding agreements. This is what I focus on when I teach the contracts course or review the Godfather movie. I am more concerned with the common goods we share, the social, financial, and other undertakings that embody the fulfillment of our promises.

For example, I believe that acceptance of a student carries a promise - from the University and from each one of us in this room -- not only of education but of protection from physical harm, sexual harassment, and other hazards; implicitly, we also promise to treat that student in a humane, compassionate, and understanding manner. In turn, students commit to studying, attending classes, turning in honest work, and treating their fellow students and their professors with respect and civility. Reciprocity is both the operative principle and the wellspring of trust.

Today I'd like to review the year's activities with this concept in mind, looking at how we have or we have not honored our commitments to the University's many constituent groups - the state of Minnesota, the Board of Regents, our students, parents, alumni, benefactors, and, above all, our commitments to one another. The record, I believe, is a good one -- but, like most human activities, there also is plenty of room for improvement.

INTERDISCIPLINARY INITIATIVES

To begin with a macro view, I would point to agreements we made for the 1997-98 school year with the Minnesota Legislature, whose trust is absolutely critical as we seek support for University operations.

In return for funding, we proposed a range of academic improvements based on 5 major interdisciplinary initiatives. Legislators generously granted our request, and today I can report that our promises are being fulfilled and being fulfilled expeditiously.

I start with molecular and cellular biology -- a field producing what the Chronicle of Higher Education calls "vast and thrilling new knowledge." We are

• Reorganizing the biological sciences into 4 departments, merging related disciplines as a stimulus to new ideas and findings;
  
• Hiring 20 new faculty over a 3-year span, to which we will add 20 more through internal University funding;
  
• Applying genetic-engineering knowledge to remedy urgent problems in human health, livestock, horticulture, and agronomic-crop production.

• Building a bridge to the life sciences by hiring world-renowned professors such as computational biophysicist Alexander Grosberg, mathematical biologist Hans Othmer, and computational biologist Jiali Gao [JOLLY GA-OW].
  
• We are moving forward in imaging, wireless communication, e-commerce, and other technologies;
  
• And we're preparing for 20 additional faculty members in the years ahead.

• An undergraduate design minor, to be launched this spring;
  
• Revival of Design Quarterly, a prestigious national journal;
  
• 16 new projects, funded largely by public-private partnerships, that span an exciting range of academic and public-service projects, and
  
• fruitful collaborations between Design faculty and other University units system-wide.

In new media,

• we're moving well along in renovating Murphy Hall to include multimedia classrooms, modern research labs, and new production facilities.
  
• CLA awarded the Cowles Chair to media economist Dr. Daniel J. Sullivan, a national authority, and the Silha Professorship to Dr. Jane E. Kirtley - who, says the Star Tribune, "will put the university on the freedom-of-information map."
  
• The search for a director of the New Media Center is continuing as we speak.

• Rapid Response Fund research and information projects meeting emergencies in the production of turkeys, wheat, barley, and potatoes;
  
• New majors and academic partnerships statewide have been announced;
  
• A proposed master plan for Rosemount, a site where fateful decisions will be made about rural and urban land-use issues; and
  
• A Regional Sustainable Partnerships program, to facilitate access to the U's resources by communities that depend on local natural resources.

The U of M has long been recognized as a world leader in research in the sciences, medicine, social sciences, humanities, engineering, and countless other areas. Often aided by grants, our faculty and staff have led the way to countless discoveries. The level of research has grown exponentially; over the past 14 years, annual expenditures on sponsored projects have risen from $117 million to more than $350 million.

Again, promises are involved. A grant award clearly implies, and indeed explicitly states, that the recipient will spend that money on the intended purpose. Researchers also agree to abide by federal, state, and regental policies and accounting procedures. Yet such agreements have not always been honored.

Five years ago, the National Institutes of Health imposed a designation of "exceptional" on the University based on what it called a "pervasive environment of non-compliance." The NIH called for a total revamping of our grants-management program, including better oversight and better enforcement functions.

In response, since 1995 a University team has been designing and implementing the Sponsored Projects Management Program -- a system that not only meets but far exceeds those requirements. It gives researchers, grant administrators, and other personnel the tools they need for prompt, accurate, full compliance.

In the operations function, 3 Web-based applications connect users immediately with other components, including CUFS, the university-wide ledger system. It also empowers users that can prepare proposals, describe projects, and perform myriad other tasks, while system software automatically seeks and flags potential violations, calculates periodic cost changes, speeds account setups, and provides other important support.

Grants oversight and enforcement are being administered by a newly created unit, the Office of Oversight Analysis and Reporting, which reports directly to the Vice President for Research. Likewise, new guidelines and training are in place. Vice President Maziar, in my judgment, has done a terrific job in leading this effort. I should also mention the outstanding work done by Professor David Hamilton, who heads the Grants Management Task Force.

As advanced as it is, the new program is already considered a model for the industry. And we owe this to a cooperative effort among faculty, staff, and administrators from more than dozens of units across the campus -- a shining example of shared governance. Indeed, I look forward to the day, presumably in the near future, when our research will be exceptional in more positive ways.

SHARED GOVERNANCE

Having mentioned shared governance, let me linger there for a moment. Cooperation between administrators, and faculty -- faculty represented by this body, by numerous committees, and by faculty participation at the department and college levels -- is absolutely essential if we are to accomplish our shared purposes. Nothing can happen without mutual trust and cooperation; and again, reciprocity is the key. Neither parochial self-interest nor administrative fiat should govern our affairs.

The progress I've described reflects the robust spirit of shared governance on our four campuses, of which we should all be most proud. For example, the Faculty Consultative Committee -- under the excellent leadership of Sara Evans and Fred Morrison -- and the administration, most often led by our outstanding Provost, have formed joint task forces to deal with serious problems:

• one addresses the soaring cost of health insurance, looking at alternatives to the options offered by the state plan.
  
• Another is examining the difficult issues surrounding academic appointments of teachers who are not tenured or tenure-track faculty.
  
• Another studies how common goods are funded and how one does this in a responsibility-based budget environment.
  
• A special committee, responding to recent reports involving the Athletics Department, is looking at how we handle allegations of sexual and other forms of student misconduct.
  
• Similarly, a group led by Regents' Professor Tom Clayton, and including the head of the Student Judicial Office, is dealing with issues of academic misconduct.

High national rankings, for example, are a desirable goal but never an exclusive goal. Under our land-grant management - and, indeed, in simple fairness -- we are committed to both access and to excellence; both to diversity and to inclusiveness, serving all Minnesotans; both to science and to the liberal arts. If prestigious rankings come our way -- as they do and will increasingly do so in the future - that's fine. But we must always honor our compact with the people of Minnesota.

Likewise:

• building a winning sports team must not obscure the greater goal of educating students; nor should securing a grant override accountability.
  
• Researchers should treat their graduate assistants with respect, and treat them fairly, giving full credit for authorship or other works that they do.
  
• When collaborations with the private sector raise questions involving bioethics, or the use of intellectual property, or conflicts of interest, the public's interest must be protected.

Among institutional promises that affect us employees, perhaps the most tangible form of promise is -- and it's not parking because we try not to promise the impossible -- it's a paycheck. I was deeply disturbed by the inadequate funding for staff and faculty salaries in the 1999 legislative session.

I must also note a disturbing national trend in the area of faculty salaries. A recent study found that the gap between the salaries paid by public universities and those at private universities, that gap has widened alarmingly over the last two decades. In 1980, professors at our best private institutions earned, on average, about $1,900 a year more than they did at public institutions. In 1998, the difference was $14,000.

Moreover, the gap continues to widen. Projections for 2010 put the disparity for full professors, between public and private, at $25,000 to $30,000 on average. This of course erodes our ability, and that of all other great public research universities, to compete for top faculty.

The reason for the gap is plain enough. Private universities, with a relatively affluent clientele, can raise tuition far more than can the public universities, knowing that their students and parents can absorb the cost. A land-grant institution cannot and should not embrace such a high tuition approach. In addition, legislatures have difficulty, at least in my experience, comprehending the seriousness of this problem.

That is why it's critical that state funding be supplemented, in my judgment, by private support -- something I'll have more to say about in a moment.

CAPITAL CAMPAIGN

The great Dr. Samuel Johnson once remarked that "There few ways in which a man may be more innocently employed than in getting money." This is particularly popular in legal circles. That being the case, I'm pleased to say that our foundations have resoundingly maintained their innocence!

For the second year in a row, private giving to the University surpassed $130 million. In October we will launch a major capital campaign - maybe one of the largest, if not the largest, in the history of public universities. This effort will focus on certain key priorities, among those priorities are these:

• To raise faculty salaries by supplementing core funding that is provided by the Legislature;
  
• To increase scholarships and graduate fellowships, the better to attract top students; and
  
• To invest in academic priorities that will ensure the University's excellence and responsiveness in the new century;

As mentioned in last year's State of the University address, a key priority of the administration is undergraduate education, and our promise to students and parents remains unchanged. We need

• to reduce the psychological scale of this large institution by making it more welcoming and user-friendly;
  
• to strengthen the sense of community on campus; and
  
• to improve academic performance by treating every student like an honors student.

• we have added 30 new faculty positions; 16 will go to CLA, in order to strengthen the arts and humanities while increasing the number of freshman seminars -- I have already met with my freshmen seminar. I tried to explain the meaning of life all in one session. One of the students volunteered and said that she could recite the Greek alphabet to the tune of Yankee Doodle Dandy, a mountain that I have never conquered. She proceeded to do it and it was enormously impressive; and 8 more positions are going to the campuses in Duluth and Morris.
  
• The Freshman Seminars will now enroll about 1,500 students this year - a 245% increase over last year's pilot program;

• There are some new writing requirements which will enable students to hone their skills which are essential to academic and professional success; entirely due to the work of the faculty, starting this year, all students must take 4 "writing-intensive" courses, selecting from 250 such courses throughout the curriculum.
  
• Learning communities bring students into residential proximity with faculty and staff, based on common interests or abilities; 800 students now live in such communities, and 3 new ones will open for Spanish, German, and Global Studies.
  
• 78% of freshmen this year are living in residence halls, a record proportion of first-year students. In my judgment, given the ability to house so many first-year students, we also need to consider a residential college experience for every freshman, together with special arrangements for commuting students.

• In surveys of students who graduated 3 years ago, fully 82% reported being "moderately" or "very satisfied" with their undergraduate experience at the U, and the numbers are higher today.
  
• "Voting with their feet," 85% of last year's freshmen returned for their sophomore year; that is the best retention rate in Minnesota - small college or large, public or private.

The NCAA's annual study of academic performance by scholar-athletes reveals that in Division I, where 57% of athletes as a whole graduated within six years, the rate among male basketball players was only 41% and among male football players 51%. Both figures are the lowest in 8 years.

The University of Minnesota must redouble its commitment to reverse this trend, redouble it both locally and redouble it nationally. Under the able leadership of John Blanchard, we are dramatically improving academic counseling for athletes. And with the retention and hiring of coaches who share a strong commitment to academic performance in players, I am confident that we will be able to see substantial improvements in the future.

A major reason for athletes' high dropout rate is the rule making freshmen men's basketball players eligible for varsity play. These young people are often unacquainted with the rudiments of college life, but they are thrust into academic programs requiring a major proportion of their time and their energy. Not surprisingly, some cannot meet the demands of both academics and athletics. On the other hand, and I want to really stress this, more than 40% of our women and men scholar-athletes - in all sports - have a grade-point average of 3.0 or better, and as a whole, our athletes have a higher graduation rate than our student body as a whole.

As a step toward restoring the integrity of amateur athletics on campus, I am urging that we propose two important changes in NCAA policy:

• One is simply to eliminate freshman eligibility in men's basketball, giving athletes a year to establish their academic program before they compete;
  
• The other is to establish and implement an NCAA rule whereby an athlete who leaves a college or university for any reason must be in good academic standing upon departure, or else the institution will lose that scholarship until the time when the student would normally have graduated.

One pledge that's being kept in a highly visible way, with people falling in holes, being detoured, and so forth, is the $800 million rebuilding/restoration effort under way on all of the campuses. On the Twin Cities campus, the new Molecular Cellular Biology Building, the Riverbend Commons development, the Gateway Center, and the renovation of Coffman Memorial Union - a gift from our students to our students -- and these are just the beginning of a long list of projects.

Hard hats and construction zones are seen, too, occasionally a President blowing-up a hillside, and there are other developments at the other campuses: At Duluth, the new library in well along, the Regional Fitness Center and the Science Math addition in Morris is well along, and the Kiehl renovation and the new Early Childhood Development Center in Crookston. As the signs say, we are indeed "building a better U."

COORDINATE CAMPUSES: UMD

The coordinate campuses have contributed strongly to the honoring of our commitments. University of Minnesota, Duluth reports

• a record number of new freshmen: over 2,000 - a 12% increase over last year - and a student body of now 8,500, a goal which they expected to meet only two or three years down the line.
  
• they have hired 56 new faculty
  
• A new visualization and imaging lab that opened this fall
  
• The UMD Medical School ranked 4th nationally in the rural-medical specialty field and among the top 20 in primary care. The school is celebrating its 1,000th graduate this year.
  
• Taking freshwater research into the digital age, UMD has launched the Blue Heron, a research vessel with the most advanced technology of its kind on the Great Lakes, to study currents, sediments, and climatological phenomena.

The Crookston campus has been viewed as a leader in the technology revolution in higher education since 1993, when UMC became the first college in the nation to issue laptop computers to all students. That high standing continues, as reflected in UMC's recent ranking of #2 among public regional institutions in the Midwest by U.S. News and World Report Magazine.

Crookston is fulfilling the promise of technology in education. Fully 70% of its classrooms and 100% of student lounges, common areas, and residence-hall rooms are wired to the campus network and the Internet.

The faculty, too, are setting the pace for technology-assisted teaching. Professors are training in the use of electronic instructional devices, often working with students and colleagues to develop new courseware. Last summer, typically, two-thirds of the faculty spent time at a special camp for this purpose.

MORRIS

The University of Minnesota, Morris is one of only 7 public institutions classified by the Carnegie Commission as a "national" liberal arts college. That puts UMM in a league with some 160 of America's premier private institutions.

To keep UMM's facilities up to date, the Morris Science Project is implementing Phase I, refurbishing the Science building with a sizable addition and state-of-the-art equipment for teaching and research. The work will be completed in the spring of 2000 and fully operational the following fall.

Finally, I turn to the promises made among the colleges and campuses through the campus compact process.

As I mentioned at the outset of these remarks, our community functions best when legalistic strictures can be avoided; and this was the intent of the compact process that the Provost and I introduced a couple of years ago. Less restrictive than formal contracts, but more specific and more realistic than most planning documents, compacts have a number of features that I think are advantageous:

• Chief among them is that the compact agreements between the Provost and colleges impose obligations on both sides, building relationships that are horizontal, cooperative, and reciprocal, rather than relationships that are hierarchical. It also facilitates buy-in from each of the partners to the compact.
  
• In addition to that, compacts integrate the planning, budgeting, and evaluation processes by focusing on the full range of objectives, for the college or for the campus, from faculty salaries, faculty lines, research support, technicians, to enrollment plans, renovations, and graduate fellowships.

• cohort programs for diverse student groups,
  
• recruitment and retention of underrepresented faculty,
  
• outreach efforts into the K-12 communities, as well as increased support for instructional sign-language interpreters and
  
• continued support for Native American students on the Morris campus.

• electronic commerce;
  
• law and liberal arts;
  
• health and technology;
  
• environment and sustainable resources;
  
• urban and regional planning;
  
• neuroscience and human development;
  
• arts and the humanities; and
  
• global studies.

In conclusion, and some of you feared that I would never get there, I would like borrow a metaphor from government leaders who refer to the "ship of state" in referring to institutional self-governance. To keep a ship afloat, to keep it on course, to keep it sailing fast, you have to take care of the entire ship. You need to hire an outstanding crew, but you also have to paint the hull, caulk the seams, patch the sails, and repair the masts. You even need, and I think that you can relate to this, a great cook! That's what a university is like. We need the best faculty and staff that we can find and to retain and attract them with competitive salaries, at the same time we have to address the full array of operational needs and obligations.

What we strive for is a balance between all of our needs and aspirations. This is not a science--it is an art. With mutual trust, and the reciprocity in the compacts among us, together we will take the great sailing ship far. Thank you very much.

Q: The Regents and yourself seem locked in a frame of mind conducive with the Twin Cities on budgetary matters, which penalizes students, staff, and faculty who reside at the coordinate campuses. As President, you preside over all four campuses and are no longer provost for the Twin Cities campus. With this in mind, why has Morris only had visits from you five times in the past three years?

A: Over my two years as President, I have visited the Morris campus about five times. I agree that I need to visit the coordinate campuses more. In part, these campuses each have a chancellor who oversees the relationships with the student body. As part of my performance plan with the Regents, I noted that I was going to visit the student bodies more frequently.

Q: In light of the recent Cargill donation, do you think that the University should try to rescind the 1980 patent act and tax recovery act that makes corporate donations tax deductible and patents profitable for the University?

A: I would not support rescinding these acts because they were wonderful for universities and help to support great research on campus. There are structures in place, such as the Center for Bioethics, to make sure that these efforts are policed in terms of their ethical considerations and their impact on people's health.

Q: Is it possible for the University to start a series of discussions on the nature of the University with respect to changing times?

A: This is something that the University needs to discuss. Earlier today, the Faculty Consultative Committee (FCC) and others met to discuss the intellectual future of the University. We are facing many challenges, such as the reintegration of disciplines, which need to be discussed. The faculty need to be involved in this process because they are the future of the University.

Q: What has been the role of Morris and where do you see Morris in the future?

A: Morris is a great liberal arts institution, one of the few in the public sector, with a highly honed sense of community. In the 21^st century, the overall mission is to preserve the liberal arts and the campus environment through high quality teaching and able students. Further, as the Science and Math Center progresses, the students and faculty need to ask serious questions about where liberal arts should go in the next century. It is not a static process so the campus must be conscious of these changes.

Q: Could you say more about private sector partnerships for raising faculty salaries and what the faculty might do to help in this process?

A: The Academic Health Center (AHC) has some special problems, one of which is that so little of the AHC funding is appropriated by the state. In general, state revenues to support the core educational function of the University are below where they need to be which leads to other problems. It is hard to get legislators to understand the importance of high faculty salaries as a means of retention. Presidents around the country are having the same problem selling their position to legislative bodies. The proposed idea is that the legislature would take primary responsibility for funding new positions, programs, and buildings, but that the University would create professorships and chairs which would generate income, a portion of which could be used to supplement faculty salaries and a portion for other needs. This is a difficult strategy because it is slow and the University would need a broader array of endowments to cover a larger proportion of the faculty. Alumni and private supporters understand competitive salaries and are in a better position to react to the situation. The University needs a 15% increase in faculty salaries, net of inflation, and we need it tomorrow morning. Even last year, in a time of the biggest surplus in state history, our needs were not met. This will be the centerpiece of the capital campaign. Faculty can help by getting involved in the capital campaign and adding a face to the stories that are being told.

Q: What do you view as Crookston's role within the University?

A: Crookston is also part of the diversity of the University by offering a technology focus. In order to survive and flourish, it has to keep developing this emphasis in each discipline. The campus needs to remain strong in terms of quality and scale.

Q: In regards to study abroad and other opportunities that go beyond the classroom, many students struggle just to afford tuition and housing. You have stated on several occasions that you want to expand the study abroad program. How can we do this when so many students cannot afford it? In general, how can we get more students to participate in a program that extends their education beyond a classroom setting?

A: There are three answers: scholarships, scholarships, and scholarships. This has been my strategy from the start. The biggest barrier for these programs has been the program cost and the lost income from not being able to work while abroad. The University needs to put more funds into this budget and might be a good item to include in the capital campaign. The University also needs to make sure that many of the programs are department based to provide more structure for students and to guarantee the validity of the program. More funds also need to be directed into undergraduate research stipends to get students out of the traditional classroom setting. Internships and community service are also beneficial to students.

Q: Can you speculate on the success of the University's bonding bill for this year? Are their any areas of special emphasis in this request?

A: The bonding proposal is for $134 million dollars with another $60 million from donations or other funds to retire the building debt. It is too early to predict, but it is a reasonable bill. The bill includes funding for: safety, completion of the Molecular Biology Building, renovation of the Arts building, a performance center at Duluth, and Phase II of Math and Science at Morris. Historically, the University receives 15% of the total bonding bill for the state. If the state bonding bill is set at $400 million, then the University's request would be decimated. If the bill is more in the $700-800 million range, then we stand a better chance.

Q: One of your main missions was to bring a service culture to the University. Recently, service staff have been faced with skeletal access to PeopleSoft, or none at all. With the setbacks and negative press surrounding PeopleSoft, what assurance can support staff give faculty and students that we can continue to provide adequate services?

A: There are other institutions that are further behind the University and are spending more for it, but this is not a good answer. I have confidence in our team, and while we have been over budget it is has not been in the catastrophic area. We have top-notch people working on the project to fulfill our goals, but these goals will probably be later and more expensive than was promised. I do apologize to students and staff for the delays, but I ask that you keep the faith.

Q: Do you envision any changes in the promotion and tenure system?

A: I do not envision any major changes at this time, although the Senate has presented some stylistic changes. Following the last battle, a peace treaty has been reached and tranquility is now seen on campus. I would therefore, not lightly undertake any changes. On the other hand, if the faculty have strong feelings, this would be a different matter.

MOTION:

For the University Senate to amend the University Senate Rules, Article III, Section 2 (additions are in CAPS). (A simple majority is required for approval.)

COMMENT:

Unlike the Rules amendments in Agenda Item 10, which were only editorial, these Rules amendments represent an actual change in ex officio membership. Although seen as non-controversial, the Business and Rules Committee believed they should be drawn to the attention of the Senate.

Part A

- Faculty Consultative--Vice chair of the Faculty Senate (voting); Chairs of the Educational Policy, Faculty Affairs, Finance and Planning, and Research Committees (if a non-faculty member is appointed as chair of one of the four committees, then the faculty members of that committee shall elect from among themselves a representative); elected representative from the Duluth faculty eligible to vote in Senate elections; FACULTY LEGISLATIVE LIAISON

COMMENT:

This Rules change brings the rules into conformity with long-standing practice. The Faculty Consultative Committee designates a faculty member to serve as the faculty's representative at the legislature and with the Governor; the individual appointed is supported through the President's office. FCC believes that it is important for the faculty legislative liaison to be a member of FCC, and attend its meetings, so that he or she is familiar with the issues of concern to the faculty.

Part B

- Faculty Affairs--Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost; OFFICE OF THE TREASURER [office of chief financial officer] ([one from] Asset Management [and one from Employee Benefits]); Chair (or his/her designee) of the Equal Employment Opportunity for Women Committee; representative of the UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA Retirees Association; Office of the Vice President for Human Resources (TWO REPRESENTATIVES, INCLUDING ONE FROM EMPLOYEE BENEFITS); CHAIR (OR HIS/HER DESIGNEE) OF THE ACADEMIC HEALTH CENTER FACULTY AFFAIRS SUBCOMMITTEE

...

- Finance and Planning--CONTROLLER'S ORGANIZATION [office of the chief financial officer (two representatives)]; Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost ([two representatives, including] one from [the Office of Planning and Analysis] INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH AND REPORTING AND ONE FROM THE OFFICE OF BUDGET AND FINANCE); OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT FOR UNIVERSITY SERVICES; CHAIR (OR HIS/HER DESIGNEE) OF THE ACADEMIC HEALTH CENTER FINANCE AND PLANNING SUBCOMMITTEE

...

COMMENT:

The Senate Committees on Faculty Affairs (SCFA) and Finance and Planning (SCFP) and the AHC Committees on Faculty Affairs and Finance and Planning believe it would be beneficial to have the chair of the AHC committee serve as ex officio on the Senate counterpart in order to ensure an adequate flow of information in both directions.

FRED MORRISON, Chair
BUSINESS AND RULES COMMITTEE

DISCUSSION:

Professor Fred Morrison, chair of the Senate Consultative Committee (SCC), said that these amendments reflect the changes made to department names for the ex officio members serving on Senate committees.

With no discussion, a vote was taken and the motion was approved.

APPROVED

MOTION:

To amend the Twin Cities Campus Assembly Constitution, Article VI. Either a two-thirds majority of all voting members (117) of the Assembly at one meeting, or a majority of all voting members (88) of the Assembly at each of two meetings is required for approval. This is the first meeting at which this item is being presented. [deletions are struck-out]

ARTICLE VI. AMENDING PROCEDURE

An amendment to this Constitution shall be approved either by a two-thirds majority of all voting members of the Assembly at a meeting, or by a majority of all voting members of the Assembly at each of two meetings; and provided the proposed amendment has been distributed, in writing, to the persons and in the manner provided in Article II, Section 5, for distribution of the Assembly agenda, at least ten days prior to the date of the vote on the approval of the proposed amendment. An amendment shall be effective following approval by the Assembly, the University Senate, and the regents.

COMMENT:

In the course of preparing a bylaw change for the Senate, Senate staff discovered that the Assembly constitution requires that the University Senate must approve Twin Cities Campus Assembly constitutional amendments. No other campus assembly has such a requirement in its constitution, and no one was able to identify a rationale for such a provision. The Business and Rules Committee recommends that the requirement be deleted.

FRED MORRISON, Chair
BUSINESS AND RULES COMMITTEE

DISCUSSION:

Professor Fred Morrison, chair of the Senate Consultative Committee (SCC), said that this year, when the Business and Rules Committee was conducting business, it discovered that amendments to the Twin Cities Bylaws, in accordance with the Twin Cities Constitution, require approval by the Senate. This has not been the practice for the last twenty years, and therefore the motion asks that this requirement be deleted.

With no discussion, a vote was taken with 81 in favor and none opposed. The motion was not approved since it required 117 in favor and will return to the Assembly on December 2.

NOT APPROVED

MOTION:

For the Faculty Senate to approve the following resolution. (A simple majority is required for approval.)

Decisions about hiring, retaining, and dismissing members of the faculty have long-lasting effects. They shape curricular and scholarly agendas of both departments and colleges. They confirm or modify, strengthen or weaken, their values and standards. They exercise a long-lasting influence upon the quality of work done by the faculty, individually and collectively. In addition, the practice of making principled decisions in these matters creates an ethos of choosing and rewarding excellence that serves well the University as a whole. This ethos is imperiled when lines are withdrawn from departments that initiate the denial of tenure to a probationary faculty member or proceed to remove a tenured faculty member for cause.

Therefore, be it resolved that departments terminating probationary faculty, or dismissing tenured faculty for cause, should retain the line vacated by such action. The lack of such assurance weakens the collegiate units that do not follow this practice, and the weakening of these units weakens the University as a whole.

COMMENT:

This resolution was adopted by the Senate Committee on Faculty Affairs on June 3, 1999, without dissent and with only four members not voting. SCFA recommends that the Faculty Senate adopt this resolution as a "sense of the Senate" statement.

Denials of tenure by departments are few and dismissal for cause rare. This is all the more reason why departments should not be disadvantaged for taking these actions. To be sure, it is equally important that departments should not disguise arbitrary actions under the cloak of principle by terminating good people for bad reasons. The processes of review and appeal carefully built over the years, however, make it possible for deans and faculty review committees to distinguish good departmental decisions from bad ones--and in most instances to correct the bad ones. In this way the University quite properly protects worthy members of the faculty from arbitrary or mistaken actions by departments. It should protect as well the integrity and future well-being of departments that act responsibly and upon principle in terminating the employment of members of their faculty. Many collegiate units of the University already provide such protection. The others should follow this example, for the good of their faculties and a better future for the University.

The needs of administrators for flexibility in shaping a department or college can be served in other ways than by damaging an ethos of choosing and encouraging excellence.

KENT BALES, 1998-99 Chair
FACULTY AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

DISCUSSION:

Professor Kent Bales, 1998-99 chair of the Faculty Affairs Committee (SCFA), said that this matter was brought to the committee last year. Following committee discussion, it was decided that there were two parts to this problem: action by deans and the problem faced by department not knowing if their actions would result in losing a faculty line. SCFA is proposing this resolution as a sense of the Senate, rather than a policy since the committee felt that this problem could not effectively be handled by a policy and that the Regents would not be open to a policy on this matter.

With no discussion, a vote was taken and the motion was approved.

APPROVED

The meeting was adjourned at 4:38 p.m.

Rebecca Hippert
Abstractor

Faculty/academic professional senators from the following units may ask any faculty/academic professional from within their unit who is eligible to vote for senators to serve as an alternate;

With deep regret the UMD College of Science and Engineering informs you of the death on June 1 of Dorab Baria, Professor of Chemical Engineering. Professor Baria began at UMD in 1985 and was instrumental in the development and growth of the engineering programs. His contributions in curriculum and program development, educational leadership, and building relationships with practicing professional engineers were innumerable and invaluable. He was very active in national organizations dealing with engineering education, and played an integral role in establishing relationships between the engineering programs at UMD and the Community Colleges in Minnesota. In recognition of Dr. Baria's vision, energy, and commitment, he was given the Dean's Excellence Award in the College of Science and Engineering in April of 1996, the only person to have been so honored to date. He shall be greatly missed. Contributions in his honor may be made to the Baria Scholarship in the Department of Chemical Engineering, which Dr. Baria established and endowed some years ago. Contact 726-7126.

Ralph Comstock, Regents Professor Emeritus of Genetics and head of the Department of Genetics from 1965 to1968, died Tuesday, July 6, in Sun City, Ariz. He was 86.

Comstock is internationally recognized for his pioneering work in quantitative genetics. He made substantial contributions to the study and use of artificial insemination and is credited as the co-creator of a breeding method used widely for both plants and animals. The method, reciprocal recurrent selection, enables breeders to develop the genetic structure of two populations to obtain the maximum-performance hybrid.

Comstock earned his bachelor's degree in agriculture (1934), master's degree in animal husbandry (1936) and doctorate in animal breeding(1938) from the University of Minnesota, where he was an instructor and assistant professor in animal husbandry from 1937 to 1943. He was an associate professor at North Carolina State College in Raleigh from 1943 to 1946, then served as animal husbandry department head at the Puerto Rico Agricultural Experiment Station for a year before returning to North Carolina State College as a professor. He joined the University of Minnesota in 1957 as a professor of animal husbandry in charge of animal breeding research.

With the formation of the College of Biological Sciences in 1965, Comstock was named head of the newly formed Department of Genetics. He held that position until 1968, when he was named a Regents Professor. He retired from the University in 1981.

Comstock won the Animal Genetics and Breeding Award from the American Society of Animal Science in 1966. He authored more than 90 major publications, including the 1996 book, "Quantitative Genetics With Special Reference to Plant and Animal Breeding."

He is survived by his wife, Helen; children Mary Sue and John; and two grandchildren.

The family suggests that memorials be sent to Amnesty International, U.S.A., 322 8th Ave, New York, NY 10001.

LaVell Henderson, professor emeritus of biochemistry and associate dean of the College of Biological Sciences (CBS) from 1978 to 1984, died Saturday, May 29, of a heart attack at his home in Sandy, Utah. He was 81.

A national leader in nutritional science, Henderson received the Borden Award in Nutrition in 1970. He served as president of the American Institute of Nutrition and chair of the Nutrition Study Section of the National Institutes of Health.

Henderson earned his bachelor's degree in chemistry from Utah State University in 1939 and his master's degree (1941) and doctorate (1947) in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He was an assistant professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana, from 1948 to 1957 and head of the biochemistry department at Oklahoma State University from 1957 to 1963. He joined the University in 1963 as professor and head of the biochemistry department; he was head of the department for 11 years. He became associate dean of CBS in 1978, a position he held until his retirement in 1984.

Henderson served on the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academy of Sciences, the editorial board of the Journal of Nutrition, and several committees of the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. The author of more than 140 research papers on nutritional biochemistry and enzymology, he received an honorary Doctor of Science degree in 1974 and the Centennial Recognition Award in 1988 from Utah State University.

He is survived by his wife, Maurine Criddle Henderson; daughters Janet Landerman, Jeanne Dickey and Linda Buchman; nine grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.

The family suggests that memorials be sent to the CBS' L.M. Henderson Scholarship Fund.

M. Harry Lease, 72, of Harvard Avenue died Saturday, August 28, 1999, in his home from complications of heart disease and cancer.

Harry was born Aug. 15, 1927, in Plainfield, IN. He received degrees from Indiana University, including a Ph.D. in political science. His first teaching position was with the University of Miami one year prior to accepting a position at the University of Minnesota-Duluth, where he taught for 37 years.

Harry was a mentor to students, including many whom successfully completed law school. He was also involved in administration, including head of the University of Minnesota-Duluth Political Science Department, acting academic vice provost, assistant dean of the Graduate School, University of Minnesota, and director of the Study in England Program and many other university and campus committees. Harry was also heavily involved in politics and community. His political involvement included a research fellowship with the Western States Democratic committee, being chairperson of the St. Louis County Study Commission, alternate delegate to the Democratic National Convention, listed in Who's Who in American Politics, an active participant in many political campaigns. His community involvement included the Izaak Walton League, the Duluth Library Board, and past president of Schussboomers. Harry was a political columnist for the Duluth News-Tribune. He was an avid tennis and basketball player, runner, fisherman, and a true Hoosiers fan.

Harry was preceded in death by his parents, Martin and Beatrice (Krebs) Lease; and his brother, Joseph.

He is survived by his wife, Jeanne (Lachance); a daughter, Deborah of Madison, WI; a son, Joshua of Alexandria, VA; and many nieces and nephews.

The family requests memorials to the University of Minnesota-Duluth Scholarship Fund, c/o Political Science Department.

C. Walton Lillehei, world-renowned as the "Father of Open-Heart Surgery," died on July 5, 1999, at the age of 80.

Lillehei was born in Minneapolis on October 23, 1918. He earned five degrees at the University of Minnesota, including his B.S. (with distinction) in 1939, his M.D. (Alpha Omega Alpha) in 1942, his M.S. in physiology in 1951, and his Ph.D. in surgery in 1951. A Department of Surgery professor from 1951 to 1967, he participated in the world's first successful open-heart operation (using hypothermia) on September 2, 1952, at the University. He went on to perform the world's first open-heart operation using cross-circulation on March 26, 1954, at the University. In1958, he was responsible for the world's first use of a small, portable, battery-powered pacemaker, invented by Earl Bakken (an employee of the University who later founded Medtronic) at Lillehei's behest. Lillehei also developed and implanted the world's first prosthetic heart valves: the Lillehei-Nakib toroidal disc (1966), the Lillehei-Kaster pivoting disc (1967), and the Kalke-Lillehei rigid bileaflet prosthesis (1968).

A dedicated educator, Lillehei trained more than 150 cardiac surgeons from 40 nations, including Dr. Christiaan Barnard (a fellow University Ph.D. recipient in the 1950s who went on to perform the world's first heart transplant in South Africa). In 1967, he was appointed Lewis Atterbury Stimson professor and chairman of the surgery department at Cornell Medical Center, New York. He returned to St. Paul in 1975, where he became the director of medical affairs at St. Jude Medical, Inc. He was also named a clinical professor in the Department of Surgery at the University.

Lillehei's countless honors include the Bronze Star for World War II service in Italy, the 1955 Lasker Award, induction in 1993 into the Minnesota Inventors Hall of Fame, and the 1996 Harvey Prize in Science and Technology. In 1966-67, he served as president of the American College of Cardiology.

He is survived by his wife, Kaye Lillehei; three children (one son preceded him in death); seven grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

Dewain O. Long was a dedicated counselor and educator who contributed much to University students and programs. Born in Beresfort, South Dakota, his family moved to Sioux Falls and then to Aberdeen, South Dakota, where he attended High School. After attending Westmore College, LeMans, Iowa in 1942-43, Wabash College in Crawsfordsville, Indiana 1943-44, and the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque 1944-45, he attended and was awarded his BA at North Central College, Naperville, Illinois, during 1946-48. Dewain was a member of Sigma Chi Fraternity and the NROTC program.

He served in the Navy V12 Unit for eight years, first in the west Pacific and Japan during WWII and later in Korea. Discharged in 1953 as a Lieutenant, Dewain returned from his ship in Korea to serve in the reserve and to continue his love of academics as a University of Minnesota Graduate Student while serving as a counselor in the General College.

Dewain Long married Ruth Berkman in 1955. They have four children; Dean Long of Minnetonka, Martha Ochs of Maple Plain, Andrew Long of Rapid City, SD, and Constance Lowe of Edina. Seven grandchildren have brought them joy.

Early in his counseling career Assistant Professor Long recognized the need for sometimes unconventional techniques which are now generally accepted procedures. He encouraged young people to identify their full potential and their real interests, and then to go for the workable, not the unattainable. He understood, and helped colleagues understand, students' wide range of individual differences and needs.

From counseling Dewain moved into other areas within the College. He became Associate Professor of Science Business and Mathematics where he taught the Business Mathematics and Developmental Mathematics courses.

Moving back to student support services, Professor Long became Head of Student Services and then Assistant to the Dean of Admissions & Outreach programs, all relating to his basic ideology of student needs. As head of Student Services, he required counseling interns to become more integrated into the fabric of the College by becoming active in its activities, assisting with college teaching if appropriate, and be free to spend time on College related research. Under Dewain's guidance the General College was designated as an approved training site by the American Psychological Association.

His influence in Outreach Programs helped to establish on-site courses to introduce or re-introduce employees to college courses. Western Electric, Control Data, and Land O' Lakes were among the early sites developed by Professor Long. He was instrumental in forming an agreement with University Flight Facilities to offer credit for part of the General College Aviation Program.

As Assistant to the Dean, Professor Long became instrumental in developing and evaluating prior off-campus learning experiences. He helped enhance and strengthen the process of evaluating post-secondary training and work experience for college credit as General College developed its' certificate and degree programs. This preceded, and set precedent for, national programs, such as CAEL, to recognize that all learning does not occur in the formal classroom.

Due in part to his efforts, the college became known throughout the country for its' accomplishments in student services. Dewain was directly involved in the admission process, especially in evaluating transfer-in credits. He was also a valuable resource to students and faculty concerning transfer information as students continued their academic careers beyond General College.