| Present: | R. Daluge, B. Holden, B. Jensen, F. Kooistra, P. Leeds, E. Maurer, C. Staber, W. Ross, M. Westler, B. Wilson, and T. Wright. |
Meeting was called to order by Frank Kooistra at 8:35 a.m.
Work has begun to repair the roof on the dairy barn at Arlington. David Bohnhoff is working with the contractor but problems still exist. There is a meeting today with the State, CALS, and the contractor.
CALS has submitted their Capital Building Program proposal for 2003-09. Biostar is a go in the budget. Construction of the first building in Biostar, the Genetics and Biotech. addition, will probably not begin until after the budget is signed this fall. Microbial Sciences is scheduled for construction in 03-05; Biochemistry, Phase II is scheduled for 07-09; and the biology building sometime after that.
In the Capital Building Program proposal, Dean Aberle made the following recommendations:
E. Maurer said the College's Sesquicentennial markers are in and 19 plaques are going up this week.
A question was raised about the CALS fleet vehicles. The 15-passenger vans are going to UW Car Fleet. CALS will keep the trucks and sedans. The rates will be going up.
T. Wright made a motion to approve the minutes. M. Westler second the motion.
There were no questions.
The By-laws were distributed by email prior to the meeting. B. Wilson asked for any comments/recommendations. A couple of changes were made: 1) the sections should be renumbered, and 2) IV.A.4 should read: In general, this subcommittee is responsible for monitoring the compensation and personnel policies and procedures of the college. The second sentence in that paragraph should be eliminated.
R. Daluge made a motion to accept the minutes as amended. M. Westler second the motion.
E. Maurer asked if any progress had been made on the email list for academic staff. F. Kooistra will check with C. Dillhunt.
W. Ross reported that the subcommittee decided this program should be called an orientation program. They would like to develop a network of academic staff representatives to help orient new employees. The committee is putting together a folder of information that would be useful to new employees. They had several pieces with information about academic staff, the College, and the University. She asked for additional information that could be included. Suggestions included: welcome letter from the Dean, targeted list of academic staff (i.e., geographic, in title), website addresses of pertinent information, list of academic staff involved in committees, places to visit on campus, and places to eat or have brown lunches.
The committee will develop a list of materials for CASI to review at the next meeting and decide what to include or eliminate.
The subcommittee also sent out a questionnaire to department administrators to see what kind of information they currently provide to new academic staff.
F. Kooistra distributed a handout on the results of the job security exercise for academic staff. L. Heideman will discuss it in more detail at the next meeting.
B. Jensen handed out a draft of CALS CASI Guidelines for Academic Staff Performance Evaluations. Any comments/changes should be forwarded to him. According to ASPP, management is required to review academic staff members annually.
The committee strongly feels that:
The draft included guidelines for the departments to use in developing their own evaluation systems.
E. Maurer suggested they also include a set of procedures to follow when doing the evaluation.
The draft will be reviewed at the next CASI meeting after the committee has had time to review it more carefully.
The committee decided to meet on more time this semester. The meeting will be held on May 4, 8:30-10:00 a.m. in 250 Ag. Hall.
T. Wright made a motion to adjourn the meeting and B. Jensen second the motion.
Submitted 4/6/01
J. Simons