| Present: | R. Daluge, L. Heideman, B. Holden, F. Kooistra, J. Mather, E. Maurer, M. Theis, M. Westler, B. Wilson, R. Wolkowski, and T. Wright. |
Meeting was called to order by Frank Kooistra at 8:40 a.m.
Budget Update-The College has received a $540,000 base budget reduction and the Dean's Office is working with departments to implement the reduction. The reduction is about 1.2% of the total CALS budget and is expected to go to 3%. The additional amount will be addressed with targeted reductions. All departments except two took the cut out of S&E. The College is implementing a significant reduction in the budget at the Ashland Research Station. J. Torphy expects the budget cut to double. If that occurs, the CALS portion of the reduction will be about $1M and some layoffs will likely occur.
Admissions Suspension-The Board of Regents has suspended undergraduate admissions on all UW System campuses. R. Daluge said this is causing a problem with Short Course. He has been getting inquiries as to whether the freeze affects Short Course and it doesn't. He suggested getting a new release out.
Hiring Freeze-F. Kooistra said the College will continue recruitment but there will be no letters of offer at this time. They are waiting to get more clarification from Campus.
Capital Budget-The budget reduction has not affected the Capital budget right now but it could be in jeopardy.
CASI Elections-The call for nominations should go out before the next meeting. B. Bonacci is resigning from CASI and the Assembly. Other members whose terms are ending are C. Staber, B. Holden, J. Mather, and E. Maurer.
Annual Report-Colleen McCabe wants an annual report from all CASI's by March 24. F. Kooistra is willing to write the report but has asked each of the subcommittee chairs to email him three or four bullets indicating what that subcommittee has accomplished this past year.
Theis made a motion to approve the minutes. T. Wright second the motion.
Soil and Plant Analysis Lab-Daniels received the bid and are slightly under the estimate.
Microbial Sciences-The architects are on board. Nine days of programming interaction are scheduled from now until summer. Groundbreaking is expected during the spring of 2004 with construction lasting two years. Moving Bacteriology into Old Biochemistry will occur in four stages from July 1, 2002 to June 30, 2003. Construction of Biochemistry, Phase II will probably take place in 2006 or 2007.
Parking-There will be three rates for parking beginning September 1, 2002-$450 for surface lots, $650 for high demand surface lots and above-ground ramps, and $990 for gated lots and underground ramps. There will no longer be free parking for emeritus professors. They will need to get on their department's priority list if they want parking. Transportation Services is negotiating with Madison Metro to get free rides for University staff. The increase in rates will subsidize the bus rides. They are also looking into park and ride options. The Campus will be losing 1,000 parking spaces and there were 300 employees without parking last September so Transportation Services decided this was the time to re-evaluate and revamp the parking system.
J. Mather distributed and discussed the survey results from L&S on academic staff governance. He used it as a model for a survey to be used in CALS. The draft survey was distributed and discussed by Committee members. John tried to keep the survey as simple as possible with yes/no answers. It will be sent to all department chairs and center directors. It was suggested that he add a question asking if some of the issues are practice or formal policy. Also, add a question about minutes-are they posted or made available to others in the department? M. Theis asked if a question should be added regarding retreats. John will make the changes suggested and email them to all CASI members for approval before the survey is sent out. F. Kooistra would like Dean Aberle to distribute the survey.
R. Wolkowski reported that Roger Flashinski, Susan Hirano, and Thomas Steele will be receiving Academic Staff Awards for Excellence this year. S. Bertics will be receiving a campus-wide award.
The APC will be evaluating faculty position requests for 2002-03. Because of the budget situation, he doesn't know if any of the positions will be filled. When faculty positions are vacated, they become under the control of CALS Administration and the departments must make formal requests each year to fill those positions. The position requests are sent to P. Ludden who brings them before the APC. The APC members rank each position high, medium or low. The lows are not considered. They then have the opportunity to elevate medium ranked positions to high. The highs are ranked. At the same time the Dean's Executive staff is ranking them. The Dean makes the final decision on which positions get approved.
The "Targeting Tomorrow" document has been drafted and will be finalized in July. The CASI will be asked to review the document and make comments/suggestions. J. Simons will email the Committee a copy.
F. Kooistra announced that the Chancellor has deferred construction of Sterling Hall to 05-07. That means the two CALS projects, Integrated Dairy Facility, Phase II, and Biological Systems Engineering, will move up.
T. Wright reported on the lack of nominations for the academic staff awards. They had a total of 11 nominations for 3 awards. There was only 1 nomination for 1 of the awards. The subcommittee would like to know if they can award co-recipients and also if they can move nominees to a different category if the committee feels it is appropriate. R. Daluge said that for the campus awards, the committee contacts the nominator and recommends they nominate the person for another category the next year. Next year the Committee would like to develop a check list for amount of materials received.
A question was asked about the PDRC awards. Nancy Dorl is setting up a time for the subcommittee to meet and rank the proposals.
L. Heideman distributed the results of written evaluations for academic staff received by the HR office since last fall. Seven departments or centers have sent some evaluations. She will track department submissions and contact departments if submissions are missing.
Academic Staff Awards and Professional Development-Dave Russell is receiving a campus-wide classified recognition award. Two nominations were sent from CALS.
Communications, Web-site & Districting-B. Holden reported that the CASI website had been updated. C. Dillhunt is making changes to a clone website before moving it to the actual site.
Nominations and Mentoring-Packets for new academic staff employees were distributed to CASI members.
Personnel Procedures and Compensation-The College is doing a 4.24% exercise and it will be funded by the tuition increase.
Governance-Nothing more to report.
Meeting adjourned at 10:20 a.m.
Submitted 3/15/02
J. Simons