| Present: | R. Daluge, L. Davis, C. Dillhunt, L. Heideman, K. Holtgraver, B. Hudelson, B. Jensen, F. Kooistra, R. Monson, R. Russell, M. Theis, M. Westler, and T. Wright |
Meeting was called to order by Frank Kooistra at 1:05 p.m.
Since several individuals are new to CASI, introductions were made again this month.
Campus Appointments-Two searches are in process for campus appointments. Dean Aberle is chairing the search for the Assistant Vice Chancellor for Facilities Planning and Management and the short list has been forwarded to the Chancellor. F. Kooistra is on the search committee for J. Torphy's replacement. They have a long, short list and are asking for five letters of recommendation for those individuals.
David Hogg from Entomology is our new Executive Associate Dean. P. Ludden left to become Dean of the College of Natural Resources at the University of California, Berkeley.
Facilities-The Soil and Plant Analysis Lab has been delayed. Microbial Sciences is on track. The faculty offices are not located next to the labs and some faculty are not happy with that arrangement. Campus wants faculty offices away from the labs in more unsecure areas.
R. Daluge asked about the budget. Neither candidate for governor has said how they will treat the budget. A document was put together for the Economic Summit in Milwaukee recommending an increase in sales tax be from 5% to 6%, cuts in budgets for K-12 and prisons, a $50M cut for UW System, and a cut in personal property tax. These recommendations would generate $1.5B in revenue and include an anticipated 3% economic growth. If Wisconsin had the average per capita income, there would not be a deficit. Both candidates will have a hard time coming up with a new plan. The budget deficit will impact building programs because they rely on bonds.
Dean Aberle will be meeting with the staff this afternoon and the proposal will be reviewed by the APC tomorrow. The proposal involves creating a new LTC. It will be a paper Center with no one payrolled through the Center except the Director, a half-time program assistant, and possibly a half-time financial assistant. Everyone else would be paid through academic departments and have a zero-dollar appointment in the Center. Dean Aberle has appointed a committee of faculty and academic staff to look at governance in the Center. Administrative personnel will not be retained, the librarian will be retained half time and may be associated with the director or may be appointed in International Agricultural Programs. If a decision is finalized at the APC meeting, individuals will meet with F. Kooistra, L. Heideman, International Agricultural Programs, and the Academic Personnel Office regarding their future options. Some of the individuals have partial funding on existing budgets.
No report. R. Wolkowski could not attend CASI meeting.
L. Heideman reported that she and F. Kooistra are trying to address the lack of diversity in the College. They have met with Madison Times and UMOJA to find ways to increase the exposure of CALS. A one-page ad has been placed in UMOJA describing how much hiring CALS does and a list of the different types of jobs. Trent Jackson was featured with a quote. CALS plans to put an ad in every other month. Madison Times will run ads with specific positions and job fairs.
F. Kooistra talked about Plan 2008. This is a ten-year plan to make UW-Madison more diverse. Each spring an event is held at Memorial Union where each school/college is assigned an area where they answer questions about what they are doing to create more diversity in their school/college. Last year CALS had some very tough questions and some couldn't be answered. Currently, the College has 4 African American faculty, 7 African American academic staff, and 0 African American classified staff. One factor is that CALS doesn't pay as much as private industry. The People Program targets minority kids from grades 6 through 12. Out of 50-60+ seniors involved in the program, 27 came to Madison. CALS has dedicated two merit scholarships for individuals from this program.
F. Kooistra and L. Heideman will be meeting with MATC to find ways to encourage their graduates to consider working at CALS. R. Daluge said some companies have stopped recruiting at UW-Madison because we don't have enough diversity.
F. Kooistra said that when you look at the academic staff gender equity statistics for ranges by department and title, in some cases men were falling behind women.
Academic Staff Awards and PD-T. Wright reported that the Academic Staff Development Grant Proposals are due on Friday (10/25). Only one proposal has come in so far. Some departments do not have the funding to cover the other half of the grants. Next year we may want to use part of the money from the training budget in Human Resources to help fund these grants.
Communications, Web-site & Districting-If you want to send any information out by ward, C. Dillhunt has lists.
Nominations and Mentoring-R. Daluge would like everyone to review academic staff representation on the College standing committees and send any thoughts to him. (They can be found at: http://www.cals.wisc.edu/CALSCommittees/.)
Personnel Procedures and Compensations-B. Jensen distributed a draft document regarding performance evaluations to be emailed to academic staff. If you have any questions, you should get back to him or a member of his subcommittee. Following are some ideas for future informational emails:
Governance-R. Monson has contacted J. Mather and John will forward the materials he has from last year. The survey never got sent out requesting information about governance. There is not a lot of support for shared governance in the departments.
Submitted 10/28/02
J. Simons