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FACULTY SENATE
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FACULTY SENATE
THE UNIVERSITY OF
ARIZONA®
January 24, 2005
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1. CALL TO ORDER
The meeting was called to order by Vice Chair Howell at 3:05 p.m. in the College of Law, Room 146
Present: Senators Baca, Bixby, Brobbel, Bui, Chandler, Chapman, Conway, Cromwell, Cusanovich, G. Davis, Eddy, Garcia, Garrett, Gruener, Hancock, Hildebrand, Howell, Kiefer, Larson, Likins, Marchalonis, Mitchell, Mountford, Patterson, Pintozzi, Pitt, Powell, Silverman, Smith, Spece, St. John, Sterling, Tatman, Tomanek, Weinand, Willerton, Witte, Zizza and Zwolinski. Robert Sankey served as Parliamentarian.
Absent: Senators Burd, Christenson, Dahlgran, D. Davis, Jenkins, Joens, Jones, Kinney, Mitchneck, San Martin, Songer, Strittmatter, Swanson, Timmermann, Ulreich, Vierling, and Worle.
2. OPEN SESSION
There were no speakers for the Open Session.
3. REPORTS
3A. ASUA President Alistair Chapman
ASUA will be working on four policy issues this term. The most pressing needs of students will be at the forefront of ASUA’s negotiations with the administration for tuition setting. ASUA will work with Student Affairs Policy Chair D. Davis and the committee to try to bring about posting syllabi online and linking to the Teacher-Course Evaluations. Increasing advisor accountability via the online notetaking software, linking all advisors including faculty advisors to these notes, and giving students access to these notes through Student Link is another of ASUA’s focus areas. And finally, increasing the Arizona Financial Aid Trust funding from the state is a final issue. The students are attempting to find a legislator who would be willing to introduce a bill to propose increasing the funding to be at a 2:1 ratio rather than the governor’s proposed 1:1.27.
3B. GPSC President Amanda Brobbel
Student Showcase winners and their exhibits will be on display at the legislature in Phoenix on February 8 for the annual AdVoCats event. Students have invited legislators to attend. GPSC has secured additional funding for travel grants for next year which should increase the number of recipients from one-third up to two-thirds of applicants. President Brobbel and James Eddy will travel to Washington D.C. along with students from ASU and NAU on Feb 17-19 to discuss higher education equity, accessibility and affordability. GPSC will soon be sending out requests for nominations for graduate student awards for Graduate Student Appreciation Week April 4-8, 2005.
3C. Secretary of the Faculty Robert Mitchell
No report.
3D. Vice Chair of the Faculty Wanda Howell
Vice Chair Howell announced that the voting for the general faculty primary election will begin February 21, 2005. Petitions are available now and are due in the Faculty Center by February 11. Twenty Senator-at-Large seats, five Committee of Eleven seats, two Committee on Committees, two Strategic Planning and Budget Advisory Committee, and four Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure seats are available. She asked sitting Senators-at-Large to advise the Faculty Center if they are not planning to run again and to encourage colleagues to run. The next meeting of the Faculty Senate will be on February 14, the second Monday of the month. The March, April and May meetings will be on the first Mondays of the month.
3E. Chair of the Faculty Jory Hancock
Chair Hancock will invite Strategic Planning and Budget Advisory Committee (SPBAC) Chair Tony Estrada to report to the Senate in the near future about that committee’s work. The UA representatives to the Arizona Board of Regents (ABOR) University System Redesign Study are Edie Auslander, Jory Hancock, Randy Groth and Juan Garcia. E. Auslander is on a needs assessment workgroup and J. Hancock is on a criteria assessment workgroup. They are both assigned to a third workgroup which is currently studying fifteen proposals and will draw up a composite of the best parts of those proposals. This group will meet on Wednesday prior to the ABOR meeting. The redesign discussion has focused some attention on UA South so the Senate Executive Committee has invited Dean Randy Groth to speak to the Senate today.
3F. Provost George Davis
Provost Davis reported that he will host the “Provost’s Breakfast” in early February at the Foundation which is intended to call attention
to members of college advisory committees who are interested in advancing development and inform them about what the University is
currently engaged in. Provost Davis will use this opportunity to discuss the past several years’ efforts in faculty recruitment. As part of
a strong marketing campaign, Kate Jensen from the Office of University Advancement, will be systematically calling attention to the
University’s outstanding accomplishments and achievements. Each week the Wildcat will profile a new faculty member such as visiting
faculty member Carol Rose from Yale, an expert in water and environmental law, and Professor David Breshears in Natural Resources,
an expert on drought and woodland regions from Los Alamos. The Eller College has succeeded in recruiting a new dean, Paul Portney,
who has been executive director and president of Resources for the Future (RFF) since 1995. Dr. Portney has been with Resources for
the Future in Washington D.C., a think tank spinoff of the Ford Foundation since 1972. RFF has focused on natural resources and the
environment and energy and has an outstanding research team conducting fundamental work related to informed policy in the areas of the
environment, energy and natural resources. Dr. Portney has held visiting faculty positions at Berkeley and Princeton and serves as Chief
Economist for the White House Council on Environmental Quality. Dr. Portney’s presence will formalize connections to the College of
Agriculture and Life Sciences and the College of Science as well as those colleges with which Eller already has established a connection.
Another outstanding recruit, Dr. Setsuko K. Chambers in gynecological oncology, has attracted the attention of Lute and Christine Olson,
who have pledged to raise $50M for the Division of Women's Cancers. Dr. Chambers is the Director of this division. Provost Davis
welcomed 31 National Merit Scholars who are prospective UA freshmen. He said these students consistently respond that the
opportunity for undergraduate research experience at UA is important to them, and therefore it is important that UA continues to
offer these opportunities. Vice President for Research Richard Powell will retire at the end of June 2005 and Provost Davis is initiating
an internal search for a permanent replacement and he hopes to identify the successor by June. Dr. Thomas Hixon has also announced
his intent to return to the faculty of Speech and Hearing, probably in August. An interim dean for the graduate college may be needed
before Dr. Hixon’s successor can be identified. A cause for celebration is Martin Tomasko and his team, who have brought Saturn’s
moon, Titan into close view and identified methane rivers and lakes that exist on its surface. Director Michael Drake and this team from
Lunar and Planetary Laboratory were introduced at the basketball halftime last week. Provost Davis commended the College of
Architecture and Landscape Architecture for an outstanding conference on urban design in arid regions. The mayor of Honolulu, who
attended this conference because his island has an arid side, gave a presentation on the importance of effective community planning
with objectives of environmental sustainability and living within one’s resource means. The Provost’s Office received 80-90 promotion
and tenure dossiers last week and Provost Davis will review them, maintaining the highest standards possible with respect to the stated
departmental and college standards.
3G. President Peter Likins
President Likins reviewed and explained the governor’s proposed budget. This year the Joint Legislative Budget Committee’s revenue projections are in line with or just a little higher than the governor’s projections and are quite realistic. Although the governor submitted a budget with some important benefits for UA, it does not provide the resources requested. The governor proposed $8.1M to cover both the employer and employee contributions to the Arizona Retirement Fund to cover the increase this year. The governor proposed to increase the state’s match of the Arizona Financial Aid Trust to be 1:1.27, not 1:2 as requested. UA’s enrollment growth money would total $1.1M and she allotted $1.4M for maintenance and operations of new facilities. UA asked for several decision packages; $2M proposed for teacher preparation received no response. UA requested $10M plus $1M each for ASU and NAU to study water sustainability but the governor proposed $.5M for each of the three universities. UA’s major request was for $20M to invest and strengthen the disciplines underlying the health and life sciences such as bioengineering, optical sciences and bio-imaging, social sciences and public health. The governor offered $6M in response to the $20M request but wants assurance that any startup costs for the opening class of 24 students at the Phoenix branch of the UA College of Medicine that begins in July ’06 will come from the $6M. Legislators do not want the July ’06 start date for the Phoenix COM to be delayed. One final dimension of the governor’s budget is to build the budget stability “rainy day fund” and earmark $20M of that for future investment on the College of Medicine.
4. QUESTION AND ANSWER PERIOD FOR AGENDA ITEM 3
Senator Silverman thanked Provost Davis for reporting on the positive activities here on campus and commended him for simultaneously recruiting both a drought and a water expert.
5. APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES OF DECEMBER 6, 2004
The minutes of December 6, 2004 were approved.
6. APPROVAL OF CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS FORWARDED AS A SECONDED MOTION FROM THE INSTRUCTION AND CURRICULUM POLICY COMMITTEE (attachment)
Consent agenda items 2, 3, and 4 detailed at the end of these minutes [Motions 2004/05-25 to 2004/05-27] were approved after Graduate College Dean Hixon assured the Senate that the entire Graduate Council and not just a “graduate council designee,” did vote to approve items three and four. Item 1, [Motions 2004/05-24] the approval of implementation authorization of a new academic program, the Doctor of Juridical Sciences, Scientiea Juridicae Doctor (SJD) was removed from Consent Agenda. Senators’ questions and comments included the following: 1) How can the College of Law offer this degree when only two faculty have the SJD degrees, and two more with JSD degrees. 2) The proposal does not seem to have received enough peer review since the college is not under the Graduate College. 3) Could an external peer review come in to review this proposal and ensure it meets the standards? Senator Willerton, Chair of the ICPC for Spring 2005, explained that program coordinator Marina Hadjioannou and Professor James Anaya from the Indigenous Peoples Law & Policy Program at the Law School are present today and may be able to address these concerns. Pr. Anaya explained that it is not uncommon in Law Schools for non-SJD’s to supervise SJD candidates, and that this is the case in the 60 SJD programs across the United States. The degree will be concentrated in international trade and indigenous peoples policy, areas for which the UA College of Law is unmatched and known worldwide. Individuals from around the world have approached the UA requesting to do this highest level of study. An external review will be conducted by the American Bar Association (ABA) and the highest criteria will be applied in this review. The Law College hopes to begin offering this degree in Fall 05 which requires ABOR approval this spring. ABOR must approve this program before it can receive the ABA’s review. There are precedents for degrees not being managed by the Graduate College in the Doctor of Pharmacy and Doctor of Medicine. More Senators’ questions continued: 4) The language doesn’t say the degree will only be offered in international trade and indigenous peoples policy. 5) The dissertation chair is not required to hold the SJD. 6) Why is it the SJD and not the JSD? Pr Anaya responded: the college is not going to preclude offering the SJD in some other concentration at some point in time but at this time it will be those two concentration areas. That a dissertation chair may not hold the SJD is not unusual for this type of degree. The terms SJD and JSD are interchangeable. Provost Davis spoke in support of this program because he has learned how competitive the programs are and the UA has heroic strengths in these areas and will attract additional outstanding scholars. The ABA will provide the credentials check of the faculty. The question was called. Motion passed with one abstention.
7. INFORMATION AND DISCUSSION: FIRST READING AND POSSIBLE ACTION: FLEET SAFETY POLICY (attachment)
Senator and Research Policy Committee Chair M. Cusanovich reported that the RPC had considered this policy and did not find anything to revise and forwarded it to the Senate as a seconded motion [Motion 2004/05-28] for approval. He explained that the insurance rate is lower if we implement such a policy. Senators’ questions and comments included: Why is a driver of a more mature age required to drive a vehicle with cargo than with humans? Senator Cusanovich asked Risk Management Director Steve Holland to respond. While he would have preferred 21 to be the age for High Occupancy Vehicles (HOV’s), many departments that use student employees to drive expressed that this would be a hardship. HOV’s require an age of 19 with a license for 3 years whereas the age requirement of 21 has to do with commercial driver’s license and involves background checks and homeland security issues. Motion passed with one abstention.
8. INFORMATION ITEM: REPORT ON UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA SOUTH
Provost Davis explained how UA is currently interacting with UA South (UAS) and how that relationship might be enhanced. One of the focused excellence proposals was to extend UAS more autonomy and now with ABOR approval, UAS may assume a broader role in serving Southern Arizona in the communities of Sierra Vista, Benson, Douglas, Nogales, and increasing activity in eastern Pima County. For UAS to expand would increase access, particularly among the non-traditional students. UAS embraces much greater diversity with respect to gender and ethnicity than UA, ASU, or NAU. Following a four-year discussion for the Bachelors of Applied Science (NBAS) degree to be offered by UAS, it became apparent that the approval process for UAS programs needed streamlining. As a result, the UA-UAS program development committee was created and is working well. It has been tested with the new commerce degree. Provost Davis considered what the most optimum relationship with UAS might be. Some believe this relationship should be tightened. Not only does UA South meet and manage Southern Arizona’s opportunities and needs, but it could move onto UA Main providing evening and weekend courses and services that don’t cost the UA and that utilize UA’s existing facilities. This would improve higher education accessibility and affordability for both institutions while maintaining mission and distinctiveness as UAS would be complimentary to UA. Dean Groth thanked the Faculty Senate for its support both when UAS began in 1991 and now. Of twenty-one faculty, seventeen are tenure-track faculty. UAS offers 14 degrees and is a Hispanic-serving institution. Faculty currently teach three courses per semester and contract faculty typically teach four. UAS also employs adjunct faculty. Degrees are offered based on demand. Fort Huachuca would like an applied masters degree in engineering. Army Intelligence would like a homeland security degree. The commerce degree is for non-metropolitan areas, so it is not a business administration degree. This year’s class will graduate 140, of which 70% are female and 28.4% are Hispanic. UA has been in Sierra Vista since 1988, evolving first to a branch campus and then the name change to UA South in 2002. UAS is already in Douglas, Sierra Vista, Ramsey Canyon, Vail and Pima Community College’s East and Desert Vista campuses in southeastern Pima County, and Groth has been invited to Nogales. Mayor Walkup is willing to lobby the legislature for multiple Tucson UAS locations including downtown. Another opportunity is Santa Cruz County, if Cochise College withdraws. Dean Groth would also like to bring UAS into Safford/Thatcher. Safford has been served by Eastern Arizona Community College but would like to have UAS move in and the community will provide land and a building. UAS imbeds in the communities and works closely with the community colleges. The community in Sierra Vista has raised millions over the years for UAS and has provided four of its five buildings. Additional opportunities may exist in Casa Grande and NAU-Yuma. If UAS can get land and buildings donated, Dean Groth can ask the state to provide for operational funds. In this way, UAS becomes imbedded in the communities and the community support and resources reduce the burden on taxpayers and the legislature. Chair of the Faculty Hancock acknowledged that local funding will play a critical role in the future of higher education in Arizona.
9. NEW BUSINESS
Senator Garcia asked to have the American Bar Association’s review of the SJD Degree come to the Senate.
10. ADJOURNMENT
There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 4:29 p.m.
Robert L. Mitchell, Secretary
Appendix*
1. Consent Agenda items forwarded from the Instruction and Curriculum Policy Committee.
2. The University of Arizona Fleet Safety Policy RM-002 Revised November 2004
*Copies of material listed in the Appendix are attached to the original minutes and are on file in the Faculty Center.
Motion 2004/05-24 Motion to approve implementation authorization of a new academic program, the Doctor of Juridical Sciences, Scientiea Juridicae Doctor (SJD). Motion was seconded and carried.
Motion 2004/05-25Motion to approve the Paul Calabresi Clinical Oncology Research Scholars Certificate, Motion carried.
Motion 2004/05-26 Motion to approve the Post-Doctoral Certificate in Clinical Research. Motion carried.
Motion 2004/05-27 Motion to approve the disestablishment of the MS and PhD programs in Nuclear Engineering. Motion carried.
Motion 2004/05-28 Motion to approve the Office of Risk Management and Safety’s “Fleet Safety Policy.” Motion carried.
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