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University Senate (Faculty Senate) records Minutes (Records) Universities and colleges -- Faculty University of Kentucky University Senate (Faculty Senate) meeting minutes, December 7, 1987 text University of Kentucky University Senate (Faculty Senate) meeting minutes, December 7, 1987 1987 1987-12-07 2020 true xt7bvq2s7q6v section xt7bvq2s7q6v LMMVERSHY OF KENTUCKY LEXINGTON. KENTUCKY 40506-0032 UNIVERSITY SENATE COUNCIL 10 ADMINISTRATION BUILDING 25 .November 1987 TO: Members, University Senate The University Senate will meet in regular session on Monday, December 7, 1967, at 5:00 p.m. in ROOM 110 of the Whitehall Classroom Building. PLEASE NOTE THE ROOM CHANGE. AGENDA: Minutes. Resolutions. Chairman's Announcements and RemarKs. RemarKs: Mr. Robert Bell, Founder and Chairman, Kentucky Advocates for Higher Education. Budget Presentation: Mr. Ed Carter, Vice President for Administration. ACTION ITEMS: a. Proposed revisions in University Senate fiules, Section VI — 5.0 Academic Offenses and Procedures and 4.0 Disnosition of Cases of Academic Offenses (Circulated under date of 20 November l9B7). Proposed addition to University Senate Eules, Section IV - Selective Admissions, College of Communications. (Circulated under date of l9 November l967). Randall Dahl Secretary Note: If you are unable to attend tnis meeting, please contact Ms. Martha Sutton (7—7155) in advance. ThanK you. /cet 0676C AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY UNIVERSITY MINUTES OF THE UNIVERSITY SENATE, DECEMBER 7, 1987 The University Senate met in regular session at 3:00 p.m., Monday, December 7, l987, in Room llO of the Whitehall Classroom Building. William E. Lyons, Chairman of the Senate Council, presided. Members absent were: Roger B. Anderson, Richard Angelo, Charles E. Barnhart, Raymond F. Betts, David Bingham*, Glenn C. Blomquist*, Jeffery A. Born, Earl Bowen, Ray M. Bowen, Glen Buckner*, Joe Burch, D. Allan Butterfield, Charles Byers, Ben Carr, Michael Cibull*, Harry Clarke*, Richard R. Clayton, Donald Coleman, Emmett Costich*, C. J. Cremers*, Frederick Danner, Joe T. Davis*, Leo S. Demski, Marcus Dillon, Nancy S. Dye, Paul M. Eakin, Charles Ellinger, William H. Fortune, James Freeman*, Richard W. Furst*, Art Gallaher, Jr., Thomas C. Gray, Ann Griesser, Andrew Grimes, Zafar Hasan*, Freddie Hermann, Raymond R. Hornback, Alfred S. L. Hu*, Jeffrey Hughes, Mehran Jahed, Malcolm E. Jewell, John J. Just, Richard I. Kermode, Lisa King, James M. Juder*, Robert G. Lawson, Gerald Lemons*, Thomas Lindlof*, William C. Lubawy, Bruce A. Lucas, Paul Mandelstam*, Loys L. Mather*, Marcus T. McEllistrem, Robert Murphy, David A. Nash*, Michael T. Nietzel, Arthur J. Nonneman*, Jose Oubrerie*, Rosanne Palermo*, John J. Piecoro*, Deborah E. Powell*, Robin D. Powell, Madhira (Mike) D. Ram*, Mary Tripp Reed*, G. Kendell Rice, Thomas C. Robinson, John M. Rogers, David P. Roselle*, Edgar L. Sagan, Karyll N. Shaw*, Timothy W. Sineath*, Stephen Stigers, Scott Ward, Cyndi Weaver, Charles T. Wethington, JoAnn Wever, David White, Gene Williams, Jason Williams, H. David Wilson, W. Douglas Wilson*, and Judy Wiza*. The Minutes of the Meeting of September l4, 1987, were approved as circulated. ‘ The Chair made the following remarks and announcements: "First of all let me announce that we have just gone through an election, as many of you know, for the Senate Council. I wanted to announce that there are two people whose terms expire the 3lst of this month and who will be leaving the Senate Council. One is Jesse Neil and the other is Richard Angelo. [Jesse Weil stood for recognition and was given a round of applause]. We have three new faces that will be coming on the Senate Council January l, 1988. The reason for the three is that Loys Mather's term is also up, but because he is Chair-elect he will continue to serve on the Senate Council. The three new people who will be on the Senate Council beginning January l are Paul Eakin from Mathematics, Carolyn Bratt from Law and Joanne Rogers from Library Science. [Those people stood and were recognized.] Let me remind everyone again of the Senate party which is scheduled for next week, December 15, l987, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. and this year, once again, let's remind everyone of the change of place. We are going to be in the Faculty *Absence explained. Club starting at 4:00 p.m. on December 15. President and Mrs. Roselle will be there, and we have also invited all the members of the Board of Trustees. Ordinarily we do this on the day the Board meets in December. That happens to be tomorrow. The problem is that every four years it happens to fall on Inauguration Day and no one would want to miss Inauguration Day so we are going to have to shift the Senate party to next week. You will be receiving a notice about a special meeting of the Senate that has been scheduled for January l8, l988, at 3:00 p.m. in our regular meeting room in the Nursing Building. Ordinarily the Senate does not meet in January, but because of some rather detailed rule changes that the Senate Council is recommending regarding the procedures for holding and conducting all of the elections that we go through, coupled with a lot of other things coming down the pipe during the Spring Semester, it is imperative that we have a special meeting in January. That may not be the only item on the agenda, but certainly it will be one that all of us will want to attend to and spend some time with. We will be circulating those proposed changes with an announcement confirming the special session of the Senate that we are calling for January l8, 1988, at 3:00 p.m. If any of you have problems with that, just remember we cancelled the meeting in November and so this is sort of a makeup kind of exam we are having. Let me make one final announcement that comes in two parts. I want to say that I was very pleased with the way in which our effort to make some minor changes in Senate rules by means of transmittal was handled. In particular I want to thank those of you who called and made comments. Indeed it worked amazingly well. We had only two particu— lar areas where questions were raised. In neither case did we have enough Senators to say that we had to have a Senate meeting, but the Senate Council and I agreed that we ought to deal with these and try to patch them up where we can. The first one of these involves the attempt we made on that circular dated 20 November l987 where we tried to establish a University-wide definition of the term ”native language.” No one objected to our effort to define native language as the language of first communication, which is what the Graduate School has been using and seems to work reasonably well. A problem arose when we went on to say that people whose native language is other than English shall be required to take the TOFEL. As you know, we are getting more and more people in this country, particularly in the hispanic community, where the first language of communi- cation, even among American citizens, could very well be Spanish. Because of some ways in which the University has tried to deal with the notion of who has to take TOFEL and who doesn't have to take TOFEL, we agreed with Hans Gesund that we should insert editorially the notion that citizens of the United States would not have to take the TOFEL. In effect we are inserting editorially what has been policy at the University and simply say that persons whose native language as defined is other than English and who are not citizens of the United States shall have to take the TOFEL. That one is easy enough and we will send that change around on the next transmittal for your perusal. We are treating it as an editorial change because I think it is consistent with policy as it now stands. The other one had to do with our effort to define the term ”good academic standing." It appears that all sorts of folks out there use the term ”good academic standing” and because of some conflicts and concerns over this Mac Jewell recommended that we should withdraw the section on the transmittal dealing with that definition since the problem was not something we could fix editorially, the Senate Council has recommended, and Mac has agreed, that this be returned to the Rules Committee. It will attempt to devise some language to do what we want to do. What we were trying to do at the beginning was to deal with the problem that Randy Dahl brought to our attention, namely how do you certify good academic standing when you send transcripts to other universities. He will get back with the Senate on this and I can assure you that if it is more than just an editorial change, we will bring it to you at a full meeting as a regular rule change. Otherwise, if we can get it done as an editorial change, or as a minor change in existing policy, we will do it by transmittal. I want to announce, finally, that we have two degree programs going to the Board of Trustees tomorrow morning. I have heard of no objections to either of them that have not been resolved. One is the bachelor's degree in Arts Administration. The other one that is going to the Council on Higher Education is the Ph.D. in Public Administration. You all received circulars on these. They will be going to the Board tomorrow and hopefully by courier to Frankfort the following day. We have with us today two people who want to make presentations that I think all of us are going to be interested in. Some of you who were on the Senate two years ago may recall Bob Bell from the Kentucky Advocates for Higher Education. He is here again today to chat with us a little bit about the effort the Kentucky Advocates are going to have again this year to deal with the Legislative Session and the efforts to try to get everyone in Kentucky to do what is right by higher education.” The Chair welcomed Mr. Bell. Mr. Bell's remarks follow: "Thank you Bill. There was a time back in 1946 when I was a student on this campus that I might have welcomed an opportunity to have the faculty seated in front of me. I'm not sure I relish it as much now as I would have then. A word or two historically about our organization. We are a lay citizens group, a non-profit, non—stock corporation organized for the sole purpose of providing support for the higher education community. We are not an issue analysis group. That's the role of the Council on Higher Education. We are a support group. All of it is implied in the name "Advocates." We organized in October of 1985 just three months prior to the convening of the l986 Kentucky General Assembly at a point in time when there was considerable discouragement across the state with respect to higher education and a very considerable feeling that there needed to be a lay citizens group pulled together to do what it could to raise the level of awareness about the value of higher education in this Commonwealth. We have a Board of Directors of 35. It's largely a business-driven group financed primarily by contributions from the corporate and business community and other foundations. We raised about $l00,000 through voluntary contributions in order to support two principal activities two years ago. As you will recall, we had a series of eight "rallies," or public forums, that were held concurrently across the state on the same evening and that was the evening before the Kentucky General Assembly convened. To our surprise we had about 4,000 people turn out for those meetings and we did get considerable press coverage. Following that we went to Frankfort and had a state rally which, as most of you will remember, turned out to be sort of a spectacle. I explained to you two years ago that all of that was very deliberate in order to attract the attention of the most powerful medium in our society today, and that is commercial television news. We did that. I think it was with some impact. Our principal purpose in doing all of that in 1986 was try and demonstrate, if you will, that there were some people in Kentucky that care. We were being told by political leaders in the Summer of l985 that nobody cared about higher education, that there wasn't any constituency out there that was willing to speak to the interest of higher education. I think most of you know that before the legislature convened, we were successful in obtaining some very strong recommendations from the Council on Higher Education and then to our pleasure the Governor embraced those recommendations in large measure and they were incorporated within the Governor's executive budget —— a very strong proposal for higher education financially. As a result of action by the House and Senate, we came out of the l986 session with about a 20% increase in general fund support across the board for the higher education system. As most of you are painfully aware, the subsequent shortfall in general fund receipts has caused some of that gain to be lost, but not all. I think it is fair to state that had there not been a lot of activity in l986 we may not have faired near as well as we did. It was pretty easy for me to make a presentation to this group two years ago, because at that point—in-time we had some strong recommendations that had come from the Council, we had the support of the Governor, and our big job was to try to communicate with enough members of the Kentucky General Assembly to develop the kind of support needed to pass that budget. Today it seems to me that our situation is almost the reverse. We have gained, I think, through the activity not only of the Advocates but also through the University communities, a very considerable rapport and support with key members of the General Assembly that we did not have two years ago. I think we are stronger with the legislature, but with respect to the gubernatorial role we are in ”no man's land" today. I think that is putting it kindly. I don‘t think there is anyone in this room who could possibly predict for you what might happen here in the next few weeks. We are entangled in the political system of Kentucky, as we all have known it for so many years, and we don't know where all of it's going to take us. At this very moment, the outgoing Governor may or may not be acting on very important appointments to the governing boards of our two largest institutions. One is the UK board; As Ed Carter reminded me a few moments ago, you may have a Board of Trustees meeting in the morning with four members going off the Board possibly, two of whom are your Chairman and Vice Chairman, which would be kind of unusual and somewhat disruptive to the continuity of governance. The same thing exists at the University of Louisville. The Chairman of the Board at the University of Louisville is subject to being replaced. It is ironic that both Chairmen have been unanimously reelected as Chairmen of their Boards in the last few weeks. All of this may be resolved this afternoon, and I suppose it will. Of course we are all anxious to hear about that. Beyond that, we do know (and Ed will go into it later) about the current budget recommendations of the Council on Higher Education. We don't know what is going to happen in the next step. The recommendation that has been made by the Council on Higher Education will be considered by the central budget apparatus of the new administration and the new Governor and will be considered along with all the competing interests of other programs and other very important problems in the state government and will be considered within the context ofga very categorical opposition on the part of the new Governor to any new tax or revenue measure whatsoever. Not only has he expressed his opposition to any revenue or tax measure but has said now on three separate occasions categorically that ”I will veto any such measure that is presented for my signature.” I think what that means for the higher education community, the elementary and secondary education community, the vocational education community, the social service areas and many others I could name right across the whole spectrum of government services an extremely difficult and fractious situation that is going to be highly controver— sial and very confrontational in my opinion. We have an interesting several weeks to look forward to as the legislature convenes in the first week of January. I am saying that it is so much more difficult today to speak to this group than it was two years ago. With respect to the Advocates, we decided we would endeavor to take on three projects, the first of which we have already completed. If you will remember, we inaugurated a new series of awards called the Oak awards. The whole purpose of that effort was to call attention to the value of higher education in the life of a single individual and conse- quently to the Commonwealth and society. I think that went off rather well and will be institutionalized and become permanent for the future. Secondly, two years ago the Advocates were a Board of Directors of thirty—five and, technically, that's all we were. Yet, we were permitted to speak and no one challenged our ability to speak for all the lay citizen interest in higher education across the state. We didn't have a membership, so we have started a drive to try to enroll 25,000 ”Advocates.” We have developed a simple piece of literature and some ads to try to enroll 25,000 ”Advocates”, not people who are enrolling as members in the frame of reference we normally think of it, but people who are willing to say by virtue of their signature that they ascribe to the three primary goals that the Advocates are pursuing. One is that we are trying to achieve full formula funding in this state under the statutory formula. "Full funding" is a poor choice of words because it means different things to different people. To me and to you it should mean simply that we are trying to achieve a level of public support for our higher education system that is equal to the average or median level of support enjoyed by similar institutions in surrounding states. That is not a very lofty aspiration, frankly. However, just to achieve that would take a great deal of money and Ed will tell you in a little while how much that would be. We are striving for that. Secondly, we would like to see an expansion of the program for Centers of Excellence and for Endowed Chairs. By the skin of our teeth two years ago, and with the help of Senator Moloney here in Fayette County, we were able to salvage what I would frankly describe as a token program in this area. About 4 million dollars totally for the whole state for both the Endowed Chairs program and for Centers of Excellence. We did survive, and it got written into the budget; it's gotten started. This University has been designated for a couple of these. To give you some comparable idea, the state of Tennessee puts 35 million tax dollars into an endowed chairs program alone versus our 4 million for both programs. So you see, we have a long way to go. That's our second objective, and our third one is to try to preserve and achieve some adequate level of student financial support so that a student in Kentucky who is capable of doing college work will not be denied access to the system because of personal financial reasons. That is what we are about, and that is what we are trying to do. You should be seeing some literature and material on this campus about our program to enroll Advocates. I hope you will help us on that, not only enroll yourself and families but also friends and other people that you know will respond so that we may legitimately go in to Frankfort as an organization saying that we have the support of thousands of Kentuckians. I already have several thousand of them in hand, but I am not near to the goal of 25,000, but I expect to be in January or February. Finally, on the 16th of February we will go to Frankfort again and we will be demonstrating, if you will, again for higher education. We haven't finalized the plans for it because there are still so many uncertainties about what we are going to be there to support, or be against perhaps. I think right now you can expect that we will probably be building a program there that will showcase student talent from across the_state. It will also be a celebration of higher education. We welcome your suggestions. We are looking for a keynote speaker. I personally prefer this time that it not be a political person. If you have suggestions, we want a dynamic, committed, person who can address an audience of five to six thousand people and to television and who is so deeply committed to higher education that the message will project not only to the audience but also to the people all across the state. Beyond that, I would urge you to become involved. When I was a student at this University, I majored in political science and I have very fond recollection of my professors in that field and one of the things I was most fond of and remember the best was their personal involve- ment in the community and civic activities of the state. Without exception, that entire faculty when I was here were serving on boards, commissions and study groups to produce civil service for Kentucky, Constitutional reform, and I could go on and on. I embarked on a life of public service because I had a professor by the name of Dr. James H. Martin who put me in a car and took me to Frankfort and introduced me to a prospective employer and recommended me for employment and from that I had twenty—five years of public service in the State Government. I am suggesting and hope that not only this faculty here but also the faculties across this Commonwealth in every institution and every community college will become actively involved, at least to the extent that you tell your own legislator, the senator or representative, who represents you personally, and you need not be shy about this, that you would expect that he or she would go to Frankfort representing the constituency they do here in Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky and that you would expect that they would be the champions of higher education, because if we don't get that from the Fayette County delegation, then we have a very "tough row to hoe" in Frankfort. I am suggesting that there is no reason for you to have any hesitancy as a citizen, completely aside from your role as faculty members, that you would expect that from them. We do have some good support in the Fayette County delegation, but we could have some stronger support even there. There is an old axiom in politics that you tie home base down first. That is what I am suggesting as a way you can be helpful. You can do that by phone calls or letters. It's most helpful for people to express themselves in personal terms by way of personal letters to their elected representa— tives. Form letters don't help that much. If our local legislators got lOO letters from the faculty of this institution, they would perceive that to be an avalanche of public interest. Unlike Congress, very rarely does a legislator in Frankfort receive 100 personal letters on anything. They get a lot of mail, but on one single subject it's a rare occasion. With that I will quit. I was just giving you a summary of where we have been and where we are. If this organization were interested in participating, next Monday in Frankfort, there is a very large number of organizations that are going to gather in the Rotunda of the State Capitol and ceremonially sign a resolution calling on the new Governor and Legislature to continue the emphasis on educational reform and on quality education. This is a very bland resolution. We deliberately kept it bland in an attempt to erect a tent large enough for all the camels to get under. We are hopeful that about 100 educational organizations are going to appear. The real significance will not be so much what is said as the fact they would appear and sign on behalf of their organizations. An invitation did go to COSFL and I hope they are going to be there. If you can encourage them to be there, that would be helpful. If this Senate wanted to do that, it would be welcome. I have some confidence that a large number of organizations, cutting across the entire range of educational interests, will appear. Thank you.” The Chairman asked for questions from the floor for Mr. Bell. Chairman Lyons said that the Senate Council Office and the Administration were going to try to coordinate some of the activities. President Roselle has put into place an organization on campus to try to coordinate some of the activities. One of the things the Senate Council is going to try to do again this year is to have a breakfast with all of the local legislators early on in the session -9- and remind them once again how we stand on the subject of higher education. He hoped that everyone would cooperate and participate and try to get the message across. Professor Mary Sue Coleman (Biochemistry) thanked Mr. Bell for coming and said she appreciated the efforts of the Advocates and asked the Senators to give Mr. Bell a round of applause. She also asked about the lists to sign to become an Advocate. Mr. Bell said that each campus has been supplied with those and also there are posters out that state "The dream game won't be played on television this year or played at Freedom Hall or Rupp Arena, but wiil be played at the Capitol. Mr. Bell said to turn in the cards from the posters because they were worth twenty-five cents each. The Chairman thanked Mr. Bell again for coming and said that everything would be done to c00perate with the efforts of the Kentucky Advocates of Higher Education. He said if the faculty wanted to send the cards to the Senate Council Office, they would see that they would get to where they had to go. The Chairman recognized Mr. Ed Carter to speak on a subject that is dear to everyone's heart and that is resources. It is tied to scholarships, tied to doing things right, research, and money is the name of the game. The man in charge of "money“ is Mr. Ed Carter, Vice President for Administration, who showed the Senate with charts his perspective on the budget requests and observations about funding realities facing the University. Mr. Carter thanked Professor Lyons and said before getting into the money discussion he wanted to stress Dr. Coleman's comments about Mr. Bell and the Advocates. He said not to underestimate the value of those thirty—five voices that were there two years ago and hopefully 25,035 this year. He felt that was significant, and it was a group of people speaking for quality higher education in this state that literally have nothing directly to do with it. It is not the Council, it is not the University Presidents or University boards. He said that President Roselle had been encouraging everybody and Mr. Carter has already sent in his card. He urged everyone to join in being an Advocate for Higher Education. Mr. Carter dealt with three pieces of the funding issue. One was reviewing how the University got to the request that went from the Board of Trustees to the Council on Higher Education. He said all faculty members were getting a little booklet on a brief summary of the requests. He said it was a very effective tool in terms of the Frankfort environment. He talked about the process of the University getting where they are in terms of requests and reviewed the Council on Higher Education's recommendation and shared with the Senate the environment in which the University‘s request in higher education would be considered. Mr. Carter said that the five—year plan is a controversial process, but it does in fact serve a very vital and important role in terms of the University of Kentucky and its dealings with the internal planning of the institution. The following charts summarizing the University's budget request were presented by Mr. Carter to the Senate with detailed comments. -10- The Plan is comprehensive, integrating the —- academic -- capital -— and land use planning for the University . .and providing for the -— financial linkages to make those plans a reality. —- The planning process is an internal process -— but it is not done in isolation . —- it becomes the basis for our biennial request to - —— the Council —— the Governor -- and the Legislature. -- The Plan is based on several strategic directions for the University. The Community College System will continue to provide access to all Kentuckians wishing to pursue higher education. The University will strive to provide quality educational experiences at the undergraduate level. The University will strive to stimulate the development and enhancement of its graduate, professional, and research programs. The University will identify and develop multidisciplinary centers of excellence which-- build on existing strengths address critical needs of the Commonwealth have a direct impact on economic development The University will strive to enhance its service to the citizens of the Commonwealth. Lexington Campus and Medical Center will manage enrollments through aggressively recruiting highly qualified freshmen and transfer students and initiating special retention programs to retain those students. The University will be an active advocate with other constituent groups for improved educational attainment and higher standards of educational excellence in the Commonwealth. The University will strive to respond to both fiscal and program accountability demands. The University will recognize and emphasize the importance of non-traditional sources of support. The University will seek partnerships with industry, business, governmental agencies and other schools. -12- -— The University will enhance computing and communications capabilities. OVERALL OBJECTIVE To make the University of Kentucky a truly great University —- one recognized nationally for the quality of our scholarship, research and graduates. To accomplish this objective, the Plan was developed around several major thrusts —- provide for continuation existing programs meeting existing contractual fixed costs (staff benefits) utility rate increases maintenance of new buildings coming on line continuation funding of current program levels To fund 1987-88 priorities left unfunded due to budget reduction Centers of Excellence (Pharmacy; Biomedical Engineering; Biotechnology) graduate assistant stipends supercomputer operations -To fund the most pressing "infrastructure” needs competitive salaries library books operating expenses instructional equipment computing needs routine building maintenance faculty and support staff catch—up in the Community College System Business and Economics program improvement provide funding for Centers Pharmacy Biotechnology Biomedical Engineering Cancer Membrance Science Social/Behavioral Component of the Center on Aging Computational Sciences Equine Health Center Plant Genetic Engineering To provide funding for enhancement, development and adequate support of the academic program —-Special requests beyond the Council formula calculation - -- Continuation of the desegregation funds Funding for Japanese Saturday School Funding for benefit program for Federal agricultural employees Funding for unmet federal portion of the salary increase needs for the Federal Agricultural employees Funding for a special initiative in International Trade Development and Competition - to provide advisory services to state government officials planning trade missions abroad; to strengthen international component of University's academic programs; -— to provide advisory services to foreign firms considering establishing operations in Kentucky and to Kentucky firms considering international operations. ‘ —- Additional funding for the Area Health Education Centers - to solve problems of health care manpower distribution and to provide linkages within and among academic programs in