University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
College of Letters and Science
1998-1999 Faculty Meeting
Minutes No. 2
Wednesday, April 14, 1999
Business Building N140
- Call to Order
Dean Marshall Goodman called the meeting to order at 3:34 p.m.
- Announcements - Dean Goodman reminded those present of the following:
- The Recognition Dinner for Retiring Faculty is scheduled for April 26.
- L&S will hold its first Graduates Recognition Ceremony on May 16 in Bruce Hall at the Arena from 10:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. There will be a reception following the ceremony. Faculty were urged to attend to recognize their graduating majors.
- The Chancellor will address the L&S Faculty next Tuesday, April 20 at 3:00 p.m. in the Wisconsin Room.
- Question Period
There was discussion of the budget and the upcoming planning meeting with the Provost. The Dean stressed that L&S must make its own case for support from the administration. He stressed that international initiatives, if funded, will add considerably to the base budget.
- Automatic Consent Business
- Minutes of the November 5, 1998 faculty meeting were approved
- Fac. Doc. #502, Resolutions for Retiring Faculty, Academic Staff, and Classified Staff, was moved and seconded. It was moved (written motion submitted by the Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics) and seconded to amend Fac. Doc. #502 by substituting a revised Resolution in Honor of Katherina Filips-Juswigg (see Minutes Attachment I). The motion to amend was approved. It was moved (written motion submitted by the Department of English) and seconded to amend Fac. Doc. #502 by adding a Resolution in Honor of Marilyn Taylor (see Minutes Attachment II). The motion to amend was approved. It was moved, seconded, and approved to amend Fac. Doc. #502 by removing the academic title from the Resolution in Honor of Robert Hall. Fac. Doc. #502 was approved as amended.
- Fac. Doc. #503, Recommendation for Consideration of Candidates for Degrees and Honors for May, 1999, was approved as an automatic consent item.
- Dean Goodman asked if there were any objections to Fac. Docs. #504-513, various annual reports listed under Automatic Consent. Professor Donald Pienkos moved that the 1998-1999 Annual Report of the Russian and East European Studies Certificate Program Advisory Committee be added to the agenda as part of this group of Automatic Consent items and given Fac. Doc. #517 (see Minutes Attachment III). The motion was seconded and approved. There were no objections to any of these documents, so they stood approved as automatic consent items.
- Old Business
There was no old business to consider.
- New Business
- Professor Stacey Oliker moved approval of Faculty Document #514 (Recommendation of the Committee on Committees that a Review of All Elements of the New L&S Degree Requirements be Conducted in the Year 2002). The motion was seconded and approved on a voice vote.
- Professor Stacey Oliker moved approval of Faculty Document #515 (Recommendation of the Committee on Committees for Revisions in its Charter). The motion was seconded and approved on a voice vote.
- Professor Stacey Oliker moved acceptance of the Committee on Committee's Nomination Report, Faculty Document No. 516. The motion was seconded and approved on a voice vote.
Dean Goodman relinquished the chair to Professor Stacey Oliker, Chair of the Committee on Committees, to conduct the nomination procedures. There were no additional nominations from the floor.
- Committee of the Whole
It was moved to go into a committee of the whole to take under consideration faculty members' attendance at L&S faculty meetings. Professor Stacey Oliker presented the following draft statement for discussion:
While attendance and voting at L&S faculty meetings will continue to be open to all L&S faculty, in order to invigorate faculty governance in L&S through increased participation in faculty meetings, the Committee on committees recommends that each department designate a representative to attend each faculty meeting.
It was suggested that the recommendation should add the following words to the end: "and to report its proceedings to the department." It was moved, seconded, and approved to accept the recommendation with the stated addition. After further discussion, the members of the faculty agreed to withdraw the action.
A motion was made, seconded, and approved by voice vote to rise from the committee of the whole. Professor Stacy Oliker reported the discussion of the Committee. It was moved, seconded, and approved to accept the report of the Committee of the Whole and to refer the issue back to the Committee on Committees to formulate a formal motion to appear on the next faculty meeting agenda.
- Adjournment
There was no additional business before the Faculty. A motion to adjourn was made, seconded, and approved by voice vote. Dean Goodman declared the meeting adjourned at 4:23 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Connie Horstman
Special Assistant to the Dean
& Distinguished Advisor
Secretary to the L&S Faculty
Distribution:
Chancellor
Provost and Vice Chancellor
Secretary of the University
L&S Faculty
Assistant Deans, L&S
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
College of Letters and Science
1998-1999 Faculty Meeting
Minutes No. 2
Attachment I
Motion by the Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics
MOVED: to amend Fac. Doc. #502 by substituting the language below for the Resolution in Honor of Katherina Filips-Juswigg contained in that document.
Resolution in Honor of Katherina Filips-Juswigg
WHEREAS, Katherina Filips-Juswigg has enhanced the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee with thirty-one years of teaching, scholarship, and curriculum building,
WHEREAS, she has devotedly and consistently worked to spread interest in Russian language and literature among the students of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,
WHEREAS, her research has carried her into significant areas of twentieth-century Russian literature and has resulted in presentations of her findings at national and international conferences, and her officership in professional organizations,
WHEREAS, her efforts in the early years of her tenure at the university contributed to the development and expansion of the Department of Slavic Languages,
WHEREAS, she contributed much time and effort arranging for visiting lectures by writers from the Soviet Union, and gave assistance and mentoring to immigrants to Milwaukee from the Soviet Union,
BE IT RESOLVED, that we, her appreciative colleagues in Foreign Languages and Linguistics, combine our congratulations on her successful career with our heartfelt good wishes for the productive and gratifying retirement that she has patently merited.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
College of Letters and Science
1998-1999 Faculty Meeting
Minutes No. 2
Attachment II
Motion by the Department of English
MOVED: to amend Fac. Doc. #502 by adding the language below.
Resolution in Honor of Marilyn Taylor
WHEREAS Adjunct Assistant Professor Marilyn Taylor has been teaching in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee for twelve years;
WHEREAS she has been a highly valued member of the Creative Writing faculty;
WHEREAS she has established a reputation as a gifted teacher; and
WHEREAS she has earned a national reputation as a poet and has a fine publication record;
BE IT RESOLVED that we, her colleagues in the Department of English, wish her a long, productive, and happy retirement.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
College of Letters and Science
1998-1999 Faculty Meeting
Minutes No. 2
Attachment III
College of Letters and Science Faculty Document No. 517
April 14, 1999
Russian and East European Studies Committee
1998-1999 Annual Report
The UWM Russian and East European Studies Committee was formed in 1970 at faculty initiative. Its certificate program, the first at UWM, was approved in 1974. The UWM Polish Studies Committee was established in 1979 as an autonomous body formally identified as a subcommittee of the Russian and East European Studies Committee.
The Russian and East European Studies Committee met once in the 1998-1999 academic year, on December 9, 1998. At this meeting, Professor Donald Pienkos (Political Science) was elected Chair succeeding Associate Professor Neal Pease (History), on leave for one year beginning in January 1999.
The main actions taken by the Committee in 1998-1999 were as follows:
- To establish a formal network of UWM Friends of the Russian and East European Studies Committee made up of the following faculty and university administrators. (These individuals have agreed to promote the activities and programs of the Committee among their students and colleagues):
Ewa Barczyk (Associate Director, Golda Meir Library), Eric Browne (Professor of Political Science), David Buck (Professor of History and Director of the UWM Institute of World Affairs), Victor Greene (Professor of History), Thomas Hubka (Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning), Malgorzata Klosek (Associate Professor of Mathematical Science), Edith Moravscik (Professor of Foreign Languages and Linguistics), Helena Pycior (Professor of History), and Ronald Ross (Professor of History).
- In addition to developing a new brochure to advertise the Certificate in Russian and East European Studies, the Committee, in cooperation with its Polish Studies Subcommittee and other bodies, sponsored or co-sponsored a number of programs on the UWM campus during the academic year including: an exhibition on the life of Pope John Paul II at the Golda Meir Library, a day long conference on Poland in connection with its entry into the NATO Alliance and featuring three ranking government representatives, plus four other university lectures dealing with Russia, the Czech Republic, and the situations in Bosnia and Kosovo.
- Members of the Committee supported Dr. Michael Mikos (Foreign Languages and Linguistics) in his work in organizing the annual summer study program at the Maria Curie Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland in 1998-1999.
The members of the Russian and East European Studies Committee congratulate two of its long time members, Professor Katherina Filips-Juswigg (Foreign Languages and Linguistics) and Associate Professor Karel Bayer (Geography) for their years of dedicated service to our university mission and wish them both a happy and healthy retirement.
Committee members in 1998-1999 are: Karel Bayer (Associate Professor of Geography); Katherina Filips-Juswigg (Professor of Foreign Languages and Linguistics); Shale Horowitz (Assistant Professor of Political Science); Michael Mikos (Professor of Slavic Languages and Linguistics; member, Polish Studies subcommittee); Neal Pease (Associate Professor of History; Polish Studies); Roger Phillips (Associate Professor of Foreign Languages and Linguistics); Donald Pienkos (Professor of Political Science; Polish Studies); Philip Shashko (Professor, History); Charles Ward (Professor of Foreign Languages and Linguistics); Victor Greene (Professor of History;; member of the Polish Studies Subcommittee only).
Respectfully submitted,
Donald Pienkos (Chair)
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