Present:	Marc Ethridge, Alice Gillam, Mark Harris, Renee Meyers, Ellie Miller, Erl Olfe (ex officio), Julio Rodriguez-Luis, Dave Schultz, Mark Schwartz
Excused:	Pat Kissinger (ex officio), Craig Sandgren
Guests:	Marshall Goodman, Connie Jo

1. Call to Order - The chair, Mark Schwartz, called the meeting to order at 1:30 p.m. in Holton Hall 241.
   
   
2. Automatic Consent - Minutes #5 (May 12, 2000) were approved as submitted.
   
   
3. Procedural Matters
   Dean Goodman discussed the recruitment process for this year. He indicated that there is a total of 41 positions and noted that, once again, start-up money is a major concern. He mentioned three initiatives that the College had presented to the Vice Chancellor/Provost, all three of which he felt were received favorably. They are:
   
   • L&S V(irtual)
     
     • mission of moving various majors totally on line
       
     • Communication already has committed to doing so; other departments will be asked to get involved
       
     • 1-2 staff hires to oversee this project probably will be needed
       
     • some money will be moved into funding this initiative
       
   • L&S E(ducation)
     
     • this involves initiatives carried out in conjunction with the School of Education
       
     • there already is a great deal of funding that has come to UWM for education-related efforts
       
     • a revolution is occurring in teacher education, with more emphasis being placed on teaching mastery of disciplinary content than in the past
       
     • there is a crisis in teaching for math, science, English, and to a slightly lesser extent Spanish
       
   • Wisconsin Worldwide
     
     • focus will be the Corporate University
       
     • training for work forces to occur on-line, on-site, and at international locations
       
     
     Additional points that were raised included the following:
     
     • the APC need not make recommendations for the BAGS positions as the curriculum has not yet been developed;
       
     • the Committee's recommendations are needed by late June or early July, to allow the disciplines with early annual meetings to begin recruitment in August;
       
     • the Dean will clarify which requests are for replacement positions and which are competing for the 10 additional positions.
       
   
   
4. Old Business
   
   1. Parameters for a School within a College: A draft proposal for language to be added to University policies and procedures, defining a school within a College/School, was discussed. The draft reads as follows:
      
      4.01(1) School within a College/School: Defined
      
      Notwithstanding the provisions of Chapters 2.01 and 4 of the University of Wisconsin -- Milwaukee Policies and Procedures, a group of faculty members recognized by the appropriate dean, the faculty (school/college faculty and Faculty Senate) and the Chancellor as dealing with a common or closely related disciplinary or mission-oriented interest may be organized into a "school within a college/school," with the following conditions:
      
      
      • there exists a compelling reason why the title "school" is more appropriate than "department;"
        
      • a substantial part of the unit's mission is professionally oriented;
        
      • the chief administrative officer of the unit is called a director;
        
      • budgetary authority does not vary from the structure that applies to departments;
        
      • all other policies outlined in Chapter 4 of these Policies and Procedures apply to these units; where the term "department" is used, it may be assumed also to apply to a school within a college/school.
        
      
      In general, Committee members liked the parameters outlined. Perhaps the most significant question relates to whether or not the unit's mission is professionally oriented. There also was a question raised about the need to define more clearly what a "compelling reason" would be. In addition, it was noted that a pending proposal to make the Honors Program a College within a College would not fit with these proposed parameters. After some discussion of other honors programs with which people were familiar, it was agreed that this should not be a problem. The Honors Program could be established as a separate college, but with the L&S Dean appointed as its dean.
      
      Since the Committee has not yet received a formal request from the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, via its Chair, to consider the Department's proposal for "School" status, the Committee voted to table the discussion of this item until such time that the Department's proposal is received.
      
   
   
5. New Business
   
   1. Recruitment for New Positions: Committee members agreed they could not move forward on their considerations for new positions until they had clarification of which were replacements and which were new requests. A brief comparison of members' schedules suggested that meetings would be difficult to arrange after the week of June 5. Connie offered to try to get the needed information together by the end of this week so the Committee could meet next week. She was asked also to try to find out if there was an upper limit on the number of senior hires that could be considered. The Committee will meet next week Tuesday or Wednesday (the Chair will confirm via email) at 1:30 to discuss the replacement requests. They will meet again the first week of July to review the requests for new positions.
      
   
   
6. Adjournment - The meeting was adjourned at 2:56 p.m.