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

1. Call to Order - The chair, Mark Schwartz, called the meeting to order at 2:34 p.m. in Holton Hall 241.
   
   
2. Automatic Consent - Minutes #8 (July 6, 2000) were unavailable and will be considered at the next meeting.
   
   
3. Procedural Matters - None
   
   
4. Old Business
   
   1. Parameters for a School within a College – continue tabled
      
   
   
5. New Business
   
   1. Dean Marshall Goodman met with the committee to present his final recommendations for new positions for 2001-2002. He explained the process he used in reaching his decisions: considering advice from the Associate Deans along with the advice of the Committee, reviewing progress toward meeting the PAR recommendations, and taking into account confidential information from faculty members and departments that could negatively impact the College's array of faculty talent.
      
      Dean Goodman noted that is the most ambitious hiring cycle that the College will experience in its history. Because of the addition of BAG funding and the return of $700,000 of enrollment/retention funding from the Vice Chancellor, we will be recruiting for 47 positions. The dean also indicated that most of the past year's recruits accepted positions at UWM.
      
      He then went on to outline the differences in the Committee's recommendations and his decisions concerning the positions he would recommend to the Vice Chancellor. In each case of disagreement between these two lists, he offered his explanation for making the change, most notably the following:
      
      • Senior level position in Mathematical Sciences -- the College is under pressure to increase extramural funding by a set percentage; it is imperative that we add positions in the science units that provide the most extramural funding. Currently, these are Physics, Chemistry, Biological and Atmospheric Sciences.
      • Art History position -- the dean would like to see a build up of enrollments in this program along with a department plan that includes some innovative ideas in line with the College and Milwaukee Idea goals.
      • Sociology position -- there is a USP position that could end up in Sociology
        
      • English will receive a position in professional writing, an area where there currently is great demand in the job market
      • Africology will receive a position to build faculty to support the PhD proposal, which has the support of campus administration
      • Matching money for positions partially funded by Milwaukee Idea monies will be provided; we can hire more faculty for fewer dollars
      
      The dean discussed the need to make resources available to departments heavily involved in the BAOA program, which is going on-line and which has proved to be significantly more popular that we imagined. BAGS positions will be given to a core of six departments intricately linked with the BAGS program: Anthropology, Communication, Economics, Geography, History, and Political Science. The seventh BAGS position is being held back at the present time, to consider a hire within one of these six units to meet a spousal hire goal, fulfill a diversity goal, or select "the best of the rest" among applicants for the six positions. In the coming year, the College will adopt a Humanities focus for BAGS hires. In the third year, when there is less money, there will be a natural science focus for BAGS.
      
      The dean then reviewed the laboratory modernization proposals that were being supported. He indicated that the decisions in the natural science areas were based heavily on NSF guidelines.
      
      Committee members then posed questions. Professor Dave Schultz expressed his disagreement with the decision not to award a senior position to the Math Department. He noted that the department had received a sizeable amount of instructional grant money that was not reflected in the College figures outlining extramural support. Dean Goodman indicated that the College currently is at great risk of losing key people in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology who bring in large amounts of extramural money. To keep these people we must make some key hires in these units. He mentioned again the need for start-up funds in the sciences, and he also noted that many instructional grants do not provide overhead that the university can use to build the necessary infrastructure for a top level research university. He added that the chancellor will be asking for infrastructure money as part of the University's DIN, since UWM initially was not build as a research university.
      
      Professor Mark Schwartz asked how the position descriptions for BAGS positions will be developed. Dean Goodman indicated that the chairs of the six departments will meet with the BAGS Committee members to get a sense for the needs of the program, and they will design position descriptions that address those needs. He also stated that the six departments would be encouraged to meet with one another to identify possible joint positions or ways to coordinate their hiring to best meet the widest range of needs for the program. He emphasized that the Chancellor is stressing interdisciplinary programming.
      
      The Dean asked the Committee to consider whether it could take a formal vote supporting the Dean's positions request report to the Vice Chancellor and the lab mod proposals. He then left the meeting.
      
      It was moved that the Committee request that the math position be reinstated. There was no immediate second, but concerns about the position were aired. It then was moved and seconded to endorse the Dean's plan as it stands. The motion was approved on a 4-0 vote, with one abstention.
      
      It was moved and seconded to express the Committee's concern that the Math Department's need for a senior position has not been addressed and to ask the Dean to reconsider and to try to find funds to support that recruitment, given that it was the Committee's top recommendation. The motion was approved unanimously.
      
      It was moved, seconded, and unanimously approved to support the lab mod proposals.
      
   
   
6. Adjournment - The meeting was adjourned at 3:45 p.m.