University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee College of Letters and Science 2002-2003 Academic Planning Committee Meeting: Thursday, July 10, 2003, 11:00 a.m. Holton Hall 241 Minutes No. 9 Present: Swarnjit Arora, Gerald Bergtrom, Doug Cherkauer, Thomas Holme, Stacey Oliker, Jeanne Schueller, Gabrielle Verdier Excused:   Margaret Atherton, Christopher De Sousa, Pat Kissinger Guests: Mark Amsler, Connie Jo, Denise Mueller, Caterina Sukup Call to Order - The chair, Stacey Oliker, called the meeting to order at 11:10 a.m. in HLT 190. The meeting, originally scheduled in HLT 241, was moved to provide access to a chalkboard. Automatic Consent Minutes #8 (June 19, 2003) were approved unanimously. Procedural Matters - None Old Business Review of Position Requests - Stacey Oliker asked members of the Committee to briefly summarize the associate deans' recommendations for members who were absent from the previous meeting. Gerald Bergtrom recapped the position requests that Associate Deans Harris and Schuster felt were priorities in Natural Sciences and Humanities. Swarnjit Arora gave a brief summary of Associate Dean Miller's priorities in the Social Sciences. Committee members had a long discussion about how to proceed. They agreed to recommend thirty positions to the dean. A representative of each subcommittee (HU, NS, SS) reported the subcommittee recommendations. The Committee voted unanimously to recommend the following positions: Humanities History (1) - Renaissance/Baroque Communication (1) -   Interpersonal Communication with emphasis in Conflict/Mediation English (1) - 18th Century Literature & Culture Film (1) - Film History, Criticism, & Theory FLL (2) - German (Interest in Translation) & Linguistics (combined into one position) Arabic and Islamic Culture FICL (2) - Replacement for Rachel Skalitzky in Comparative Literature Replacement for Roy Arthur Swanson in Comparative Literature Spanish & Portuguese (2) -   Senior hire in Modern Penisular Literature and Culture Spanish Sociolinguistics     Natural Sciences Biological Sciences (3) - Eukaryotic Developmental Biologist/Geneticist Evolutionary Population Geneticist Microbial Genomicist In addition the Committee recommended that the essential instrument and lab technicians be hired. Chemistry (2) -   Experimental Physical Chemist Organic Chemist Geosciences (2) - Paleontologist Geochemist Mathematical Sciences (2) -   Statistics Atmospheric Sciences/Climate Dynamic Physics (2) - Experimental Physicist - Optics/Biophysics Theoretical Particle Physicist     Social Sciences American Indian Studies (1) -   Director Anthropology (1) - Biological Anthropology - Osteology/Forensic Anthropology Economics (1) - Economics of International Finance Geography (1) - Economic Geography History (1) - Modern European History JMC (2) - Print Journalism (career-track lecturer) Mass Communication and Persuasion Political Science (1) - Judicial Behavior/Constitutional Law Psychology (1) - Experimental Health Psychology Urban Studies (1) - Maier position Committee members agreed that a few of the remaining positions should have a higher priority if we are able to hire for more than thirty positions. In no particular order, those positions are: Bio Sci (1) - Molecular Environmental Physiologist Chem (1) - Analytical Chemist Art Hist (1) - Contemporary Art English (1) - US Latino/a Literatures in English - in consultation with Spanish and Portuguese Stacey will draft a memo to the dean and circulate it to committee members. New Business - None Adjournment - The meeting was adjourned at 12:50 p.m. Respectfully submitted, Connie Jo Special Assistant to the Dean Secretary to the L&S Faculty Distribution: Dean G. Richard Meadows Associate Deans Harris, Miller, O'Bryan Assistant Deans Horstman, Kissinger Secretary to the University Minutes #9, 2002-03.apc