1. Call to Order - Dean Richard Meadows called the meeting to order at 3:35pm in BOL B40.
1. Announcements
   
   Dean Meadows announced that the College experienced a sharp increase in enrollments this fall. Head count is up 9.6%, with credits up 7.68%. The College is growing at a faster rate than is the campus as a whole.
   
   Dean Meadows also reported that the new Chancellor's view of the current status of UWM is compatible with the College's academic focus. Chancellor Santiago has indicated he plans to focus on two things. First, he wants to raise UWM's research productivity, especially that based on outside funding, to a level substantially higher than it is at present. Chancellor Santiago has stated that the quality of the faculty at UWM probably is better than that at Albany, and the facilities are very impressive. There is likely to be an internal competition for the allocation of additional research funds. Proposals that stimulate outside funding and/or are cross-disciplinary will be favored. The plan proposes that there be one or two such awards each year for the next five years. The Chancellor also proposed that UWM develop two new Ph.D.s in each of the next six years. He believes we are at least a tier-two university as characterized by U.S. News and World Report; we have the potential to be tier one. Dean Meadows stated that the Chancellor's level of success in meeting these goals depends on his level of success at raising money. The Chancellor senses that he has a lot of support in Madison and in the community. The Chancellor's second major focus will be on retention. He plans to address this problem through better connections with MATC and other two-year campuses and by doing a better job in our introductory courses.
   
   Dean Meadows stated that the College has a terrible salary compression problem. If we do not get outside help to address this problem, the College should consider reallocation on its own.
   
   
2. Question Period (10 minutes maximum)
   
   Ed Mabry asked if it is possible that some money will be directed at centers rather than at individual departments. Dean Meadows said that is possible. The cluster model probably will be part of the equation. There may be financial support for developing broadly-defined areas. Ed asked how the College faculty can provide input into the decisions that are made. Dean Meadows responded that there will be a call for ideas for research-focused activities to which faculty members can respond. Margaret Atherton expressed concern about the emphasis placed on research activities that generate outside funding. Research in the humanities generally does not fall into that category. She asked if there will be a push to provide support for those who are not eligible for outside funding. Dean Meadows responded that the campus would have more money to support the humanities if the sciences were more successful in generating outside funds. He added that the Chancellor is very aware of the quality of our humanities programs; there is no plan to gut or ignore the humanities and social sciences.
   
   Greg Jay noted that System was less than enthusiastic about our History Ph.D. He asked if the atmosphere in Van Hise Hall has changed such that there now will be support for the Chancellor's Ph.D. initiative. Dean Meadows said that Carlos seems to have more authority with System than perhaps previous chancellor's have had. He has the governor's support, and there is more support for the idea that we need a stronger research university in the Milwaukee community. If the Madison campus doesn't object to our Ph.D. initiatives, we are likely to see more support from System.
   
   Someone asked if the situation with travel money will change in the near future. Dean Meadows said it will not. We would have to reallocate funds in order to increase travel money. Greg Jay asked how salary reallocation would work. Dean Meadows indicated that we would have to plan to shrink the College and that it is likely each school/college would be asked to give up 1% of its budget. Greg noted that this would impact credits and, therefore, funding. We also may have to move away from the tuition revenue model, which will encourage greater collaboration among the deans.
   
   Ed Mabry noted that the College did not get very far down the list of the positions that the Academic Planning Committee had recommended for recruitment. He asked if this was likely to change. Dean Meadows said it was impossible to say what the situation will be; we have received no marching orders from campus or System administration. The money we have received in the past has come from enrollment growth. The Chancellor thinks our enrollments are high enough. He would like to change our retention rate. A focus on the retention rate will increase the size of the student body. Margo Anderson asked if there is a generally accepted notion of the ideal size of the Faculty. Dean Meadows indicated he was not aware of any discussion of that question. Margo said that the University has a lower number of faculty members than in 1992. Dean Meadows said that might be true of the University as a whole, but the College currently has 398 faculty members. Margo commented that it doesn't seem like a good idea to cannibalize the faculty, given that the number is down for the University at a whole. Dean Meadows says that is not his choice either, but "salaries" is his number one priority. If there is NO other alternative, we will have to think about taking away open positions. He added that he doesn't think it will come to that.
   
   
2. Automatic Consent Business - There were no objections to any of the Automatic Consent items; they stand approved.

A.	Approval of the Minutes of the April 22, 2004 (convened; thru May 6 adjourned) Faculty Meeting (on web at www.uwm.edu/letsci/committees/)
B.	Recommendation for Consideration of Candidates for Degrees and Honors for December, 2004		679
C.	Annual Reports
	Academic Planning Committee Annual Report, 2003-2004		680
	Academic Policies and Appeals Committee Annual Report, 2003-2004		681
	Committee on Committees Annual Report, 2003-2004		682
	Course and Curriculum Committee Annual Report, 2003-2004		683
	Graduate Program Committee Annual Report, 2003-2004		684
	Center for Celtic Studies Annual Report, 2003-2004		685
	Faculty Advisory Committee of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Annual Report, 2002-2003		686
	Certificate Program in Ancient Mediterranean Studies Advisory Committee Annual Report, 2003-2004		687
	Certificate Program in Latin American and Caribbean Studies Annual Report, 2003-2004		688
	International Studies Major Annual Report, 2003-2004		689
	Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program Annual Report, 2003-2004		690
	Graduate Certificate Program in Translation Annual Report, 2003-2004		691
	French and Francophone Studies Annual Report, 2003-2004		692

3. Old Business
1. Status Report on Faculty Recommendations to Revise the L&S Degree Requirements - Dean Meadows reported that he had not forwarded the degree requirements proposal to the APCC. The College Office has done an analysis of the cost of implementing the planned changes to the foreign language requirement. Dean Meadows distributed copies of the Faculty's proposal to change the foreign language requirement, data showing placement levels of the 2004 freshman students, and some possible alternatives prepared by a group of foreign language faculty members. Copies of these items are attached to the originals of these minutes. Dean Meadows noted that, optimistically, only 10% of our students would meet the proficiency requirement as currently proposed. The number of additional sections of foreign language courses that the College would have to offer would require reallocation. He also said that he believed the new requirement would be a disincentive for students to apply to UWM, particularly transfer students. He called attention to the alternative proposals that he had distributed and indicated that if one of the alternatives was viewed as acceptable, he would arrange for a special meeting of the Faculty to take action on a modified proposal.
   
   Gabrielle Verdier pointed out that UWM has the least stringent foreign language requirement among a group of UW campuses that were surveyed. She also noted that the alternative proposal would allow high school work to count toward the requirement, and this would be an incentive for high school teachers to argue for more support of languages in the high schools. In addition, with the campus goal of controlling enrollments, the new language requirement may serve that end while getting better students to attend UWM.
   
   Margo Anderson asked why so few students took the placement exam. Gabrielle noted that students are not required to take it. Dean Meadows said that the data show that an overwhelming number of our students have taken two years of a language in high school, which is our current requirement. We should plan to delay implementation of a new foreign language requirement for 2-3 years so that high school teachers can get more of their students to take four years in high school.
   
   Ed Mabry expressed concern that holding up the entire degree requirements proposal to await resolution of the foreign language matter will delay the ability of departments to get out from under the "onerous legacy requirements" that the Faculty's proposal would eliminate. He would like to see a proposal passed this semester. Dean Meadows said we probably could find funding for either of the alternative proposals for the foreign language requirement. He reiterated his intention to call a special meeting to consider a revised proposal. Gabrielle noted that TAs generally teach the introductory and intermediate courses, to there is no need to hire new faculty members. She added that many of the sections we offer now still have capacity and that the new requirement would help us to reach Research 1 status. Chuck Schuster reminded the group that we need to keep transfer students in mind. Kathy Wheatley pointed out that the main difference between the first new alternative and the old proposal is that the new accepts HS work to complete the requirement. She explained the second alternative, which is modeled on Madison's requirement. Richard asked that members of the Faculty let us know if they have ideas about the proposals. Kathy asked what people thought of the two new options. Mark Harris stated that he liked the Madison model. Kathy noted that the Madison model would help the smaller languages. Kathy Dolan asked if there still was a need to differentiate between the BA and BS foreign language requirements. The curriculum committee will be asked to look at the alternative proposals.
   
   
2. Status Report on Redefining Criteria for Courses to Meet the L&S International Requirement - Connie Jo reported that the curriculum committee is in the process of appointing a subcommittee to conduct the review of the international course criteria. This process has been delayed because several of the nominees are on sabbatical this fall.
   
   
4. New Business

A.	Recommendation of the Academic Planning and Governance Committee to Revise Its Charter - It was moved, seconded, and approved unanimously to recommend to the Dean approval of Fac. Doc. No. 693.		693
B.	Recommendation of the Academic Policies and Curriculum Committee to Revise Its Charter - It was moved, seconded, and approved unanimously to recommend to the Dean approval of Fac. Doc. No. 694.		694
C.	Recommendation to Establish a Minor in Women's Studies and Eliminate the Undergraduate Certificate in Women's Studies - It was moved, seconded, and approved unanimously to recommend to the Dean approval of Fac. Doc. No. 695.		695

5. Adjournment - The meeting was adjourned at 4:30pm.
   
   
   

Respectfully submitted,

Connie Jo
Secretary to the L&S Faculty