The Academic Planning and Governance Committee (AP&GC) held seven meetings during the year to carry out its functions as authorized by L&S Faculty Document No. 693. The Committee met on the following dates: September 28, October 12, and November 2, 2006; February 14, March 7, May 9, and May 16, 2007.

Procedural Matters

The activities of the Committee included the following procedural matters:

1. elected Glen Fredlund as Chair of the Committee for 2006-2007;
2. noted that the current chair, David Heathcote, will serve as Co-Chair of the Committee for 2006-2007 ;
3. recommended to the Dean that David Mulroy be appointed as Parliamentarian for Faculty meetings;
4. set the dates (October 26, 2006; March 29, 2007) and agendas for meetings of the L&S Faculty;
5. conducted the nomination process for L&S Faculty and Graduate School committees;
6. elected Peter Geissinger as Chair of the Committee for 2007-2008.

Legislative Matters

The Committee made the following recommendations:

• to modify its charter to require that the new chair be elected from among the members who have completed their first year on the committee and that the previous year's chair serve as the co-chair of the committee.
• That the L&S Approval Matrix, adopted by the L&S Faculty on April 10, 2000 and revised on February 8, 2001, be revised to reflect the new committee structures as indicated below.
  • changing the Course & Curriculum Committee (C&CC) and the Graduate Program Committee (GPC) to the Academic Policies & Curriculum Committee (AP&CC)
  • changing the Academic Planning Committee(APC) to the Academic Planning & Governance Committee (AP&GC)
  • clarifying that "I" means "information only.

Advisory Recommendations

The Committee responded to requests from the Dean for its advice on the following matters:

Recommendations for Faculty Members to Serve on Sabbatical Review Groups

Humanities	Social Sciences	Natural Sciences
Carla Bagnoli	Pat Gray	Dennis Bennett
James Hazard	Shale Horowitz	Tim Grundl
Mark Netzloff	Judith Kenny	Carol Hirschmugl
Julius Sensat	Jeff Merrick	Reinhold Hutz
Kathy Wheatley	Merry Wiesner-Hanks	Bruce Wade

Recommendations for Recruitment of New Faculty Members

The rankings were as follows:

Natural Sciences Priority Rankings

1. Geosciences: Geochemist
2. Biological Sciences: Molecular Environmental Physiologist
3. Physics: Experimental Optics
4. Biological Sciences: Evolutionary Population Geneticist
5. Chemistry: Chemistry Education Research
6. Mathematical Sciences: Applied/Computational Mathematics
7. Geosciences: Glacial/Quaternary Geologist
8. Physics: Theoretical Biophysics

Humanities Priority Rankings

1. Art History (Post-1970)
2. Philosophy (Political)
3. FLL (Japanese & Linguistics)
4. Art History (Film Historian)
5. Communication (Intercultural or Health Communication)
6. Philosophy (Metaphysics & Epistemology)
7. FICL (Italian)
8. Communication (Health Communication or Intercultural)
9. English (Linguistics/ESL)
10. English (Professional Writing)
11. English (Fiction Writing)

Social Sciences Priority Ranking

1. Geography
2. Sociology
3. Geography
4. Sociology
5. Africology
6. Political Science
7. Economics
8. History
9. Anthropology
10. Psychology
11. Journalism
12. Political Science

Ultimately, the College opened recruitment for the following positions:

Natural Sciences

1. Math (Actuarial Science)
2. Geoscience (Glacial/Quaternary Geologist)
3. Biological Science (Evolutionary Population Geneticist)

Humanities

1. Art History (Post-1970)
2. Communication (Health Communication)
3. English (Creative Writing-Fiction)
4. Philosophy (Political Philosophy)

Social Sciences

1. Women's Studies (joint appointment with other L&S dept)
2. Psychology (Behavorial Neuroscience)
3. Clinical Psychology (Clinical Program - Mechanisms & Disorders of Emotion)
4. Geography (Physical Geography)
5. Sociology (Quantitative Methodologist)
6. Geography (Economic Geography)
7. Sociology (Public Health/Medicine Across the Lifespan)
8. Economics (Development Economics/Economic Development)

Other Business

The Committee met with Alice Gillam, Chuck Schuster, and Margaret Mika to discuss English competency.

The Committee met with Associate Dean Tom O'Bryan to discuss the L&S portion of a proposal that was submitted by campus administration to the Sloane Foundation.

Committee members met with Cindy Walker, chair of the subcommittee on the evaluation of administrators, to discuss the role of the APGC in the review process. The APGC distributed the evaluation reports to departments.

Committee members met with the Associate Deans to get their views of the College's most pressing hiring needs.

Dean Richard Meadows met with the Committee in September and February to discuss the budget situation in the State and at UWM.

 

Respectfully submitted,

Academic Planning and Governance Committee, College of Letters and Science

Karen Brucks, Mathematical Sciences
Eduardo Douglas, Art History
Glen Fredlund, Geography (chair)
Peter Geissinger, Chemistry
David Heathcote, Biological Sciences
Connie Jo, L&S Administration (staff assistant)
Joyce Kirk, Africology
Pat Kissinger, L&S Administration (ex officio)
Michael Liston, Philosophy
Kristin Ruggiero, History
Gabrielle Verdier, French, Italian, and Comparative Literature