DRAFT NOTES

CAMPUS WELFARE COMMITTEE

Meeting of January 16, 2001

 

The Campus Welfare Committee met on January 16, 2001 at 3:00 am in room 481 McHenry Library.

 

Present: Julia Armstrong-Zwart (Chair), Marty Chemers, Bill Ladusaw, Line Mikkelsen, Frank Talamantes, Mark Traugott, Tom Vani, Julian Fernald (Staff), Jean Marie Scott, Christina Valentino.

 

Absent: Sheila Gottehrer, Meredith Michaels, Janelle Taylor, William Domhoff.

 

Guest: Max Ritchie (coordinator of  PAC committees)

 

  1. Chair’s Announcements:

The CWC is still lacking an undergraduate student representative. Scott said she would try to find an available interested student.

 

The committee is still awaiting nominations from the staff advisory board for two more staff to serve on the CWC. Members are in agreement that it will be important to have representation from lower level staff.

 

Armstrong-Zwart is awaiting an appointment of a faculty member at large to the committee from the EVC Simpson.  

 

  1. Other Announcements: Talamantes raised the issues that Title IX education should to be conducted in Spanish for Spanish speaking employees, and that custodial staff that may handle toxic materials in Sinsheimer Lab should wear protective clothing. He reported that he was getting help on the latter issue. No action was requested of the committee.

 

Traugott passed on to the committee as a possible issue of concern, a recommendation from the Committee on Emeriti relations that the Campus Provost set aside a pool of funds to recall Emeriti Faculty on an ad hoc basis to teach courses. The committee did not take a position and does not plan to take action at this time.   

 

  1. Task Force Updates:

The task force drafting the civility code will convene their first meeting next week.

 

The faculty/staff work life study task force will meet for the first time on Friday January 16 at 3:30 in McHenry 481 to plan the methodology for the study.

 

The task force on graduate student issues has met and decided to distribute questionnaires to all graduate students asking them to prioritize the issues that are of most concern to them.

 

  1. Traugott presented the results of the faculty recruitment and retention study. The committee decided that in light of the findings it would identify and gather more information that the committee will need to make a recommendation to PAC in regards to institutional responses to the faculty housing situation. The information gathering effort will be spearheaded by Scott. Chemers suggested that PAC should probably be notified now that the CWC is planning to make a recommendation and to get it on a PAC agenda.

 

  1. Traugott presented a proposal which he had already presented to the Campus Provost and to the Chancellor for converting the old student center into an on-campus childcare center for faculty, staff, and students. Armstrong-Zwart agreed to raise the issue at the Committee Chairs meeting and at PAC