UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ

AS/SCM/260

MINUTES

An Emergency Meeting of the Santa Cruz Division

1 June 2000

Meeting

An Emergency Meeting of the Santa Cruz Division of the Academic Senate was held Thursday, June 1, 2000 in Kresge Town Hall. With Parliamentarian David Kaun and Secretary David Koo present, Chair Roger Anderson called the meeting to order at 3:30 p.m. An Emergency Meeting was necessitated by the cancellation of the regular Spring Quarter meeting (scheduled for Wednesday, May 31, 2000) due to a student protest that prohibited entry to the meeting room.

1. Approval of Minutes

Chair Anderson called for a motion to dispense with approval of the draft minutes for the Special Meeting of December 3, 1999 and the Regular Meeting of February 23, 2000. Professor Pamela Roby so moved. The motion was seconded and adopted by unanimous voice vote.

Rising to a question of personal privilege, Professor William Sullivan addressed the assembly on the incorrect representation of his participation in the Special Meeting of December 3, 1999 in the draft minutes. Professor Sullivan explained that he did not, as is reported in the draft minutes, rise to vote both for and against the motion. Instead, he had mistakenly stood for the yes vote and remained seated for the no vote and had asked the Chair to change his vote from yes to no after realizing his mistake. He explained that his attempts to correct the representation of his actions in the draft minutes with RJ&E and Secretary Koo had failed. Professor Sullivan requested that the draft minutes be changed immediately to reflect that he actually voted only once in favor of referral, and that after the Chair declared a tie, he rose to state he had made an error and to request his vote be changed.

Rising to a point of order, Professor Donald Potts stated that it is out of order to change draft minutes unless they are approved as final by the Senate. Following with another point of order, Professor Joel Yellin stated that minutes have no particular status until they are passed and that the Chair can make such a change. Chair Anderson ruled that the change to the draft minutes requested by Professor Sullivan be implemented immediately.

Report of Standing Committees

a. Committee on Committees (COC) (AS/SCP/1270)

COC Chair Karen McNally moved for the approval of the committee and officer nominations listed in the Regular Meeting CALL of May 31, 2000 (AS/SCP/1270) with the following corrections and additions.

· Faculty Welfare: Mark Traugott, Chair.

· Academic Personnel: Chair Leta Miller is also the UCSC representative to the University Committee on Academic Personnel.

· Admissions and Financial Aid: Correction of the spelling of Dana Takagi's name; Joyce Brodsky, member.

· Committee on Committees: Donka Farkas, resigned effective June 2, 2000; Lincoln Taiz, replacement member effective June 3, 2000.

· Education Abroad Program: Member Margo Hendricks is also the University CEAP chair.

· Educational Policy: The committee is complete with the six members listed.

· Faculty Research Lecture: Anna Tsing, member.

· Graduate Council: David Jones, member Fall and Spring.

· Planning and Budget: Bob Meister and Susan Gillman, co-vice chairs; Tina Campt, member Fall; and Marilyn Westerkamp, member Winter and Spring.

· Privilege and Tenure: George Blumenthal, Chair.

· Rules, Jurisdiction and Elections: Howard Haber will be on leave and thus not a continuing member; Martha Zuniga, member; Anthony Pratkanis, member. There is no chair at present time. Chair Grieson does not wish to continue as chair. COC Chair McNally acknowledged the hard work of RJ&E this year.

· Special Committee on the University Club: To be continued until August 31, 2001; membership to be announced.

· Special Committee on Merit Equity Review: For information only, COC Chair McNally read the following Resolution that appeared in the Regular Meeting CALL (AS/SCP/1265) and that serves as justification for continuing this special committee until August 31, 2001.

"Whereas the analyses presented to the Senate by the Committee on Merit Equity Review in its two statistical reports, February 1999 and May 2000, indicate some significant salary differences between women and men faculty and between minority and non-minority faculty; Whereas these data cannot rule out the possibility of discrimination; Whereas the results indicate a need for the investigation of individual cases, if the Senate and administration are to ensure that discrimination is not a possible outcome of the personnel review process;

It is Resolved:

(1) That a "Merit Equity Review Process," which is a full-career review, shall be available to any individual faculty member who perceives her/his salary to be lower than appropriate for a scholar of her/his merit, based on parity at UCSC; and

(2) That the Special Committee on Merit Equity Review develop the format of the Merit Equity Review Process in consultation with appropriate Senate committees and the administration."

Responding to a point of inquiry from Professor Yellin, Chair Anderson confirmed that the Resolution will be voted on separately next Fall quarter.

The motion to accept the nominations and to continue the two special committees was seconded and approved by unanimous voice vote.

Prompted by a question from Professor Michael Tanner to COC Chair McNally, a discussion followed regarding faculty members who have repeatedly requested to serve on Senate committees but have never been appointed by COC. COC Chair McNally explained the process by which appointments are made. There is an annual call for volunteers to Senate committees. COC contacts current members and chairs of committees to gather information on their views of the work of the committees and to ask if they are willing to continue to serve, if asked. To identify faculty for slots that have opened up, COC reviews the volunteer list and does its best to balance the bylaw restrictions of divisional spread, rank, maximum number of members per committee, and considerations of diversity. Working under these considerations and despite efforts to include all volunteers, COC finds it difficult to accommodate everyone who wants to serve. Chair McNally and Professor Shelly Errington both encouraged faculty members eager to serve to contact personally members of COC as well as to fill out the written forms. Professor Phokion Kolaitis suggested that faculty who have volunteered, but who were not chosen to serve, be sent letters acknowledging their willingness to serve. Chair McNally agreed to the usefulness of acknowledging volunteers who were not selected and of sending reconfirmation notes to those who were.

COC Chair McNally announced her retirement and took the opportunity to thank and acknowledge the work of her colleagues.

b. Faculty Research Lecture (FRL) (AS/SCP/1269)

FRL member Linda Burman-Hall delivered the Committee's report nominating Professor James Clifford of the Department of History of Consciousness as the Faculty Research Lecturer for 2000-2001. The Faculty Research Lecture will be held in Fall quarter 2000 instead of the traditional Winter quarter because of his previously planned leave. The full text of the committee's report appears in AS/SCP/1269. The nomination was approved by acclamation.

Professor Yellin rose to a point of privilege to ask questions of the Chair and the Chancellor regarding future Senate meetings. What provision has been made to prevent the recurrence of the student demonstration which prevented the Senate meeting the previous day? What is the validity of the representations in the media that students exert control over the agenda of Senate meetings? Chair Anderson stated that the demonstration was unexpected, and that for future meetings, precautions to prevent recurrence must be taken. The type of dialogue with students needed to prevent recurrence has yet to be determined. Representations that students control the Senate agenda are inaccurate. Chancellor Greenwood responded that preventing a recurrence will require advice from the Senate and serious assessment of the situation. A building can be kept open by force, if there is reason to do so. This requires calling in mutual aid, takes several days advance notice, and costs $50,000 to $75,000. Even with mutual aid, there is no guarantee that a volatile situation can be kept under control. On the previous day, the option of moving the meeting or of moving the student protests were not practical, while the option of negotiations with students was attempted seriously, but failed. Thus the meeting was cancelled.

Professor Ludwig raised a point of information. Is there a precedent that a UC Academic Senate meeting, either at UCSC or another campus, has ever been disrupted and denied opportunity to meet? What were the consequences of that action and what steps were taken to avoid that action? Chancellor Greenwood responded that meetings have had to be evacuated, and as an example, there was one at UC Davis five or six years ago.

Professor Darrell Long raised a point of information asking when the Senate leadership and administration learned there would be a student demonstration. Chair Anderson responded that he learned about it at 1:40 p.m. when he arrived at the meeting. Chancellor Greenwood said she was informed at about that time also.

Professor Allen Van Gelder asked a question regarding the misrepresentations in the press. Would Chancellor Greenwood issue a statement about the event to serve as an official position? Chancellor Greenwood responded that she would not since she does not normally correct media errors.

Annual Reports

a. Committee on Research (AS/SCP/1266)

COR Chair Peter Young submitted the committee's 1998-99 annual report, which was received without comment.

Without objection, Chair Anderson gave the floor to COC Chair Karen McNally to present the Dean McHenry Award to Professor Joseph Bunnett of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. The Dean McHenry award is given biennially for distinguished leadership in the Academic Senate. It is awarded in conjunction with the system-wide Oliver Johnson Award. COC Chair McNally read parts of the citation that appears in its entirety in the 31 May 2000 CALL (AS/SCP/1274).

Adjournment:

Professor Joel Yellin made a motion to adjourn that was seconded and approved without objection. The meeting was adjourned at 4:20 p.m.

ATTEST:

David Koo

Secretary

October 16, 2000

Recording Secretary: Mary-Beth Harhen