Academic Staff Council Minutes

May 21, 2003

Call to order at 3:03 p.m..

Approval of April minutes.

Members present: Emily Ronning, Sue Walton, Kathy Olsen, Larry Testa, Steven Luebke, Gretchen Link, Mark Kinders and Michael Stifter. New Members present: Kimberly Gould-Speckman, Angela Kaiser, and Sally Berkholder. Others present: Tony Bredahl

Chair's Report

• Mark Kinders: Joint Finance went no deeper than governor's proposal and they gave a go ahead for a tuition increase. Critical part is getting through Joint Finance. It now goes onto caucus.
• Administrative Council visit by president Lyall: UW System has dropped from 13th to 28th in a measure of educational quality nationally speaking; 5% of our students study abroad; state survey conducted indicated that our citizens are interested in the State system and are willing to spend money on it; a bipartisan education caucus was proposed; the Classified personnel contract passed
• Introduction of members.

Representatives Report (Tony Bredahl reporting):

• Circulated minutes from 5/15 meeting and 5/16 Legislative update and 5/15 Joint Finance info; Bredahl reiterated the availability of this info on the web also
• Plugged Summer conference to be held on 7/17 and 7/18 at Stevens Point (materials circulated)
• Bredahl was thanked for his two years of service as the Madison rep which is in addition to the three years he served on the Council

New Business

• Elections: Landslide victories by Sue Walton as chair, Emily Ronning as vice-chair, and Angela Kaiser as secretary (Kimberly Gould-Speckman declined the nomination for secretary).

Old Business

• Walton announced that there were two winners for the Regents Award, one was from UW-Madison and one from UW-Stout.

Other Business

• NA

Adjournment at 3:33 p.m..

Next Meeting will be in September.