Administrative
Snapshot: December 2003
Red:
New this month.
Blue: Updated from November.
Black: Still current from previous issue.
Names
of key participants appear in brackets at the end of most items.
Leadership
transition: President, provost to visit, seek input
UW
President Lee Huntsman and Acting Provost David Thorud are very
interested in hearing from all UWT constituencies about the process
of selecting an interim chancellor, conducting a search and then
selecting a new permanent chancellor for the UW Tacoma. In this
spirit, the President and Provost will be at UWT on Thursday,
Dec. 11. They will meet first with advisory boards and then with
faculty, staff and administrators. All meetings will be in the
Tacoma Room. The morning's schedule is as follows.
9
- 10 a.m. Faculty
10:15 - 11 a.m. Faculty Assembly leadership
11 a.m. - 12 noon Staff (Coffee with the Chancellor will be moved
to another date.)
12
noon - 1 p.m. All Directors
ASUWT
readies for legislative session
ASUWT legislative relations students are very well organized and
working to advocate for UWT during the upcoming session. They
have been consulting with administrators about UWT priorities
and concerns related to the 2003 and future legislative sessions.
The students will meet with their governmental-relations colleagues
from area community colleges and UW Bothell Dec. 12 and have invited
the Pierce County delegation of legislators to campus for lunch
and conversation Dec. 16. ASUWT's legislative priorities, as passed
by the ASUWT senate, include working to get a UWT student appointed
as a student regent, creating an ex-officio position on the Board
of Regents for the president of ASUWT, gaining a seat on the Washington
Student Lobby for ASUWT, increasing enrollment funding and obtaining
funding for a childcare center. [Julie Warden-Gregory (ASUWT),
Brent Biggs (ASUWT), Shellie Jo White (Student Life)]
Transfer
admissions: New UWS process does not apply to UWT applicants
The
University of Washington, Seattle announced this summer it would
discontinue its Direct Transfer Agreement with the community college
system, which guaranteed admission to students transferring from
a Washington community college with an associate degree and a
GPA of 2.75. The Seattle campus is continuing its proportionality
agreement, which ensures at least 30 percent of each incoming
class will be composed of students transferring from the state's
community colleges.
Because
of widespread publicity about the UW change, there is concern
transfer students and legislators may believe there has also been
a change in the way UWT admits students. OESSA has been contacting
advisers to correct misperceptions about the transfer process.
The
status of the Direct Transfer Agreement has been discussed in
legislative committees. UWT will work to ensure legislators understand
the distinction between UWS and UWT admissions practices. [Mike
Wark, Sharon Fought]
Flexibility
in 2 + 2
Legislators
are talking about allowing UWT more flexibility in offering lower-division
courses and allowing community colleges more flexibility in offering
upper-division courses. These discussions will continue into the
legislative session. The HEC Board Master Plan, which will be
modified before being adopted by the Legislature during the session,
is driving a conversation among higher education leaders about
whether some upper-division campuses and some community colleges
should offer four-year programs. [Mike Wark, Vicky Carwein, Jack
Nelson, Sharon Fought]
Chancellor's
campus address published
Chancellor
Carwein delivered her annual campus address Oct. 30. It has been
published and distributed to programs and units across the campus.
Electronic
discussion forum
We
have launched our first electronic discussion forum, on the nature
of research at UWT and the support needed by researchers. This
forum is open to full-time faculty only. It can be accessed here:http://catalyst.washington.edu/webtools/epost/register.cgi?owner=sfritz&id=6500
[Jack Nelson (Academic Affairs)]
Colleges
and deans at UWT
UW
President Lee Huntsman has initiated the process required to change
an executive order so as to allow for the establishment of schools
and colleges, headed by deans, at the Tacoma and Bothell campuses.
This process should be completed by early January, allowing the
Board of Regents to take action on our request that the Milgard
School of Business become a collegiate level unit headed by a
dean. [Jack Nelson, vice chancellor for Academic Affairs]
Phase
2B: Furniture installation, ribbon-cutting preparations underway
The
contractor's substantial completion date for Cherry Parkes was
Dec. 1, for the Mattress Factory Dec. 8. Moves will take place
between January and March, with ribbon cutting Jan. 8. Governor
Locke will speak. Furniture installation is underway and will
be complete by Dec. 31. The first UWT units to move will be Facilities,
ASUWT, Student Life, and several units of Information Technology.
Nursing will move in late January. See Sandy Boyle's uwtline message
of Dec. 5, "Phase 2b Move Schedule." All units moving
to Phase 2b should plan to have their new space presentable for
self-guided tours Jan. 8. [Sandy Boyle (Finance and Administration),
Teresa Gregory (Development)]
Development
solicitations out: Tax year deadline Dec. 30
Development
has sent fall solicitation letters to donors and alumni. Faculty
and staff are reminded that gifts made to UWT by Dec. 31, 2003
are deductible for the 2003 tax year. [Carol Van Natta (Development)]
Commencement
speaker selection
Under
UWT's guidelines for selecting a commencement speaker, a list
of names of possible speakers has been developed for June 2004
and June 2005. Faculty, staff, students and advisory board members
had the opportunity to submit recommendations in November. A selection
group including three students, a faculty member and a member
of the administration has narrowed the list and submitted a small
number of names to the Chancellor. Under the guidelines, the Chancellor
will make every attempt to secure one of these individuals for
2004 and another for 2005. [Steve Smith (commencement coordinator)]
State
of the faculty: annual address
Mike
Kalton, chair of the Faculty Assembly, will deliver UWT's first
annual "state of the faculty." A date has not been set,
but the address will not be given before January.
Review
of UWT budget process: Web site still open for comments
In
preparation for work on the 2004 budget, UWT is conducting a review
of the budget process utilized for the last two years. Under that
process, the Chancellor charged a small committee (led by the
two vice chancellors and including faculty, staff and student
members) with making budget recommendations that best served broad
campus interests. Comments regarding the existing budget process
have been received from the existing Budget Development Committee,
All Directors, the Staff Association, the "Admin Junque"
group and students. A subset of Cabinet will review the comments
and the budget process. Click here to submit suggestions about
the budget process.
Diversity
Partnership Institute
This
will be the third annual conference bringing together educators
from colleges and universities in the South Sound. Scheduled for
February 20 at PLU, this year's conference opens with a panel
featuring Chancellor Carwein and the heads of six other campuses.
[Marcie Lazzari, Steve Smith]
Cuba
exchange: UWT group visiting now; March trip still open
A
group from UWT left Dec. 8 for a weeklong visit to Cuba's University
of Cienfuegos. The group aims to develop an understanding of how
an exchange program would benefit both schools. Cienfuegos is
a Tacoma sister city. Trip participants include Cynthia Duncan,
associate director of International Programs; Bill Richardson,
director of IAS; and Brian Coffey, director of International Programs.
A spring break trip is planned for March and is open to students
at all three UW campuses. The trip is also open to a limited number
of faculty members. For information on the trip, visit
http://www.tacoma.washington.edu/travel/upcoming/cuba/
[Cynthia Duncan, Bill Richardson (IAS)]
Campus
visits for Milgard candidates
UWT
has received 74 applications/nominations for the position to head
the Milgard School of Business. The search committee has completed
initial screening of the applications and has held telephone interviews
with eight. Campus presentations will be Dec. 10 at 4:15 p.m.
in the Tacoma Room with David Arnesen and Dec. 16 at 4 with Jonathan
Silberman. Shakrokh Saudagaran presented Dec. 8. [Ginger MacDonald
(Education), search committee chair]
Strategic
planning, interim report
Chancellor Carwein and/or Vice Chancellor Nelson have now met
with all programs and administrative units on campus to discuss
the report and UWT's ongoing strategic planning effort.
Strategic
planning consultants visit: feedback due Dec. 12
Two
strategic planning consultants, Eric Allenbaugh and Donald Summers,
have visited UWT and met with all directors, as well as with an
all-campus group. (Three candidates were invited to visit, but
one withdrew.) The selected consultant will guide the final stages
of the strategic planning process. Feedback on the candidates
has been solicited via e-mail and is due Dec. 12. [Mike Kalton
(representing faculty); Carol Van Natta (representing administration);
Beckie Etheridge (representing staff)]
University-wide
computing groups
In
response to discussions with the Board of Deans, UW administrators
and regents, the UW president has appointed three technology advisory
committees (U-TAC, A-TAC, and I-TAC) to achieve better cooperation,
communication, and coordination on university-wide technology
issues, strategies and policies. Chancellor Carwein serves on
U-TAC, Stern Neill on A-TAC and Patrick Pow on I-TAC. A-TAC will
meet Dec. 10. On its agenda will be discussion of classroom technology
allocation, wireless policy, security models, and technology expectations
of students.
For more information, go to http://depts.washington.edu/cac/cchome/tacs.html
Higher
Education Coordinating Board, master plan
The
HEC Board released a new draft version of its 2004 Strategic Master
Plan for Higher Education Dec. 3. View the draft plan here.
http://www.hecb.wa.gov/Docs/packets/2003/december/InterimMasterPlanDraft.pdf
The
plan as written raises the possibility that some upper-division
campuses and community colleges could become four-year colleges
and has already generated significant discussion among state higher
education policymakers, legislators and university officials.
Comments on the plan can be sent to masterplan@hecb.wa.gov. [Sharon
Fought (Academic Affairs)]
Catalog
Review
of the current catalog continues, identifying needed changes for
next year. [Dan Garcia (Enrollment Services and Student Affairs),
Brian Anderson (Public Relations), Bobbe Miller-Murray (Registrar),
Sharon Fought (Academic Affairs).]
Graduate
student tuition
The
UW's Committee to Review Graduate and Professional Student Tuition
Policies is meeting every other week, and graduate programs at
UWT have provided requests for tuition rates for 2004-2005. This
group has reviewed the UW's tuition aid practices for graduate
students. A draft of tuition recommendations for Autumn 2004 is
due to the Regents in January. [Jack Nelson, Sharon Fought (Academic
Affairs)]
New,
updated UWT data reports on SIS
The
electronic fact book on SIS is available for internal use. Reports
recently created or updated include ones on: articulation agreements,
cross enrollments by FTE, ZIP codes and courses taught by program.
Please review the introductory information on SIS before using
the reports. [Sharon Fought (Academic Affairs)]
Faculty
Council on Tri-campus Policy
Faculty
and administrators representing each campus are working to clarify
relationships among the campuses and recommend appropriate revisions
to the faculty code, which was written before UWT and UWB were
established. A draft executive order is being circulated for input
by committee members. [Jack Nelson; Mike Kalton, chair, UWT Faculty
Assembly; Marcy Stein and Janet Primomo (faculty)]
Issues
breakfasts
UWT
will soon be launching a series of breakfasts open to all faculty
and staff. Each breakfast will feature discussion of a significant
topic, usually led by an outside expert. Possible topics include:
organizational models for multi-campus universities, the nature
of urban and metropolitan institutions, and the challenges of
managing transfer and articulation agreements.
Community
college collaboration, dual admission
UWT and Institute of Technology leaders and recruiters will meet
Dec. 9 at Pierce College Puyallup to develop strategies for strengthening
the Dual Admission pathway with Pierce for the CSS degree program.
[Larry Crum (Institute), Mike Wark (Public Relations)]
South
Sound recruitment event set for Jan. 24
Saturday, Jan. 24 UWT will host a major recruiting event involving
college and universities across Pierce County. The event will
feature workshops and all-ages entertainment and is designed to
raise awareness about educational options and to highlight our
campus. Planned workshops include: College 101 for students who
have never been to college, Transfer 301 for those who have some
college and Graduate School 501 for those seeking guidance on
entrance essays and exam preparation. The day will also feature
workshops on careers, financial aid, scholarship searches, money
management, study skills and time management. [Wanda Curtis (Admissions
and Recruitment)]
Three-Campus
Committee
Former President Richard McCormick established this committee.
Its members (Acting Provost David Thorud, Executive Vice President
Weldon Ihrig, UWB Chancellor Warren Buck and UWT Chancellor Vicky
Carwein) meet regularly to discuss overall guiding principles
and philosophies for operations across the three campuses.
Presidential
search
Chancellor Vicky Carwein is a member of the committee appointed
to recommend candidates to the Regents for consideration. The
search process is highly confidential, and the Regents have given
the committee a May 1, 2004 deadline for concluding its work.
Research
quarter off
This program, funded for the first time last year, gives a quarter
off to faculty to help them prepare for their tenure and promotion
review. Faculty members eligible for a quarter off during 2004-05
have been notified and their applications will be considered.
[Jack Nelson]
South
Puget Sound Education Diversity Partnership
CEOs from 13 college and universities in the region have appointed
representatives to this partnership, initiated by Chancellor Carwein
three years ago for the purpose of collaborating on projects that
enhance diversity in higher education. [Steve Smith (Diversity
and Minority Affairs)]
Institute
of Technology advisory board
A new advisory board has been established for the Institute of
Technology. The board met in October and will meet next in January.
The board will serve as a resource, center of influence and legislative
advocate for the Institute. Members, who will help build community
for the Institute, are distinguished individuals from academia,
business, industry, government, education, and other areas. [Larry
Crum (Institute)]
Provost
approves TCSS 142/143
UWT will be offering TCSS 142 and 143 Winter Quarter. These challenging
lower-division courses will bring entering Institute students
up to the level of preparation required for success in our rigorous
CSS program. [Larry Crum (Institute of Technology), Jack Nelson]
Possible
new academic programs
Sharon Fought submitted to the Inter-institutional Committee for
Academic Program Planning a list of academic programs that, pending
funding, are under consideration for initiation in the 2005 -
07 biennium. The possible new degree programs are: B.S. and M.S.
in embedded computer engineering systems, M.S. in environmental
science, B.A. in urban and regional planning, M.N. program option
for R.N.s with associate degrees, B.A. in cartography and global
information systems, and an M.A. in Teaching to replace the post-baccalaureate
teacher certification program. [Sharon Fought (Academic Affairs)]
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