Minutes from
UPSA Executive Board Meeting
Thursday, March 13, 2003

Attending:  Thelma Simons, Pam Houston, Dan Consolver, Danny Kaiser, Jill Hummels, Kathy Stiers, Jeannette Johnson, and Donna Hultine

Minutes: 
Minutes from the February 13, 2003 Executive Board meeting were approved with one change: Kathy Stiers name was spelled incorrectly.

Treasurer's Report:
Consolver reported that we spent $150.30 for 1,000 brochures.

President's Report
SenEx: Charges to each committee include review of adding staff to each committee. This will be reviewed at their next meeting.

Students are working on a survey about classes and faculty with questions like "Would you recommend this class/teacher?"  They will present this to University Council, not for comments just to advise that this is happening.

Working on a common withdrawal policy.  Part of it has been approved, still working on timing of different phases.

In the process of revising the substance abuse policy.

University Council passed a resolution today voicing concerns about the effects of the strict interpretation of  the federal policy regarding foreign students.

Simons has a meeting with the provost tomorrow at 9:00 am.

Committees:
Governance and Representation -discussion about how to go about nominating people for the UPSA Board.  We need to have broader cross-campus representation.  We talked about representatives from these categories: Research, departments that report to deans, Facilities Management, Student Support, University Relations, departments that report to Provost/Chancellor, Information Services, Administration and Finance.

We discussed looking at the WSU constitution for their UPSA group, perhaps we can conduct nominations/elections like they do.

Professional Development - Sally Hayden's position has been eliminated.  We need to figure out what lectures have been set up for this semester.

Public Relations - We discussed what to do with the extra brochures: perhaps mail some to key legislators, keep some in the Provost office, send some to the Board of Regents, Student Senate.  The brochure is on the Web site. Thelma will add talking points in case people want to write their own legislator.  We talked about developing a cover letter for the brochure to send to Regents and maybe to presidents of other Regents schools to let them know what we are doing.  Johnson can get names and addresses.  Johnson will try to come up with a draft letter.

Classified Senate:
Stiers reported that there will be a vote sometime in April on whether classified employees would become University employees.

HR Report:
None

Elections Committee:
We will have a nominating committee of five people to include the chair and the secretary.  We went over the list of categories mentioned earlier and decided to narrow them down to Deans, Research, Student Support, Information Services and Administration.

We will submit this to Ola to look at the numbers in these areas and then put on the Web site to define the areas we are talking about.  The numbers will guide us as to how many in each category.

We had a long discussion about looking at the numbers and trying to be more like a house of representatives.

We need to determine who on the current board is coming off, or up for reelection. We think Joe Potts and Kathryn Nemeth-Tuttle are off or up for reelection.

We decided that our April general meeting would be Warren Corman to talk about the campus master plan.

Meeting adjourned at 1:25 p.m.