THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs
4008 Fleming Administration Building
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1340
313-764-0303
MINUTES OF THE SACUA MEETING OF 13 APRIL 1992
ATTENDANCE
Present:
Cameron, Debler, Diana, ~oeppinger,
Hollingsworth, Jensen, Marcelo,
Penchansky; Schwartz, Thorson
Absent:
Bord; Schessler
Guests:
Provost Whitaker, Kay Dawson,
Michigan Daily Reporter
MINUTES
The minutes of the meeting of April 6 were approved as
corrected.
TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT (TQM)
Jensen described his four-day training session at TQM
last week. His reaction to the training was quite positive.
Provost Whitaker has offered to provide TQM training for
SACUA members and selected committee chairs. The training
will probably take place during a four-day period in late
May.
MEETING WITH PROVOST WHITAKER
Topics discussed were: the University budget; removal
of mandatory retirement; Department of Public Safety
Oversight Committee; and Total Quality Management training.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Samuel Gross, George Cameron, and Wilfred Kaplan will
select the 1993 speaker for the Third Annual Lecture on
Academic and Intellectual Freedom.
Arrangements have been made for the visits of
Professors Davis, Markert, and Nickerson. A reception
sponsored by the Academic Freedom Fund will follow the
lecture on Monday, ~ p r i l20. Professor Nickerson will join
SACUA for dinner Monday evening.
The Ombudsperson Task Force's Report and SACUA's
recommendations have been sent to Provost Whitaker.
SACUA minutes of 4/13/92
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The report from the Legal Services Task Force is
expected to be submitted to SACUA within the next two weeks.
The U of M Flint faculty is considering unionizing. It
is not clear that they will be able to establish a
bargaining unit independent of the Ann Arbor and Dearborn
faculty.
FACULTY GOVERNANCE ISSUES
Thorson will contact the committee chairs to see if
they would like student support for their committees next
year.
The charge to the Academic Affairs Advisory Committee
(aaac) was discussed. The Provost would like to see aaac
take on a significant issue. A SACUA member suggested aaac
focus on the consequences of the elimination of mandatory
retirement.
Some key issues related to the elimination of mandatory
retirement include: tenure, morale, impact on junior
faculty and hiring of new faculty. SACUA should involve
many different committees in the undertaking of such issues.
Another key issue is the assessment of teaching and
administrative work. Academic assessment could be
considered as a possible central theme for 1993-94.
It was suggested that Senate Assembly decide this
spring whether or how to expand the pool of candidates from
which SACUA nominees are selected. Thorson will prepare a
list of ideas that have been suggested to be reviewed at the
next SACUA meeting.
OLD BUSINESS
t i v e dinner hosted by President
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Duderstadt will be held on May 11th.
Thorson gave an update on committee appointments.
SACUA gave suggestions for members of the Rackham Board of
Appeals and the Michigan Union Board of Representatives and
for chairs of the Student Relations Committee and Tenure
Committee.
ADJOURNMENT
The meeting was adjourned at 5:00 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Diane G. Schwartz
Senate Secretary