Faculty/Staff Meeting Minutes
Friday May 18, 2007 
CP 206C Conference Room
Attendance: O. Baiocchi, A. Urbanec, L. Wear, L. Crum, S. Hanks, S. Rondeau, D. Chinn, D. Zimmerman, E. Hong, M. Muppa, D. McLane, C. Calo, D. Smith, Z. Chavez, I. Bichindaritz, B. Jeffrey, S. Chung

1.  Approval of Minutes

•	February 16, 2007

(Motion:  L. Wear  second:  L. Crum,  approved)

2.  Updates- Orlando Baiocchi
Faculty Search Updates – 
Information Sciences - Ankur Teredesai has accepted position. 
Computer Engineering Systems - First Candidate for CES position Dr. Zhen Guo was here on Thursday May 17, 2007.  The second candidate Dr. Raj Katti will be visiting the campus on Monday May 21, 2007.

Graduate Review -
Graduate school sent us back the self study to be redone.  On Tuesday, May 15, 2007, Orlando and Alina met with the Associate Dean of the Graduate School.  The problem seems to be the format.  The committee was disbanded, and a new committee has been set.  They are waiting for our input. They would like for us to provide 8 internal names, and 6 external names.  We must have a draft ready by August 1, 2007.  Work to be completed by Sept 1, 2007.  All faculty needs to be involved.  

Summer Schedule –
During the Director’s meeting, one of the issues that came up was summer courses in state of WA.  The state does not prohibit summer programs as part of the academic year.  However, they will not subsidize them.  Students would like to have summer courses from their programs.  Larry Crum stated that UW Tacoma and UW Bothell need to make it clear that subsidizing summer courses by the state should be considered.  

Bothell Campus – 
There will not be a new UW campus in Everett.  The new chancellor of Bothell will help with the creation of a new site that will be linked to Bothell.  Eventually Bothell will move to the new site.   

Other news – 
The School of business is considering creating a minor. Steve Hanks stated that the Institute needs the business minor in order to complete our proposed offerings in Information Sciences and Information Technology.  Complementing business classes with our program would be to our advantage.  We should try getting private funds for this endeavor. 

PARC – 
The deadline for program approvals is at the end of September 2007.  We have at least three programs in the approval process.  We have to work on this during the retreat.

3.	New Business

A.	Discuss the staff-faculty-retiree campaign - Carol Van Natta 

Carol Van Natta Vice Chancellor for Advancement informed faculty and staff about the Faculty-Staff-Retiree Campaign for Students.  The University of Washington set a campaign goal of raising 2 billion dollars in July of 2000.  In November of 2006 the 2 billion dollar goal was surpassed 18 months ahead of schedule.  Regents decided there was potential for raising more money.  They raised the goal to 2.5 billion.   The campaign ends on June 30, 2008.  Of the 27 Units within the UW, UW medicine is the largest unit. They had the largest goal, 1 billion dollars.  The University of Washington, Tacoma had a goal of 22 million, but that amount was surpassed three years ago.  A new goal of 30 million dollars was set, and that was surpassed September 2006.  The campaign was raised to 35 million dollars and it will be surpassed in a few days, now the goal is 38 million.  UW Bothell’s goal was 5 million and so far, they have achieved a goal of 2.5 million.  Tacoma is set apart now, because of the enormous success in fund raising.  We need to focus on student support here at the UW Tacoma.  Student support looms as something that we have not supported as much as we should have.  The whole UW Tacoma campaign will be looked at and what we have done with the 38 million dollars.  We have 7 disciplines, and everyone knows about their area, but not the macro picture.  

Some of these funds have gone to add significant numbers of chairs, professorships, scholarships, facilities, two floors of CP, Pinkerton, and assembly hall. All these were done using private funds.  Analysis will be completed to show where the 38 million dollars have gone.  The focus will be on creating scholarships which is important to UWT because so many students are first generation college students.  As part of the campaign, Bill gates Sr. wants to make it possible for anyone to benefit from a UW education.  Without cost being a barrier. The concern is that a lot of support is from outside sources, we haven’t created and internal opportunity.  

The Faculty Staff retiree campaign for students creates an internal opportunity.  The University endowment has grown significantly. The University spends only 5% of the endowment in order for the rest to grow and keep up with inflation.  In the past $50,000 was the minimum gift to the endowment.  If a member gives $5,000 the University will match the additional $5,000.  Funding can be done through paycheck deductions.  To create endowment, you have until June 30, 2008, and five years to complete the pledge.  (Handouts with information were provided)

Orlando Baiocchi -

Wanted to know when the Institute would receive funds from the STAR program.  Where are donations going?  Carol stated that funds are probably going to pay for a pledge made when the campaign was started.  An example of where funds have gone include the two $250,000 professorships created.  Carol stated the best person to ask these questions is Jan Rutledge.

B.	Undergraduate Curriculum Committee - Larry Wear

Two issues brought up:

1.	Addressing approval to substitute any science lab based class for our physics requirement.  Larry Crum stated that he strongly prefers calculus based physics.
  (Motion: L. Crum second: L. Wear, approved) 
2.	Original undergraduate was for CSS program. Do we need to have two committees, one for CSS and one for CES?

Minor -

Required Courses TINST 310, 311, 312 and a list of eight additional courses  
Members:  Steve Hanks, Menaka Muppa and Lou Ann Lyons-Banks are trying to publicize the minor and get people interested.

Eight Additional Courses

1.	TCSIIN 437 - Technology in the modern world
2.	TINST 401 - Technology in the Service of Society
3.	T ACCT 330 - ACCTG INFO SYSTEMS
4.	TBUS 301 - Quantitative Analysis for Business
5.	TGIS 311 - Maps and GIS
6.	TINST 475 - Entrepreneurship in Computing and Software Systems
7.	TINST 490 - Information Assurance (will be approved as an elective)
8.	TCSS 481 - Computer Security (has a pre-requisite of 312, side issue if it should be moved into TINST)

Two electives, one of which might be independent study.

(Motion:  L. Crum second: L. Wear, approved)

C.	IAS physics will be a 6 unit course, as opposed to Seattle and most other places which is 5 units.  It would put the program at 184 units.  Orlando commented that one way to deal with this is to require two physics courses, instead of three.  Needs to go to undergraduate committee.  
D.	Add Chemistry and Biology with labs as an alternative to Physics within the  
admissions requirements to the undergraduate CSS program. – Larry Wear
 (Tabled from 4/27/2007 meeting)
(Same as B above)

E.	Faculty Advising: New CSS grid will be distributed; Reminder to faculty about General Electives (10 -15 credits outside the program) 5 must be VLPA; 5 must be I&S (and over 300 or 400 level) – Chris Rials
Link with the I&S and VLPN’s courses:  http://www.tacoma.washington.edu/ias/academics/schedules/autumn_2007_web_version.pdf

Grid handed out by Alina.  Chris wanted to let you know that they have to take five of the over 300 and 400 levels. 

F.	11:45 am Guest lecturer program with the community colleges - Bill Kunz and Diane Kinder

In 2005, the UW Tacoma made a commitment to improve relationships with community colleges.  In Spring, 2005 a meeting took place with representatives from Tacoma Community College, Highline Community College, and Pierce College. The goal was trying to figure out ways to improve relations between their campus and ours.  Focus was placed on creating more faculty to faculty interaction.  Learn what each group is doing.  Exchange faculty between UW Tacoma and the community colleges.  An idea was to have guest lecturers. 

Questions that need to be answered are:

What do we have to offer?
Which faculty members are interested?  
We don’t have an expert’s guide, and how do we create one?
What are the needs of the community colleges?
How to administer and improve communication?  
Who is interested? 

Offer one or three unique lectures.  Bill will follow-up with an e-mail? 

Meeting will adjourn at 12:00 pm

Announcement

June 1 Open House from 2-4, Chris will need demo’s in the CP labs, please email Chris if you have students to participate.  

All student application fees are waived for the rest of the year- per enrollment services.

Commencement Reception: immediately following graduation, to be held in CP 206.  Email invitations have been sent twice for students and their parents to meet faculty and staff.

OTHER:

Spring birthdays were celebrated