STATE OF THE UNIVERSITY ADDRESS

President Brand delivered the State of the University Address. A synopsis of that address was sent by campus mail to all University of Oregon faculty and staff, and is made a permanent part of these minutes.

INTRODUCTION OF NEW FACULTY

President Brand asked the deans to introduce new faculty members. Many deans noted in their introductions that their new colleagues had been the top choices of search committees at the University of Oregon, and at other universities.

Mr. Jerry Finrow, AAA, announced School of Architecture and Allied Arts administrative changes including the creation a new department of Arts Management. He also explained that faculty formerly in the Department of Leisure Studies and Services (which had been a department in the College of Human Development and Performance) were now in a new recreation and tourism program in AAA.

MEMORIALS

Mr. Robert Mazo, Chemistry, read a memorial for Mr. Donald Swinehart, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry. Mr. Swinehart, who retired in 1983 after 37 years of service to the University of Oregon, died on April 19, 1993 in Columbus, Ohio.

Mr. Jack Powers, Romance Languages, read a memorial for Mr. Chandler Beall, Professor Emeritus of Romance Languages and Editor Emeritus of Comparative Literature. Mr. Beall retired in 1971 after 42 years of service to the University of Oregon. He died in Eugene on August 21, 1993.

The memorials to Mr. Swinehart and Mr. Beall are a part of these minutes and can be found on pages 2-4. Also a part of these minutes are memorials (pages 5-6) to Ms. Catherine Miller Lauris, Editor Emerita, Department of Publications, and Ms. Josephine Moore, Director Emerita, News Bureau, Public Affairs and Development.

Ms. Lauris, who served the University of Oregon from 1940 until her retirement in 1982, died in Eugene, Oregon on September 24, 1993.

Ms. Moore, who retired in 1975 after 31 years of service to the University of Oregon, died in Eugene on September 16, 1993.

SPECIAL PRESENTATION

Mr. John Nicols, History, presented, on behalf of the University Assembly and the faculty at large, a certificate of appreciation and a laurel (Oregon laurel) wreath to

University Archivist, Mr. Keith Richard, who served from 1980-1993 as Secretary of the University Assembly and, from 1986 to 1993, as Secretary of the University Senate. As Mr. Nicols made this presentation, he noted Mr. Richard's love for the University of Oregon, his integrity, and his knowledge of the history of the University, of the law and of parliamentary procedure.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

President Brand announced that the 1992-93 Report of the Faculty Personnel Committee will be published in the Assembly minutes. That report appears on pages 7-8 of these minutes.

NEW BUSINESS

Mr. Davison Soper, President of the University Senate, presented the following motion:

"The time of the regular monthly meetings of the University Assembly shall be changed from 3:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m."

Noting that classes now start on the hour on Wednesdays, Mr. Soper reopened that the University Senate had voted to change its meeting time from 3:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

By voice vote, the Assembly approved the motion as presented.

ADJOURNMENT Before accepting a motion to adjourn, President Brand encouraged members of the Assembly to welcome the University's new faculty immediately upon adjournment at a reception in the Faculty Club. The business of the meeting having concluded, the meeting adjoined at 5:21 p.m.

Nancie Fadeley Acting Secretary DONALD F. SWlNEHART

December 17, 19/7 - April 19, 1993

Our colleague, Donald F. Swinehart, died on April 19, 1993 in Columbus, Ohio, at the age of 75. He will be sorely missed.

Donald Foucht Swinehart was born on December 17, 1917, in Strasburg, Ohio. He graduated from high school in 1935, and entered Capital University in Columbus, from which he graduated in 1939 with a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry. He then went on to Ohio State University, where he earned the Ph.D. degree in chemistry in 1943.

After receiving the Ph.D., he worked for the Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester, New York for slightly more than a year. From 1944 through 1946, he worked at Los Alamos, on the Manhattan project. After the war, he decided not to go back to industry, but to seek an academic position. He came to the University of Oregon as Assistant Professor of Chemistry in 1946, was promoted to associate professor in 1953, and to full professor in 1961. He retired in June, 1983, after 37 years of service to the university.

Donald was predeceased by his wife, Ruth Swinehart, and is survived by three sons, Phillip, Mark, and Douglas.

These data give the chronological outline of Don Swinehart's professional life, but do ~not do justice to the measure of the man.

Donald was always considered to be one of the best teachers in the department. He cultivated the image of the old curmudgeon, much like the fictional Professor Kingsfield of "The Paper Chase." Most of his students saw through this facade, however. This is exemplified by a letter from a former student, which spoke to his enthusiasm, his didactic ability, his interest in his students, and his willingness to give either "a verbal pat on the back or kick in the pants when such was required."

Donald also loved to work with his hands, to make things for himself. While at Los Alamos, he learned to operate a mass spectrometer, an instrument useful in the analysis of gases, among other things. Upon his arrival at Oregon he built one of these instruments for his own laboratory. It was a complicated job, involving electric circuitry and vacuum technology. The device stood in the middle of his laboratory; its looks betrayed its homemade character, but it worked, reliably and well. It served as the primary measuring device for many Ph.D. theses and papers by Donald and his students in his main research field, the chemical kinetics of unimolecular gas phase reactions. After his retirement, he loaded the apparatus on to a rental truck and took it back to Capitol University for the undergraduates there to use.

He resited the university sundial in the quadrangle near the Science Library shortly after Klamath Hall, then called Science II, was built. Similarly, he brought the university carillon back into operation after an outside "expert" said that it could not be done. In the years immediately before this retirement, and continuing thereafter, he took to building grandfather clocks. He would buy a kit, make the clock, sell it, and use the proceeds to buy a _,new kit. He ground telescope lenses and kept bees. In all of these do-it-yourself projects, _ owing it was just as important to him as the final result.

A great disappointment in Donald's professional life was that he was unable to interest a commercial publisher in a general chemistry text which he had written. After teaching the honors general chemistry course at the University of Oregon for several years, he distilled his experience into a text. This text was written at a very high level because he taught the subject at a high level in our relatively small honors course. The publisher thought that the market for such a text would be too small to justify publication, and Donald was unwilling to water down his manuscript. So, it remained just that, a manuscript, and not a book. Many of us who had the opportunity to see the manuscript thought this a great shame.

Donald Swinehart's professional career coincided with the growth of the Department of Chemistry from five persons to 25 persons. His participation helped to make that growth possible. We shall remember him as a treasured colleague and a friend. Robert M. Mazo Professor Department of Chemistry CHANDLER BAKER BEALL

Chandler Beall spent several years in France and Italy before coming to Oregon. His teaching here centered on Dante and on sixteenth and eighteenth-century French literature. On the campus, Dante and Chandler Beall became virtually synonymous and his course was an integral part of a liberal education. Chandler was well known, too, for his public lectures on Dante and modern Italian poets given in the Browsing Room of the Library. He, along with Hoyt Trowbridge, Frederick Combellack and others, initiated in 1952 the literature component of the Sophomore Honors Program, the program that was to become the Honors College. Chandler also served as a visiting professor at Johns Hopkins, Princeton, and the University of California at Berkeley. He spent the academic year 1958-59 in Italy as a Fulbright scholar.

Chandler Beall's most important achievement is the creation of the scholarly journal Comparative Literature, which he edited for more than twenty years. The joumal grew out of the effort of a group of members of the Modern Language Association to create an American journal to replace the Revue de Litte'rature comparee, which had been forced to suspend publication during World War II. After several other scholars had failed to persuade their universities to sponsor the new journal, Chandler offered to approach the University of Oregon and made a formal proposal to President Newburn in September 1947. President Newburn agreed to finance the journal for a trial period of three years, stipulating that the University of Oregon would retain full ownership and direction and that Chandler Beall would be the Editor. The first issue appeared in the spring of 1949.

Chandler's major scholarly work, his book Le Tasse en France, published in 1942, is in the classic French tradition of "litterature comparee," but he never accepted a rigid or narrow definition of comparative literature. He was warmly sympathetic to the New Criticism, disliking what he called "comparison for comparison's sake," which shows that two works are similar but does not lead to a better understanding of either. He was firmly convinced of the imponance of style in scholarly writing and devoted much of his time as Editor of Comparative Literature to meticulous copy editing of manuscripts to make them as lucid and attractive as possible.

After his retirement Chandler continued to take an active interest in the journal he had created. He understood that it could not remain unchanged and supported the Editors' attempts to see that its pages remain open to the best contemporary work in the field.

Mr. President, we request that this memorial be made a part of the official and permanent minutes of this meeting and that copies of the memorial be sent to the immediate family by the Secretary of the Faculty.

Thomas R. Hart Professor Emeritus Comparative Literature Perry J. Powers Professor Emeritus Romance Languages 

CATHERINE MILLER LA URIS

December 22, 1917 - September 24, 1993

Catherine Miller Lauris died on Friday, September 24, 1993, after suffering a stroke, at age 75. She was a civic activist and patron of the arts for more than four decades.

Lauris was born in Portland, Oregon December 22, 1917 but she was raised in Lane County, with her family first living in the community of Vaughn and then Creswell. She graduated from the University of Oregon in 1940 with Honors in English Literature.

She worked at the University of Oregon from 1940 until her retirement in 1982. In 1940, she was hired as a clerk for the Office of English Composition and continued through a series of university positions until she was hired by University Publications in 1966. She worked there for more than fifteen years.

She spent several years with UO Books, first as Managing Editor then as Acting Editor from 1966-1972. In July, 1972 she became University Catalog Editor when the responsibility for producing the catalog was transferred from the Editor's Office to the Office of Publications.

In 1974, she was promoted to Assistant Professor. Until her retirement in 1982, she was responsible for the production of the University's catalog series including the General Catalog, Summer Session Catalog and Law School Catalog.

Lauris was concerned about improving the content and overall communication value of the publications under her direction. She was a meticulous editor and had an "extraordinary love for the English language. Being an advocate of equal rights, she concentrated her efforts in the implementation of editorial decisions that were in the spirit of the Universityis commitment to affirmative action.

Lauris was a frequent guest lecturer in classes on publishing practices and procedures. She served as secretary (ex off~cio) to the University Curriculum Committee. In addition, she was selected to sene as secretary of the Presidential Search Committee in 1974.

Lauris had a long history of community service. In 1956, she was elected to the Eugene City Council, where she served for 12 years. She served as an elected member of the Lane Community College Board of Directors for another 12 years. Her last political race was an unsuccessful bid to be Eugene's mayor in 1980.

Lauris was a founding member of the Lane Arboretum Association and of the Friends of Eugene Library. She was a charter member of the Eugene Symphony Association and the Eugene Symphony Guild. She formerly served as an officer of the Lane Economic Development Commission, as a charter appointee on the state Council of Aging, as a member of the state Board of Psychologist Examiners, as a board member of the Oregon Repertory Theater and as president of the Lane Regional Arts Council.

Her work was recognized with public service awards in 1966 from University of Oregon Mothers, in 1967 from the University of Oregon Faculty Wives and in 1985 from the Arts Council. And, she received a distinguished service award in 1984 from the American Civil Liberties Union.

In summary, her work with the University community and the general community demonstrate her concern for contributing to the public good. The University was fortunate to have a person of her concern and dedication.

Lauris' survivors include her son, George, of Philomath; daughter, Mary Lowe, of _Redmond; and sisters Jean Cox and Melva Gamet of Eugene, Myra Goehler of Lake Oswego, "and Elizabeth Sullivan of Moscow, Idaho. She also had four grandchildren.

Barbara Edwards Associate Vice President Public Affairs and Development

JOSEPHINE STOFIEL MOORE August 27, 1909 - September 16, 1993 Josephine Stofiel Moore of Eugene died September 16, 1993 of a stroke. She was 84.

She was born August 27, 1909, in Boise, Idaho. She received her bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Oregon in 1931. Moore did reporting, advertising and office work for the Eugene Daily News from 1933-1940.

She started working for the UO News Bureau in 1944 and became its director in 1964. Known as a salty, straight talking, no-nonsense woman she was well liked both by her peers and students.

Moore worked closely with students during her time at the University of Oregon. She had an uncanny ability of selecting bright and ambitious students for her interns. Many have gone on to successful careers contributing to communities across the Northwest. One of her former interns, Douglas White, is now an administrator at Lane Community College. He said of his mentor, "She worked us relentlessly. However, she had a heart of gold and provided a nurturing atmosphere for people to learn."

Moore was promoted to the rank of associate professor in 1970. She retired in 1975 and was granted the title of director emeritus with the rank of professor.

Moore was a member of the Alpha Delta Pi college sorority and served as program chairwoman for the Northwest District of the American Public Relations Association from 1957-1958.

Interested in Oregon geography she was appointed chairwoman of the Oregon Geographic Names Board on December 3, 1971 and served on the Board until 1978. After her retirement Moore volunteered her time to such projects as editing the Atlas of Oregon text, which was published in 1976.

Moore also was an avid reader and enjoyed crossword puzzles. In fact, during her retirement she wrote many crosswords which were published in Old Oregon. Other hobbies included hiking, gardening and traveling.

She is survived by two daughters, Katherine Moore Burrington of Eugene and Elizabeth Brown of Tacoma; a sister, Gladys Stofiel Todd Cole of Salem; and five grandchildren.

Barbara Edwards Associate Vice President Public Affairs and Development 

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE FACULTY PERSONNEL COMMITTEE, 1992-93

The Faculty Personnel Committee's charge is to advise the Provost on academic promotion and tenure decisions. FPC met weekly from January 11th through June 3rd to review 26 internal cases and 5 external hires. The following table summarizes the outcomes of these 31 cases:

The Provost's action was consistent with FPC's recommendation in nearly all cases and when FPC's vote was unambiguously positive. FPC has the luxury of making recommendations with varying degrees of enthusiasm, while the Provost generally can make only dichotomous decisions, and thus the Provost's decisions are inherently more difficult than FPC's. We appreciate the Provost's hours of in-depth consulting with FPC on our lines of reasoning in several instances. We also commend the Provost for novel solutions to some difficult situations.

Many of the issues raised in previous FPC annual reports remain, while others are well on their way to resolution. For example:

1. Demonstration of candidates' teaching skills is important to FPC decision making. Several previous FPCs have commented upon the difficulty of evaluating candidates' teaching because of inconsistent (and sometimes barely existent) records and reports. However, most departments now provide multiple indicators of teaching at several points in candidates' teaching careers, such as results of in-class questionnaires and students' volunteered narrative reports (signed), and in some cases peer reports and sample teaching materials. Some departments provide detailed longitudinal analyses of candidates' teaching, while others provide just the raw data for various review committees to interpret themselves. The new "Guidelines for Evaluating and Rewarding Teaching at the University of Oregon" should help systematize these efforts.

2. Units continue to vary substantially in whether they provide a clear statement of what is required for tenure and promotion in their particular discipline. Although FPC membership is diverse by design, it rarely conducts original reviews of materials sent forward. Rather, FPC conducts secondary reviews of experts' opinions and, in doing so, relies heavily upon units' self descriptions of what in appropriate in their field or sub field. When these are meager or nonexistent, individual cases may be needlessly questioned or delayed.

Therefore, we urge each unit to include statements of expectations for scholarship, teaching, and service as part of candidates' evaluations. These statements should be revised appropriately for candidates with nontraditional appointments.

3. Most departments and colleges do a good job of preparing files. Nonetheless, we continue to find that some units neglect basics, e.g., making sure their evaluations address all aspects of candidates' job descriptions, dating and signing reports, keeping track of votes, protecting confidentiality, and meeting deadlines for the delivery of files.

4. FPC continued to have difficulty in some cases in which units seem to have protected candidates (usually junior candidates) from establishing significant teaching or service records to allow them to develop unambiguous research records. The life of the university is not just research, and delayed participation in it may inadvertently undermine future participation and foster an aloofness or detachment inconsistent with the tenets of faculty governance. Delayed participation also puts unfair burdens on units whose members take the broader issues of university life more seriously. Thus, we urge units to have their candidates take part in teaching and service more than nominally and provide evidence of that participation.

5. While most cases were clear and took "normal" amounts of individual and committee time, a few cases occupied a great deal of our time and energy. In almost all of the difficult cases, the issues arose from questions about fairness in how the file was prepared at the unit level. Even when we tried to get to the bottom of things, the issues generally were too murky for us to fully understand. We urge departments to prepare files without bias. We urge the Provost to l) require departments heads and others responsible for file preparation to attend promotion and tenure workshops on an annual or semi-annual basis, and 2) make samples of excellently prepared cases available as guides (with candidates' permission and identifying information removed as necessary).

6. FPC continued to find that we often did not have sufficient materials to make informed decisions on outside hires with tenure. Hiring routines vary substantially across units, but one important common issue is the source of reviewers' letters. In internal promotion and tenure cases, reviewers are selected and letters are solicited by the department. In external hires with tenure, reviewers are almost always selected by candidates, which introduces the potential for a lack of objectivity in evaluating candidates' merits. Most FPC members believe that FPC review of external cases is important, but others believe the cases are "shoo-ins" anyway and, with the problems inherent in reviewers' letters, should not be part of FPC purview. We note that this issue has been with FPC for many years.

We wish to commend the student members, Marjorie Taylor and Arne Baker, for their diligence. We wish to thank Lorraine Davis for her careful advance review of the files for completeness and Carol Rydbom for excellent scheduling and secretarial assistance.

Respectfully submitted (September 15, 1993),

Patricia A. Gwartney-Gibbs, Sociology (Chair)

Thomas H. Bivins, Journalism

Diane D. Bricker, Special Education and Rehabilitation

Janet W. Descutner, Dance

Jane Gray, Biology

Leslie Harris, Law

Robert Hurwitz, Music

Wendy A. Larson, East Asian Languages and Literatures

Karla Schultz, Germanic Languages and Literatures

Gary M. Seitz, Mathematics

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