The meeting of the University Assembly was called to order at 3:37 p.m. in Columbia 150 by President Myles Brand.
Mr. Louis Osternig, Exercise and Movement Science, presented a memorial for Professor Jan Broekhoff, Exercise and Movement Science, who passed away on October 21, 1991 in Eugene. Mr. Broekhoff was a member of the University of Oregon faculty from 1973 until his death. His memorial can be found at the end of these minutes.
At the end of these minutes the annual report of the 1990 91 Faculty Personnel Committee can be found.
President Brand announced, in accordance with the rules concerning the naming of buildings, that Condon School has been renamed Agate Hall. The University acquired Condon School from Eugene School District 4J recently and thus the name change to eliminate any conflict with Condon Hall.
The President also announced that Chancellor Thomas Bartlett will speak to the University faculty on November 19, 1991 at 3:30 p.m., in Columbia 150. Chancellor Bartlett will speak on the topic of "Long Range Planning" (a topic closely related to the main subject of the November and December Assembly meetings) and will stand for questions following his presentation.
Ms. Jean Stockard, Sociology, asked the faculty to send letters to the Chancellor on the proposed use of state money to support athletics at the University, Oregon State University and Portland State University.
Ms. Esther Jacobson Tepfer, Art History, asked what the University is doing in reaction to the cut of 25% asked for by the Governor for the next round of cuts mandated by Measure 5? The President replied that the State System had to respond, the proposed cut of 25% is aimed at the System and not each institution. The Chancellor and his staff are preparing a complete budget documenting as to the source of funds private, state, federal, student, etc. and what would happen if the funds disappeared or were cut. No decision will be made to close a campus, etc., as the Chancellor does not think that an announcement of specific cuts is in the best interest of the system or the individual institutions within the system.
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Mr. Gerald Kissler, Senior Vice Provost for Planning and Resources, was recognized by the President to make a presentation concerning the plan and the recently distributed document titled "A Vision for the Future." Mr. Kissler introduced the topic and presented a series of slides depicting the future economic growth and development of the Pacific Northwest and how the University of Oregon and higher education in general fit into that future. Mr. Kissler stated that he has spent a considerable amount of time speaking with various economists in the private sector as well as some in higher education to gather some of the information he was presenting.
Following this presentation Mr. Kissler and President Brand answered specific questions concerning the plan. Among these questions were: the revamping of the curriculum to give the students more depth and increasing the credit hours for individual classes. The aim to better prepare the student to enter the 21st Century and to make positive contributions to society with the education the student received at the University of Oregon. This topic will be before the University Senate soon and the Assembly will discuss and debate the proposal in December or January. A question concerning enrollment of out of state students and leaving room for in state students was answered by the President. He stated that the number of eligible out of state students admitted might rise by 1 or 2 percentage points, but that room will be available for qualified in state students. The maximum mix of out of state and in state that could be tolerated is between 25 and 30 per cent of the former out of the total enrolled. Presently out of state undergraduate students pay less than 100% of the costs of their education...they are being subsidized by the state. The proposal is to move the cost of out of state tuition more closely to the 100% level.
Mr. Ronald Rousseve, Counseling Psychology, asked about salary structure and distribution. His concern was that the choice to reward certain individual faculty members with larger increases has a tendency to overlook a majority of the faculty who do good work and should expect some reward in salary. President Brand said that the most recent distribution was fairly well tied down by the rules sent down by the Chancellor. The University did expand the merit increase area to what was the maximum that the Chancellor would allow, and the Department Heads are now making the decisions on salaries. The University Senate is putting together a committee to look into salary compression and it might be a good idea to have this committee eventually look at salary issues in general, Mr. Kissler stated.
The business of the meeting having concluded the meeting adjourned at 4:55 p.m.
Dr. Broekhoff was born in 1935 in Maarssen, The Netherlands and completed the Diploma Gymnasium Beta in Science and Mathematics at Utrecht in 1954 and the Certificate's Degree from the Academy of Physical Education in Amsterdam in 1958. He received the Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from the University of Oregon in 1963 and 1966, respectively.
Jan invested most of his life in the University of Oregon of which he was a part for nearly 30 years. Beginning as a graduate student in the early 1960s, he vowed to return to his native Holland after a short four years of study. But he soon met his best friend and future wife, Marna Baldinger, and the stage was set for an extended and intimate relationship between the University of Oregon and Jan Broekhoff. After completing the doctoral degree and a short hiatus at the University of Toledo, the University of Oregon attracted Jan back to Eugene in 1973. Although Jan had finished his degree only a few years earlier, his national and international reputation was already at "star" quality. His studies on exercise and the physical growth of children launched Jan into a professional career that saw his works presented throughout the United States and Europe as well as in Canada, China, Mexico, and Scandinavia. Jan was interested in how intense training influenced childhood physical maturation and the data base he assembled over the past 25 years has been an important sources for current theories relating to acute exercise and human physical development.
In addition to his teaching and research in human growth and development, Dr.Broekhoff taught advanced statistics and research design. His courses attracted students from many disciplines across campus. He was an insightful and inspiring teacher who believed teaching to be the highest calling of a university professor. But Jan's academic interests went far beyond basic science and he wrote often and extensively on conflicts in the body mind dualism. His famous paper titled "Physical Education and the Reification of the Human Body" published in 1972 explored how the tendency to objectify and reify the world around us has changed the way we view our bodies and how we move. Jan was sympathetic to the educational philosophy of ancient Greece where physical education occupied center state and there was a premium on performance and skill. His views provoked many professional debates over the past 20 years during which Jan's command of science, history, and the humanities severely tested his most formidable antagonists. He was a renaissance man, in its most positive connotation, who contributed much to the intellectual climate of the University.
The 1984 International Olympic Scientific Congress was one of the University of Oregon's finest academic seminars and brought to Eugene the world's most outstanding exercise scientists. The success of the Congress was in large measure due to Jan Broekhoff's unrivaled international reputation, his untiring efforts over five years of pre Congress preparation, and his superb leadership in the coordination of this magnificent event. As a result of the Congress' success and Jan's initiative, the University of Oregon's International Institute for Sport and Human Performance was established in 1984. Seven years later, Jan's continued efforts and the generosity of Bill Bowerman will soon result in a new home for the Institute in the complex currently under construction at Hayward Field. The Jan Broekhoff wing of this building, which will house the Institute, is a fitting designation and tribute to the many great contributions Jan has made to the study of exercise and human performance.
Jan Broekhoff's love of this University, his College and Department was clearly evident throughout his career in the innumerable contributions to the lives of students, fellow colleagues and his profession. Although he was admired by all of his students, he was especially beloved by the Department's many foreign graduate students to whom he was a true hero. Jan had a special way of communicating with and inspiring them, especially those who were in the developmental stages of English fluency. Whether their native language was Korean, Arabic or Hindi, Jan showed them the way to academic success.
Those who knew Jan were affected by the depth of his personality as he revealed what it meant to be truly educated. Amidst an academic world of increasing specialization, Jan presented a broad view of life; one which blended the lessons of each discipline into a perspective that enhanced life's value.
There have been few greater friends of the University of Oregon than Jan Broekhoff. As the last distinguished Dean of the College of Human Development and Performance, his intellect, conviction, integrity and leadership provide a legacy for all of us to emulate.
Mr. President, I 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 University Assembly.
Louis Osternig Professor Exercise and Movement Science
The Faculty Personnel Committee met from early January through the end of May to review over sixty cases.
Twenty seven cases involved promotion to professor of a faculty member at the University (inside cases) and only one of these cases was denied. One of these cases for promotion to professor also involved tenure, and it was approved.
Thirty inside cases involved promotion to associate professor; twenty six of these were approved and four denied. Twenty nine cases of promotion to associate professor involved tenure: twenty two were approved, three denied, and four were not considered. The "not considered" cases were those in which departments or programs were closed.
In addition there were seven outside hires involving five full professors and two associate professors.
For the most part the provost agreed with the recommendations of the FPC. The FPC has the luxury of split decisions, but the provost must make a decision. In decisions where the FPC was not split, there were no disagreements between the provost's disposition of cases and the FPC's recommendations.
Some things have improved since the 1989 90 academic year. Vice Provost Lorraine Davis made the job of the FPC easier. She made sure that files were ready for review, requested new information if the FPC sought it, and served as our liaison to the provost's office. Files on outside hires contained more information on teaching than in the previous year. This concern was voiced by the 1989 90 FPC.
There were some persistent problems and questions that our committee never resolved:
1. The FPC may need some guidance from the university on the requirements for an early promotion or tenure case. Do candidates need to have much more than the "typical promotable" sixth year case, or do they need to have simply as much as a sixth year case would have, but to have accomplished it in only five years? We never resolved this question and each member voted using their own standards.
2. The information on teaching that reaches the FPC varies greatly. What should files contain on teaching? Visitation reports by faculty, quantitative data from student evaluations, student letters, written (signed) comments by students in classes gathered at the end of courses and that have not been "culled" by the candidate or the department. This varies from department to department and from school to school. Most files contain quantitative data from student evaluations at the end of courses. But some departments or schools have only one set of student comments that are give to the candidate after each course and these are then used when it is time for promotion or tenure decisions.
3. There will probably always be problems with outside cases. As mentioned above, more information on teaching was provided this year than the year before, but these cases do not contain as much evidence as we would like. These data are best collected by the departments or schools doing the hiring. In most cases it is possible to collect fairly good information on the candidates.
4. The load of nearly sixty cases to review was crushing. This is a demographic phenomenon, and it will hopefully pass. Given this load, I was very impressed by the quality of the work of my colleagues on the committee.