Senator O'Connell has missed 3 meetings and under the rules of the Senate is removed from the roll of the University Senate.

CALL TO ORDER/APPROVAL OF MINUTES

The meeting was called to order by Senate President Michael Hibbard at 3:36 p.m., in Gilbert 133 on January 13, 1993. The minutes of the December 9, 1992 meeting of the Senate were approved as distributed.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Mr. Charles Wright, Mathematics and Chair of the Faculty Advisory Council, was recognized to give the Senators some information on the current study of faculty workloads and productivity. Mr. Wright referred to two mailings that the faculty has received on the subjects, related some of the background on the study and answered questions. He announced that on April 1, 1993 the FAC will host a Vice Chancellor from UCLA who will address the faculty on the issues of workload and productivity. This Vice Chancellor has recently completed a study for the UC system on the subjects.

Ms. Lorraine Davis, Vice Provost, took the floor to address the subject of teaching evaluation/promotion/tenure criteria and the recently announced formation of a committee on these subjects by the Provost. The formal charge for the committee is nearing completion, the naming of the committee will soon take place and by February 1, 1993 the Committee will be at work. Among the subjects the committee will look into are: differences between criteria for professional schools/colleges and the arts and sciences; teaching excellence and how to judge it; early promotion--when and how; and quality of research and quantity of research.

Mr. Paul Engelking, Chemistry and Chair of the Senate Budget Committee, was recognized to make a short presentation on the progress of the Senate Budget Committee in making the cuts mandated by Measure 5 and the state's response to the Measure. The mandated cuts will be at the 6%, 9% and 12% levels. The gradation will be met in different ways. If the UO has to make a 6% cut this would mean $4.8 million in gross cuts with some of the cuts made through cuts that will not bring severe harm to the institution and could be remedied if funds become available in the future and past this cut the remainder of the 6% will hit the institution hard. The 9% cut will be $7.2 million in gross cuts and this will hit the service--physical and student--areas of the University, but will probably have an impact on the teaching faculty through the allocation of their time and efforts to cover the work that the student service employees and other service employees do at this time. This will result in a less efficient use of time, but will result in some economy. The 12% cut would equal $9.6 million and academic areas will be hit hard by a cut of this size. It is hoped that the 6% cut will be the ultimate cut, but since nothing is certain the other percentages remain possibilities.

OLD BUSINESS

Mr. John Gage, English and representing the Academic Requirements Committee, took the floor to present the following motions:

•  "1. College credit earned on a high school campus prior to graduation from high school may be validated for transfer credit only by demonstrating proficiency as determined by the respective university department.
• "2. Whereas the '1985 Guidelines for College Courses Taught for Credit in High School' do not adequately define the recording procedures in sponsoring colleges' transcripts,

President Hibbard explained that the motions would be discussed together, but the vote of the Senate would be on each one separately.

Mr. Gage explained the subject of the motions did not include Advanced Placement courses. The subject is the program called "Project Advance." High schools giving college level courses, with credit, and apparently with little control over the quality of the curriculum, with few or no standards, and no rigorous outside oversight to make sure the courses met a high standard. Since the credits are given through community colleges the UO is bound to accept the credits, even though it has been found that the students have, on the whole, failed to actually have the skill or knowledge that the credit reflects.

Most of the courses are Mathematics and English. In 1985 a voluntary rule was established to set some standards for teachers, texts, making sure that only seniors took the classes, etc. These guidelines or standards are not accepted by most of the institutions giving credit. In Oregon 11 of the 16 Community Colleges take part in this program, yet the monitoring of the courses is very lax or non-existent. The Chancellor's office is not advocating the establishment of real standards that could be enforced, thus the UO is responding to the present situation in order to protect the academic integrity of our transcripts and degrees.

The UO has, through its Charter, the right over its curriculum. The motions do not call for an end to the program, it does not propose to penalize the good programs, and it does not interfere with the giving of credits. The motions give the UO, as established by the various departments, the authority to accept or reject credits through these programs if they do not meet established standards. Reed and Lewis and Clark will not accept any of the credits from these programs. Portland State University is deeply involved in the programs on some of the high school campuses and does an admirable job of making sure that those programs in which it is involved are doing an excellent job.

The question was called for and was called by a voice vote. The first motion was passed by an overwhelming voice vote, with some voices saying no, and none abstaining.

The second motion, really an resolution, was requested by Mr. Herb Chereck, Registrar, so that he could get some moral authority to attack the problem with the Registrar's of the OSSHE institutions. It was moved that this motion be postponed to a time certain--that time being when the UO and OSU have a chance to discuss the resolution and frame it so that both institutions can support a united front in attempting to solve the problem addressed by the resolution.

The motion to postpone to a time certain was passed by a voice vote.

ADJOURNMENT

The business of the meeting having concluded the University Senate adjourned at 5:02 p.m. Keith Richard Secretary