UTMB
Faculty Senate
March 8, 2010
4:30 – 6:00 pm
MINUTES
Present: Drs. Wisnewski, Chair, G.
Anderson, I. Boldogh, V. Brooke, C. Cooper, Y. Davila, S. Gerik, S. Higgs, C.
Jansen, M. Kanuth, L. Massey, N. Mendias, D. Munsell, M. O’Keefe, S. Petronella,
K. Sandor, P. Singh, E. Smith, H. Spratt, A. Torres, C. Utsey, P. Watson and C.
Wigg
Absent: Drs. J.
Broussard, E. Hannigan, S. Jain, J. LeDuc, D. Powell, D. Solanki and S.
Watowich
Special Guest: Mr. William New and Mr. Drew Walker
I. The meeting was called to order at 4:30 pm by
Charlotte Wisnewski, Faculty Senate Chair.
II. Approval of Minutes of February 8, 2010. Minutes of February 8, 2010, were accepted as
written and voted on by email sent March 1, 2010.
III. Provost’s and Dean’s Report
Provost - Dr.
· Email was sent to all faculty and Faculty Senate with
the names of the faculty recruited since the storm.
· A New Faculty reception for all schools was held on
February 25 at the Artillery Club.
· March on Mondays will be posted on the web; these
sessions will cover Education, Research and the Practice Plan.
· Giving Campaign to raise $230 million, $50 million to
be used for endowments to recruit outstanding faculty. Most of the money will be used for buildings
and the
Dean,
SCHOOL OF NURSING DEAN’S REPORT
· 120th Anniversary
Luncheon: A change of venue from Levin Hall Dining Room to
the Galleon Room at the
· Faculty
Recruitment Reward Program: $3,000
reward for bringing in a new full-time faculty member
§ Qualified person who accepts a position
§ Person must be on site
§ Currently enrolled graduate students or very recent
graduates not acceptable
§ Looking for: Psychiatric Mental Health, Obstetrics and
Pediatrics, Oncology Nurse Researcher
· Nurse Scientist: The
UTMB
VICE PRESIDENT FOR EDUCATION REPORT
·
Interprofessional Education Day: A reminder that synergy will host Interprofessional
Education Day on Wednesday March 24, 2010. The day is full of opportunities for
all students to become engaged in the activities for the day.
The tentative
schedule is as followed:
11:00 AM Welcome
/ Introductions/ Comments (Levin
Hall Dining Room)
11:30 AM Lunch
& Poster Session (Levin
Hall Dining Room)
1:00 PM Speaker’s Main Session - Presentation and
Q&A (Levin
Hall Main)
Presentations by Dr. James LeDuc, Deputy Director,
Associate Professor,
Department of Pathology
3:00 PM
·
18 Characteristics of Doctoral Programs:
The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board is
requiring institutions of higher education to publish a document for each
doctoral program that describes, among other things, time to degree, graduation
rates, and faculty-student ratio.
Selected
aspects of the document:
Degrees awarded:
The
graduate school produces about 50 doctoral degree graduates per year on
average.
The
average per program is 5.
Graduation Rate:
All
programs report that of those graduating with a doctoral degree in the last
three years,
100%
did so within 10 years of initial matriculation.
Average time to Degree:
The
average time to degree is 5.7 years.
Employment Profile:
The
employment profile of doctoral graduates is, in order of frequency,
post-doctoral training, academic employment and employment in industry.
Support:
On
average 88% of full time students receive financial support. On average, the amount of support provided is
$33,225.
The
full document can be accessed here:
·
iSTAR: The
new student information system is making great progress. The team is working
very hard to incorporate all requests made to make our new student information
system as robust for our university as possible.
·
Tuition and Fee Proposal: Our final
tuition and fee proposal was approved by Dr Shine and will be presented to the
Board of Regents early this month.
·
Academic Integrity Week: The week of
March 1 through the 4th was Academic Integrity Week for the
University. Events were held in each of the four schools. The week started with
an All School presentation by University Professionalism Committee Co-Chair Dr
Alice Ann O’Donell and ending with another All School program called “Beyond
Science: The Summer Read Follow-Up to the Last Lecture”.
·
The rare book collection of the Moody Medical Library has a fair market value
of $25,500,000 according to a formal appraisal received last month from rare
book dealer Howard Rootenberg who spent several weeks surveying the collection.
·
In response to
student suggestions, the Library has
reupholstered couches and chairs in the reading rooms and study areas.
·
The Library is
pleased to present the exhibit entitled, “The
UTMB School of Nursing 120th Anniversary: Honoring Traditions and Change”
in the Library Lobby through May.
Dean, Graduate School of
Biomedical Sciences – report provided by Dr. Cooper.
· At Homecoming 2010 on Friday, March 5th,
GSBS was pleased to revisit with 5 of its Distinguished Alumni who were
registered and recognized at the President’s Luncheon. They were:
- J. Arly Nelson, PhD (Pharmacology & Toxicology, class of ’70)
-
Jerry Daniels,
MD, PhD (Anatomy, ’73)
-
Earle Adrian, MD,
PhD (Anatomy, ’67)
-
Dan Traber, PhD,
(Physiology, ’65)
-
Joseph Wood, PhD
(Anatomy, ’62)
·
The inaugural
GSBS Dean’s Lecture was delivered as part of Homecoming 2010 at 4 pm in Levin
Hall south by Fred Murphy, DVM, PhD, Professor of Pathology at UTMB. Fred’s title was “New and Emerging Diseases –
A Very Personal Perspective”. The
presentation was well attended and was followed by a reception in the GSBS
office suite.
·
Last week marked
the first acceptance by a GSBS applicant for fall ’10 of a Presidential
Scholarship which provides a supplement of $5,000 to the base stipend plus a
one-time allowance of up to $3,000 for relocation to
·
The GSBS hosted
its first recruitment weekend on March 5 & 6 for 12 applicants for fall
2010.
· GSBS applications are up.
Dean, School of Health
Professions – Dr Utsey for Dr. Protas, report provided by Dr. Protas.
Activities:
· The Clinical Lab Sciences
will have its re-accreditation site visit on April 14th and 15th.
· Physical and Occupational
Therapy and Physician Assistant Studies are approaching filling their classes
for the fall with their new, higher enrollment targets. Clinical Laboratory Sciences and Respiratory
Care begin their admissions process this spring and continue into the summer.
· The Chair’s Council are
reviewing and making recommendations about space and staffing needs to expand
enrollment and reach other goals.
· The Chair’s Council is
actively working on a new faculty development plan for individuals in the
academic residency program. They have
decided to include the academic residents with the new faculty on the plan.
They are also surveying faculty for their participation in the
Announcements
People:
·
Dr. Protas will have a presentation on
Workforce Issues in the Health Professions as part of a hearing on the proposed
Texas State Health Plan for 2011-2016 being developed by the Stateside Health
Coordinating Council, chaired by Dr. Ben Raimer and on which Dr. Protas is a
member.
Research:
·
The
Education:
·
The CLS Specialist in Blood Banking Certificate
program completed and awarded 14 people certificates on March 5th.
·
Applications
for permission to plan are being finalized for an Occupational Therapy Doctorate and a Doctorate in Clinical Laboratory Sciences. These will be forwarded to the SHP Curriculum
Committee for approval.
IV.
Reports by Faculty Senate Officers/Chairs
·
Dr. Wisnewski and
Dr. Utsey attended the Council of Deans meeting last week, where they gave a
report of our activities. Dr. Wisnewski
and Dr. Utsey met with Dr. Callender and Dr. Watson that same afternoon. They thanked him for attending the last
Faculty Senate meeting and asked regarding future meetings with the Faculty
Senate; he indicated that he will be glad to attend when there are major issues
needing dialogue.
·
Dr. Utsey gave a presentation
of the Sys Fac meeting in
Dr. Shine presented a template for practice plans,
Plan on “arm’s length” audits as well as campus audits. They will audit 2 campuses this year with 4
internal audits to: determine whether terms and conditions are being
implemented; does the faculty have representation on finance, audit committees;
and results will be transparent.
Dr. Shine also presented a detailed report of progress
at UTMB including that UTMB is
financially stronger and gave a report regarding the AAUP
issues with financial exigency and UTMB situation. The Regents have a policy when it comes to
eliminating departments or programs, but not entire campus being under
financial exigency; Task force in Regents working on this. Dr. Wisnewski added that each campus is
drafting its own policy based upon a model draft; UT Dallas has done a lot of
work on this model proposal and Dr. Callender is aware of this draft policy.
5% cut mandate from the state will take place across the campuses.
Conflict of Interest draft that Dr.
Utsey sent out to the faculty senate; looking for faculty input and the Regent lawyers
are reviewing.
Dr. Gerik added there is discussion regarding money borrowed
from financial aid while students did not get a degree.
The full minutes from Sys Fac are available at http://www.utsystem.edu/UTFAC/minutes.html.
·
Dr. Utsey
discussed the motion tracking form; she has checked the past minutes to get
this tracking form set up for eventual posting on our website.
V. Research
Scientist Tract – Mr. William New
Mr.
New introduced the Research Scientist Track to the Senate. The Research Scientist Track Ad Hoc Committee
consists of: Drs. J. Regino Perez-Polo,
Thomas Woods, Bill Calhoun, Miles Cloyd, Darrell Carney, Kelly Dineley, Bruce Luxon along with Andy McNees, Bill New, Jo Bremer,
Drew Walker, Cristal Ontiveros and Bernadette Simmons. Mr. New provided two handouts, Research Scientist
Descriptions which contained the 5 research titles, duties, education,
expertise and salary ranges and the Research Scientist Track. The purpose is to hire and retain highly
trained research professionals. Research Scientists are committed to the discovery
of new innovative biomedical and health services knowledge leading to
increasing effective and accessible health care for the citizens of the
VI. Reports by
Officers/Chairs (continued):
Dr. Munsell reported for the IHOP Committee: They have
sent out an email asking faculty for input and received between 8 to 10 faculty
responding. The committee will combine
policies and present to the Faculty Senate in May. They will give the Senate two weeks to review
before the May meeting.
Dr. Wigg reported for the Governance Committee: The
Ombudsman position is still posted and in medical journals. Dr. Powell has been in communication with Dr.
Sierpina. Dr. Wiggs stated that an email
to the faculty asking if they know of anyone who wants this position might be
helpful; she will talk with Dr. Sierpina regarding the possibility.
Dr.
Jansen reported for the Academic and Administrative Affairs Committee: they met last week reviewing the grades issue. Dr. Higgs has created a grid and currently they
are looking at the schools; some have D as a passing grade, while in other
areas D is failing. Grades need to be standardized. They are checking to see how these grades
were implemented and it does not appear that faculty had input with this. The committee is working with Vicki Brewer, Director of Enrollment Services and University Registrar
to share documents and will be looking at Regents Rules.
Dr. Sandor reported for the Faculty Quality Committee:
The committee is reviewing the Post
Tenure Review (PTR) for all schools to ascertain areas of agreement and
differences between the Schools. Dr. Sandor showed a chart on power point comparing
the overall process in the different schools. She noted that the
A motion for adjournment was
made, seconded and approved. Meeting
adjourned at 6:08 pm. The Committees met
following the meeting.