Meeting Minutes
University Coordinating Committee (UCC)
Minutes of the November 1, 2004 Meeting of the University Coordinating
Committee
Present: Anthony Barbato, Kim Dell’Angela, Dow Scott
Absent: Bren Murphy, Leaf McGregor
Minutes: The September 20, 2004 minutes were approved.
Review of LSC, WTC, and SSOM Comments and Issues from the October Open
Forums resulted in the following UCC actions:
In answer to the request from faculty, staff and students to know more about
the workings of each UPC, UPC chairs will be asked to send both the meeting
agenda (at least three working days before the meeting) and minutes to Marge
Beane. She will post all this information on the governance website and
forward agendas and minutes electronically to the chairs of the Faculty
Council, Staff Council, Student Government, Deans and Vice Presidents.
Regarding the question of revision of the Faculty Handbook, the President
intends to commission a task for this important work.
In answer to the question on the Tuition Benefit Issue, this topic is now in
the discussion stage in the Budget and Finance UPC.
Father Salmi's offered the following response to questions about Wellness
services available to students at WTC & Ministry staff in residence halls:
I would like to respond to two concerns raised last week at the forum in
CFSU. The first deals with Wellness services available to students at the
WTC. The Wellness Center has a new facility here on the LSC that allows
them to provide a full range of professional care and services. These are
available to all students. Students who only take courses at WTC are
welcome and encouraged to use the Wellness Center. The shuttle bus offers
continuous service throughout the day. The Wellness Center's website
provides useful information regarding the service offered. I am told that
many students from the Law School and other graduate programs already use
the Wellness Center. It is my hope to develop a plan to more effectively
inform WTC students about the services offered by the Wellness Center. The
second concerns the restructuring of residence life and ministry staff
within the residence halls. While it is true that the restructuring did
result in a cost savings for the university, the primary purpose was to
provide better service to our resident students. Our new plan has two full
time ministry staff persons exclusively available and programming for first
year students on the LSC. This is, in my opinion, vastly more effective
than in previous years. I also believe that our new staffing and programs
are more pedagogically sound and developmentally appropriate.
A request to re-establish the Ombudsman position has been routed to the
Staff UPC for consideration.
The Athletic Department NCAA review group requested an official policy on
student-athletes class participation. This request has been assigned to the
Academic Affairs UPC.
UPC Membership Appointments:
Susan Jay, SSOM, has resigned from the university. She held the clinical
professor/librarian position on the Faculty Affairs UPC. Beverly Kasper,
School of Education has agreed to fill this vacancy for the remainder of
Jay's June 2007 term.
Two faculty positions are currently being filled by acting deans; Diane
Geraghty is on the Strategic Planning UPC Tassos Malliaris is on the Budget
& Finance UPC. Larry Metzger, School of Business has agreed to fill
Malliaris's June 2006 term. Ida Androwich, School of Nursing, will fill out
Geraghty's June 2005 term.
Tom Kelly offered this response to the question of charitable giving:
Several university affinity groups (staff and faculty councils) and at least
the staff UPC generally recommended the replacement of the University's
United Way payroll campaign with the expanded "charitable giving options"
campaign. Fr. Garanzini sought consultation from his cabinet on the matter.
The consensus of the cabinet's discussion was that no one was generally
excited or was the University champion of a single United Way only giving
option. In fact our past giving efforts through this university sponsored
program were lackluster. Suspension of the United Way payroll program
resulted in a couple of employee inquiries and no other strong reactions of
support or disappointment. There was no "grass roots" support or interest
in the program. There has been much more interest and enthusiasm in more
division/department initiatives around charitable giving, i.e. Chicago's
Adopt a Family Campaign, Hunger Week activities, etc. In addition,
replacing the United Way campaign with the Charitable Giving Options
platform was seen as unattractive by most of the cabinet. The Charitable
Giving Options program allows any eligible non-profit agency to receive
funds and therefore uses university resources (time and systems)to direct
money to agencies which may be advocating or performing services contrary or
in conflict with Catholic teaching. The university recognizes that
individual Loyola employees are not catholic or are not required to strictly
comply with Catholic teachings. In fact, many faculty and staff may already
and will continue to contribute to non-profit or other organizations that
find themselves in conflict or tension with catholic teaching. In any
event, Loyola as a Jesuit and Catholic university should not facilitate or
encourage such direct donations through its sponsorship, time and resources.
After this consultation, Fr. Garanzini was not interested in sponsoring the
Charitable Giving Options, but was interested in hearing other alternatives
from the University regarding the development of a charitable campaign
options that would / could inspire greater university participation."
In response to the question concerning the number of hits to the governance
website, Mary Nowesnick offered a quick snapshot for Sun, Oct. 10 to Wed.,
Oct. 13: number of visits was 14. Average time on the site was 13 minutes.
In response to a request for a policy review of the possibility of LUC
providing partner health benefits on the same basis that we currently
provide spousal health benefits, the UCC has asked the Staff Affairs UPC and
the Faculty Affairs UPC to offer a joint recommendation which could be
forwarded to the President. Due consideration needs to be given to multiple
factors such as the impact on university finances, matters of justice,
market positioning of the university relative to faculty and staff
recruitment and retention, and implications for how a change in this policy
may be perceived by political or religious conservatives or liberals
externally and internally, etc.
Responding to a request from President Garanzini, the Provost and Dr.
Barbato assembled the university policies and procedures relating to the
selection, appointment, and evaluation of faculty for endowed chairs and
endowed professorships and filled procedural gaps. The resulting draft was
circulated for comment by the Council of Deans. The UCC is now asking that
the "Protocol Document" go to the Faculty Affairs UPC for review and
recommendations.
The next meeting will more than likely be scheduled for January 2005.