Submitted by: Allan Gilmour, President · Submitted by: Allan Gilmour, President Board of Governors Agenda December 5, 2012 APPROVAL OF THE CONSENT AGENDA Background The following

Submitted by: Allan Gilmour, President

Board of Governors Agenda December 5, 2012

APPROVAL OF THE CONSENT AGENDA

Background The following recommendation is presented to the Board of Governors for consideration on a Consent Agenda. These are routine items that will be enacted by one motion as summarized below and described in full detail on the recommendations contained in the Board materials. There will not be separate discussion of these items, however, any member of the Board may ask that any item be removed from the Consent Agenda for discussion by notifying the Chair of the Board. The remaining items will then be considered on the Consent Agenda. A separate discussion and action will be taken on the item(s) removed from the Consent Agenda. The proceedings of the Board meeting will contain the full text of each of the recommendations as submitted. Recommendation It is recommended that the Board of Governors approve the following resolution: RESOLVED that the items listed below are recommended for approval by the Board of Governors as set forth in the respective agenda resolutions, as noted:

A. Approval of the Official Proceedings of October 3, 2012 (regular Board) and November 12 (special Board)

B. Personnel Recommendations (Board)

C. Establishment of a Credit Hour Definition (Academic Affairs)

D. Establishment of a Certificate Program in Medical Physics (Academic Affairs)

E. Change in the Name of the Bachelor of Music Concentration in Composition/Theory to a Bachelor of Music Concentration in Composition ((Academic Affairs)

F. Dissolution of an Academic Program in the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (Academic Affairs)

G. Institute of Gerontology Charter Renewal (Academic Affairs)

H. Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Charter Renewal (Academic Affairs)

I. Student Center Building Renovation (Budget and Finance)

J. Advanced Technology Education Center at Macomb Extension Center (Budget and Finance)

K. FY 2014-2018 Five-Year Capital Outlay Plan (Budget and Finance)

Submitted by: Ronald T. Brown, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs

Recommendations for Tenure, Promotion to Full Professor, and Administrative Appointments

The personnel recommendations for appointments with tenure, appointments to full professor and administrative appointments, include the following:

New Appointments Tenure Full Professor

Other Actions Tenure Increase

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Agenda December 5, 2012


BOARD OF GOVERNORS

PERSONNEL RECOMMENDATIONS

The President presents the following recommendations:

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Deane Aikins, for appointment as associate professor with tenure per University year in the in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, effective September 1, 2012. Professor Aikins will hold a joint appointment in the Department ofDCaTS.

Julie Wargo Aikins, for appointment as associate professor with tenure per University year in the in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, effective September 1, 2012. Professor Wargo Aikins will hold a joint appointment in the Department ofDCaTS and the Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute (MPSI).

David Rosenberg, professor, for change in tenure status, from fractional 50% tenure per University year to tenure per University year in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, effective November 1, 2012.

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Appointments beginning August 1, 2012. Included are Instructors hired pending completions of the Ph.D. degree. Not included are sub-delegated appointments, faculty on fractional appointments, subsidy conditioned, (Research), (Clinical), and academic staff.

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Business Administration Education 4 1 Engineering 1 Fine, Performing 2 1 1 and Communication Arts Law School 1 Liberal Arts and 1 4 3 Sciences School of Library and Information Science Medicine 1 2 1 1 Nursim?: Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Research Social Work 2 1

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS

OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS

October 3, 2012

Regular Meeting

The meeting was called to order at 3:30 p.m. by President Allan Gilmour in Room B/C of the McGregor Memorial Conference Center. Secretary Miller called the roll. A quorum was present, with the following Board members in attendance: Governors Abbott, Dingell, Driker, Dunaskiss, Karmanos, Massaron, and Pollard; and

President Gilmour

Also present: Provost Brown, Vice Presidents Lessem, Lindsey, Nork, Ratner, Ripple, Staebler and Wright; and Secretary Miller

CONSENT AGENDA

ACTION – Upon a motion by Governor Pollard and seconded by Governor Dunaskiss, the Consent Agenda was approved as amended – two items from the Budget and Finance Committee were removed. The motion was adopted unanimously.

A. Approval of the Official Proceedings of October 3, 2012 (Regular Board) B. Personnel Recommendations Academic Affairs C. Establishment of a Bachelors Program with a Major in Public Health Budget and Finance Committee D. Arthur Neef Law Library Fire Suppression System Installation E. Purdy Kresge Library Fire Alarm System Replacement F. The David Adamany Undergraduate Library Exterior Panel & Joint Replacement G. Bank Line of Credit The individual motions for each item on the Consent Agenda are detailed below: Approval of the Official Proceedings of June 27, 2012 (regular Board)

ACTION – Upon a motion by Governor Pollard and seconded by Governor Dunaskiss, the Official Proceedings of June 27, 2012 were approved as submitted, minus two Budget and Finance Committee items. The motion was adopted unanimously.

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Personnel Recommendations (Board) ACTION – Upon a motion by Governor Pollard and seconded by Governor Dunaskiss, the personnel recommendations were approved as submitted. The motion was adopted unanimously.

The personnel recommendations are as follows: College of Education Camille Maia Wilson, for appointment as associate professor, for tenure per University year, in the College of Education, effective August 17, 2012. Thomas Charles Pedroni, for appointment as associate professor, for tenure per University year, in the College of Education, effective August 17, 2012. College of Engineering Xuewen Chen, for appointment as professor with tenure per University year, in the Department of Computer Science, effective August 20, 2012. Professor Chen will serve as chair of the Department of Computer Science. Juri Gelovani, for appointment as professor with tenure per University year, in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, effective August 20, 2012. Professor Gelovani will serve as chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering. Joseph Hummer, for appointment as professor with tenure per University year, in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, effective August 17, 2012. Professor Hummer will serve as chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Law School Charles Hendrickson Brower, II, for appointment as professor with tenure per University year in the Law School, effective August 17, 2012. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Wayne Raskind, for appointment as professor with tenure per University year, in the Department of Mathematics, effective August 15, 2012. Professor Raskind will serve as Dean. School of Medicine Manohar Ratnam, for appointment as professor with fractional 50% tenure per University year, in the Department of Oncology, effective June 1, 2012. College of Nursing Karen Lynn Kavanaugh, for appointment as professor with tenure per University year, in the College of Nursing, effective August 17, 2012.


Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Brian Louis Crabtree, for appointment as professor with tenure per University year, in the Department of Pharmacy Practice, effective September 1, 2012. Professor Crabtree will serve as chair of the Department of Pharmacy Practice. Special Notes on Administrative Appointments College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Wayne Raskind, for appointment as Dean, effective August 15, 2012, for a term of five years, subject to the pleasure of the President or his/her designee during the term of the assignment. Graduate School Ambika Mathur, for appointment as Interim Dean, effective July 16, 2012 through July 15, 2013, subject to the pleasure of the President or his/her designee during the term of the assignment. Establishment of a Bachelors Program with a Major in Public Health (Academic Affairs) Several national experts in the area of public health have put an ever increasing emphasis on undergraduate public health education. In Michigan there is a growing need for public health workers and the National Association of County and City Health Officials notes there is demand for bachelor’s degree-prepared public health professionals, given that currently 29% of leaders of local health departments have bachelor’s degrees, and in most cases those degrees are not in public health.

ACTION – Upon a motion by Governor Pollard and seconded by Governor Dunaskiss, the Board of Governors approved the establishment of a Bachelors program with a major in Public Health. The motion was adopted unanimously.

Arthur Neef Law Library Fire Suppression System Installation (Budget and Finance) The Arthur Neef Law Library serves the research instructional needs of the Law School’s students and faculty. The facility was constructed in 1966 with limited fire suppression in the lower level document storage room and adjoining spaces. The existing system will be modernized and expanded to protect the entire building.

ACTION – Upon a motion by Governor Pollard and seconded by Governor Dunaskiss, the Board of Governors authorized the President or his designee to award contracts to install a fire sprinkler suppression system at the Law Library for a project not to exceed $1,100,000. Funding for this project will be provided from two sources: $253,000 from A MUSIC insurance dividend received in the FY2012 and $847,000 from the FY2013 deferred maintenance budget allocation. The motion was adopted unanimously.

Purdy Kresge Library Fire Alarm System Replacement (Budget and Finance) The Purdy Kresge Libraries serve the research and instructional needs of faculty, graduate students, and upper level undergraduates. Constructed as separate but connected buildings, Purdy was built in 1955 and Kresge in 1959. Together they form a 230,000 square foot


complex that shares an existing and mostly original fire alarm system. This system is obsolete and not in compliance with current life safety codes or ADA standards.

ACTION – Upon a motion by Governor Pollard and seconded by Governor Dunaskiss, the Board of Governors authorized the President or his designee to award contracts to replace the fire alarm system in the Purdy Kresge Libraries for a project cost not to exceed $700,000. Funding for this project will be provided from the FY2013 deferred maintenance budget. The motion was adopted unanimously.

David Adamany Undergraduate Library Exterior Panel & Joint Replacement (Budget and Finance) The David Adamany Undergraduate Library, constructed in 1997 and located in the center of main campus on Gullen Mall, the 314,000 square foot building primarily serves the learning and study needs of undergraduate students through its extensive collection of computer workstations, books and magazines. The exterior cast stone panels that clad the columns and beams of the colonnade have deteriorated and will be repaired or replaced to stop water infiltration and further deterioration.

ACTION – Upon a motion by Governor Pollard and seconded by Governor Dunaskiss, the Board of Governors authorized the President or his designee to award contracts to replace select cast stones panels and caulking at the David Adamany Undergraduate Library for a project cost not to exceed $600,000. Funding for this project will be provided from the FY2013 deferred maintenance budget allocation. The motion was adopted unanimously.

Bank Line of Credit (Budget and Finance) The purpose of this line of credit is to provide the University with enhanced liquidity to meet short term cash needs. The cost to establish the credit line is approximately $50,000 and the ongoing cost to maintain the unused credit facility will be up to approximately $40,000 annually (15 basis points). Any amounts borrowed will be subject to interest costs based on an interest rate index, plus a spread to be negotiated with potential lenders as part of a competitive bidding process. Costs will be netted against investment income.

ACTION – Upon a motion by Governor Pollard and seconded by Governor Dunaskiss, the Board of Governors adopted the resolution authorizing the President or his designee to establish a bank line of credit in the amount of $25,000,000. The motion was adopted unanimously.

BOARD COMMITTEE REPORTS Two standing committees, Academic Affairs and Budget and Finance met during the morning session. The Academic Affairs Committee had one item approved as part of the consent agenda and three presentations. Four of the six action items of the Budget and Finance Committee were approved as part of the consent agenda. The details for the two items removed from the Consent agenda are included below. A detailed report of discussions can be found in the Minutes of each Committee.


Academic Affairs Committee

Annual Fall Enrollment Report – Associate Vice President Rob Kohrman presented the Annual Fall Enrollment Report. He reported that the total enrollment headcount decreased 2.8%; and overall student credit hour decreased by 2.1%. Mr. Kohrman reported that retention remained stable and the transfer recruitment strategy is working. Although there was a decrease in the total graduate headcount, new graduate enrollment increased for the first in two years and international graduate enrollment increase by 1.3%. A comprehensive fall enrollment report will be distributed later this fall.

Status Report on Accreditation – Provost Brown reported that all programs are accredited with the exception of Mortuary Sciences, which is on probation. A site visit is expected shortly and the Provost expects that following the visit, the probation will be lifted.

College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts — Dean Matt Seeger began his presentation with an overview of the college. Highlights included the trends, challenges and issues of the college. There are 2500 students and 102 full-time faculty in the college. The two largest programs are the Department of Art and the Department of Communication. Annually, the college presents about 400 exhibitions or performances that are open to the campus and community, bringing an estimated 100,000 people to campus to participate in those events. In terms of development, there are two named departments in the college and support and recognition for the arts has been significant. The college believes it has an obligation to enrich campus life and the Dean noted they were responsible for the resurgence of the Warrior Marching Band. They college and its students have also participated in “Thursdays in the D,” a program for students to have arts experiences in the city of Detroit. The college manages the University Art Collection, which has over 6000 pieces valued at over $5 million and the Art Department is associated with the Elaine Jacob Gallery and the faculty gallery. The faculty continues to work on a number of new, innovative ideas to insure that its programs are contemporary and are meeting student’s needs.

Budget and Finance Committee

Contingency Reserve – A transfer of $100,000 was requested to fund the search for the Dean for the School of Business Administration. After this reduction, a balance of $400,000 remains in the reserve.

Purchasing Exceptions – Vice President Nork presented the report on purchasing exceptions for the third quarter for FY2012. This is an informational report on sole source purchases over $25,000 that were awarded without competitive bids.

In addition to the two reports above, two items from the Budget & Finance Committee were removed from the consent agenda to be reported separately.


1. The Multidisciplinary Biomedical Research Building ACTION – Upon a motion by Governor Dunaskiss and seconded by Governor Massaron, the Board of Governors authorized the President or his designee to complete the design, solicitation of bids and awarding of contracts to build a multidisciplinary medical research building (MBRB) for a total project cost of $93 million. Funding sources include $30 million from the State of Michigan, $6.6 million from a plant fund established in 2007 for this purpose, and the remainder from philanthropic gifts and borrowing. The motion was adopted unanimously.

2. Campaign Planning and Funding Request

ACTION – Upon a motion by Governor Massaron and seconded by Governor Pollard, the Board of Governors approved year-one funding for the proposed campaign planning and funding proposal, and tabled consideration of the full funding proposal until the December board meeting. The motion was adopted unanimously.

PRESIDENT’S REPORT President Gilmour highlighted recent events and developments at Wayne State.

Higgs boson – A team of Wayne State researchers led by Professors Paul Karchin and Robert Harr made important contributions to the Higgs boson discovery, which was announced in Switzerland in July. Scientists estimate that visible matter makes up no more than 4% of the total mass of the universe and the long sought Higgs boson particle could be the bridge to understand the 96% that remains obscured. On October 25, the University will host a celebration for the Wayne State physicists who contributed to this landmark discovery.

Biomedical Engineering Professor Cynthia Bir – In April, Professor Bir was involved with an international team of researchers, pilots, and air craft safety experts as they crashed a full size passenger airplane into the desert along the U.S. Mexican border in the name of the science. The experiment was part of a Discovery Channel program that looked at what happens inside aircraft during a crash.

Athletics – The Wayne State football team has won 3 consecutive games. Head Coach Paul Winters has amassed 50 wins, more than any coach in any sport in the history of Wayne State. The Women’s tennis team are contenders as they have won their last six matches and Yasha Moore was named player of the year. The volleyball team has won its seventh straight match this year. The men’s and women’s cross country received first place trophies this past weekend and the men’s golf team has maintained a 5 stroke lead for the second tournament in two weeks in the fall event for GLIAC.

Personnel Announcement – With the unanimous support of the Board of Governors, Phyllis Vroom was appointed Deputy President, effective October 15. Deputy President Vroom recently retired from the University as Dean of the School of Social Work and previously served as Acting Provost and Acting President.


RECOMMENDATIONS AND REPORTS FROM THE UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION The provost and vice presidents submitted the written informational reports listed below describing activities in their divisions. The reports are on file in the Office of the Secretary. Academic Affairs Informational Report – Student, Faculty and Academic Staff Achievements — Provost Brown reported that the office of Federal TRIO in Veteran’s Educational Opportunity program successfully competed in a national competition and received a 5-year, $2 million grant award from the Department of Education. Division of Research Informational Report New Awarded Research Grants Grants and Contracts Report Government and Community Affairs Report Development and Alumni Affairs Establishment of Endowment Funds Vice President Ripple presented the endowment funds listed below for approval.

ACTION — Upon motion by Governor Pollard and seconded by Governor Dunaskiss, the Board of Governors established endowment funds that total $1,685,225 for the purposes presented. The motion was adopted unanimously.

1. The Community Partners Endowed Scholarship $25,000 2. The Ashley E. Heidemann Endowed Award $25,000 3. The Hostelling International USA – Michigan Council Gerald Pearsall

Memorial Travel Award Endowment $25,000 4. The Drs. Anthony and Joyce Danielski Kales Endowed Faculty Award for

Innovative Cancer Research $100,000 5. The Drs. Anthony and Joyce Danielski Kales Endowed Faculty Award for

Innovative/Exemplary Research $100,000 6. The Demetrios and Demetra Partalis Kales Endowed Lecture Series Titled

“Greece’s Legacy: Pre Classical to Modern Times” $50,000 7. The Dr. Chuan-Pu Lee Endowed Fund in the Confucius Institute $50,000 8. The Russell McLauchlin Endowed Memorial Scholarship (Fund functioning as

an endowment) $190,000 9. The Ruth Ann McVay Endowed Doctoral Scholarship $25,284.45 10. The Meijer Foundation Endowed Fund for the Made in Michigan Writers

Series $475,000 11. The Physical Therapy Founders Endowment $26,000 12. The Sastry Foundation Clinical Neuroscience Endowed Research Fund $800,000 13. The Gloria Wagner Memorial Endowed Scholarship $143,940.93 14. The Dr. Jacquelyn Watson (Class of 1983) and Ricky Watson Endowed

Scholarship $25,000 15. The Robert Wingert Memorial Endowed Scholarship $100,000

Governor Massaron commented that although all endowment funds are important, the University should recognize the Wayne State University Press for securing the Foundation and Meijer funding for the Made in Michigan Writers Series. President Gilmour concurred that the Wayne State University Press does a very, very good job.


Dissolution of Endowment Funds The Drs. Anthony and Joyce Danielski Kales Endowment Fund for the Kales Summer Institute for Academic Achievement will be dissolved and the funds transferred into the corpus account to establish 1) The Drs. Anthony and Joyce Danielski Kales Endowed Faculty Award for Innovative Cancer Research in the School of Medicine 2) The Drs. Anthony and Joyce Danielski Kales Endowed Faculty Award for Innovative/Exemplary Research in the College of Engineering, and 3) The Demetrios and Demetra Partalis Kales Endowed Lecture Series titled “Greece’s Legacy: Pre-Classical to Modern Times” in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

ACTION: Upon motion made by Governor Dunaskiss and seconded by Governor Abbott, the Board of Governors dissolved the Drs. Anthony and Joyce Danielski Kales Endowment Fund for the Kales Summer Institute for Academic Achievement, as submitted. The motion was adopted unanimously.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

ACTION: Upon motion made by Governor Driker and seconded by Governor Pollard, the Board of Governors approved a revision to the contract award statute, WSUCA 2.8108. The modification is paragraph 2.8101.125 and adds the following language: The President or his or her designee shall make every effort to accurately estimate the cost of contracts requiring Board approval for the construction of new buildings or for the alteration and modification of existing buildings. In cases where such cost exceed the amount of the original estimate approved by the Board, the Board provides authority to the President or his or her designee to exceed the estimated cost of such contracts by up to 10% but in no event more than $500,000 without prior approval of the Board provided that the President or his or her designee reports to the Board any such cost overage at the next regularly scheduled Board meeting. The motion was adopted unanimously.

PUBLIC COMMENT Secretary Miller received seven requests to speak and President Gilmour advised the speakers of their time limits. Six of the speakers were present; the seventh individual did not appear when called. The six speakers’ statements are provided below: MS. EUSEBIA E. AQUINO-HUGHES Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak. I am a Wayne State graduate times two and Governor Gilmour, I’m a cancer survivor times three. I know what you mean when you say you’re tired. The goal is take one day at a time and let others pick up the slack, for a change. I’m here because I’m concerned about the Wayne State Chicano-Boricua Studies. The name of the center was changed without those of us that worked back in the days of civil rights and inner city Detroit to get the center open. The center is being used for political and social gains of those in charge and we object to that. As a graduate of this University and a scholar donor, we do not want that to happen. We want the name to be restored to the University back to the center and the purpose of the center. I gave handouts to all of you; I hope you took the time to


read it. This is very important because the center is trying to be put under the umbrella of immigration and we all know how this nation hates the natives like myself in this country and I don’t want the center to be thrown under the bus under the immigration hate political agenda in this country. We are not invisible people who were here; this is the continent of our ancestors. You can kill us all one at a time at the border, whatever, while you build a bridge to Canada with the 99 and 47% is money that are in this room, we are not going away, we’re like cockroaches, we keep coming back. So I want the center restored to historical and dignity. I want the Chicano-Boricua Center restored back and if we have to work with the community to get new leadership, Governor Gilmour, I’m the best work you will have. I’m a hard worker, you know I’m a hard worker if I beat cancer three time. Thank you very much, sir. MR. MICHAEL BAILEY My name is Michael Bailey and I am the Executive Director of the Michigan Conference of the AAUP, American Association of University Professors. I have been asked to speak in place of Susan Moeller, President of the Michigan Conference, who is laid up with back surgery and cannot be here. When our Executive Board read the details of the proposal of the Wayne State University administration, essentially to end tenure at the University, they were shocked. They could not imagine that any administration at a respectable research university would make such a radical proposal. Tenure protects academic freedom and any attack on tenure is an attack on academic freedom. The Executive Board voted for the conference to do whatever it could to voice its concerns and to let others in academia know what was being proposed at the University. The decision was to take it, to initiate an online petition to protest this proposal. This petition was initiated and nearly 6000 persons from across our nation have signed. The petition states the following: The undersigned individuals and organizations of the academic community from local and neighboring states right to express their concerns with this attempt to end tenure for the faculty at Wayne State University and eliminate job security for academic staff at the negotiations table. By describing their actions as a financially based reduction in force, which the administration has always had the ability to enforce, the administration has mischaracterized this as a dispute over the terms and conditions of employment. Blinded by their will to advance the corporate model agenda, the administration has lost sight of their traditional idea of a university and mistakenly challenged the entire academic community, not just those on the other side of the table. The proposed language by the administration is extremely broad, stating that any faculty member, tenured or probationary, may be terminated for adequate cause and failure to meet professional responsibilities including teaching and scholarly and research productivity, and failure to perform academic assignments competently. Peer review will be eliminated replaced with the judgment of a collection of administrators, chairs, deans, and directors. If adopted, the results of this language would be devastating to the university. Current faculty will begin to look elsewhere and prospective faculty will seek other employment. Further we are extremely concerned that the position of the administration will have a chilling effect on the quality of education at Wayne State University, and if an idea that is so destructive gains traction at Wayne State, other administrations elsewhere may well adopt it as a goal to undermine the faculty at other universities. We hope you will join us in supporting the Wayne State negotiating team in their attempt to preserve tenure at Wayne State University, sincerely. We understand that this proposal has been withdrawn but that other proposed contract changes by the administration embody a continued assault on tenure at Wayne State. We bring this issue to you with the Board of Governors and ask you to instruct President Gilmour to have the administration negotiating team to cease its efforts to undermine tenure at the University. We do not ask that you involve yourselves directly in the collective bargaining process, but we do ask that you set the boundaries for such negotiations and that you set the protections of tenure at the University as one of your primary goals. Thank you.


PROFESSOR STEPHANIE BROCK Thank you very much. I appreciate the opportunity to talk to you today. My name is Stephanie Brock and I am a professor of chemistry at Wayne State University, and I chose Wayne State University in 1999 when I was looking at different positions because I could sense from my interactions with people that this was a place that not only would encourage me to be outspoken, which is a trait I have by nature, but would also encourage that. Encourage that and not discourage it. It’s about academic freedom for me, and that was one of the reasons I chose to come here in the first place. My job involves teaching. I teach undergraduate students and graduate students, both in formal classrooms and also I have a research lab where I interact with these students. I have an active research group with funding from NIH, NSF, and DOE, and I’m involved in service. Some of that service involves service to the University on committees. I am on the Personnel Committee, which I suppose if the post-tenure review is implemented, that will be an additional burden on me, having to do that kind of a review. I’m also very involved in community outreach. So, I have, I’m part of a team that has a $1.7 million from the NIH involved in reaching out to girls, 7th through 12th grade and getting them involved in science, technology, engineering, and math. Okay, so what I’m telling you is I’m busy and I should actually be grading exams right now. I’m going to be late to group meeting, but I’m here because I just can’t sit by and watch what’s going on and not stand up and do something about it. And I want to say that I am 100% in favor of getting rid of faculty colleague who are not doing their job. I have very little patience, I work hard for my money, with people who are not doing their job and they’re getting paid. I think that the quality of the University really depends on the quality of its faculty and its students, but I also think that there aren’t really that many of these deadwood people around. What happens is they loom very large in our imagination because there’s nothing more frustrating than having somebody tell you that somebody is getting a 12 month salary and they’re living in Florida. Okay. That’s all you need to hear. It doesn’t matter if there’s only one, right? That one is too much. I think also the thing that I have learned through this whole process is that we actually have a process for removing tenure and it’s not very onerous. The administration, the administrative unit who perceives this person who’s not doing their job appeals to the President, the President, the President institute a proceeding where you have a review by faculty colleague, the panel makes a recommendation to the President who makes a recommendation to you and you review and recommend an action. Okay and I can tell you that if I’m on one of these faculty committees, I’m a hard-ass, so I don’t have a lot of tolerance for people who aren’t doing what they’re supposed to be doing. The important thing is that the due process insures fairness, insures that it’s not being done arbitrarily or in violation of academic freedom. And I would also like to point out that is the job of the unit administrator to locate these people and to go to the President and start this proceeding. If they are not doing that, then they are not fulfilling their job requirements. So, I’d like to finish by saying that it’s hard to know if this process is broken since I don’t know of any time when it’s really ever been implemented. I don’t want to see the added bureaucracy of post-tenure review because we know who the people are who are not pulling their weight, we don’t need some added way of determining these people. We don’t need to go looking to them. I, personally, have enough on my plate as it is, so I really don’t want any added burden. So, I hope that you want stand by and let Wayne State University abandon some of the very practices that I think made it attractive to me as a faculty and to students. The reputation has already been a little bit tarnished by some of this discussion. Thank you very much for your attention. PROFESSOR CHARLES ELDER As some of you know, I’ve attended in my career here at Wayne State many Board meetings and you seem further back than before. My names is Charles Elder, I’m a professor of Political Science, former Chair of my department, a long time Chair, former Deputy Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and I would like to share some thoughts about the current


negotiations. I’m particularly concerned as are many of my colleagues here and elsewhere with the cavalier way in which the issue of tenure has been bandied about in these negotiations. It has surely hurt the reputation of Wayne State. I understand that the frontal assault that was initially proposed has been withdrawn, but same purposes are sought through other means that can be equally damaging. Enough damage has been done; I’d hate to see more. I remember sitting throughout the administration of David Adamany as a member of the Board’s Budget and Finance Committee. Some of you will recall that I often disagreed with David, but I sure agreed heartily with him with respect to tenure. He argued it was critically important to this institution and any major university. He explained that it was important not simply because it assured academic freedom, but it provided the kind of job security that helped to attract new talent to the University to pursue careers that scholars and researchers who might have otherwise pursue other options. He also said that it was important that once obtained that it allowed researchers and scholars to pursue novel ideas and to challenge the conventional wisdom and orthodoxy of their own disciplines without fear of losing their jobs. I also want to say that tenure here is hard won and it is in most major universities and it is critical to what we do here. Also want to say something about another issue that I understand has arisen for the first time in many years, and that’s the issue of sabbatical leaves. In 1981, I was chief negotiator for the AAUP. One of my proudest achievements as a member of this university community for many long years is that I helped along with an enlightened administration create one of the best sabbatical policies in the nation. It is a policy that has served the University well, it is still better than most and it something we should be celebrating, not trying to undo. A distinctive feature of that policy is the possible grant of three-year sabbatical, of sabbaticals up to three full time years of service to the University at reduced salary. Of course, it’s granted only if there is a compelling research project that can be facilitate by such a policy. And whether or not it’s compelling is decided by faculty peers and multiple levels of administration. I think at the time the purpose was to enhance research productivity at this university and enhance our status as a research university. I think it has contributed much to that effort. Indeed, in my own department of Political Science it’s helped immensely in helping us move up the ranks among departments of Political Science in the nation. I know that is true of many other departments. Our sabbatical policy is something we should be proud of. It’s certainly something we can point to when we’re trying to recruit new talent to the University. Indeed, it is one of the most attractive features that we have to offer. We are, of course, in competition with other universities for talent, indeed, we are located not far from one of the major, other major research universities, we’re in competition with that University and many others for new talent and we need every advantage that we can get. Certainly, we don’t want to give away any advantage we already have. Thank you. PROFESSOR MARY CAY SENGSTOCK Good afternoon. I’m Mary Cay Sengstock, professor of Sociology and I have had the great good fortune of being part of this wonderful educational institution for over 40 years, and I’m here to speak for the Wayne State faculty and academic staff. Let me remind you who we are. We are the scientist who develop and obtain funding for the research which is the foundation of this institution. The linguist and historians who write the books that bring our institution to the attention to the academic profession as a whole. The professors of Social Work, Education, Law, and Business, who train the professionals who serve this city and state. We’re the academic staff who help the students and scholars conduct their research, advise our students I their programs and help them find the funds to support their education. We are not recalcitrant adolescents whose behavior must be constantly monitored and censured. (AUDIENCE APPLAUDS) Don’t use my time up. Don’t use my time up. (Inaudible) tendering proposal has had an enormous impact on the attitude of the university community toward the administration. Even when the most extreme detenuring (sic) proposal was on the table, the administration


continually presented conflicted position on the issue telling the team that the proposal represented the end of tenure at the University and insisting to the media that no such attack was being proposed. Such deception does not produce good relations. The attempt to disguise the size of some administrative raises produced another reason for lack of trust. We are being treated like employees to be ordered about when management chooses. We are facing difficulty economic times. More than ever we need shared sacrifice. Such a top-down proposal does represent shared sacrifice. We, that is, senior faculty and Chairs have been barraged by faculty who say, “Should I be looking for another job, is my tenure, is my longevity here threatened?” We cannot afford to have that happen. I was President of the Academic Senate during the difficult Adamany years. We had many disputes between the Senate and the President, but at no time did President Adamany every launch an attack on tenure. He had a long history in academia and he respected and the critical role it plays in the defense of academic freedom. News of the tenure move at Wayne State is widespread in academia. We will soon be trying to recruit a new president. We need an experienced academic leader who understands universities, one who can bring us together to address our mutual challenges. I certainly hope the tenure conflict does not complicate these efforts too much. To summarize, faculty and academic staff are the people who have built Wayne State University into the outstanding institution of higher education it has become. Incidentally, some faculty and academic staff are so committed to the programs in their colleges that they have helped to build, that they contribute financially to their colleges to support those programs. Some of them are even members of the Anthony Wayne Society. Committed professionals like that deserve more respect than they have received in these negotiations. I urge the Board of Governors to take measures to insure a more productive and cooperative conduct of negotiations. Thank you very much. PROFESSOR SEYMOUR WOLFSON Thank you. Members of the Board of Governors, Mr. President, and members of the administration, I come before you with a heavy heart and feelings of great disappointment. I’ve been in higher education for over 50 years and have never encounter a university administration that has shown such a lack of understanding and lack of regard for what higher education is all about. Even in the difficult years the faculty experienced under President Adamany, he still understand and had regard and value for the role of tenure in protecting academic freedom in higher education. We’re now experiencing an administration that has basically devalued research and teaching. It behaves as if the faculty are just like assembly line workers at a car company. Clearly there seems to be a failure to understand the difference between having assembly line workers and professional academics. Graduate students spend from 6 to 12 years studying and researching the subject area in great depth hoping to make advances in fundamental knowledge in a university career in which their professional lives and academic freedom was protected by tenure. The main reason for providing tenure for faculty after a 7-year probationary period is so they pursue unchartered areas and eventually come up with theories and inventions that will continue to benefits society. Tenure is the protection that allows the faculty to be creative over time and not have to be concern with the need to watch out that some administrator decides the faculty should be fired because they were not as productive enough for his or her taste. The arduous steps to get tenure takes seven years and require an extensive review by departmental colleagues which include student evaluation, assessment letters from outside reviewers an intensive review by a college tenure committee and then a further review by university tenure committee followed by the approval of the Provost. The administration initially proposed to take the hard earned tenure status with the stroke of a pen of two administrators who become unhappy with that faculty member. While the administration withdrew its most egregious proposal on tenure, what remains is still quite problematic. The University administration still demonstrates the attitudes that produced that


proposal. These attitudes show that this administration has little respect for, nor have an understanding of the academic environment in which tenure and academic freedom play the central role. Even though the worst proposal has been withdrawn, the WSU administration has made itself a laughing stock in academia. I’ve had phone calls from faculty members at other universities across the country asking me about what is going on at Wayne State University with the move to do away with tenure. We are now at a cross roads where if you continue with adversarial approach, we are setting ourselves to have limited ability to attract any truly creative faculty who have alternatives. And if God forbid, the administration succeeds in its attack on academics at Wayne, our most successful faculty members will start to leave and WSU in a few years from now will be a shell of its former self. We are on a slippery slope that WSU will never be able to climb back up. There are already in place procedures for administrators to remove faculty who are not doing their job. If there are such faculty members, why have they not been identified and their cases acted upon. Maybe you folks should focus on the inept administrators that need to be removed? The administration has gone off on a tangent and lost sight of the most fundamental purposes of the University, research and teaching. Please turn away from the ill-conceived ideas that have posed and settle this contract in an amicable fashion and begin to address the damage that have been done to the University. And in summary, basically, the sign says, “no tenure, no faculty, no students, no donations, no endowments, and no university.” That’s where we’ll end up.

ADJOURNMENT

There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 4:15 p.m. Respectfully submitted, Julie H. Miller Secretary to the Board of Governors

BOARD OF GOVERNORS

OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS

November 12, 2012

Special Board Meeting The meeting was called to order at 11:09 a.m. by President Allan Gilmour in Room B/C of the McGregor Memorial Conference Center. Secretary Miller called the roll. A quorum was present, with the following Board members in attendance: Governors Abbott, Dingell, Driker, Dunaskiss, Karmanos, Massaron, Miller and Pollard; and President Gilmour

Also present: Deputy President Vroom, Vice Presidents Lessem, Lindsey, Nork, Ratner, Ripple, Staebler and Wright; and Secretary Miller

REPORT FROM THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE President Gilmour called on Governor Pollard for a report from the Executive Committee on matters relating to the Presidential Search. Governor Pollard presented the following matters for adoption.

Charge to the Search Committee, Committee Membership

ACTION: Upon motion by Governor Pollard, supported by Governor Dunaskiss, and adopted, the Board of Governors approved the following resolution establishing the Charge to the Presidential Search Advisory Committee:

Whereas, the Wayne State University Board of Governors is authorized by the Constitution of Michigan to elect a President of the University; and Whereas, the Board of Governors of Wayne State University wishes broadly to seek advice and counsel from persons in the University and in the community; Therefore be it resolved: That the Wayne State University Board of Governors hereby establishes a search advisory committee to provide information and advice to the Board of Governors and to develop and recommend for consideration a prospective pool of candidates, but does not delegate to that committee any authority to undertake or perform any governmental act that is the responsibility of the Board of Governors under the Constitution or laws of Michigan; That the Wayne State University Board of Governors retains its full authority to elect a president from a list of finalists that it alone creates, and may do so from among those

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persons recommended to it by the search advisory committee established by this resolution or from among any other persons that the Board of Governors may, in its discretion, wish to consider; That the Wayne State University Board of Governors appoints the following persons in their individual and representative capacities to serve on the search advisory committee: Chair of the Committee

Gary Pollard

Board of Governors Diane Dunaskiss, Committee Vice-Chair Debbie Dingell Eugene Driker

Alumni Representatives

Mitch Ritter, President, Alumni Association

Student Senate President Tasneem Ahmed

Academic Senate President Louis Romano, Professor, Chemistry

Dean Valerie Parisi, Dean, School of Medicine Wayne Raskind, Dean, College of Liberal Arts & Science

Faculty

John Corvino, Associate Professor, Philosophy, CLAS John Dolan, Distinguished Professor, Law Larry Matherly, Professor, Oncology, Medicine Alicia Nails, Lecturer, Communications, CFPCA Wei-Zen Wei, Professor, Karmanos Cancer Inst,, Medicine

Staff/Union Leadership

Charles Parrish, President, AAUP-AFT Professor, Political Science Michelle Burns, President, UAW P&A

Business/ Community Representative

Business Community

Paul Hillegonds, Senior Vice President, DTE Energy and former member, Board of Governors City of Detroit Representative

Kirk Lewis, Deputy Mayor, City of Detroit Administration Allan Gilmour, President

Phyllis Vroom, Deputy President Joseph Sawasky, Associate Vice President and CIO Ahmad Ezzeddine, Associate Vice President

Foundation Board Paul Schaap, Professor Emeritus

Executive Secretary (ex-officio)

Christina Cook


That the Wayne State University Board of Governors establishes the following responsibilities for the search advisory committee:

1. To use all reasonable means to identify a broad and diverse pool of prospective candidates who meet the position description adopted by the Board of Governors. This shall include, but not be limited to: publication of announcements and advertising, direct contacts with persons knowledgeable about potential candidates for the presidency, direct contact with persons who meet the selection criteria established by the Board of Governors, and the use of a search consultant who shall be engaged by the Board of Governors to assist the search advisory committee. No member of the search advisory committee shall be considered by that committee as a candidate for the presidency.

2. To receive the names of prospective candidates for President of the University

from all sources available. 3. To take special care, to the fullest extent permitted by law, that women and

minorities are among those whose applications or nominations for the presidency are sought.

4. To conduct a vigorous search that will include contacting potential candidates for

the presidency, discussing the opportunity with them, and attempting to interest them in the position of President of Wayne State University.

5. To assemble and review all data available on the candidates. 6. To interview candidates. 7. To use as a benchmark in evaluating candidates the presidential selection criteria

established by the Board of Governors. 8. To provide an unranked list to the Board of Governors of no more than five

persons whom the search advisory committee finds, in light of the selection criteria established by the Board of Governors, to be the most highly qualified candidates for the presidency. The search advisory committee shall meet to interview each such candidate before his or her name is submitted to the Board of Governors. The list of the most highly qualified candidates shall be determined by a majority vote of the search advisory committee.

9. To maintain strict confidentiality of the search advisory committee proceedings

and materials to the fullest extent permitted by the law. This includes, but is not limited to: conducting all meetings and interviews in private; maintaining as confidential the identity of all candidates who request confidentiality; maintaining the confidentiality of all application materials and records; maintaining confidentiality as to the persons who nominated or suggested candidates.


10. With the exception of the Chair of the Search Advisory Committee, who will be the sole spokesperson for the committee, all members shall refrain from having any communications with, or revealing any information to, the press or any non-committee members (including members of the Board of Governors who are not members of the search advisory committee) about the search proceedings or the candidates under consideration by the committee. Nothing in this section prohibits the Chairperson of the Search Advisory Committee from making available for separate, informal review by members of the Board of Governors who are not members of the Search Advisory Committee copies of resumes, references, and other material relating to the candidates.

11. To obtain the advice of the Vice President and General Counsel and such other

counsel who shall be designated by the Board of Governors as counsel to the Board in the conduct of the search, to assure that its procedures and operations fully conform to law and in any circumstance involving any issue of confidentiality arising from the commitments set forth in the previous paragraph.

12. To set a regular meeting schedule as determined by the members of the

committee and to attend all regular meetings. 13. To adhere in all of its proceedings to Robert’s Rules of Order. 14. To immediately advise the Board of Governors of any vacancy on the search

advisory committee so that the Board can fill said vacancy expeditiously. 15. In the event the search advisory committee is unable to adequately function

under this charge, it shall immediately report to the Board of Governors for further instruction.

The Board of Governors shall appoint, from outside the search advisory committee, an Executive Secretary of the committee, and shall provide the committee with space, clerical and stenographical assistance and such funds as may be required. The Executive Secretary shall be an ex-officio member of the committee without vote, will take minutes of the meetings of the committee, and perform such other functions as the Chair or a majority of the members of the committee shall designate. The Chair may assign to the Secretary of the Board such duties and responsibilities in connection with the search as shall facilitate the success of the Committee and the search process.

Appointment of the Search Consultant Governor Pollard submitted a recommendation on the appointment of a search consultant who will work with the Board on the search.

ACTION: Upon motion made by Governor Pollard, supported by Governor Massaron, and adopted, the Board of Governors approved the firm of Storbeck/Pimentel, with Shelly Storbeck as the principal, as the search firm to work with the Board and the Presidential Search Advisory Committee in the identification and selection of the new President of Wayne State University.


Establishment of Funds for the Search Governor Pollard next presented a recommendation from the Executive Committee, regarding a transfer of funds from the Contingency Reserve to fund the search.

ACTION: Upon motion made by Governor Pollard, supported by Governor Dunaskiss, and adopted, the Board of Governors authorized a transfer of $250,000 from the FY 2013 Contingency Reserve to fund search activities for the President of Wayne State University. The amount requested would cover all costs associated with the search and appointment process, including travel, advertisement, consulting and relocation expenses. Any funds not utilized would be returned to the Contingency Reserve at the conclusion of the search.

Introduction of the Executive Secretary to the Search Governor Pollard concluded his report with an introduction of Chris Cook, who will serve as the administrative staff/Executive Secretary to the Search Committee. Ms. Cook has extensive university background, and served as the administrative staff to the Search Committee for the previous two presidential searches, giving her valuable experience in the work to be undertaken. ADJOURNMENT There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 11:25 a.m. Respectfully submitted, Julie H. Miller Secretary to the Board of Governors

Documents

Submitted by: Allan Gilmour, President · Submitted by: Allan Gilmour, President Board of Governors Agenda December 5, 2012 APPROVAL OF THE CONSENT AGENDA Background The following