The Student Senate of the Associated Students of the University of established 1994 Session XV

Student Senate March 10, 2009 HUB 310

Chaired by Jon Solomon. Minutes by and respectfully submitted by Samantha Kraft.

I. Call to Order Jon calls the meeting to order at 5:03pm. He thanks everyone for coming. It’s week 10. He asks everyone to look at the agenda. There are copies up front. He reads through the agenda and asks if there are any additions, deletions, or modifications.

II. Approval of the Agenda Tunny moves to approve the agenda.

There is a second.

III. Public Forum- Ana Mari Cauce- Dean, College of Arts and Sciences Jon says this is our agenda. He welcomes up Dean Ana Mari Cauce. We will have 20 minutes with questions. He says he will take a speakers list for questions.

Dean Cauce says she doesn’t really have a presentation. It will pretty much be q and a. She says some of you may remember that she started officially on March 31 of last year. It’s almost been a year on the job. At the time, she says she had no idea that April Fools was an appropriate time to start. She came into the job with the hope that she would be doing a lot of hiring and building new programs, and the economy had come off a cliff. She will be spending a fair amount of time taking things apart and seeing where we can make budget cuts. It will be difficult for the university. The uncertainty is that we don’t know what the budget is going to be. We need to be getting ready. She says she will give us a little bit of a sense of where we are at. The Provost has asked the Deans to present scenarios for 8, 10 and 12 percent cuts. The Senate is talking about 20+ percent for Washington State. It’s pretty scary. She says she is not sure what it will mean. The problem with the College of Arts and Sciences is that most students have 70% of credit hours in the college. She asks how we make sure the students get the courses they need and not have new hires. She says we have fewer TAs. The first priority is to continue to serve students, and that will be difficult to do so.

Melvin says hello to Dean Cauce. He says there’s been a lot of talking in developing these plans of maintaining the quality of education at the university. He asks what the main tools that the university had to gauge education. He asks what is going to be checked.

Dean Cauce says there is no way that there is not going to be a quality decrease whenever you take a cut. You’ve got quality and quantity. Those things are not exactly in opposition. There is a tension between them. She asks what the right balance is between quality and quantity. We can take a 10 or 15 or 20 percent cut and not be affected. There are a number of tools. One of the things that happens is conducted by the graduate school. The departments are reviewed every 10 years or every 5 years. Every department goes through a review, and we bring in three faculty

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Chris G. asks how new programs such as the College of the Environment will be affected.

Dean Cauce says she’s not in that college. She says you would have to ask the Dean or Provost. The college is formed of units in areas that are primarily already here. They are taking two departments that are part of the College of Arts and Sciences. They are taking Earth Space Science and Atmospheric Sciences. They are moving. She says she thinks that there is one unit from the College of Ocean and Fish that is going on. She says they are transferring the two department’s budgets from the College of Arts and Sciences. She gives the example of ESS and says their budget includes between 20 and 30 faculty and 3 million dollars. They are transferring that over to the College of the Environment. One of them has an open position. They told them in the fall that they could hire a faculty member then said no because of the budget cuts. She says she had been planning to hire more people in the fall but will have to cut down. When ESS moves, they are moving without that position. The other thing is they are moving without TAs. They haven’t officially cut TA lines. Graduate students are being offered acceptance now, and they need to know if they have funding or not. She says they usually tell a department their TA budget. They took the TA budget that they planned on giving them and took out 18 percent. She says they can guarantee is 80 percent. The other is getting put aside for the cuts. The reason why they did that is because of the cuts. Maybe someone who got accept would get later. She says she wanted to make sure that we’ve been hearing about layoffs and cutbacks. As much as possible, they would rather cut an empty position than one with someone in it. When they transferred the budget, they did it without 18 percent. She says there will be budget cuts about the same size to the best of her knowledge. She says she can’t tell us what the Provost is putting in in terms of new money. She heard from the President and Provost that they hoped and planned to put new money in, but now they are saying it might take a longer time because of the cuts. She says she doesn’t know exactly. Every college is not going to get the same size cut. That’s part of the reason every college had to put together plans. She says they had their’s last week trying to explain how they would handle this and the negative impacts. Their goal is to have the smallest cut possible. If you look at state budgets, Arts and Sciences have 1/3 of the budget. They have 70 percent of student credit hours which is part of their argument to keep cuts low. In terms of courses, they are the academic work horse. Arts and

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Sciences has 50 percent of degrees. She says she can’t tell us where cuts will be for each. She should be shocked if they didn’t have cuts in the same range.

Everett says thank you. He says he’s curious about if the school has thought about devolving the requirements to the divisional deans. He says his home departments are economics and math. Most of the required courses are in other departments. They end up being battered by different sources. The math department is the divisional dean of math and science. He asks if she has ever thought about that to try and save budget dollars.

Dean Cauce says the divisional deans report to her. She says you can pat them on the back if they doing well, but if you don’t, it’s her fault. They are one college. It may be divided into divisions, but they are one college. She says they want to make sure math majors know about art, can write well, and know about the natural and social world. We do have college wide requirements. She says they just made a change in the language requirement college wide. They are not going to make separate requirements for each division. She says one of the things Everett said is interesting. It really points out the differences in Arts and Sciences. The math department ones don’t only have to worry about math majors but students in engineering and social work and business. That’s about 95 percent of students. She says you can get a degree in Arts and Sciences without ever taking engineering courses. She says they can’t just focus on getting quality to their majors. They have to make sure they are getting other students through. They are in a unique situation. They could just be selfish and do those courses for everyone and do them en masse and save quality for capstones and have small courses for students once they major. There is real tension that they have. She says she loves the fact that her college touches everybody. It’s a special role and incredible privilege. She wants every student to know about English, the social world, and more, but it does create a tension.

Jon thanks Dean Cauce for coming.

Dean Cauce says she does read e-mails, and you can e-mail her at [email protected].

IV. Chair’s Report: Jon Solomon Jon says the Chair’s report is next. We are two-thirds of the way through the year. There are 10 more to next quarter. He wishes everyone good luck on finals. There is no Senate next week. We also need a new representative to Personnel and will elect a new one next quarter. We have a request from Lincoln Johnson. He presented last week about the renovations. They are looking for our opinion for the capital project and the renovations happening on campus. If you know people who are interesting in writing legislation on that, they will be coming back to get our opinion on that. We are looking into having one or two forums with Ed Taylor or Provost Wise along with Board of Directors forums to listen to candidates for the year.

Tunny calls a point of information. He asks about the ASUW Ambassadors taskforce.

V. Board of Directors Report: Gerald Corporal, Phuong Nguyen, Lydia Bylsma Jon says Sarah Round is the representative. He apologizes for not giving that last week. Next is the BOD report with Phuong and Lydia.

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Lydia says last week at the Board meeting, they talked with Paul Jenny, the Vice Provost of Finance and Budget. He gave an overview of the budget, and they sat and talked with him. She says she wanted to let us know that the questions and input we had to Gerald and Phuong are the things they talked about. They are looking to talk to people about that. She says to feel free to e- mail her. She says to also keep those going, so we can have open communication with people.

Phuong says she doesn’t have updates on things going on. There was a question about undergraduate TAs. She knows that the departments looking in to that are working on an advisory committee to figure that out. Next week is when the proposed budget comes out. Once we get back in session in spring quarter, we can look for that. She says to contact them with questions.

Chris G. says last session she asked about how it might affect work study students. She asks Phuong if she got more information on that.

Phuong says everything is in limbo. Nothing is concrete. In the next coming weeks, we will find out what will happen because we will get a budget.

VI. GPSS Report: Yutaka Jono Jon says next is the GPSS report with Yutaka.

Yutaka says good evening. Last Wednesday, GPSS had the last Senate meeting of the quarter. They passed a resolution about class photo lists. They passed it and are in support or it. They did amend it slightly to increase confidentiality. They also passed a budget item and an election packet. Jason is the Senate representative. Yutaka says to let Jason know who you want Senate to vote for. There will be an executive committee meeting in the GPSS office in HUB 300.

VII. ASUW Presidential Privilege: Anttimo Bennett Jon says thank you. Next is ASUW Presidential Privilege, but he’s not here because he’s vacationing. We will see him next quarter.

VIII. Announcements of New Senators Drew says we have a new Senator. Her name is Lindsay, and she’s from GPSS. She will be in the Membership committee.

IX. Committee Meetings Jon says we will break into committee meetings. He asks the committee chairs to come up front. There will be no Steering on Friday. We will meet the first Monday or Tuesday next quarter. He says to feel free to e-mail him or the committee chairs with comments and concerns. He asks everyone to be back by 5:55pm.

Committee meetings

X. Orders of the Day B. Old Business

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2. R-15-14: A Resolution in Support of Extending International Baccalaureate Credit Policy Jon calls the meeting to reconvene at 6:02pm. He asks to have everyone’s attention. He asks if all the committees are back and if we are missing anyone. First, we have orders of the day with R-15-14 A Resolution in Support of Extending International Baccalaureate Credit Policy. He invites up Natalie and Sarah. This is 2nd readings. Argumentative statements are allowed and then we will vote.

Natalie reads the legislation.

Jon says thank you and says Natalie may speak to it if there is anything she would like to say.

Natalie says it says what it means. Feel free to ask questions. IB are high school courses like AP but on an international scale.

Melvin says he thinks she’s done a good job of outlining logics. He is curious if she’s spoken to the administration about the policy. He is worried that there is a policy that might stand against this.

Natalie says she hasn’t gone to the administration. She says they will tell you what it is. It’s very specific to courses. That’s why it’s hard to generalize.

Holland says he wonders if she has talked to anyone about why AP gets credit and IB doesn’t.

Natalie says she’s not sure why, but it’s what happens. It’s a general standard throughout universities. It’s by college by different schools. That’s how it’s done.

Yutaka says he is speaking as an international student who went to a non-American school. He feels that it many societies outside the U.S. only those privileged enough can pay high tuition for an international school. In some ways, this might favor those who have financial means more than others. As a graduate students, there is no GPSS standard, so he would abstain.

Michael asks if he is allowed to make an amendment. He makes a motion to correct typographical errors.

Jon says if there are typos, we will correct them.

Michael says all the answers.

Natalie says the parentheses are the citations.

Chris G. says she thinks this is a superb idea if you are not receiving credit for one year of work. She says she sees the logic in validating the work. It would be something to consider to even

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Matt says he is not certain about this. They do offer AP classes in some other countries.

Neil says he is someone who when to a high school with AP classes, and their primary rival had IB, but he still supports this. Both systems should be recognized. He highly suggests we pass this.

Laine says this resolution should pass. She took five AP tests. She says she is not sure what expense is for the IB program. It makes sense to recognize both.

Jason says Yutaka was talking about access for international students. Currently for countries with the IB system, there is little access for college credits. He says he was going to ask why this isn’t here already. It’s probably just historical.

Natalie says she thinks that it should be changed.

Drew moves to vote.

There is a second.

Jon says he sees no objections. We will move to a vote. He asks all those in favor of passing this resolution, R-15-14 A Resolution in Support of Extending International Baccalaureate Credit Policy to say “aye.” He asks those opposed to say “nay.” The “ayes” have it, and this resolution passes. He says congratulations. The next piece of legislation is R-15-7 A Resolution in Support of Changing the UW's baccalaureate honours policy. He welcomes up the sponsor Andrew Everett.

C. New Business 1. R-15-7: A Resolution in Support of Changing UW Baccalaureate Honors Policy 2. R-15-15: In Support of Need-Based Financial Aid 3. R-15-16: Improving the Course Catalog 4. R-15-18: Creation of Task Force for ASUW Newsletter/Blog 5. R-15-20: A Resolution in Support of Photo Class List 6. R-15-23: A Resolution Designating November 25th as Queer Awareness Day 7. R-15-25: A Resolution to Provide Students with Sufficient Short Term Parking at the University of Washington Everett reads the legislation.

Jon says we can’t amend it yet. This is 1st readings. Only explanatory questions and clarifications are allowed. He will take a speakers list.

Laine says she was wondering if Everett could explain the justification for apples to apples.

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Everett says it’s a throwback. The primary point is to compare the like against the like. It’s the very core of what he’s trying to get to. In the College of Arts and Sciences, there are a vast number of degree programs. As a math student, he competes against and English major or a science major for honors because they are in the same college. Anyone would take a fair assertion that he, as a math student, had had a vastly different course load from a Latin student. Everyone should only be compared to someone in their department. They don’t need to change percentages, but it should be distributed by degree.

Drew asks Everett what his future amendment would be.

Jon says he will allow it.

Everett says he forgot one thing. It would be a forwarding clause.

Jon says this is important.

Yutaka says he has a question about the THAT clause and what you will achieve. He says you are talking about competing within the same major. In music, there is guitar performance and music history. He asks if those would be treated as the same program or different.

Everett says he would treat it as GPSS and Senators. You are rated against every degree program. If you are in the Jackson School, you are compared against that. The goal is to try to norm who you are being compared against. Everett says Yutaka was music and political science. As a music major, you would be compared to other music majors instead of everybody.

Dylan says he is in the FAA committee. They made a few amendments, and it’s not shown here.

Jon asks if we received them.

Mike says he gave them to someone in the office.

Jon asks if there are substantial changes.

Mike says there is in the last WHEREAS clause.

Dylan says there were changes in the THAT clauses and other places.

Jon says we will consider it as it stands now and get the edits. We will have those changes that were made in committee. He asks if that is fair for everyone.

Melvin says point of order. He says this is not the resolution that was passed to the floor by the committee.

Jon says yes because we didn’t receive the changes.

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Matt moves to table until the next meeting.

There is a second and an objection.

Matt says if there are changes, he would like to know what they are instead of having the document changed for 2nd readings.

Jason says it’s not like the changes were substantial. He says we can still have a discussion about the general intent.

Jon asks all those in favor of tabling to raise their placards. It will take a 2/3 majority. He asks those opposed to raise their placards. He asks those abstaining to raise their placards. With a vote of 21 to 18 to5, the motion does not pass.

Chris G. asks how it works in the other colleges.

Everett says you are compared by college. If you are in the College of Engineering, you are compared to all other engineering majors. You are compared to everyone else in the school. In the 2nd and 3rd WHEREAS clauses, when you have colleges where they have multiple and wide-ranged degree programs, you encounter problems. At present, you’re compared on the basis of college. If your major was nursing, you would be compared to other nursing degrees. To pick on Jason who majors in Chinese, he would be compared to only other Chinese majors and not everyone.

Ehsan asks if Everett knows if other universities have tried this system and what the results are.

Everett says the results are wide-ranging. The University of Connecticut uses this system. He says at Harvard, if you fill out papers, you get Latin Honors. Like he said, the standards are disparate and wide-ranging. What you see is a split system. They are compared by major or by division. If you are math, you would be a division of natural science. You don’t see anything like this in a school this size with this many majors.

Jed asks if this goes into affect if it would decrease the numbers of students for the top 10 percent.

Everett says the top 10 percent will be the top 10 percent. It will change the distribution somewhat. Let’s say for a second that 2/3 of the arts and sciences Latin Honors recipients are in political science and the rest are spread out. The top 10 percent of each major gets this.

Chris C. yields.

Michael asks if the top 10 percent of each degree program gets it if that would increase the number of awards.

Everett says no, but the distribution is skewed especially in arts and sciences. You will find that some departments are underrepresented. It’s a matter of fairness because different departments

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Igor asks how the proposed system would treat double majors.

Everett says each individual degree would be treated differently. You would be ranked against other economics students. He says you are compared against your degree program only.

Laine asks what the effects would be on the smaller majors. She says the 10 percent would be an enormous decrease.

Everett says the purpose of Latin Honors is to recognize the top 10 percent of the university. The top 10 percent of speech and hearing sciences would get that. It would make sure you recognize the best in each department.

Matt asks how the top 10 percent would be determined.

Everett says it would be by GPA in each college.

Chris G. asks how it would differentiate from departmental honors.

Everett says departmental honors is different. That is “with distinction.” This does not touch that.

Anthony asks which degree program is favored in arts and sciences.

Everett says English and political science.

Sarah asks if this would drastically increase students graduating with Latin honors.

Everett says it would not change the number at all. It is still the same top 10 percent. How it’s distributed would change. Some colleges would not change. It would impact arts and sciences the most because they have the most students.

Drew says point of information. She says 10 percent of arts and sciences is the same at 10 percent of each program.

Melvin yields.

Drew moves to close discussion.

There is a second and an objection.

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Jon asks those in favor of closing discussion to say “aye.” He asks those opposed to say “nay.” The “ayes” have it, and 1st readings are closed. Next is R-15-15 In Support Need Based Financial Aid. He invites the sponsor Chris up.

Melvin moves to rescind the legislation from last week’s meeting.

Jon says to rescind a vote is to reconsider a vote made by Senate from a previous meeting. He says he is taking Melvin’s motion to mean that he wants to reconsider the vote from last week. He says a motion has been made to reconsider the vote from last week.

Jed asks if this motion could be made at the next meeting.

Jon says it could be made at any time.

Yutaka says a motion to reconsider if for motions in the same meeting. Rescind is for a different meeting.

Jon says there has been a motion to rescind the vote.

There is a second and an objection.

Chris asks if we rescind it if we would talk about it now.

Jon says yes, we would talk about it now.

Melvin says there will be a discussion period because the motion is made.

Jon says there will be a discussion.

Melvin says that’s not what Sturgis says. He says we can handle 1st readings before this. He is bringing this back up because the debate was so close that there is actually a different composition from the time it was discussed. From the discussion right now, people have a new understanding of the way they would tie into the IB system that was discussed and the larger impacts in general.

Jono says just because a vote was close doesn’t not mean we should revote. The vote passed. No new information has come to light. The vote was close. He says he doesn’t think we should. It was passed and done, and we should move on.

Jon says we will put it to a vote. Please raise hands, and he will take a speakers list.

Matt moves to exhaust the speakers list.

There is a second and an objection.

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Jon says we will now vote on the motion to exhaust the speakers list. He asks those in favor to say “aye” and those opposed to say “nay.” The “ayes” have it, and the speakers list is exhausted. He says he doesn’t want to miss anyone, so please raise hands again.

Ashley says she would not rescind the vote. There was a different composition of Senators at the last meeting and the previous meeting. Each Senator decides to show up or not show up. By default, they are making a decision about how their voice is heard. Their attendance should not determine how the vote is passed.

Igor says he supports rescinding the vote. We, as a Senate, represent the students at UW. We should make sure that we actually do support the vote as the university body and not as a minority interest.

Adam says because we had a different composition, we should rescind the vote. That would seriously discredit Senate that we couldn’t have a controversial vote. It would do nothing but discredit the system. It’s just part of the system, and we just have to let it happen.

Michael moves to vote.

There is a second.

Jon says there are six people on the speakers list.

There is an objection.

Jon asks those in favor to say “aye” and those opposed to say “nay.” He calls division. He asks those in favor of voting now to please raise their placards. He asks those opposed to raise their placards. He asks those abstaining to raise their placards. With a vote of 25 to 12 to 5, this motion passes. It requires a 2/3 majority. We will move to a vote of rescind. He asks those in favor of rescinding the decision made at the last meeting to please raise their placards. He asks those opposed to raise their placards then those abstaining. With a vote of 5 to 25 to 13, the motion fails, and we will continue with the regular agenda. He asks Chris to do 1st readings.

Chris reads R-15-15 In Support Need Based Financial Aid.

Jon thanks Chris. This is 1st readings, and questions of clarification are allowed.

Chris says basically we are in tough economic time and look at cutting UW’s budget. We, as students, want to support this idea and reaffirm it. The tribune is talking about cutting budgets. We want to help those who need aid.

Tunny yields.

Laine says she was wondering what the direct impact was on Husky Promise due to budget changes.

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Chris says Husky Promise is made of public and private money. They would bring in money from other areas if state money was cut. They would move money around to make sure it stays around.

Holland moves to suspend the rules and move to 2nd readings.

There is a second.

Jon says this motion carries, and we are on 2nd readings. We will continue.

Chris G. asks if this would impact other programs in financial aid.

Chris says Husky Promise is specific to UW because it’s a UW program. The Husky Promise it tied to the Pell Grant. You could say by extension that it’s a public program.

Jason says he has a question about the 4th WHEREAS clause. He is not sure if that directly falls from the clause before that. He asks if there is more data.

Chris says it’s tied from the quote to the website. Those two statements ended up separated by amendments.

Yutaka calls quorum.

Jon asks everyone to please raise their placards. Quorum is 40 percent of the total voting membership.

Drew and Lydia count for quorum.

Lydia says we have quorum.

Dylan asks if there was any thought about adding a forward to clause to any state funded.

Chris says he wanted to add in this to financial aid. He says if you had someone specific in mind that would be good. He also says the chairs of the higher education committees would be good.

Jason moves to amend the 4th WHEREAS clause to strike “this means.”

Jon says there is a motion to strike “this means.”

There is a second.

Jon says that is struck.

Yutaka says he has strong reservations about the sentiments in the fist THAT clause. We understand that need based financial aid is important, but quality of education and other things are

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Chris says he wants to add another THAT clause to say “send a copy of this resolution to the Higher Education Committee, Kay Lewis, Eric Godfrey, and .”

Jono asks if he means the state committee on higher education.

Chris says he means the state legislative board.

Jon says it’s been moved and seconded. He says the THAT clause will be adopted.

Michael moves to amend the 1st THAT clause to read “significantly.”

Jon says it’s been moves to add significantly so that it would read “significantly cut.”

There is a second and an objection.

Michael says it’s going to Yutaka’s concern. He doesn’t want any. He would rather not see other programs get cut to finance this project at the expense of other students. He doesn’t want to see the programs get cut.

Jason says he fully agrees with the intention to have reasonable language. What we want is to not have any cuts. Financial aid is already too low.

Chris says he would like to remind everyone that this is the legislation. Richard Lum and Anttimo Bennett can use this when talking to legislators. Right now, Mark Emmert is talking about a 14 percent increase in tuition as reasonable. We need to take strong stance on this.

Matt says it’s one word, but it entirely waters down the point of the legislation.

Jon says we will move to a vote. He asks all those in favor of adding the word “significantly” to say “aye.” He asks those opposed to say “nay.” The “nays” have it, and that motion fails.

Jason says he would move to add HEC Board to the last THAT clause.

There is a second.

Jon says that motion is adopted. Dylan is spelling it out. He entertains a motion to vote.

There is motion and a second.

Jon says R-15-15 is now on a vote. He asks those in favor of approving to say “aye.” He asks those opposed to say “nay.” The “ayes” have it unanimously. He says congratulations.

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Jono moves to adjourn.

There is a second.

XI. Requests for Information [none]

XII. Announcements Jon says there is a motion to adjourn with announcements. We will put it to a vote. He asks those in favor of adjourning to say “aye” and those opposed to say “nay.” The “ayes” have it.

Laine says Bonker Bash is on March 28th by the Indian Student Association. It sold out Meany Hall three years in a row.

Tunny says Dawg Dish is out. He says to check it out.

Jason says Lobby Day is the 26th, and you won’t have to skip classes.

Yutaka says Arts and Entertainment is doing a sneak preview of Adventureland. It’s showing tomorrow.

XIII. Adjournment Jon says Quest Crew won ABDC. He says to enjoy spring break. Good luck on finals, and the meeting is adjourned at 7:01pm.

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