Committees on Academic Staff Issues
Survey 2 – March 29, 2001Agriculture and Life Sciences (Frank Kooistra)
1. List the names, titles, and departments of your CASI members. Place an asterisk before the name of the chair.
Sandra Bertics, Dairy Science
Rick Daluge. Academic Student Affairs
Beth Holden, Bacteriology
Bryan Jensen, Horticulture
Peter Leeds, Genetics
John Mather, Horticulture
Ellen Maurer, Agricultural Journalism
Cynthia Merrill, Genetics
Wilma Ross, Bacteriology
John Rowe, International Agricultural Programs
Steve Stevenson, CIAS
Tom Tabone, Computing & Biometry
Bambi Wilson, Biochemistry
Tom Wright, Agricultural Research Stations
*Frank W. Kooistra, Chair
2. Does the group have any other officers such as a co-chair or a vice chair?
New by-laws will require a vice chair elected by the committee
3. How often does the group meet? Does it meet year around or just during the academic year?
Three to four times during the semester.
4. What topics and issues are currently being addressed by your CASI?
Performance evaluation, climate survey, departmental representation, mentoring, by-laws, professional development, a web-site.
5. Has your CASI established any subcommittees, working committees, or ad hoc committees? If yes, what are they?
Awards and Professional Development - Standing
Communications, website and districting - Standing
Nominations committee and mentoring - Standing
Personnel procedures and compensation - Standing
Climate survey - ad hoc
Representation - ad hoc
By-laws - ad hoc
Performance evaluation - ad hoc.
6. If your CASI has been operational for more than six months, what would you identify as its accomplishments?
College wide climate survey
A running website
Performance evaluation survey appointments to college wide committees
An annual awards program
7. What recommendations have you given to your dean or director?
A report on academic staff representation on college committees
A report on performance evaluation
A report on an awards program
A report on a climate survey
8. What reports or documents have you prepared?
see above
9. Are there specific professional development needs that you have identified in your unit? If so, what are they?
No.
10. Does your CASI have a website? If so, please provide the address. If not, are you planning for one in the future?
Yes.
School of Nursing (Sarah Esmond)
1. List the names, titles, and departments of your CASI members.
Place an asterisk before the name of the chair.
*Sarah Esmond, Research Specialist (representing research AS)
Regina Dunst, Clinical Assist. Prof. (representing instructional AS)
Diana Girdley, " "
Denise Dipert, Special Librarian (representing administrative AS)
2. Does the group have any other officers such as a co-chair or a vice chair?
No.
3. How often does the group meet? Does it meet year around or just during the academic year?
1x month during academic year right now.
4. What topics and issues are currently being addressed by your CASI?
Job security
How does job security exercise work? How is it linked to merit review process? How to secure different appointment types?
Action: hosting a brownbag for all School of Nursing AS in April
Professional development (PD): short term plan: establishing SIMPLE process by which AS can apply for support for PD opportunities using existing resources; long term plan: develop SON budget line item designated for this purpose
Orientation: establish minimum orientation standards (who is responsible, by when, etc…) related to orientation to specific job, to School of Nursing and to UW campus
5. Has your CASI established any subcommittees, working committees, or ad hoc committees? If yes, what are they?
6. If your CASI has been operational for more than six months, what would you identify as its accomplishments?
1) regular, thoughtful, productive meetings!
2) keeping focused on issues identified by SON AS
3) hosting brownbag with AS to share our progress, present on job security exercise, receive feedback
4) establishing strong, positive communication between CASI reps, administrative reps and other committees/staff in SON,
5) developing CASI webpage on localnet
7. What recommendations have you given to your dean or director?
Nothing formal yet, but have encouraged (and received support to)
1) promote existing funding/resources available for AS professional development opportunities and draft proposal for related line item in future SON budgets,
2) discussion about how instructional academic staffcan collaborate with faculty on research and meet teaching requirements,
3) CASI involvement in development of minimum computer competencies for all staff.
8. What reports or documents have you prepared?
9. Are there specific professional development needs that you have identified in your unit? If so, what are they?
Yes. Computer software courses, professional conferences/workshops, access to professional journals/books, interest in collaboration/involvement in research activities of faculty, support to know how to be promoted along title track; support to host informal brownbags at which invited campus 'experts' could present, dialog with staff.
10. Does your CASI have a website? If so, please provide the address. If not, are you planning for one in the future?
It's only accessible thru our localnet service right now - will be discussing access thru the SON website soon.
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Division of International Studies (Cathy Meschievitz)
1. List the names, titles, and departments of your CASI members. Place an asterisk before the name of the chair.
Donna Veatch, Administrative Program Specialist, Deans Office and International Institute
Cheryl Woodards, Administrative Program Manager, Budget and Payroll, Deans Office
Amanda Hammatt, Student Services Coordinator, International Academic Programs
*Cathy Meschievitz, Associate Dean, desigmated chair
2. Does the group have any other officers such as a co-chair or a vice chair?
Not yet
Questions 3-10 are premature as we have just formed the group and haven't met yet. We will after break week.
School of Human Ecology (Lynn Edlefson)
1. List the names, titles, and departments of your CASI members. Place an asterisk before the name of the chair.
*Suzanne Scott
Jill Riley
Dan Ott
Shelley Wissink,
Betsy Tuttle
Sue Sprecher
2. Does the group have any other officers such as a co-chair or a vice chair?
Vice-chair
3. How often does the group meet? Does it meet year around or just during the academic year?
4 times through academic year, more can be called if desired.
4. What topics and issues are currently being addressed by your CASI?
Have been working on governance structure for SOHE; and on creating an active CASI
5. Has your CASI established any subcommittees, working committees, or ad hoc committees? If yes, what are they?
Not ongoing, but from time to time, e.g. last year we had a sub-committee that put together a list of all academic staff and a little about each
6. If your CASI has been operational for more than six months, what would you identify as its accomplishments?
See #5
Have greatly improved the role of academic staff through new governance structure for SOHE-- with academic staff representation on all major school committees.
7. What recommendations have you given to your dean or director?
The recommendations have been that academic staff be represented on governance
8. What reports or documents have you prepared?
Just minutes of meetings-- and the larger governance committee of the school has created a new document, with academic staff input and participation on the committee.
9. Are there specific professional development needs that you have identified in your unit? not yet
10. Does your CASI have a website? No yet
School of Veterinary Medicine (Laura Johnston)
1.List the names, titles, and departments of your CASI members. Place an asterisk before the name of the chair.
*Daryl BussChair (dean)
Jean Bjorenson Instructional Dist appt'd
John Bogdanske Research Dist elec'd
Chuck Henrikson Instructional Dist elec'd
Laura Johnston Research Dist elec'd
Debbie McKenzie Research Dist appt'd
Nancy Nelson Administrative Dist elec'd
Steve Wall Administrative Dist appt'd
2. Does the group have any other officers such as a co-chair or a vice chair? No
3. How often does the group meet?
The group meets once a semester during the academic year.
4. What topics and issues are currently being addressed by your CASI?
None at this time
5. Has your CASI established any subcommittees, working committees, or ad hoc committees? No
6. If your CASI has been operational for more than six months, what would you identify as its accomplishments?
Made the arrangements for all academic staff to attend a meeting concerning benefits. Proposed to offer a beneficial seminar once a semester.
7. What recommendations have you given to your dean or director?
8. What reports or documents have you prepared?
None, to the best of my knowledge
9. Are there specific professional development needs that you have identified in your unit? No
10. Does your CASI have a website? If so, please provide the address.
We don't have a website at this time, however it has been proposed to do so.
School of Education (Barb Smith)
1. List the names, titles, and departments of your CASI members. Place an asterisk before the name of the chair.'
Ron Carda - Kinesiology
Michael Cohen - Center on Instructional Materials and Computing (CIMC)
Steve Head -Educational Placement
Doreen Holmgren - Dance
Ginny Moore Kruse - Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
Sarah Mason - Wisconsin Center for Educational Research (WCER)
Julie McGivern - Educational Psychology
Pat Moran - Education Academic Services
John Paine - Recreational Sports
Paula Panczenko - Tandem Press
*Charles Read - Dean, School of Education
Ann Rudolf - Center on Education and Work (CEW)
Barb Smith - Instructional Media Development Center (IMDC)
Brenda Spychalla - Dean's Office
Char Tortorice - Testing and Evaluation (T & E)
Ann Wallace - Deans Office
2. Does the group have any other officers such as a co-chair or a vice chair?
Yes - Char Tortorice is our Vice-Chair
3. How often does the group meet? Does it meet year around or just during the academic year?
Once a month, during the academic year
4. What topics and issues are currently being addressed by your CASI?
Communication (Web Site & List Serve)
School/Department/Unit Climate
5. Has your CASI established any subcommittees, working committees, or ad hoc committees? If yes, what are they?
Communication (Web Site & List Serve)
Diversity (Climate)
6. If your CASI has been operational for more than six months, what would you identify as its accomplishments?
Most recently, we developed an Academic Staff Professional
Development Policy that has been approved by the Academic Planning Council (APC). We will be receiving policy drafts from each department/unit soon.
Established an annual new academic staff orientation
Created an academic staff list serve
Created an academic staff web site
Redefined the lecturer title series to be more equitable
7. What recommendations have you given to your dean or director?
Our dean chairs our committee, so he has been involved in all of the above mentioned items.
8. What reports or documents have you prepared?
In addition to the items in question # 6, we have produced 3 annual reports.
9. Are there specific professional development needs that you have identified in your unit? If so, what are they?
We identified that many Academic Staff members weren't aware of their department/unit's policy on professional development. We also discovered some departments/units that did not have a written policy. With this in mind, CASI developed the new school policy that among other things, requires each department to have a written policy, a mechanism for changing and updating the policy and a way to inform academic staff of the policy and any subsequent changes.
The most important need that has arisen is to identify funding sources available for professional development, specifically for those academic staff who have insufficient departmental funding. The Academic Staff Professional Development Grants are one source of funding, but a requirement for applying for the grant is matching funds from the staff member's department. Other campuses honor in-kind support from departments to satisfy the matching fund requirement.
10. Does your CASI have a website? If so, please provide the address. If not, are you planning for one in the future?
http://www.education.wisc.edu/AcademicStaff/
School of Business (Sandra Ihle)
1. List the names, titles, and departments of your CASI members. Place an asterisk before the name of the chair.
Jim Pavelko, Assistant Dean of Financial Management;
Janet Christopher, Administrative Program Specialist, A. C. Nielsen Center for Marketing Research;
Susan Sprague, Administrative Program Specialist, Accounting and Information Systems;
Judy Cary, Director, Business Learning Center;
Lisa Collins, Undergraduate Advisor, Business Career Center;
Mark Matosian, Director, Graduate Student Services, Graduate Programs
Andrea Poehling, Associate Student Services Coordinator, International Programs;
Loren Kuzuhara, Senior Lecturer, Management and Human Resources;
Scott Converse, Information Processing Consultant, Executive Education
* Sandra Ihle, Senior Lecturer, Business Communications
2. Does the group have any other officers such as a co-chair or a vice chair?
Judy Cary is our secretary
3. How often does the group meet? Does it meet year around or just during the academic year?
The group meets about once a month; it will probably meet less often during the summer.
4. What topics and issues are currently being addressed by your CASI?
We are currently discussing development opportunities, job security, performance reviews and evaluation, and greater dissemination of information about job availabilities within the School.
5. Has your CASI established any subcommittees, working committees, or ad hoc committees? If yes, what are they?
We have established a subcommittee to establish by-laws, and other informal subcommittees to research the issues described above.
6. If your CASI has been operational for more than six months, what would you identify as its accomplishments?
Our major accomplishment has been to make our deans--and the School in general—more aware of academic staff issues. This week for the first time the Dean will speak to the convened academic staff about the issues discussed above and will answer questions of interest to academic staff members about their positions within the School.
7. What recommendations have you given to your dean or director?
We have recommended that academic staff members on committees relevant to their areas be allowed to vote in meetings. For example, an academic staff member who teaches MBA students would be allowed to vote on the Master's Curriculum Committee. Currently, such staff can discuss, but not vote. We have further recommended that information about positions within the School be widely disseminated so that all academic staff can take advantage of these opportunities. Other recommendations are being formulated.
8. What reports or documents have you prepared?
Aside from our by-laws, we have not prepared any formal reports, but plan to do so.
9. Are there specific professional development needs that you have identified in your unit? If so, what are they?
Our development needs are largely related to lack of information about what is available. We are working to remedy this.Liberal Studies and the Arts (formerly Continuing Studies) – updated survey (Jamie Henke)4. What topics and issues are currently being addressed by your CASI?
We began by developing a global review document for all academic staff in the division. We are now planning on working on various governance and professional development issues.
6. If your CASI has been operational for more than six months, what would you identify as its accomplishments?
We have completed an official review document for the entire division. We are in the process of testing the document this year, and it will be implemented next year.
7. What recommendations have you given to your dean or director?
The review document mentioned above. The Dean's office supported the document, and determined that it would be used beginning in 2002.
8. What reports or documents have you prepared?
Review document
9. Are there specific professional development needs that you have identified in your unit? If so, what are they?
We hope to address this as one of our future issues.
Medical School (Heidi Wilde)
1. List the names, titles, and departments of your CASI members. Place an asterisk before the name of the chair.
Mary Ametani, Laboratory Manager 1, Surgery
*Sybil Better, Special Assistant, Medical School Admin
Elizabeth Gall, Assoc Admin Progr. Spec., Pediatrics
Jackie Hank, Senior Scientist, Human Oncology
Larry Hubbard, Researcher, Ophthalmology
Keith Kunugi, Research Program Mgr. 1, Medical Physics/Radiation Calibration
Judith Manning, Senior Lecturer, Medical Microbiology & Immunology
James Onofrey, Admin Program Specialist, Ophthalmology
Judie Pfeifer, Senior Outreach Specialist, Family Medicine
Casey Reiser, Distinguished Clinical Geneticist, Medical Genetics
Kay Schoenherr, Admin Program Mgr III, Medical School Admin (ex officio)
Lee Strasheim, Sr. Information Processing Consultant, Pediatrics
Heidi Wilde, Stud. Serv. Program Mgr II, Preventive Medicine
2. Does the group have any other officers such as a co-chair or a vice chair?
Co-chair: Elizabeth Gall - Pediatrics
3. How often does the group meet? Does it meet year around or just during the academic year?
The Medical School CASI meets once a month, year round.
4. What topics and issues are currently being addressed by your CASI?
We are awaiting the Dean's response to the two reports described below. We are working on increased opportunities for AS participation in School committees and in the process of identifying other priority issues for the coming year.
5. Has your CASI established any subcommittees, working committees, or ad hoc committees? If yes, what are they?
The Medical School CASI has established three subcommittees:
- Communications
- Merit Exercise
- Job Security
6. If your CASI has been operational for more than six months, what would you identify as its accomplishments?
Formulation of Bylaws
Forwarded Report and Action Recommendations on Job Security to Dean Farrell
Forwarded Report and Action Recommendations on Performance Review and Merit Exercise to Dean Farrell
Established improved means of communication within Medical School Academic Staff members (email list,)
Established Website to improve distribution of information important to AS
Established linkage with the Medical School's Academic Planning Council
Ongoing Interaction with other AS groups
Held successful elections for 2001 MS-CASI
Completed annual report that was distributed to all the AS in the Med School
7. What recommendations have you given to your dean or director?
The report on Job Security submitted to the Dean contains a series of recommendations to increase the number of Medical School AS with job security.
The report on Performance Evaluation/Merit Exercise submitted to the Dean contains the results of a survey of Medical School departments and units and recommendations to increase AS participation in the formulation and review of policies and procedures.
8. What reports or documents have you prepared?
Annual Report for 2000 activities
Report on Job Security
Report on Performance Evaluation/Merit Exercise
9. Are there specific professional development needs that you have identified in your unit? If so, what are they?
This has not been a priority during our first year, although it is likely to assume greater importance in the coming year.
10. Does your CASI have a website? If so, please provide the address.
http://casi.med.wisc.edu/sub_over.html
College of Engineering (Janice Czyscon)
1. List the names, titles, and departments of your CASI members. Place an asterisk before the name of the chair.
* Paul S. Peercy, dean
Michael Corradini, associate dean for academic affairs, backup chair
Voting Members
1. Bob Peterson, senior scientist, FTI (fusion technology institute)/EP (engineering physics dept.)
2. (Frederic) Simon Anderson, associate scientist, ECE (electrical & computer engineering dept.)
3. Jeff Schowalter, faculty associate, ECE
4. Laura Grossenbacher, lecturer, EPD (Engineering Professional Development dept.)
5. Janice Czyscon, senior editor, EPD
6. Fiona McTavish, research program manager II, CHSRA (center for health systems research & analysis)
7. Marsha Landretti, senior administrative program specialist, CEE (civil & environmental engineering dept.)
Staff to the committee: Jeanne Hendricks, senior administrative program specialist, dean's office Bob Dye, associate dean
2. Does the group have any other officers such as a co-chair or a vice chair? No
3. How often does the group meet? Does it meet year around or just during the academic year?
Once per month, year round
4. What topics and issues are currently being addressed by your CASI?
5. Has your CASI established any subcommittees, working committees, or ad hoc committees? If yes, what are they?
Communications Subcommittee Professional Development Subcommittee
6. If your CASI has been operational for more than six months, what would you identify as its accomplishments?
We have standardized communication through our Web site.
7. What recommendations have you given to your dean or director?
We have recommended that he sponsor a Town Meeting for CoE academic staff. Our first town meeting will be held On April 30 or May 10.
8. What reports or documents have you prepared?
CASI by-laws
9. Are there specific professional development needs that you have identified in your unit? If so, what are they?
10. Does your CASI have a website? If so, please provide the address. If not, are you planning for one in the future?
temporary site: http://www.engr.wisc.edu/tmp/casi
Our permanent site will be http://www.engr.wisc.edu/casi
Letters and Science (Laurey Martin–Berg)
1. List the names, titles, and departments of your CASI members.
Place an asterisk before the name of the chair.
*Phil Certain, Dean (Chair)
Laurey Martin-Berg, Distinguished Lecturer, French & Italian
Cathy Middlecamp, Distinguished Faculty Associate, Chemistry (Vice-chair)
Claire Rider, Faculty Associate, Mathematics
Wilton Sanders, Senior Scientist, Physics
John Sarff, Associate Scientist, Physics
Maggie Sullivan, L&S Dean's Office (ex officio member and secretary)
Belinda Velazquez, Advisor, CCAS
2. Does the group have any other officers such as a co-chair or a vice chair?
Yes, see above
3. How often does the group meet? Does it meet year around or just during the academic year?
Once a month during the academic year
4. What topics and issues are currently being addressed by your CASI?
Ý policies and practices involving academic staff at the departmental level
Ý professional development
Ý proposed new title series for research and instructional academic staff
5. Has your CASI established any subcommittees, working committees, or ad hoc committees? If yes, what are they?
No, with only six members plus the dean we are small enough to operate as a committee of the whole
6. If your CASI has been operational for more than six months, what would you identify as its accomplishments?
For 1999-2000:
We established a list of topics for possible discussion, which included:
Academic staff involvement in departmental governance
Academic staff involvement in department curricular decisions
New title series for research and instructional academic staff
Merit review for academic staff
CASI by-laws and procedures
Faculty-academic staff relations
Role of long-time, part-time academic staff
Academic staff compensation
Status of research academic staff
Lecturer appointment levels
Title fidelity
Diversity plans for staff and students
Fringe benefits
We made presentations about CASI to the L&S Senate and at the L&S Chairs and Directors meeting
We planned an action item for Fall 2000: The dean sent a request for information to L&S chairs/directors asking how academic staff members participate in departmental governance (eligible to attend department meetings, eligible to vote a dept. meetings, eligible to serve on/chair committees, eligible to vote in preferential ballot for chair, etc.)
For 2000-01
We requested that the Dean expand the scope and mission of the L&S Academic Staff Professional Development Committee. As newly constituted, with an expanded membership, this committee will take a more active role in soliciting applications for the System Academic Staff Professional Development Program, mentor academic staff in the application process, review the proposals and rank them in priority order, encourage departmental nominations for campus-level awards, explore the possibility of establishing college-level awards, and suggest other professional development and recognition opportunities as appropriate.
We constructed the CASI web site.
We hosted a brown bag re: on-campus professional development activities
We are in the process of analyzing the data received from department chairs/directors about academic staff participation in governance at the department level.
7. What recommendations have you given to your dean or director?
See #6 re: expanded mission and scope of L&S Academic Staff Professional Development Committee
We have also recommended that members of the CASI address the L&S Chairs/Directors next fall to draw attention to the number/identity of L&S winners of campus awards and to encourage departments/units toidentify and nominate meritorious members of their academic staff
8. What reports or documents have you prepared?
Report to L&S Senate and L&S Chairs/Directors in May 2000.
9. Are there specific professional development needs that you have identified in your unit? If so, what are they?
The needs vary by person, type of appointment, length of service, etc. In general, though, we see several:
development of workplace skills:
COMPUTER: WebCT, databases, cleaning viruses off computers, web page
development, on-line library resources
"PEOPLE" - managing conflict in the workplace, dealing with sexual
harassment,
BUREAUCRATIC - whom to call to get something done, how to contribute to
campus efforts
development of "professional" skills:
anything that promotes better teaching/research/advising
anything that links staff with a wider professional audience, such as national conferences, regional workshops, etc.
development of career skills
perhaps a subset of the above, but designed for people to increase their competencies, either for a promotion, change in title, or in preparation for moving to a different job.
Academic staff are sometimes are so caught up in their daily routines that they are isolated in their own departments, both from other academic staff members and from the faculty. This limits natural opportunities for professional development, that is, it limits the opportunities where people do things together and learn from each other. We'd like to see structures that promote a closer link between faculty development and academic staff development. For example, nowadays, national conferences and workshops are set up to invite teams of people, rather than individuals. Promote opportunities where we all can work together.
Wishful thinking - a sabbatical program for academic staff?
We also see a number of good people who are helping/helpful types, that is, they are happy to contribute to the UW and wish to make things better for students/staff on this campus. Another goal might be to identify the *barriers* that keep good people from doing good things, and (of course) removing these barriers.
10. Does your CASI have a website? If so, please provide the address. If not, are you planning for one in the future?
http://www.ls.wisc.edu/casi/members.htm
School of Pharmacy – Dale Wilson
Unfortunately our CASI has been inactive for a while, so I can't report any progress since the last update. Our chair, Larry Boh, had been battling cancer since before our CASI was set up. Over the past year his condition gradually worsened, and he died last month. As you can imagine, this has been very difficult for everyone here, and the School of Pharmacy Dean has not yet appointed another CASI chair. In addition, the School of Pharmacy will be moving to the new building soon (maybe in June), so our CASI may not be able to get going again until next fall. Sorry I have such sad news to report on our CASI, but hope we'll be able to regroup soon - we have a good group of committed members. Library (Sue Dentinger)1. List the names, titles, and departments of your CASI members. Place an asterisk before the name of the chair.
We have no chair, but a "convenor" of a Steering Committee of 7. The Steering Committee sets the agenda for all Librarians Assembly meetings and undertakings. Current Steering Committee members are:
** SUE DENTINGER, SR. Network Services Librarian, Library Technology Group: Convenor/CASI representative
** TOM TEWS, Head, Geography Library: Secretary
** MARY TIPTON, Head, Humanities Dept., Central Technical
Services:
Treasurer/Standing/Indefinite Review Committee Representative/New Colleagues committee representative
** TANNER WRAY, Head of Access Services, Memorial Library: Nominations and Elections Committee chair/New Colleagues committee representative
** SUSAN BARRIBEAU, UW Madison Libraries Website manager: Program Committee chair
** KARL DEBUS, Head, Acquisitions and Serials Dept., Central Technical Services: Professional Concerns committee chair/Travel committee representative
** BOB SESSIONS, Sr. Librarian, Steenbock Library: Librarians Assembly Webmaster
2. Does the group have any other officers such as a co-chair or a vice chair?
No
3. How often does the group meet? Does it meet year around or just during the academic year?
The steering committee meets 2 times a month during the academic year and generally takes the summer off. If there are no issues, some scheduled meetings may be cancelled.
Librarians Assembly as a whole meets monthly during the academic year. Monthly meetings alternate. One month will be a Business meeting, the next a Program meeting on a pre-set topic of interest. there are 4 Business meetings and 4 Program meetings each year.
4. What topics and issues are currently being addressed by your CASI?
** Disseminating information on the Indefinite Appointment and Annual Review processes.
** Streamlining the committee work needed to move promotion and Indefinite Appointment applications forward.
** Every year there are several programs hosted by our group, the most recent one for Feb. 2001 was on "From Data to Web Database at UW-Madison Libraries: how to get it done for the digital library"
5. Has your CASI established any subcommittees, working committees, or ad hoc committees? If yes, what are they?
Yes, Standing Committees & Assignments:
Awards Committee
Nominations and Elections
Program Committee
Professional Concerns Committee
Standing Review (representative is on this committee)
New Colleague Committee
Retirement Committee
Travel Committee
Library Web Site (not sure this is a committee exactly. One person from the Steering Committee manages it each year.)
6. If your CASI has been operational for more than six months, what would you identify as its accomplishments?
Our first meeting was approximately 25 years ago. Sorry, it long pre-dates me and I don't know exactly when it started. There have been any number of accomplishments over the years. Ones that stand out are:
** Establishing (and re-establishing) criteria for advancement from Associate to no-prefix to Senior, to possibly outstanding levels.
** We have a tradition of personnel-related process input.
** Establishing the review committees and process needed to review staff going for Indefinite Appointment.
** Requesting and reviewing information on how the library budget is allocated as needed.
** Identifying rules for how limited funds for professional travel are allocated and disbursing those funds.
** Requesting information on how administrative travel (professional development) funds are allocated.
** Disseminating information and providing discussion forums during the statewide review of Category A and B positions for gender equity.
** Annual award ceremony for recognizing outstanding library staff.
** Ongoing programs for staff development.
** Establish and maintain a program for mentoring new professional staff.
7. What recommendations have you given to your dean or director?
We recently asked for a review of and establishment of criteria for how administrative professional development funds are allocated.
We have also worked with the Personnel dept. on providing information on the annual review and promotion process.
8. What reports or documents have you prepared?
Anything publicly available would be at our website at: http://www.library.wisc.edu:4000/org/LA/
9. Are there specific professional development needs that you have identified in your unit? If so, what are they?
Several years ago a group worked on this and successfully obtaining web/html training classes for many library staff. Other courses staff were encouraged to attend over the years include an ergonomics course, and a course on conflict resolution, and stress management reduction course. Also a prof. staff member was hired to deal with staff training issues, particularly during a large system migration undertaking 1-2 years ago. But this person's job description has changed now that the migration is complete. More recently we have not reviewed needs on a wide basis. And as in any field, the prof. development or career needs of our staff vary a lot by their unit or focus. I agree with a statement at today's meeting from someone I believe in the Education School that it boils down to primarily a need for money to attend/participate in prof. development activities.
10. Does your CASI have a website? If so, please provide the address. If not, are you planning for one in the future?
Yes, it's available at: http://www.library.wisc.edu:4000/org/LA/
No survey from:
DoITNo CASI yet:
Wisconsin Union
Graduate School
Administrative Services
Athletics