Minutes of 14 May 2007

Circulated 14 May 2007

Approved 21 May 2007

THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs

6048 Fleming Administration Building

Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1340

Phone: (734) 764-0303

Fax: (734) 764-6564

Internet Address:  http://www.umich.edu/~sacua/

Approved minutes:  http://www.umich.edu/~sacua/sacmin/sacuaminutes.html

MINUTES OF THE SACUA MEETING OF 14 MAY 2007

Present: Fraser, Friedman, Frier, MacAdam, Potter, Riles, Smith (chair), Stark; Lehman; Carr, Schneider

Absent:  Thouless

Guests:  L. Pierce, B. Schoeni, K. Brown

MATERIALS DISTRIBUTED:

1.  Draft agenda

2.  CIC Provosts' Statement on Publishing Agreement

3. "Copyrights and the Paradox of Scholarly Publishing" by Michael Tanner, Provost, University of Illinois at Chicago, Draft 3 of December 4, 2006.

4.  "The High Cost of Scholarly Journals (And What to Do About It)", Edwards, R. and Schulenberger, D., Change, Nov/Dec 2003, pp. 11-19, 2003.

Chair Smith convened the meeting at 2:00 P.M.  The proposed agenda was approved.

ANNOUNCEMENTS/UPDATES

There were no announcements.

LIAISON REPORTS

Michigan Healthy Living Steering Committee-

Chair Smith reported that the steering committee must report by September, then disband.  It will be succeeded by an advisory committee and other working groups.  One committee will be designing replacement benefits for the M-Care successor plan.

General Counsel Advisory Committee-

Chair Smith reported that the committee met, with a full agenda.  The current general counsel is likely to leave the U-M by 1 August, but it is not yet known whether the search for his replacement will be internal or external. 

Shared University Governance Taskforce-

Professor Riles reported that the task force has completed its response to the provost and returned their document to her. 

GRIEVANCE PROCEDURES

Chair Smith reviewed the visit by Prof. M. Steinhardt the previous Thursday.  The key points of her presentation included: (1) grievance procedures should be centralized rather than confined within units; (2) the central ombuds must be chosen by the faculty.

CIC AUTHORSHIP RIGHTS STATEMENT/ADDENDUM

Professor MacAdam reviewed a distributed item regarding scholarly publishing developed within the Committee on Intercollegiate Cooperation (CIC).  She and Dr. Fraser suggested that Paul Courant be invited to make a presentation to SACUA.  Professor Frier stated that important technical issues regarding copyright law ought to be clarified and understood.

FACULTY SALARY STUDY

Guests joined the meeting at 2:30 P.M. L. Pierce explained that several years ago then provost Cantor commissioned an econometric study of faculty salaries.  Professor Schoeni reviewed the results of the study with the help of a PowerPoint presentation.  He said that the specific issues addressed in the study were gender differences in salaries for non-Medical School faculty. 

OLD/NEW BUSINESS 

There was no other business.

The meeting adjourned at 3:00 P.M.

Respectfully submitted,

John Lehman

Senate Secretary

University of Michigan Bylaws of the Board of Regents, Sec. 5.02: 

Governing Bodies in Schools and Colleges