The Chair returned to the agenda. In response to an inquiry about an assessment of UWinteriM, the Chair reported that the Provost was charged by the Faculty Senate to perform an assessment and provide a preliminary report to the Senate by the May 1999 Senate meeting and a full report to the Faculty Senate by the October 1999 Senate meeting. The Chair and J. Moore reported on the faculty Academic Planning and Budget Committee meeting held November 5 where they began discussion on revenue based budgets. He will report on this meeting at the December 1 Committee meeting. They discussed System's move toward a revenue based system.
More market research needs to be done.
System will set targets for revenue generation rather than enrollment targets. There were no action items under Old Business. The Committee developed a list of four faculty members they would recommend to the Chancellor for inclusion on the Milwaukee Commitment writing group and will forward those names to the Chancellor. For discussion on Milwaukee Ideas, see Chancellor's and Provost's report above. R. Ryder reported on continuing discussions with DOCEx faculty and the dean of DOCEx.