Some of the topics they discussed were the campus climate, the Assembly meeting room, and more Assembly involvement in discussions. The reps thought that the Assembly should not lose sight of the progress we are making in many areas, and that more publicity about the contributions of academic staff would be good. Wilt is working on answers to the questions for the campus response to the UW System Instructional and Research Academic Staff Working Group recommendations regarding additional academic staff professorial titles and better integration of academic staff into institutional life. He will distribute his draft widely for comment. He, Tom Sharkey, Gary Sandefur, and John Wiley will be meeting with Katharine Lyall on April 11 to discuss the report of the UW System Instructional and Research Academic Staff Working Group.
Some action is needed to increase the number of contributors.
They discussed students' desire to be able to get counterfactual reports. The group talked about students being able to get faculty and academic staff to participate on the Police Advisory Board without going through the formal governance procedures. UC will not appoint to the student-initiated police advisory board and ASEC is undecided. At the April 2 meeting, UC Chair Tom Sharkey made the announcement that a UW System Working Group report was recently released with recommended revisions to instructional and research academic staff titles, including the creation of budgeted research and instructional professor titles. While Sharkey is sympathetic to academic staff concerns, he stated that the UC would oppose these recommendations at every opportunity.