Faculty Senate

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Faculty Senate Annual Report Charlotte
Wisnewski, PhD, RN September 14, 2009
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Faculty Senate 2008-2009 Executive Leadership

• David Hudnall (SOM)
• Chair (Sept 2008-June 2009)
• Charlotte Wisnewski (SON)
• Chair-Elect 9/2008- 6/2009
• Chair 6/2009-8/2009, continuing
• Tom Albrecht (GSBS)
• Immediate Past Chair

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Faculty Senate 2008 - 2009
SOM Charles Holzer Cindy Wigg Anne Hudson Jones Susan Rosenthal John Bauer Nitza Cintron Nancy Wills Gayle Olson William Au 6 GSBS Robert Fox Giulio Taglialatela Stanley Watowich Nisha Garg Robert Leonard SON Kay Sandor Charlotte Wisnewski Virginia Brooke Diane Heliker Mary OKeefe SHP Suzanne Peloquin Michelle Kanuth Carolyn Utsey Debra Munsell
Acad. Adm. Affairs / Faculty Quality /
Governance
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Recognition of Outgoing Senators
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Faculty Senate 2008-2009

• Support from the Provost Office /
• Office of the Vice President of Education
• Financial
• Secretarial
• Mary Schlobohm / Julie Parrish

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Meetings 2008-2009

• Faculty Senate 2nd Monday of every month,
  430-6pm, All faculty are welcome.
• Faculty Senate Executive Committee, Past Chair,
  Chair, Chair-elect, committee chairs,
  Periodically and/or by email
• Senate Leadership with Dr. Callender/Dr. Watson-
  monthly as needed
• Senate leadership with Council of Deans (COD)
• Senate Leadership with Chancellor (twice)

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Meetings 2008-2009

• Faculty Senate Chair and Chair-Elect are
• members of the Faculty Advisory Council (FAC) of
  the UT System.
• Four 2-day meetings in Austin
• (October, December, March, May)
• with faculty governance leadership from
• all 15 UT Components
• (9 Universities 6 Academic Health Institutions)

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Activities / Involvements/ 2008-2009

• SACS updates/QEP
• Letter of support posted to Riffd Faculty
• Report from Mr. Elger, Executive Vice President,
  regarding financial status of the University.
  Continued updates on quarterly basis to occur

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Activities / Involvements

• Monthly updates from Dr. Anderson on campus plans
  post Ike
• Updates from Dr. Anderson regarding Shriner Burns
  progress
• Updates from Dr. Watson regarding Educational
  activities including Synergy, SACS,
• Updates from four Deans regarding the Schools,
  their activities, news, concerns, issues
• Updates on Faculty Advisory Council meetings at
  Austin from Senate Leadership

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Activities / Involvements

• Special called meeting with Carolee King, UTMB
  legal counsel December 2008, all faculty invited,
  good participation. Minutes posted on website.
• Report on IT services/responses/
• challenges post Ike from Mr. Farr and Mr.
  Slocum

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Celebration!!

• We are entering our 11th year as a Faculty Senate!

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Faculty Senate 2008-2009 Committee Reports

• Faculty Academic Affairs Committee- Chair, Dr.
  Nisha Garg, SOM
• Faculty Quality Committee- Chair, Dr. Kay Sandor,
  SON
• Faculty Governance Committee- Chair, Dr. Robert
  Fox, GSBS
• Faculty IHOP Committee- Chair, Dr. Debra Munsell,
  SHP

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UTMB Faculty Senate Faculty Academic
Administrative Affairs Annual Report September
14, 2009
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Academic Administrative Affairs Committee
Members

• John Bauer SOM
• Nitza M. Cintron SOM
• Diane Heliker SON
• Barbara Doucet, Co-chair SHP
• Nisha J Garg, Chair GSBS
• Nancy Wills GSBS

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Activities 2008 - 2009

• Need
• Develop an ability to contact the faculties that
  were RIFd, and to gauge the impact of RIF on the
  institution.

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Activities 2007 - 2008

• Mass mail sent to the faculties, list provided by
  Chair of the senate
• Dear colleagues
• We wish to ask your help in documenting the
  impact of the recent RIF UTMB RIF on our
  faculty. Would you kindly inform us as to the
  current status of your position? If you were
  affected by the RIF, have you appealed and what
  is the status of the appeal? If you have been
  RIFd and would like to placed on a mailing list
  to contact other RIFd faculty, please send an
  email address or phone contact information to
  AAAC chair. Since time is short, if you are aware
  of other faculty who have resigned or left for
  any reason since hurricane Ike, could you please
  send their names and departments. Thank you

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Activities 2008 - 2009

• Total 43 responses
• 16 appealed
• 15 did not appeal
• 1 did not decide (was not clear about the
  procedure)
• 1 asked for emeritus status
• 10 did not mention anything about appeal (early
  retirement)
• 2 asked to be removed from mailing list

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Activities 2008 - 2009

• At least 13 additional faculties have left UTMB
  after RIF announcements (this data is not
  confirmed, information shared by other
  faculties).

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Activities 2008 - 2009

• Common theme that we heard from RIFd faculties
• Still working at UTMB in their respective
  position
• Those who appealed have not been able to receive
  sufficient detailed information
• Devastation, shocking, effects on family,
  depression
• Some also lost VISA status, and have to go back
  to home country without any benefits, job, and
  insurance
• Spouse also lost job
• Questions that were asked by the faculties
• Does financial exigency still exist? Are
  faculties be rehired as UTMB receives monies from
  FEMA and other sources

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UTMB Faculty Senate Faculty Quality Committee
Annual Report September 14, 2009
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Faculty Quality Committee

• Current Members
• Kay Sandor SON (Chair)
• Stanley Watowich SOM (Co-Chair)
• Michelle Kanuth (SHP)
• Carolyn Utsey (SHP)

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Faculty Quality Committee

• The Faculty Quality Committee will deliberate on
  issues of faculty status, rights and
  responsibilities, and when necessary, investigate
  instances of curtailment of faculty prerogatives,
  infringement of faculty rights, interference in
  the discharge of faculty responsibilities and/or
  attenuation of faculty status and welfare in
  schools at UTMB and will recommend measures to
  the Executive Committee of the Senate for the
  protection of faculty at UTMB.

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Major Activities 2008-2009

• Standardize Faculty Post-Tenure Review (PTR)
  Policies
• examine PTR policies for each school to ensure
  UTMB-wide consistency
• examine PTR policies to ensure compliance with UT
  Regents Rules and UTMBs SOP
• Ensure Compliance with UT Regents Rules (RR)
• establish transparent review and arbitration of
  possible deviations from RR
• ensure consistent and fair application of RR that
  protect faculty interests

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UTMB Faculty Senate Governance Committee
Annual Report 2008-2009 September 11, 2006
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Governance CommitteeMembers

• Robert Fox, GSBS, Chair
• Cindy Wigg, SOM, co-chair
• Virginia Brooke, SON
• Charles Holzer, SOM
• Suzanne Peloquin, SHS
• Giulio Taglialatela, GSBS

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Governance CommitteeAccomplishments

• Consideration of criteria for selection of
  ombudsman. Committee recommended that criteria be
  broadened to include retired and former tenured
  UTMB faculty as potential candidates. May 2009-
  The whole Senate voted to agree with
  recommendation.

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Governance Committee

• Committee recommended to Senate to adopt AAUP
  procedures for the declaration of financial
  exigency and treatment of faculty as long as
  regent rules are not violated. Recommend issue be
  taken up by 2009-2010 Governance Committee

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UTMB Faculty Senate

• 1st Annual Report
• Senate IHOP Committee
• 2008-2009

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Faculty Senate IHOP Committee 2008-2009

• The function of the committee is to 1) be
  informed of any and all changes to the IHOP that
  have direct or indirect effects on UTMB faculty
  2) summarize the changes in terms of the positive
  and negative effects on UTMB faculty and 3) make
  recommendations to the full Senate after which
  the Senate will vote to approve or disapprove the
  said changes.

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Faculty Senate IHOP Committee

• This Committee was added to the Standing
  Committee list in September 2008

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Senate IHOP Committee

• Current IHOP Committee Members
• Debra Munsell, SHP, Chair
• Mary O'Keefe, SON
• 3 members were lost post-IKE
• William Au, SOM, Co-Chair
• Bob Leonard, GSBS
• Gayle Olson, SOM

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Major Activities 2008-2009

• Identification of all policies and procedures
  directly affecting Faculty
• Identifying those policies most in need of
  revision
• Prioritization of policy revision
• Begin work with Hospital Project Manager to begin
  evaluation

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Proposed Activities for 2009-2010

• Add additional members per Regents Rules and By
  laws
• Continue to review UTMB IHOP Policies and
  Procedure, revising as needed with Faculty Senate
  approval.
• Goal of reviewing all UTMB Policies and
  Procedures by August 2010.

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Chair- Elect Position2009-2010

• Carolyn Utsey, P.T., Ph.D.
• Associate Professor, School of Health Professions
• Faculty member at UTMB since 1990 Appointed
  Chair Department of Physical Therapy SHP December
  2008

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Chair-Elect Continued

• Major Interests Physical Therapy, Teaching and
  learning, self-regulation of learning, motivation
  and learning strategies.
• Major Goal Facilitate open communication between
  faculty and administration to advance the mission
  of the University and the Schools

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Chair UTMB Faculty Senate

• Charlotte Wisnewski, PhD, RN
• Associate Professor, School of Nursing
• Faculty member at UTMB since 1996
• Certified Diabetes Educator, Work with Stark
  Diabetes Center as inpatient educator
• Teach critical care nursing and research,
• Research interests, diabetes

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• Faculty Senate
• Chairs Comments
• Purpose of Faculty Senateserve as the
  representative voice of the UTMB Faculty to the
  UTMB administration and receive and communicate
  ideas, reviews, and recommendations of policies
  affecting UTMB as relates to welfare, academic
  opportunities and responsibilities of the
  Faculty.
• Important that Senate leadership keeps lines of
  communication open between faculty and
  administration

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Faculty Senate Goals (Proposed) 2009-2010

• Foster Faculty Senate input and involvement at
  the administrative level by continued regular
  meetings with President, VP for Education, Deans
  Council and other venues
• Promote faculty communication with Faculty Senate
  by survey of Faculty satisfaction/needs/recommenda
  tions
• Integrate Faculty Subcommittees into executive
  structure to promote Faculty Senate goals and
  objectives for the year.

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UTMB Faculty Activity

• Pick up a card from the table
• Write down at least two or three goals that you
  would like to see the Faculty Senate engage in
  for 2009-2010
• Answer the following questions What do you think
  the Faculty Senate should do in 2009-2010? How
  can we help you?
• Survey is anonymous
• Leave your card on table after the meeting

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Recognition of Returning/Incoming Senators
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Faculty Senate 2009-2010
SOM Julie Broussard Susan Gerik Edward Hannigan Sunil Jain James LeDuc Don Powell Edward Smith Daneshvari Solanki Heidi Spratt Cindy Wigg GSBS Istvan Boldogh Nisha Garg Stephen Higgs Pomila Singh Alfredo Torres Stanley Watowich SON Virginia Brooke Mary OKeefe Kay Sandor Yolanda Davila Nonie Mendias SHP Caroline Jansen Michelle Kanuth Debra Munsell Lodie Massey Carolyn Utsey
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Get Involved!

• Communicate with your Senators
• Attend Faculty Senate meetings as possible
  (second Monday of each month, 430-600 p.m.)
• Volunteer to serve as ad hoc members of Senate
  committees when asked

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Speaker Dr. Garland Anderson
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Faculty Senate Annual Luncheon
Garland D. Anderson M.D
Executive Vice President and Provost
Dean, School of Medicine
September 14, 2009

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Welcoming the first post-Ike baby
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Bringing our students home
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Returning to our laboratories
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Celebrating excellence
Galveston National Laboratory Dedication
November 11, 2008
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The Anatomy Lab
South August 12
North August 12
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School of NursingTemporary Simulation Center
SON 2 Million Grant
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Institutional Clinical and Translational Science
Award (ICTSA) Allan R. Brasier, MD21.5 M
(2009-2014)
Mission To improve human health by transforming
the research and training environment to enhance
the efficiency and quality of clinical and
translational research
http//www.its.utmb.edu
The Clinical and Translational Science Awards
(CTSA) is a registered trademark of DHHS
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NIAID Clinical Proteomics Center in
BiodefenseAllan R. Brasier, MD10.9 M
(2008-2013)

• Mission To conduct collaboratively designed
  projects that discover, qualify, and verify
  candidate protein biomarkers relevant to
  infectious diseases caused by NIAID Category A-C
  pathogens and emerging and
  re-emerging infectious disease pathogens
• http//bioinfo.utmb.edu8088/CPC

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Clinical Future is Bright at UTMB
UTMB Specialty Care Center at Victory Lakes
John Sealy Hospital
Future Surgical Care Towers
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UTMB Projected YTD August Financial Update(000s)
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Academic Enterprise Projected YTD August
Financial Update(000s)
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Academic Enterprise FY 2010 Budget (000s)
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School of Medicine Faculty FTE Effort
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Hospital Capacity Update
The 30 additional beds will come on-line
incrementally as staff are hired. The projection
for hiring full staffing is at least 60
days.
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Hospital Capacity Update

• Infrastructure
• Engineering Firm has been hired to assess the
  Hospital infrastructure to
• support the operating capacity of the 400 beds
• The assessment will include elevators,
  life-safety, medical gases, suction
• capacity, and building temperature
• R. Waverly Smith Pavilion opening
• Patient Care
• The Health System is addressing ongoing issues
  related to the blood bank
• size, pneumatic tube system needs, supply
  storeroom site, and sterile processing
• Daily monitoring of key indicators (clinic
  admissions, transfer, length of stay, and bed
• utilization)
• Preparing to respond to the pandemic influenza
  (Novel H1N1 Influenza)

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MSRDP BY LAW CHANGES FROMUT SYSTEM

• Must have a member of the Faculty Senate who is
  also a MSRDP Member on the following committees
• Budget and Finance
• Faculty Compensation

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Questions?
South August 12