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The University Senate met in regular session at 3:00 p.m., Monday, April
9, 1990, in Room l06 of the Classroom Building.

Donald C. Leigh, Chairman of the Senate Council, presided.

Members absent were: Ronald Atwood*, Michael Baer*, Harry V. Barnard,
Raymond Betts, George E. Blandford, Michael W. Bowling*, Douglas Boyd, Carolyn
S. Bratt, Stanley D. Brunn*, Joan C. Callahan, Rutheford B Campbell, Jr.*, Ben
W. Carr, Edward A. Carter, Jordan L. Cohen*, Clifford J. Cremers*, Randall W.
Dahl*, Ramona Dalton*, Frederick Danner*, Ann Davidson, Ronald Dillehay*,
Richard C. Domek, Jr.*, Vincent Drnevich*, James Drummond*, Ronald D. Eller*,
Charles W. Ellinger, Rob Followell*, Raymond E. Forgue, J. Brauch Fugate,
Daniel L. Fulks, Richard W. Furst, Lester Goldstein*, Philip A. Greasley,
Marilyn C. Hamann*, Zafar Hasan, Laurie R. Hatch*, Robert E. Hemenway, Micki
King Hogue, Stephanie Howard, Alfred S. L. Hu, Bruce Hunt, David C. Johnson,
John Paul Jones, Gerald Lemons, Linda Levstik*, Scott Lewis, C. Oran Little,
Beth Loafman*, Robert Lohman, Ken Lovins, William E. Lyons, Martin McMahon*,
Ernest Middleton*, William G. Moody*, Jim Musser*, Dennis T. 0fficer*, Clayton
R. Paul, Deborah E. Powell*, Doug Reed, Thomas C. Robinson, Wimberly C.
Royster, Edgar L. Sagan, Fred Schwendeman*, Michael C. Shannon*, Robert H.
Spedding*, Jeffrey Stivers*, Louis J. Swift, Dennis M. TeKrony, Richard H.
Underwood, Steven C. Weisenburger*, Charles T. Wethington, Carolyn A.
Williams*, Eugene Williams, Paul A. Willis, Emery A. Wilson, and Thomas R.
Zentall*.

The Minutes of the meetings of February l2, 1990, and March 5, 1990, were
approved as circulated.

The Chairman made the following announcements:

There will be a special meeting of the Senate on Monday,
April 23 in order to consider several action items which have
recently been received from various Senate committees and most
have been approved by the Senate Council. You should be
receiving those items within the next day or two. At that
meeting Interim President Wethington will make a few remarks on
the budget for 1990-92.

You may recall that about a year ago we were considering
the subject of plus/minus grading system which was precipitated
by a proposal from the College of Fine Arts. A University-wide
system was discussed at a meeting about a year ago and the
Committee on Admissions and Academic Standards was charged with
doing a further study. They have done a survey of faculty and
students and have recommended against a University-wide system,
and they have also recommended against the Fine Arts proposal.
The Fine Arts proposal will come back to the Senate floor in two
weeks at the April 23 meeting.

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The Chair recognized Professor Loys Mather (Agriculture) for a report from
Presidential Search Committee.

A Summary of Professor Mather's remarks follow:

Professor Mather stated that there was little new infor-
mation to report because the committee has not met since
Professor Bratt's report at the March 5 meeting. The committee
is receiving nominations at the present.

Professor Mather stated the committee has given unanimous
approval for the statement of qualifications for the next
president which is essentially the same statement which was
adopted for the previous search. The committee has circulated
through the Chronicle of Higher Education, through Black Issues
and through Initiative?? which is a publication directed toward
women in higher education, an announcement soliciting nomina-
tions. The alumni will be notified through the Kentucky Open
Door. The Committee has also sent a letter to faculty inv1ting
nominations.

 

Professor Mather stated that to date 39 nominations have
been received, and the committee is in the process of following
up to obtain applications from those individuals. Nine appli-
cations have been received.

Professor Mather urged the faculty to nominate candidates.
He stated that most of the 39 nominations have come from the
alumni or in response to the national advertisements. Only
about ten nominations have come from the faculty. The committee
will begin to review the applications in May.

He noted there was a vacancy on the Search Committee due to
the death of Nicholas Pisacano, and anticipates another trustee
will be appointed prior to the committee's next meeting in May.

Professor Mather entertained questions from the floor. Professor Jo Ann
Never (Nursing) wanted to know if Dr. Hethington had applied. Professor
Mather stated that he was not allowed to respond to the question.

There were no further questions and Professor Mather thanked the Senate
and the Chairman expressed his thanks to Professor Mather.

The Chair welcomed Dr. Peter P. Bosomworth (Chancellor of the Medical
Center .

A Summary of Chancellor Bosomworth's remarks follows:

Chancellor Bosomworth reported on the status of activities that have
been going on in the Medical Center. He stated that this goes back to the
Medical Center's interest in planning and has existed for a long period of
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orientation of the Medical Center and its financial structure were under
some threat. In l980 the hospital got into a position where the reserves
in the hospital were $l80,000. The financial health and well-being of the
hospital is very central to the health and well-being to the entire
Medical Center. From that time forward a group from the Medical Center
decided they had to do something to help themselves and they could not be
dependent upon the state of Kentucky. In order to help medical adminis-
trators, faculty, and hospital administrators, Chancellor Bosomworth
started a planning process and a prioritization process to get everybody
working together because the health of all the units is tied together. He
stated they have become more sophisticated and have moved in the direction
of strategic planning. He stated that the difficulties in planning are
that everybody cannot be involved so representative people have been used
in the planning.

Chancellor Bosomworth reported on activities that are in place,
contemplated or underway that are a result of strategic planning in the
Medical Center. One is a move in primarily the College of Medicine toward
problem based learning. He stated that conceptually problem based
learning is a technique of teaching that the faculty member does very
little lecturing. There is a patient situation and a group of students
who come together to study, analyze, and identify the therapeutic and
diagnostic problems of the case. The students study the economical,
social, ethical, and cost problems that are associated with the care of
that particular patient. He stated that it is an intense effort on the

part of the faculty and a very intense effort on the part of the
students. The experiment has been warmly endorsed by the student body.
Chancellor Bosomworth does not know whether or not it will spread to the
rest of the Medical Center, but there is push behind it because the
accrediting bodies are beginning to look at whether the Medical Center is
effective in utilizing some of the methodologies.

Chancellor Bosomworth stated there has been an emphasis on multi-
disciplinary research. The Medical Center has evolved a concept,
approach, and process to the development of multidisciplinary research
which he feels is working and hopes this is shared by the faculty of the
Institution. His feeling is that multidisciplinary research cannot be
develOped as an island of its own. It has to be developed on the basis of
strong discipline areas in each of the colleges. Most of the multidis-
ciplinary programs that exist in the Medical Center and some of those that
go beyond the Medical Center essentially have a very small core of peOple
and funding. The principal resources are allocated to and based in the
disciplines with an expectation on the part of leadership at both the
dean's level and the departmental chairman's level that movement toward
those centers will occur in terms of new faculty, direction of research,
and that generally has been successful in keeping the Medical Center and
particularly the College of Medicine effective in the competition for peer
review funds at the next level.

Chancellor Bosomworth stated that the planning had tried to develOp a
consensus on where the principal focuses should be for center development
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ily in these areas. The three areas are neurosciences, cancer and cardio
respiratory diseases. Within those general priorities he stated there are
centers in aging - alzheimers and stroke; cancer - basic, clinical,
epidemiological; drugs and alcohol - behavioral, chemical, psychological,
pharmacological; cardiovascular diseases - imaging, surgical, therapeu-
tic. The Center for Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technology is principally
concentrated within the College of Pharmacy but will grow beyond that to
incorporate other elements of the University. An activity that is
developing is an interesting combination in sports medicine with
rehabilitation, fitness, physical therapy, and the surgical aspect of
sports medicine.

Chancellor Bosomworth reported that last year the Medical Center
provided 350,000 outpatient visits with patients being from every county
in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Last year there were 35,000 emergency
room visits and l7,000 inpatient visits. The faculty, primarily in the
College of Medicine, Operate some 600 subspecialty clinics on a state-wide
basis. Last year almost 40,000 patients were seen away from the campus of
the University of Kentucky.

Chancellor Bosomworth reported on the rural health initiative that
was contained in Senator Bailey's Bill and supported by Senator Maloney.
There is a piece of that legislation that focuses on the develOpment of
the rural health initiative, an activity which will take place primarily
in Eastern Kentucky. It has multiple components to it. One is a resi-
dency in family practice in Eastern Kentucky and another is a mobile
dental health care program. Also contained in that legislation is funding
for the Area Health Education Center. The legislation would also fund a
Center in Rural Health Services Research which focuses on policy, epidemi-
ology, data development and will provide some remarkable opportunities for
faculty who are interested in that particular aspect of health care
delivery. It also funds a nursing fast-track program into the masters
degree. In Eastern Kentucky there are many more applicants for nursing
than there are teachers. Another element is medical technology - a
bachelor's program which would be offered away from the campus in toto
with the cooperation with the Community College System and perhaps other
universities. Chancellor Bosomworth hopes that a bachelor's program in
physical therapy offered away from the campus to non-traditional students
will remain in the regions. He stated that this flowed out of interaction
with the rural health leadership group of citizens that numbers about 80
people. These people decided what they wanted rather than the University
telling them what they needed.

Chancellor Bosomworth stated that part of the strategic planning
calls for improvement in service management. He stated that the
University has a large number of constituents in the students, faculty,
families of patients, patients, members of the legislature, executive
branch of the government, the Board of Trustees, and each other in the
Medical Center who must be concerned about serving one and another as they
try to serve these constituencies. He stated they are developing a
Medical Center-wide initiative to put them in a position of being the best
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Kentucky. He said that was quite a goal and they feel they are doing a
good job but think they can do better.

Chancellor Bosomworth stated that the Medical Center has been
involved in the construction of a Magnetic Resonance Imaging Facility, the
hospital addition, parking structure, the Kentucky Medical Services
Foundation, the physicians practice plan is building a ten or eleven
million dollar facility from revenue that they generate from patient care,
and an addition for ambulatory patient care that is going on the third
floor of the Medical Center. He reported that all of these projects were
built without any state appropriated dollars. Chancellor Bosomworth
stated the Medical Center is working on aging research and a patient care
facility. Part of that will be private money and he hopes that will
leverage into state dollars in the future cycle for funding. He stated
that a research building is desperately needed in the Medical Center and
they could justify one twice as large as they are likely to get. The
Medical Center is also looking toward the future with regard to new
library and information capabilities, but there is no financial game plan
in place at this time.

Chancellor Bosomworth stated that the Medical Center is funded at a
little less than 30% state appropriation. The remaining 70% is generated
from the faculty, patient care, research grants and contracts or private
money. Last year the private funding in the Medical Center was about 8
million dollars.

Chancellor Bosomworth feels the Medical Center has an outstanding
group of faculty and students. In looking at the many different peri-
meters; research productivity, dollars in research, patient volume,
success in the patient care program, and success in the teaching program,
Chancellor Bosomworth feels the Medical Center is doing quite well con-
sidering the limitation of resources that exist at this Institution. He
stated that peOple care about each other. The academic performance of the
students is high, and there are good students coming to the Medical
Center. The GPA for dental students has never been compromised, but it is
starting to go up again. Programs such as physical therapy have entering
standards with a GPA of 3.0 or better. There have been similar kinds of
progress made in pharmacy with the average GPA of 3.3 for entering
students.

Chancellor Bosomworth's report gave a summary of where the Medical
Center is in terms of moving on some elements of strategic planning. He
stated they will continue the process and are doing it in the context of
the University's Strategic Plan but the Medical Center has brought a lot
of Specificity in terms of prioritization and program develOpment.

In a question and answer period Professor Raymond Cox (Mathematics) wanted
to know how it would affect the Medical Center if the Legislature appr0priated
$300,000,000 to Humana Hospital. Chancellor Bosomworth stated it would put
all the hOSpitals outside of Jefferson County at a competitive disadvantage to
the extent that we would jump through hoops that they won't have to jump
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major investments, including making investments here in Lexington. They are
proposing to build a neo—natal intensive care unit at Humane-Lexington.
Chancellor Bosomworth stated that the health-care environment is changing
rapidly. The Medical Center is providing more than 70% of the health care to
faculty and staff of the University.

A Senator asked where new facilities might be built. Chancellor
Bosomworth stated that the Medical Center had about 5,000 employees. They are
located on 2% of the University's campus land in terms of physical use of
land. He added that they are in the process of trying to acquire and are
indeed acquiring land across Limestone all the way to the railroad tracks.

The Medical Center is gradually acquiring pieces of property which is a very
slow and expensive process. He stated there are land-use consultants on
campus that are looking campus-wide at land use, traffic flow, placement of
buildings, aggregation of buildings, where should research buildings go, where
should patient care facilities go, and where should hospital expansion take
place in the future. He stated that even though a $50,000,000 addition to the
hospital is being finished, if the hospital continues to be successful, it
will continue to have growth. Those questions are being addressed on a
campus-wide basis and the Medical Center administration is actively engaged
with consultants in that area. _

Chancellor Bosomworth was given a round of applause. Chairman Leigh
stated that the last question led into the next item. The Chair recognized
Professor Russ Groves (Architecture), Chair of the Senate Committee on
Academic Facilities, to present a report on "Campus Planning." Professor
Groves stated that for the last year the Academic Facilities Committee has
concentrated on monitoring the on—going campus planning process which was
undertaken in earnest about a year ago. Much has happened during that
period. He stated that planning exercises have occurred on the campus over a
period of years going back to the days of Presidents Patterson and McVey. He
feels that few have met with a great deal of success. The committee hopes
that the present planning initiative underway will meet with a great deal of
success. The committee recently met with Mr. Warren Denny who is the
University Architect and Director of the Office of University Design and
Construction. He has been working with a Master Planning Consultant that has
been charged with developing specific plans for the Medical Center Sector and
the main campus. The committee, in the process of receiving a presentation,
was told by Mr. Denny that he was willing to bring the consultants to the
Senate to present, not a_ lan, but a summary of the process that has taken
place with two goals—Th mind. One is to acquaint the Senate with what has
taken place and secondly, to give each and every member of the Senate and
faculty an opportunity to have direct input into the process. Professor
Groves feels that is something that has not happened over the years and is
essential for a successful plan. He encouraged the Senate to submit through
the department, dean or directly to Mr. Denny their concerns, issues, and
observations so that they might be incorporated into the planning process.
The planners assured the committee that all issues would be considered.

Professor Groves introduced Mr. Harren Denny, the campus architect. Mr.
Denny thanked the Senate for letting him be a part of the agenda. He stated
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on the issue of planning. His hope is that this would not be the last kind of
interaction but one of many. He emphasized that the planning process is not
revisiting strategic planning but taking the University's strategic planning
and building from it. He stated that there are two tracks being followed. He
stated that Chancellor Bosomworth alluded to the rapid growth in the Medical
Center area. Two steering committees have been established to work with the
planners, one for the Medical Center and one for the Lexington Campus. The
steering committees are primarily made up of the deans in each of the sec-
tors. They are the principal interactors with the Chancellors and planners.
Mr. Denny stated that President Roselle in looking at the growth potential
allowed to be funded a plan. For the last three and a half months data has
been gathered in meeting with people on campus. Mr. Denny stated that the
planners were ready to embark on a process to look into the alternatives. In
December several national firms were interviewed and Hansen Lind Meyer were
hired. Mr. Denny introduced Mr. Chris Liakakos and Ralph Lotito who are with
the firm of Hansen Lind Meyer.

Mr. Ralph Lotito gave a presentation on the process which the consultants
are working on at the present. He showed the Senators a diagram of the
process which is divided into three different phases: analysis, development
and implementation. He thanked both the Medical Center and Lexington Campus
for the amount of support given in gathering the tremendous amount of data.
There have been interviews, meetings with the facilities people and with
students, and retreats with the steering committees and deans.

Mr. Lotito stated that the University and Medical Center have to implement
and continually update, review and monitor that plan to make it successful.
He stated that the consultants would be out of the picture on campus but would
like to continue working with the University.

Mr. Lotito reported that the main items covered in the retreats with both
sectors were needs, images both in building and site image concerns, func-
tional relationships and circulation. One of the needs for the Lexington
Campus is a centralized student administrative services center - one place
for the students to take care of all their needs such as records, financial
aid, admissions, etc. Another was a need to accommodate research growth,
recreation and housing needs for students, diversified kinds of housing and
for additional athletics and recreation space adjacent to living areas.

Mr. Lotito reported that on the Medical Center side there are needs for
potential enterprise zone where joint ventures might come into the campus area
and work with the Medical Center in developing. Everyone is concerned with a
humane environment and in maintaining and creating a more humane environment
on the campus. There is a concern about cohesive and separate identity for
the two sectors. The consultants kept hearing that this is Kentucky and the
University does not want a Chicago campus. One of the Medical Center needs is
a cohesive identity in joint ventures and how those have an identity and
visibility and yet a part of the Institution.

Mr. Lotito reported on the boundaries of the different colleges and
sectors and in fact, the University and the community. In image, the humane
environment came up that there would be open space which is well developed and
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relating to building an image and that had to do with interesting buildings
that are cohesive with the University and are transitional to allow for future
flexibility.

The consultants and planners looked at functional relationships--how
should housing and colleges be related--should they be spread throughout the
land or should they be concentrated more as they are now. In the Medical
Center Sector the relationship of research with animal care came up. Mr.
Lotito reported on the strong relationship which the Veterans Administration
has with the Medical Center. The last of the issues in Mr. Lotito's presen-
tation was pedestrian circulation, access onto the campus, service and the
needs that are generated. He stated that if vehicle circulation is removed,
then the walk to campus must be pleasant and secure, perhaps the use of a tram
service might be used. Parking in terms of how to manage it, such as
exclusive visitor parking, was discussed. The Medical Center has similar
issues.

Mr. Lotito encouraged comments to be forwarded to Mr. Denny and the deans
to be incorporated into the planning process. The floor was then opened for
questions. Professor Jonathan Glixon (Fine Arts) stated that he did not see
from the presentation where there have been meetings with the faculty, and he
did not see anything about instruction, classroom space, additional faculty
research facilities, or a student center. Mr. Lotito apologized for the
selection that was made in terms of what to present. He stated that a large
issue of discussion was classrooms both in location and their relationship
between the Medical Center and the Lexington Campus. He added that it is in
the tremendous body of data. He told the Senators to put comments, questions
and issues to the deans or department heads for the planning process.
Chancellor Bosomworth stated that Mr. Lotito had covered a lot of infonnation
very rapidly and his feeling is that the faculty needs to be able to see what
the considerations are because no decisions have been made. Mr. Lotito stated
that is correct and felt perhaps the Retreat Books would be an excellent media
of sharing a lot of the information that has been generated to date. Mr.
Lotito stated this is not a terminal project and should be continued and one
of the reasons for his being at the meeting is to stimulate the faculty and
get involvement. Chancellor Bosomworth stated that in order to have a
meaningful kind of interaction the faculty should be given more information.
Professor Glixon is worried that the consultants will be gone and changes
might not then be part of the organic plan. Professor Groves stated that the
committee wants the faculty to have an opportunity to see what the alterna-
tives are. Mr. Lotito stated that the most important part of the whole
planning process is to establish a process with constant review and update
with the implementation of each project done in an organized manner with each
issue that comes up in each planning process.

There were no further questions and Chairman Leigh thanked Professor
Groves, Mr. Denny and the consultants.

The Chair recognized Professor Marcus McEllistrem (Physics and Astronomy)
for the first action item on the agenda. Professor McEllistrem, on behalf of
the Senate Council, recommended approval of the proposal to amend University
Senate Rules, Section V - 2.4.7, Common Examinations. The proposa was
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The floor was opened for questions and discussion. Professor Hans Gesund
(Engineering) wanted to know the form in which the notice must be given and if
a casual mention by the student would be sufficient. He wanted to know if
"written notice" could be added. His concern is that there is nothing that
specifies the kind of notice the student must give. His feeling is that a
written notice should be given so that the instructor has something in
writing. Chairman Leigh feels there should be a written notice so an edi-
torial change will be made by adding "written" before "notice". Professor
Mark Berger (Economics), coordinator for Economics 201, wanted to let the
Senate know where he stands on the issue of common exams. He Opposed all four
changes which the Senate Council recommended and believes this one is the most
important of the changes. He stated that students know the common exams are
going to be given because even the date is printed in the Schedule of
Classes. He feels if students do register for other courses they do not have
to Be given excused exams especially when other options are given such as
providing sections that do not have common exams. He does not feel that
students are unduly burdened. He added that students are already given plenty
of opportunity to work with the common exam. He does not see why the extra
rule is needed and it will just burden the implementation of common exams. He
urged the Senators to vote against the proposal. Professor Gesund stated that
it becomes very difficult at the end of pre-registration to schedule students
into the classes they need and want. He stated that anything which restricts
enrollment for students is going to make it impossible for some of the
engineering students who register late to take a certain course under the
conditions Professor Berger was outlining. The proposed change would enable
the students to take the course because the sections that may be available
that do not conflict are probably closed. Professor Glixon stated that all
the proposal is doing is giving the student a legitimate absence just as an
illness would be a legitimate absence.

Professor Robert Guthrie's (Chemistry) perception is that in practice this
proposal is something that has not been necessary. When there is no alter-
native time for a student to take a class, arrangements have been made for the
student. His feeling is that the proposal invites a problem and says that the
common exam does not have the same status as a class. He stated that common
exams are important and give students the opportunity to take an exam evenly
with all the other students in the same class. He feels having the problem
formalized is unnecessary and overly complicates the process of common exami-
nations.

Ms. Frankie Garrison (Ombudsman's Office) stated that the Ombudsman's
Office has been arranging for students to come to class early or late and the
problem is not going to go away. She stated that letters have to be written
every semester to arrange for students to take the exams either early or
late. This is causing problems and she feels the Senate needs to deal with
it. Professor Harry Clarke (Fine Arts) stated there are ensembles, theatre
productions and things they do in Fine Arts that have very limited opportunity
for scheduling. What the college does conscientiously is try to schedule
classes at a time when there is the least time conflict involved because Fine
Arts crosses almost every college in the University. Professor Clarke's
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Professor Raymond Cox (Mathematics) wanted an interpretation under 2.4.7
Option three concerning giving exams at widely disparate times. The Chair
noted that was not the proposal on the floor at the present time and was a
separate issue. Professor Constance Wilson (Social Work) called for the
question. The motion was seconded. The Chair did not want to discontinue
debate if there were further questions. Professor Hilson's feelings were to
go to the issue first and then take up Professor Cox' question; The Chair
asked if option three was relevant to the discussion on the floor. Professor
Cox stated that evidently only number four was being finalized. The Chair
stated that was true. Student Senator Mehran Jahed stated that this is an
issue that has concerned students and faculty for a very long time, and he did
not think it should be postponed. He added that the issue would be on the
agenda until it was resolved. _

There was no further discussion. In a hand count there were 34 in favor
of the proposal and the Chair ruled that the motion carried and reads as
following:

Current Rule

V 2.4.7 Common Examinations
A student for whom two examinations have been scheduled for
the same time shall be entitled to have the examination for
the class with the higher catalog number rescheduled. In
case both classes have the same number, the one whose
departmental prefix is alphabetically first will be
rescheduled. This rescheduling must be requested of the
appropriate instructor in writing at least two weeks prior
to the scheduled examination. (US:4/l4/80)

Departments electing to give exams, other than final exams,
in a course to all sections of the course at a common time
shall be required to do the following:

l. List the days of the month, week, and the time at
which the exam will be given in the official Schedule
of Classes. (US: 2/12/90)

Provide an opportunity for students missing such exams
with a valid excuse to make up the missed work.

Departments must adOpt at least one of the following
policies for administering common examinations or some
alternate arrangement to be approved by the dean of the
college in wh