Presidents Report

March 14,2003

General Informational Points

1. Draft of the proposed guaranteed 4 year graduation requirement for LAS

3. Dean’s Council 2-19-03 discussion of budget cuts Looking at an additional 1.5 M in additional campus cuts for next year. The colleges will have to cover about 500K of that. VCAA is currently collecting data on faculty workloads and one budget cutting strategy that is being looked at is a reduction in appointments.

4. UBAC on 3-6-03 Budget Predictions

System Wide Faculty Council 3-13-03

1. The chance of CU reaching enterprise status by Fall 3003 is good, but student grants (vouchers) are unlikely. A system wide cut of $42.3M will put us into the enterprise status. CU as a system is currently receiving 12.6% of its budget from the state. Given the current budget crisis it seems likely we will soon be under the 10% requirement for enterprise status.

2. CU lobbyist Tanya KelIy Bowry reported:

a. Both Democrats and Republicans appear to increasingly want something on the ballot to repeal or modify TABOR. She thought there was a possibility that this could happen this session. Jim Topping, however, estimated it would take until 2004 to get it on the ballot.

3. Uriel Nauerberg reported on concealed weapons legislation.

4. Faculty Council passed the motion below.

The CU faculty Council requests that Chancellors throughout The CU System direct primary units to implement a three year Rolling average of faculty merit evaluations to assure that faculty who continue to be productive in these difficult economic times are rewarded for their efforts when the economy of the State of Colorado and the budget of the University of Colorado improves in the subsequent years. This method of calculating annual merit evaluation should be considered as a permanent improvement in recognizing faculty merit.

This change should be examined in three to five years to determine its effectiveness as an incentive for faculty productivity.