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Report of the Secretary

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REPORT OF THE SECRETARY COMMITTEE REPORTS

GENERAL BUSINESS TO THE

STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE

OCTOBER 20, 1978 MEETING

CSU STUDENT CENTER CHAMBERS FORT COLLINS, COLORADO

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I N D E X

Dates and locations for future meetings

Approval of the minutes of the Secretary, the Committees of the Board, the General Business of the Board, Fort Lewis College, University of Southern Colorado, Colorado State University NOTE: Copies of minutes in last section of this agenda

-no SBA System or Treasurer of SBA business in September Approval of Program Plans for Institutions Governed by SBA

Report on Statewide Enrollment Patterns

Remarks of Chancellor Harold Haak, University of Colorado at Denver - Report

Articles of Interest - Pueblo Chieftain Articles of Interest - More

Pending Litigation

Committees of the State Board of Agriculture - Reports

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Secretary's Report

Committee

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General Business

SBA MEETING 10-20-78 1-1

MATTERS FOR ACTION:

Dates and locations for future meetings. RECOMMENDED ACTION:

Information nnly.

EXPLANATION:

The following meeting cates were discussed and approved by consensus at the September meeting:

November 16 in Denver - USC/System/FLC Business

December 13-14 in Fort Collins - All Institutions - Statutory January 18 in Denver - CSU Business

(Changed February 8 in Pueblo USC/System/FLC Business from 15th)

March 15 in Fort Collins - CSU Business

(Changed April 12 in Durango - USC/System/FLC Business from 19th)

May 9-10 in Fort Collins - All Institutions - Statutory June 21 in Pueblo - USC/System/FLC Business

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Secretary's Report

Conunittee

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General Business SBA MEETING 10-20-78

MATTERS FOR ACTION:

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Approval of the minutes of the September 19-20, 1978 meeting of the State Board of Agriculture as reported by the Secretary.

RECOMMENDED ACTION:

MOVED, the Board approve the minutes of the SPcretary, the Committees of the Board and General Business, Fort Lewis College, University of Southern Colorado and Colorado State University (there was no business in September for SBA Systems or SBA Treasurer).

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Secretary's Report

Conunittees & Gene;r;a.l Bm~J.ness SBA Meeting 10/20/78

MATTERS FOR ACTION:

Approval of Program Plans RECOMMENDED ACTION:

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MOVED, that the Board approve all program plans prior to their submission to the Colorado Commission on Higher Education (CCHE). EXPLANATION:

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Secretary's Report 4-1 Counnittee Reports

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General Business

SBA Meeting 10/20/78

MATTERS FOR ACTION:

Report on Statewide Enrollment Patterns RECOMMENDED ACTION:

None

EXPLANATION:

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Secretary's Report 5-1 Committees

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General Business

SBA Meeting 10-20-78

MATTERS FOR ACTION:

Remarks of Chancellor Harold Haak, University of Colorado at Denver RECOMMENDED ACTION:

None EXPLANATION:

What alternatives would vou offer to improve the present AHEC arrangement either administratively or academically?

The academic rationale for the three-institutions structure in Auraria is that this structure promotes a diversity of programs that can meet the needs of a very diverse student population. These programs range from two year occupational programs through doctoral programs.

The academic programs of the three institutions have bean categorized as follows:

(a) unique programs offered by only one institution (e.g., various two year occupational programs at CCD; programs in emerging professions such as Engineering Technology at MSC; and graduate programs and Engineering at UCD);

(b) programs that bear the same or similar titles but have sufficient student demand to justify more than one institution offering the program (e.g., English and Sociology, in which efforts are made differentiate programs in order to offer options to students); and

(c) programs that are basic to an institution but in which there is inadequate demand to justify more than one program (in these cases programs may be conducted jointly, such as Physics, or they may be conducted by one institution on behalf of the others, such as Physical Education).

At the time we developed the academic rationale for Auraria we were far less concerned about degree programs in the same area~ than we are today.

We assumed rapid growth in student enrQllments and that everyone's cup would be full. Actual growth trends, especially in the arts and sciences, have been very different.

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Secretary's Report

Committees & Gene~al ' Business

SBA H,eeting 10/20/78 . 5-l(a)

,~ ~ ~-75, when many of the academic arrangements within Auraria 1

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11g $jstablished, the then UCD deans estimated that by 1980-81

.- pro"rnms would enjoy a 58 percent increase in student enrollments,

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· '.uming no facility or other unusual limitations on growth. The UCD

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budgeted enrollment for 1978-79 is only six percent larger than the actual 1974-75 enrollments, and less than a two percent increase is projected for 1979-80. In the arts and sciences enrollments were pro-jected to grow by 53 percent from 1974 to 1980. Through 1977-78 they had declined by seven percent, and preliminary analyses of Fall, 1978-79 enrollments indicate a further decline.

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explain in part the difference between current enrollment pro-jections and the optimistic mood of 1974-75, it should be noted that between 1973-74 and 1974-75 UCD as a whole grew eight percent and its arts and sciences programs grew seven percent.

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The leveling off of enrollments no doubt has affected each institution differently. In the case of UCD, in many fields - given the limited num-ber of faculty, which reflects the limited numnum-ber of students - we have difficulty mounting both quality graduate and undergraduate programs. Moreover, although the UCD role statement emphasizes UCD's unique role at the graduate level, the lifeblood of many academic disciplines is the undergraduate program.

At the undergraduate level, especially in the arts and sciences, UCD's ability to adapt curriculum and thus meet the needs of different populations is significantly constricted. According to our role state-ment, programs are to be traditional and oriented toward preparing

students for post-baccalaureate instruction. We have a good record of preparing students for graduate work, but without our role statement limitations we would base more of our program on the assumption that many of our undergraduate arts and science students will not proceed

to a graduate-level program.

Further, the ability of UCD to attract students who would benefit from its programs is hampered by a public image that UCD is graduate and professional in its orientation , while MSC is the undergraduate component in Auraria . We fear that concerted steps to change this perception would be viewed as UCD competition with MSC students. Perhaps more importantly, UCD's image (and that of MSC and CCD-A) is obscured and blurred in the public's mind by that something known as "Auraria" which, academically speaking, is a formless and empty entity.

Given today what we know about student demand for particular programs, I believe the Auraria arrangement would be strengthened academically if we moved to a two-institutions model: (1) a separate community college, which makes sense in order to protect the community college's role in two year occupational and technical programs, and (2) a university that included both UCD and MSC. The community college would remain as part of the Community College of Denver system and thus benefit from its sys-tem ties. Likewise the university should be part of the University of Colorado, particularly so that high cost programs at the graduate level and in Engineering will be closely coordinated with programs of the Uni-versity of Colorado at Boulder . Moreover, this arrangement would

con-tribute to the development of a university campus in Denver that is both different from, and complementary to, the Boulder Campus. It also would facilitate cooperation with the CU-Medical Center in Denver.

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Committees . ~' General Business

SBA Me~t~ 10/20/78

. - Within the university, MSC's unique contributions, and its identity,

~- could be maintained as a separate college. On the other hand, programs

that are duplicative, or parallel, at UCD and MSC would gain added via-bility and strength by a combination of resources. Also this arrange-ment would help clear up a great deal of confusion in the general public's mind.

An additional advantage of bringing UCD and MSC into the same admin-istrative structure would be an improvement in their overall adminadmin-istrative services resulting from economies of scale and sharper delineations of responsibility.

A two-institutions model has major, and positive, implications for the AHEC structure. This model has worked elsewhere on the same campus

(i.e., in Michigan) without the need for an elaborate administrative superstructure. Each institution would basically conduct its own busi-ness in accordance with its particular priorities, needs, and character. There would, of course, continue to be sharing and cooperation between them. The history of Auraria arrangements would indicate that such coop-eration does not require the presence of a third-party bureaucracy.

As · I view it, this two-institutions model would take what is good about the Auraria concept and preserve it while changing those elements that are now untenable. It would lead to a better academic community for students and faculty. It would lead to more efficient use of academic and administrative resources. It would greatly simplify and improve the Auraria administrative structure. It would result in two institutions with clearly different roles that are widely understood by students and the general public.

I realize that others have recommended other directions for Auraria such as maximum decentralization of Auraria functions back to the three institutions. I have grown skeptical about the feasibility of such de-centralization on the grounds that the proposed arrangements would be far too cumbersome and would be contrary to the demand today in public admin-istration for clear accountability. No doubt we will better understand the implications of the decentralization and other models as a result of the study of Auraria arrangements being conducted by the Auraria Board of Directors.

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Secretary's Report

CoII1D1ittees

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General Business SBA Meeting 10/20/78

MATTERS FOR ACTION:

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Articles of Interest - Pueblo Chieftain RECOMMENDED ACTION:

None

EXPLANATION:

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Secretary's Report

Committees

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General Business

SBA :t-jeettn~ 10-.20-78

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F ACIJL TY ASSOCIATION

Task force is asked to begin

bargaining rights dialogue

BJ RAY BROUSSARD

The State Board of Agriculture's task force )Va& asked Thursday to begin a

dialogtie with University of Southern Colorado faculty on collective bargaining for the university's teachers.

The proposal was made by Larry Daxton, representing the USC Faculty Association. The ag board heard com-ments from him and 11 other represen-tatives of the school.

· In addition to the question of bargaining rights for USC faculty, Daxton said the association believes the school should continue use of the present salary schedule and that tpe liberal arts program should be given equal support

by the ag board along with all other component' aspects of a university community.

"The concern of all faculty members of this institution is for quality teaching and research excellence that is beneficial to undergraduate students," Daxton said.

"The present state of flux, because of the governance change and other more general aspects, has brought about great concern to faculty and s~udents in

relation.to the continuation of programs arid ~e im~ediate and long-range future

. ~Uol)oJthiS wyverSity, '•:s.aid Daxton.

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•,;tep~n9ttvet.' Witb the ag board on

major policy decisions that would directly impact on programs and other related issues which could be negotiated by collective bargaining."

Elsewhere during the day-long session, women groups at the school criticized the lack of a plan that would bring them into the mainstream of the school's. planned polytechnic mission. ·

Women's Caucus representative June Hearn said. that "women represent

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segregated ghetto apart from the mainstream at USC."

She said a great portion of the polytechnic future is focused on the areas of applies science and that the present faculty at the school "is ill-trained to contend with the potential of ac-commodating women in these fields."

She, and Sallie Watkins. physics professor and head of research 'at the school, and Pauline Spinuzzi, who is . resigning to as Affirmative Action-officer and personnel director to take another. job, urged the ag board to develop-.a plan to spur . the participation of women in . USC's science . and engineering technology futlire. :

Others who spoke were Eugene 'Balld ot~

the University Senate; Frank Qaf>aldo · and .Carol Olin of Affirmative.:Actiom Steve Sielsky of . Associated .. studen~ ·

Government; Gail Coffey of Black Action· Association; and John Pisciotta, Leon Bright. Agnes Fitch, Felipe Najar and: Nasario Garcia.O

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one~ the salary schedule has been,

im-ust 1o •.ma · . pleinented w.e will begin to get salary

Opinions concerning the University of raises based on merit.

Ulat the schedule ipclydes a cost-of-living

~djustment, has been• glOssed over in

the-telling by others.

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tout which Love is adamant. ~uthern Colorado's controversial salary "I've heard that from a previous

ad-scbedule are as varied as the range of ministration which used subterfuge as a personalities of faculty, but at lea.st one daily routine. You can hardly expect me

respected. scholar at the _school feels ~the not;:to tK,!·. dubious when 1 hear the same hr "The salary schiedule was worked out

program is ~orking re~IJ(>D'lb{y 'ftell-.'. :-: · · ·utany· (r0m the present administration. ₁ Y the · faculty. Salary money is ap-1'The basic concept JS good," sa~· Alan nave learned to be cautiously skeptical propriated by the Legislature as a line ·

Love, .dean of. the School ~f .Social and . and; at the same time, legitim~tely bit- lt!V,11 aqd is earm,llrked for the faculty. Behavioral Science. "And it. is .working. ter." -, .. · ~. faculty shoul have a major ,role,

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number of problems .and aft~r all, in determining how their money resolved some con.mets that were created Through a series of complex cir- is going to be a)lotted to them ."

earlier by the absence of a salary -cumstances, Love chanced to be Such explanations leave Smith cold. He schedule." · operating in the office of the academic believes the salary schedule was based on But human emotions are aroused when vice president when the salary schedule a false formula - penalizing the upper human equations are focused on a per- was charted for implementation, so he is echelons to reward the lower - and that son's pocketbook. To wit: Chemistry close to it and feels that there are some the present administration, if it agrees Professor John Smith's analysis of the who have not given it a fair chance. with him, should derrick the salary.

schedule. · schedule right now. .

"It is predicated in favor of the Robin It is not, he says, as simplistic as "If Dr. Pesqueira believes in awarding· Hood syndrome," he says. "The whole claimed earlier by USC Presiden't salary raises on merit, he should order the process is orchestrated to rob from the Richard Pesqueira, nor is the schedule a salary schedule abolished and start with a veterans here who gave their sweat and right-now, get-it-over-with thing. merit system," says Smith. "I keep blood to build this school, in order to "It appears, at a superficial glaQce, to. hearing this dribble that the ad-fatten the coffers of the neophyte in- be simplistic," he says. "But, so does e ministration is commited to the plalf'for structors just hired." _ equals me-square appear simplistic. It is its three-year length. No where can I find Love says he sympathizes with Smith's a much more complicated pattern, a very, ... th~t bi wtiting. We are just being sold a plight - that of a full professor unable to very difficult process to work out. And· it ·

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of goods. If a person, ·such as myself is command a worthwhile pay raise at the will take time. Hopefully, when we are judged by his peers to be doing a good job, . school - but claims that the salary through the schedule will bring equity to and by his students and department head, schedule is designed to alleviate just the the distribution of salaries. why is it that he must be content with a things Smith abhors. "The whole intent," says Love, "is to paltry raise of a few hundred dollars. It is "What we are trying to accomplish," spread the range so that there's greater demeaning for a professional to be treated says Love, "is equal pay for equal work. rmonetarJ distance between the assistant this way."

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of ;merit bl.lilt iJato the schedule. He then. ';anot~t., battle: over merit will

· But Smlth oiiferves, "They till us that • · ·s tHal cons~erition, and the fact begin.O, r . ·. ~ · ·

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Secretary's Report

Committees and General Business SBA Meeting 10-20-78

MATTERS FOR ACTION:

Articles of Interest - more

RECOMMENDED ACTION:

None

EXPLANATION:

See attached pages

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Secretary' s Report

Connnittees and General Business SBA Meeting 10-20-78

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Palmer: 'clean up' due process

In a parting shot at higher education fac.ulty members, the outgoing president of Metropolitan State College Aug. 18 urged the legislature's Interim Committee on Higher Education to "clean up" the 1975 Higher Education Due Process Act.

Dr. James Palmer, who has resigned to take a position with the Department of Transportation in Washington, D.C., told the committee that while "some due process is necessary," he felt the act "has been generally an instant tenure bill" and needs revision.

Palmer complained that under the CEA-sponsored act, administrators must give specific reasons for nonrenewals and this "leads to a property right that leads Lo a hearing under the U.S . Constitution." Palmer implied that the Attorney General's office agrees with him that the act must be "adjusted to its original concept."

Just how the AG 's office fee ls about the act was not pursued because the committee chairman, Sen. Hugh Fowler, R-Littleton, did not allow Palmer to be questioned on any of the points he raised.

Palmer was particularly critical of due process rights being afforded to higher · education faculty members in their first three years of employment. He called that provision of the act a "lifetime sinecure." Ironically, should Palmer return to teach

at MSC under the leave of absence agreement he has with the Trustees, he would be covered under the due process act.

On other matters, Palmer said a recent survey of graduates indicated that they were satisfied with the education they received at MSC; that the University of Colorado Law School does require higher scores on its admission tests for MSC graduates; and that MSC has faced some competition in course offerings from such schooIS as Arapahoe Community College and Denver Community College. Sen. Fowler pounced on that point, calling it evidence of

educational duplication.

Sen. Fowler picked up the duplication theme later in the meeting, suggesting that the University of Colorado at Denver and MSC be consolidated. Committee members Reps. Betty Orten, D-Adams County, Betty Neale, R-Denver, and Wayne Knox, D-Denver, were skeptical about the

suggestion, but Rep. A. J. "Mick" Spano, R-Jefferson County, said such a

consolidation was inevitable.

Dr. John Marvel, president of the Trustees of State Colleges and University Consortium , which governs MSC, said this was the first time he had heard such a consolidation move discussed in public.

The interim committee will meet again Sept. 21-22 on the Auraria campus.

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Secretary's Report

Committees and General Business SBA MEETING 10-20-78

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SBCCOE

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A special subcommittee of the State Board for Community Colleges and Occupational Education is wasting little time in its study of collective bargaining for faculty members at the seven

institutions governed by the board.

The subcommittee, created in August at the urging of the CEA, has met three times to discuss the composition of the eligibility list and other key items in the board's Rules for Collective Bargaining

document.

Members of the subcommittee, Dr. Gwen Thomas, the chairperson, Mrs. Ellin Mrachek, and Fred Valdez, are currently reviewing:

- Steps in the pre-collective

. bargaining process such as the election of

'a representati ve agent.

- Funding of those steps and the s..Jbsequent bargaining.

- Issues related to the determination · of faculty eligible to be members of the

bargaining unit and to vote in the representation election.

CEA representatives have attended .· each subcemmiHee meeting to provide

supportive data, information, and

recommendations related to the key items under review.

The CEA is working to persuade the full board to authorize a representative agent election before the end of the fall quarter in 1978.

Anticipating the final steps to obtaining collective bargaining rights for faculty, the CEA Board of Directors has created and funded a statewide Higher Education Task Force to study the use of , student evaluations of faculty. The task

' force will prepare recommendations to be acted upon by the Colorado Association

for Higher Education (CAHE) Presidents' Council.

bargaining

Additionally, community college faculty attended the CEA's annual statewide bargaining conference at

Colorado Mountain College in August to work on negot;ating suitable contract language for defining faculty workloads.

The Pre-negotiations Survey,

administered by the CEA on community college campuses in 1977, showed that workloads are a major faculty concern.

"One of the biggest difficulties in getting fair and adequate funding for higher education is the lack of

understanding which exists between the higher education community and those who allocate the finances," said Bert Jensen, CEA Director of Higher Education.

"The higher education community in this decade has either failed to fully realize - or to accept - that securing adequate funding is a political process that requires well-developed, organized positions that

can be effectively lobbied. The do-it-yourself-days for individual college presidents and governing boards are over in Colorado.

"On the other hand, legislators, frustrated with the rising cost of everything, including higher education, have become hostile toward higher education's inability to present exacting and 'measurable' goals and objectives. The missions of the various institutions and systems have seemed all too vague - and it is difficult to place vagueness under the eye of legislative scrutiny.

''Collective bargaining is the missing link in establishing higher education as an effective participant in the political

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Secretary's Report

Committees

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General Rusiness SBA Meeting 10/20/78

MATTERS FOR ACTION:

Pending Litigation

RECOMMENDED ACTION:

No action required - report only

EXPLANATION:

See attached pages for report

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Committees

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General Business

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REPORT TO THE STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE

ON PENDING LITIGATION

A. Litigation Pending in Federal Court.

1. Mary Alice Hill v. Colorado State University, et al.

The judge has ruled on the discrimination claims in the Mary

Alice Hill case and has found in favor of the plaintiff. No

additional damages, however, will result from that finding.

I will discuss this matter further at the October Board meeting.

2. Keith R. Grebe v. the State Board of Agriculture, et al.

No change.

B. Litigation Pending in State Court.

1. The Painter Estate

I will discuss this case with the Board at the October meeting.

2. Colette

v.

the State Board of Agriculture, et al.

No change.

3. Dwight Ghent and Lee Ann Powers v. Colorado State University, et al.

Hearings on the motions for sunmary judgment in this case have

been scheduled for October 17, 1978. I will report on the outcome

of those motions at the Board meeting.

4. Alvin Miller v. the State Board of Agriculture

The trial date has been set in the case for December 10, 1979.

5. Espey v. the State Board of Agriculture

I will discuss the Espey case with the Board at the meeting.

C. Cases in which Counsel for the State's Insurer Is Representing the

University.

1. Tompkins v. the State Board of Agriculture

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2. James A. Nelson v. the State Board of Agriculture

This is a case brought by a spectator at a football game who

was injured by a wine bottle thrown by another spectator. The

University is charged with negligence in not removing the person

from the football game who had in her possession the wine bottle

that was used in the assault. Plaintiff seeks $25,000 in damages

against the University for his injuries. The negligence is

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Secretary's Report

Connnittees

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General Business SBA Meeting 10-20-78

MATTERS FOR ACTION:

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Reports of Committees of the State Board of Agriculture RECOMMENDED ACTION:

None - reports only EXPLANATION:

The following committees of the State Board of Agriculture will report: Task Force on Governance of USC John Fuhr

Finance Committee Carl Breeze

Ethics Committee Edmond F. Noel, Jr.

Faculty Reports - All Institutions Student Reports - All Institutions

Baake Case Report Edmond F. Noel, Jr.

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Report of Fort Lewis College

to the

State Board of Agriculture

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October 20, 1978

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Report of President Chamberlain

to the

State Board of Agriculture

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SBA SYSTEM REPORT

Proposed SBCCOE Standards for Cormnunity College Programs Leading to Associate

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SBA Meeting-October 20, 1978

Colorado State University 1-1

MATTERS FOR ACTION:

Proposed SBCCOE Standards for Community College Programs Leading to Associate Degrees and Certificates

RECOMMENDED ACTION: Information Only REPORT:

The State Board of Agriculture, largely through its USC assignment, has some interest in the standards being

proposed for the degrees of: Associate of Arts , Associate of Science and Associate of Applied Science. The text reproduced below is to share with the S.B.A. the current thinking on this subject of Mr. Terrence Tollefson, Director SBCCOE. The SBCCOE will be considering the matter in the near future. "Date: From: Subject: September 1, 1978 Terrence A. Tollefson

Propos ed State Board Standards for Connnunity College Educational Programs Leading to Associate Degrees and Certificates

As you know, the State Board for Community Colleges and Occupational Education adopted preliminary standards for associate degree and certificate programs in community colleges in December, 1977. I recommended only preliminary approval at that time because I had not yet had time to s tudy all of the issues in sufficient detail. Since December, I have recently completed a study of degree/certificate standards of community college systems in 29 other states. A copy is attached for each of you.

Although there are wide variations in standards from one state to another, the study also shows many similarities for three principal associate degrees in use across the nation. The basic national pattern is described below.

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SBA Meeting-October 20, 1978 Colorado State University

Associate of Arts Degree

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The Associate of Arts (A.A.) degree is generally awarded to a student who successfully completes a two-year program designed to lead to

transfer to a four-year college or university for purposes of earning a baccalaureate degree. All courses are therefore intended to transfer, provided in most cases that the student earns at least a "C" grade in each course.

Associate of Science Degree

The Associate of Science (A.S.) degree is usually awarded upon graduation from either or a combination of two types of programs. One type is a college transfer program, comparable to an A.A. program but with more course work in science and mathematics. The other type is a

high-level technical program, such as nursing or electronics,

designed primarily for students who wish to enter a new occupational field at the end of two years of full-time study or the equivalent in part-time study.

Associate of Applied Science

The Associate of Applied Science (A.A.S.) degree is generally awarded to graduates of programs designed exclusively for students who wish to go to work immediately after graduation. Ten or fifteen years ago, A.A.S. programs were often described as "terminal" in nature. That term is now seldom used because it imposes an artificial and unnecessary obstacle to transferability of credit for those few graduates who may wish to transfer with partial credit at some time in the future. My proposal is to recommend State Board approval for the three basic

types of programs above. I also wish to recommend State Board approval of two other types of associate degree programs, as described below. Associate of General Studies Degree

The Associate of General Studies (A.G.S.) degree would be awarded to students who wished to design their own programs. With no state-imposed requirements except completion of 60 semester credit hours or 90 quarter credit hours, such students would be permitted either to receive the A.G.S. degree upon completion, or to change to college transfer or vocational programs after exploring several subject fields. This degree is in use in Arizona, Illinois, and Iowa. One example of an A.G.S. degree program is the one at Pikes Peak Community College recently approved by the State Board.

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Associate of Occupational Studies

The Associate of Occupational Studies (A.O.S.) degree is currently in use in New York and Ohio community colleges. The purpose of this degree would be to permit programs with extremely high required proportions of skill courses to lead to associate degrees without requiring any courses in general education.

Certificates

Under this proposal, certificates would be awarded to students who successfully complete any state-approved educational program not

leading to an associate degree. If the State Board approves the A.O.S. degree, there would probably no longer be a need for two-year certificate programs.

Proposed .Content Requirements

Each associate degree program would be required to contain at least 60 semester credit hours or 90 quarter credit hours. There would be only one associate of arts degree program at each community

college. Each college would be free to set its own specific course requirements, which would be designed to assure maximum transferability to four-year colleges and universities in Colorado. All degree require-ments, as a matter of State Board policy, would be published in the college catalog. Electives would permit a range of optional emphases within the A.A. program. Those options would not be allowed to be advertised in the college catalog but could be listed in college brochures. The diploma awarded on graduation would say only that each graduate had successfully completed an associate of arts degree, without specifying the major field.

Each associate of science degree program would be required to include a minimum of 20 semester credit hours or 30 quarter credit hours of general education courses. Each college would be free to define general education, but the definition would be required to be prominently published in the official college catalog. There would be a separate associate

of science degree program for each field of specialization. Each diploma awarded to a graduate would specify that the degree was an associate of science degree in a specialized field. As in the case of an associate of arts degree program, electives would permit a range of options. Again, the options could not be listed in the college catalog, but could be

included in college brochures describing the program.

Each associate of applied science degree program would be in a particular occupational field and would be designed to lead to employment in one job title category or several closely related job title categories. A minimum of 15 semester credit hours or 22 quarter credit hours in general education would be required. The definition of general education would be the same for each college as its definition used for A.S. programs. The diploma awarded to each graduate of an A.A.S. program would read associate of applied science in a specialized field.

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Electives would permit a range of optional specializations within each A.A.S. program. Each option could be included in brochures describing

the program, but could not be listed in the college catalog.

The associate of general studies program would have no state-imposed course content requirements, but would require a minimum of 60 semester credit hours or 90 quarter credit hours of passing work for graduation.

An associate of occupational studies degree would be awarded to graduates of all programs for which, because of very high skill requirements or for other reasons, the general education requirements for A.S. or A.A.S. programs could not be met.

The State Board for Community Colleges and Occupational Education would not impose any across-the-board requirements on certificate programs, but would require colleges to demonstrate that each certificate program represented a coherent body of knowledge and skill which would enable each student to satisfy some occupational or personal goal.

General support for the above proposed configuration of and standards for associate degree and certificate programs is provided by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, as well as by the attached national study. An excerpt from pages 128-131 of

Missions of the College Curriculum, published by Jossey-Bass in 1977, is quoted below.

COMMUNITY COLLEGES

The two-year community colleges are easily the most diverse of all colleges in the country. Not only are they distinctive as compared to one another, but they also pride themselves in encouraging

diversity of programs within each college. The result is a spectrum of institutions in which colleges with narrowly defined technical or vocational programs are at one end and multi-unit community colleges are at the other. In between are colleges with a basic transfer

curriculum and variations of structure and offerings that move in both directions along the spectrum. In addition, there are two-year branch campuses of colleges and universities, proprietary institutions that have similar missions, and other specialized institutions, such as the Community College of the Air Force.

The curricula of these colleges are basically related to their training functions and the degrees and certificates they award, but an increasing focus of comprehensive two-year colleges on community services and

human-development activites has produced programs that often go far beyond those defined by their degree and certificate programs.

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The degrees offered by corrnnunity colleges include the associate of arts degree, which is designed primarily as a transfer degree and includ~

courses that parallel the offerings of four-year institutions at the sophomore level. Work for the degree normally includes studies in major and minor fields and general education electives. The

concen-trations required in the associate of arts program are often linked to the majors students intend to pursue after transferring. At private two-year colleges, the curriculum may be entirely devoted to such

instruction.

Community colleges may also offer an associate of science degree, which is usually intended to prepare one for immediate-employment in a

specialized field but which is sometimes used as a transfer degree in

the sciences. The associate£!.. applied science degree offered by community colleges certifices both competence in a technical and occupational

field sufficient to merit entry into employment and academic achieve (sic) that can be transferred to a four-year college. About 50 percent

of all corrnnunity college students are in such programs. Increasingly, four-year colleges and universities are designing baccalaureate-level degrees that allow the development of "upside-down" programs that permit students to concentrate on occupational preparation at the beginning rather than at the end of the undergraduate career. Other colleges, such as the Capitol Campus of Penn State University and the Upper Division College of SUNY at Utica/Rome, New York, are structuring their programs to accommodate students who want to transfer out of career programs.

Certificates are awarded by two-year colleges for a range of offerings with special purposes. They may be awarded for completion of vocational

training requirements linked closely with apprenticeship training, or with the training needs of governmental and social service agencies. Certificate programs often involve concentration on one field of study with no additional general educational or distribution requirements.

Some may be of short duration, lasting from 9 to 20 weeks.

Except for the requirements for those degrees and certificates graduates may need to obtain licensing for employment in certain fields, the

degree and certificate requirements of community colleges do not

necessarily govern a student's educational choices. If students intend from the beginning to transfer to a four-year institution, the degree requirements of their community college may have less influence on their course of studies than the entrance requirements of the college to which they plan to transfer. The curricula of two-year colleges are open-ended, and the students who attend them may have more free choice than published degree requirements would suggest.

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The set of proposals described above has obvious implications for community college educational program approval by both the State Board for Community Colleges and Occupational Education and the Colorado Commission on Higher Education. The Commission asked the State Board nearly a year ago to specify its curriculum standards. In the light of the recent Attorney General's opinion, it seems important to obtain a reaction from the Commission at its September 8, 1978 meeting.

I am also asking the Colorado State Advisory Council on Vocational Education to react to this proposal.

I plan to present the proposal to the State Board for Community Colleges and Occupational Education for information and discuss ion at its September 14-15, 1978 meeting. Based upon comments and

suggestions from community and junior college presidents and others, I hope to make any needed changes in time for State Board adoption at its October 12-13, 1978 meeting. The proposed effective date for the new standards is the fall, 1979 term."

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Report of University of Southern Colorado

to the

State Board of Agriculture

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Report of Colorado State University

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REPORT OF PRESIDENT CHAMBERLAIN TO THE

STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE

SECTION 1 - President's Report

October 20, 1978

Page Matter of Interest - University

Capital Investment ... 1-1 Ram Flying Club Performance

Review Report . . . 1-2 State Forest Service Fire Control

and Disease Program ... 1-3 1979-80 Faculty Salary Increase

Request ...•... 1-4 June 30, 1978 Financial Closing on 1977-78

Allocation of Student Facility Fee ... 1-5 through 1-S(a) Honorary Degree Spring 1979 Cormnencement

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MATTERS FOR ACTION:

1-1

Matter of Interest - University Capital Investment RECOMMENDED ACTION:

None REPORT:

Saudi Arabia soon will award a contract estimated at $3.4 billion for construction of the University of Riyadh's new campus.

The project involves building ten schools of sciences and humanities, housing for 15,000 families, a park!ng lot for 7,000 cars, a six-million-volume library with seating for 6,000, a 100-room hotel, four lecture halls, a 114-foot-high forum, a museum of sciences and natural history, five dining halls with a seating capacity of 8,000 a computer and medical center, a stadium seating 25,000 persons, a mosque for 9,000 worshipers, a mass-transit system and a university

press. The campus reportedly will cover 12 million square feet, have a daytime population of 31,000 and a teaching staff of 6,500.

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MATTERS FOR ACTION:

1-2

Ram Flying Club Performance Review Report RECOMMENDED ACTION:

Receive required report and place on file with the Board's Secretary

REPORT:

As required by the terms of your memorandum of July 26, 1977 to the Fam Flying Club, I reviewed the Club's performance for the 'past year with the Club representatives on June 15, 1978. I received only one complaint this past year and it concerned plane noise which seemed to be more noticeable to this individual (who resides in Dean Acres) during the summer months. The Club agreed to revise flight patterns during the spring and summer months which seems to have satisfied the complainant. It is interesting to note, however, that Tom Vonder Haar resides five doors away from the complainant and he states that "I have not at all been bothered by the aircraft traffic either at my home or at work. In addition, I have not heard a single complaint from neighbors in the Dean Acres region." The Club reported two other minor complaints which were solved by them and which did not reach my office.

The Club has materially abided by the provisions of the License Agree-ment authorized by the Board. While they have not provided me with evidence of insurance as required by the agreement, they will do so in

the future. The Club has a full-time paid manager on duty at Christman Field which has improved overall operations and communications. In addition to the recreational benefits afforded its student, faculty, staff and alumni members, the Club provides a valuable service to the University in providing air transportation for faculty and staff to many locations at reasonable cost. In a memorandum to me, Tom Vonder Haar wrote that "your working arrangement with the Ram Flying Club furthers

the best interests of Colorado State University." I concur with Tom's assessment of the Club's performance and recommend continuation of the License arrangement.

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MATTERS FOR ACTION:

State Forest Service Fire Control and Disease Program RECOMMENDED ACTION:

None - Information only REPORT:

During a recent meeting several Board members asked for a verbal report from the Colorado State University State Forest Service Director on our programs for forest fire control and disease control. Mr. Tom Borden will be available to report and respond to questions about these programs.

He will be prepared to speak to the recent Denver Post editorial on communications during a recent fire and regarding any concerns about chemicals used for disease control.

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SBA Meeting- October 20, 1978

MATTERS FOR ACTION:

1979-80 Faculty Salary Increase Request RECOMMENDED ACTION:

The Board needs to consider the recent action of its Finance Committee to raise the CSU requested increase from 9.8% to 10.8%.

REPORT:

This item will be considered under Board committee reports, to some degree. Additional data may be helpful.

1. As of this date (10/9/78), UNC is considering asking for a 20% salary increase and CU-Boulder is requesting a 12% salary increase. 2. A 9/2/78 Denver Post headline suggests inflation in living costs in the Denver-Boulder area is running at the 12% level. With CSU faculty salary increases lagging behind cost of living increases the last several years, this rate of inflation for the current year in which CSU salaries were increased about 6% strongly suggests the need for a priority effort for a substantial salary increase .

3. The additional admi nistrative work induced by a changed decision every month is of concern, but clearly will be faced anytime the Board wishes to revise its decisions.

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SBA Meeting- October 20, 1978

MATTERS FOR ACTION:

June 30, 1978 financial closing on 1977-78 allocation of Student Facility Fee

RECOMMENDED ACTION:

It is recommended that the Board approve the following allocation of the Student Facility Fee for the 1977-78 fiscal year:

Student Center Athletics REPORT: $125,034 $ 25,500 $150,534

This is a carry-over item from the Durango meeting of the Board, so that the item could be discussed while the Board is in session on the CSU campus and the meeting place convenient for attendance of CSU students.

Below is the text of the background statement for the request and the options available to the Board that the president sent you on August 31, 1978. Also reproduced is the text of an August 31, 1978 memo to the CSU president from Vice Presidents Hehn and Binkley. "The year end closing for the several thousand CSU accounts on which we have been working for several weeks went very smoothly. The State Controller in Denver accepted our proposals practically without comment; it was the quietist closing agreement in many years, including acceptance of our transfer and consolidation items involving several hundred

thousand dollars. Dr. Binkley's and Dr. Hehn's staff clearly had done their homework very well.

We have outstanding only one small item -- final action on the Student Center-Athletics Facility Fee account allocation for 1977-78.

As you know, both the Student Center and the Athletics Department have an equal "claim" on the Athletic-Student Center Facility Fee, but the Board has to approve the final allocation between these two accounts. The attached memo from Binkley and Hehn shows clearly that some $25,500 can be allocated to athletics because it is not needed in the Student Center account for fulfi l ling all bond indenture requirements, while clearly the Athletics Department account needs the revenue and previously was budgeted none of this joint fee in 1977-78. Further, the Student Center previously was given a budget increase of several hundred thousand

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dollars in 1977-78 while Athletics had to steadily curtail its activities, especially in men's athletics so as to enhance women's athletics.

The Board now has these options, while fulfilling all bond indenture requirements:

1. Allocation of some $25,500 to Athletics and some $125,034 to the Student Center, thereby setting the athletic deficit at $97,945.

2 . Continue the present allocation of $150,534 to the Student Center and zero to Athletics, thereby setting the athletic deficit at $123,445.

3. Allocating the $150,534 at any level between the above two options, thereby setting the Athletic deficit anywhere between $97 ,945 and $123,445 that the Board wishes.

I recommend option number one because it seems to be the fairest and most equitable option and gets the Athletic Department deficit under $100,000 as the Board directed be done."

"On January 17, 1969 the Board approved a student facility fee, to be allocated between the Student Center and Athletic facilities by an annual budget decision of the Board. At that time the Board allocated $9 per year per student to the Student Center. Since then the allocation of $9 has remained with the Student Center, with the exception of 1976-77 when $48,000 was allocated to Athletics.

Student Center revenue was up in 1977-78, increasing from $5.9 million the year before to $6.4 million, thereby permitting a large increase in the Student Center expenditure budge t to be approved.

In 1977-78 the above facility fee generated $150 ,534. For the Student Center to meet the earnings requirement of 125 percent of bond principal and interest, as required under the bond resolution, only $125,034 of the facility fee needs to be allocated to the Student Center in 1977-78.

By Board action, the remaining $25,500 of the facility fee may be allocated to Athletics. The cumulative deficit in the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics would be $97,945.

The above allocation of the facility fee between the Student Center and Athletics would apply only to 1977-78."

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SBA Meeting- October 20, 1978 Colorado State University

MATTERS FOR ACTION:

1-6

Honorary degree Spring 1979 Commencement - Richard Hunt RECOMMENDED ACTION:

The Board is asked to approve the awarding of an honorary degree during the Spring 1979 commencement to Richard Hunt.

REPORT:

The above recommendation comes to the Board with the full support of the committees and administrative staff involved in the review of nominations for the awarding of an honorary degree, including the Academic Vice President and the President.

The nomination was initiated by the Department of Art in these words: The Art Faculty at CSU, after a considerable amount of discussion and research, would like to submit the name of Richard Hunt for consideration as a recipient of an honorary degree. This nomination is made with the UNANIMOUS support of the Art Faculty.

Richard Hunt is a 43 year old black sculptor from Chicago. He is

recognized as one of America's leading young artists. He has had major one-man exhibitions in numerous galleries and museums including the Museum of Modern Art in New York (1971-retrospective) and the Art Institute of Chicago (1971-retrospective). His work is included in the permanent public collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, Whitney Museum of American Art, Cincinnati Art Museum, Albright-Knox Art Gallery and many others. In 1975 Richard Hunt was a visiting artist at CSU. His program was very well received and the University acquired one of his graphic works which is now on display in the CSU student Center.

Richard Hunt is an accomplished artist and an effective and articulate spokesman for the fine arts in the academic community.

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SECTION 2 - Academic Affairs, Library and Personnel Items

Page

Personnel Actions ...•... 2-1 through 2-l(q) Supplemental Pay to Faculty and

Professional Staff ...•••... 2-2 through 2-2(ee) Report: Accreditation Evaluation ... 2-3 through 2-3(a) Preference of Board for Annual Report

to be Prepared by Academic Deans and

Department Heads . . . • . . • . . . 2-4 Fees: Special Fees for Courses in the

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MATTERS FOR ACTION: Personnel Actions RECOMMENDED ACTION:

2-1

MOVED, that the State Board of Agriculture approve personnel actions as submitted by the Personnel Office through the Office of the Academic Vice President, and Graduate Assistant Agreements as forwarded through the Graduate School.