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Governance Minutes ArchiveApril 8, 1992
Minutes COMMISSION ON RESEARCH April 8, 1992 206 Sandy Hall 3:30 p.m. MEMBERS PRESENT: T. Brandon, J. Cowles, M. Denbow, E. Henneke, R. Goss for R. Lytton, R. Olin, R. Rich, P. Scanlon, M. Stephenson, E. Stout, A. Swiger, J. Wightman MEMBERS ABSENT: V. Bonomo, C. Burger, G. Hooper, M. Lambur, J. Lee, V. Wall INVITED GUESTS: M. D. Shelton, J. Tank, J. Viers 1. ANNOUNCEMENTS. 1. Dr. Stout stated that the change in meeting room was prompted by K. Johnston's broken ankle. She apologized for not being able to make the meeting. 2. Dr. Stout stated that the next regularly scheduled meeting on the 22nd would be cancelled. Instead on the following Wednesday, April 29, he and Dr. Hooper plan to have a joint Commission on Research, Commission on Graduate Studies social to thank the memberships for all their hard work. 2. AGENDA. Dr. Stout stated he would give a bit of a budget update. Dr. Denbow made a motion to approve the agenda. Dr. Wightman seconded. The agenda was approved. 3. MINUTES OF FEBRUARY 26. Dr. Denbow motioned approval of the Minutes and Dr. Wightman seconded. Minutes were approved as written. 4. IMPLEMENTING THE NEW CONSTITUTION. Dr. Stout stated that he had led the Commission astray at the last meeting by stating that the membership will stay in place for one more year. He stated that that is the case with Uni- versity Committees, but not Commissions. The new governance system will take effect this fall for Commissions. He said that since this is the last working meeting of the year without the new membership he did not feel it would be possible to elect the faculty chair. Dr. Stout stated that the first meeting of the year will be called and that that would be the first order of business next year. 5. ISSUES FOR THE COMMISSION ON RESEARCH NEXT YEAR. Dr. Stout asked for issues in research policy and major research procedures for the membership to work on next year. He stated that there are two items of unfinished business. a. Ownership of Data. Drs. Bob Olin, Steve Boyle and Paul Knox have worked on it this year. b. Misconduct in Science. Dr. Stout provided the membership with a little bit of background on this issue. On January 1, 1989 every university with NIH funding had to submit to the Office of Scientific Integrity university procedures for dealing with charges of misconduct in science. He stated that we have done that in a fragmentary and superficial kind of way. We need to have much more comprehensive procedures. c. Graduate Student Funding. Dr. Wightman said that the graduate students are our life blood and that we have to do something. Dr. Henneke said it would be interesting to hear more about the cost because the differ- ence in tuition for UVa and Tech graduate students is not that much. If they weren't down-loading tuition to graduate students then their tui- tion would be significantly lower than ours. The question is why would they have such significantly lower tuition than we do. Dr. Stout said this year the number is $3.45M in the tuition scholarship fund. The Graduate School has requested another $.55M for next year to bring it up to $4M. Dr. Wightman stated that it would be nice to have a goal to have us in the top 5 or 10% in the country in terms of the package we can offer our graduate students. d. Perceptions of research and opportunities by undergraduates/alumni. e. Center reviews. f. Professional Practices Institute. g. Decentralization related to research - purchasing, personnel. h. Hiring procedures for research faculty. i. FRS report format. Mr. Shelton said that they are working on the E-mail message for the technical reports. 6. BUDGET UPDATE. Dr. Stout stated that we did not know much more about the budget than we did the last time. The legislature will meet in veto session on the 15th to either confirm or override the Governor's actions. He stated that as far as he knows he has not suggested any amendments to the general appropriations act. Dr. Stout referred back to the last time someone had raised a question about how the salary restoration would be handled. He said all classified staff state-wide will get a 2% increase December 1. Faculty, and that includes GTAs and GRAs, will get the 2% restoration for those people who were on the payroll December 1, 1990. Graduate students and faculty who were hired in since December of 1990 will not see a 2% sal- ary increase. Dr. Stout stated that on next years 230-01 budget it looks as though the early retirements in research will generate somewhat in the neighborhood of $1.2M in salary savings. Early retirements in Research go to round 3 budget reductions. It looks as though the dollars generated from retirement for next years budget will offset round 3 reductions and the other un-met budget reductions that we carried forward from last year. It looks as though by July 1 we will start clean with a new budget and a new 5% reduction. The 5% reduction is just about $1.4M which we hope will come from attrition. 7. ADJOURNMENT. Meeting was adjourned at 4:35PM. ERS/php
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