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Wednesday, 19 February 2003, 3:00 p.m.
PHOENIX ROOM C, University Union
Presiding Officer: Illene Noppe, Speaker
Parliamentarian: Professor Jerrold C. Rodesch
1. Approval of minutes of UW-Green Bay Faculty Senate Meeting No. 5, January 22, 2003 (attached)
1. 2003-04 Slate of Nominees for the Faculty Elective Committees (attached). Presented by Professor Ken Fleurant, Chair of the Committee on Committees and Nominations
1. Strategic Budgeting at UW-Green Bay. Presented by Professor Andrew Kersten
2. Report from the First Year Experience Committee. Presented by Professor Scott Furlong
3 Report of the Provost. Presented by Provost Sue K. Hammersmith
4 University Committee Report. Presented by Professor John Lyon, Chair
Wednesday, January 22, 2003
Phoenix Room C, University Union, 3:00 p.m.
Presiding Office: Illene Noppe, Speaker
Parliamentarian: Jerrold Rodesch, Secretary of the Faculty and Academic Staff
Clifford Abbott
Forrest Baulieu
Derryl Block
M. Jan Bradfield
James Coates
Kevin Fermanich
Scott Furlong
Sue Hammersmith
Craig Hanke
Aeron Haynie
Michael Hencheck
Curt Heuer
Ray Hutchinson
Andrew Kersten
Anne Kok
Sylvia Kubsch
William Lepley
Richard Logan
Dennis Lorenz
John Lyon
John Mariano
James Marker
E. Nicole Meyer
Robert Nagy
Illene Noppe
Gilbert Null
Jennifer Popiel
Joyce Salisbury
W. Bruce Shepard
Linda Tabers-Kwak
Patricia Terry
REPRESENTATIVE: Michael Schmitt, Academic Staff Committee
GUESTS: Dean Carol Blackshire-Belay, Interim Dean Jane Muhl, Interim Associate Dean Lloyd Noppe, Associate Provost Timothy Sewall, and Director of Marketing and Media Relations Scott Hildebrand
1. Approval of Minutes of UW-Green Bay Faculty Senate Meeting No. 4, December 11, 2002
The minutes were approved without change.
These are uncertain times said the Chancellor. There is much we simply don't know about the Governor's budget plan; perhaps there is no plan yet. The Chancellor has been in regular contact with UW System President Lyall on budget and enrollment issues. Wisconsin is not alone in facing a fiscal crisis. It is a national problem. In Wisconsin's case the shortfall for the next biennium is projected at $2 to 4 billion. The legislature here has failed to address basic issues, putting off the day of reckoning. The day has come. The Governor's budget will be presented on February 18. When we know the numbers we will review our budget with a commitment to preserving educational quality. The UW System is taking some prudent steps to control enrollment. UWGB has reached 95 percent of our enrollment target. UW System has suggested we slow the enrollment process until the Governor's budget is known. If we stop enrollment now we would lose significantly in tuition and fee revenues, but if we admit more students without adequate GPR support they will come here only to discover we can't offer the courses or opportunities we promised them. There are political considerations. When the Board of Regents suspended admissions last year, they angered the Legislature. But it did get their attention.
UW-Green Bay's strategy on budget cutting is to argue against across-the-board actions for the UW System. Fixed capacity and variable cost need to be considered. As a small institution we have relatively high overhead costs. Overhead costs should be set aside and proportionate cuts made in the variable costs. President Lyall, an economist, is receptive to such arguments.
The Chancellor and Provost have been meeting with the Faculty Senate Budget and Planning Committee. They are delighted to see faculty participation in budget deliberations. The campus will be involved in visible ways in budget making.
We expect a budget rescission. We have prepared for this, holding funds in reserve. We don't know if this will prove adequate. President Lyall has provided draft instructions on possible limits for out-of-state travel (GPR-funded), institutional advertising, and filling of vacant positions. The uncertainty is frustrating.
The Chancellor ended on a happier note. Al Rheinschmidt, retired for some time from his UWGB position as Supervisor of the Mail Room and Copy Center, recently made the Chancellor's day. He sent a note to the Chancellor saying that, in these tough times, he wanted to help out. He enclosed a personal check for $30,000, with instructions to use it for academic affairs.
1. Report of the Provost
The Provost acknowledged the hard times. However, she said Rheinschmidt's generosity showed that good things can still happen. Working together, we can nurture the good things that we have. The financial crisis is part of a cycle in public higher education. We can emerge stronger from it.
She summarized current developments:
· Applications are coming in at a rate that puts us at 95 percent of our enrollment target. We have a very strong in-coming class.
· We have markedly improved student retention. Of this fall's freshman, 93.3 percent have continued in the spring, an all-time record.
· Last year's admissions freeze hit transfer students and the programs they are attracted to (such as Nursing and Social Work) very hard. New transfer students were cut by 50 percent. But because we will have an unusually big graduating class this year we should be able to increase transfers significantly even if we are held at 95 percent of our target. Enrollment management strategies are working.
· Many budget scenarios are being considered. The budget has been a moving target day-to-day. This is frustrating for everyone. We don't yet know how UW System's guidelines on travel, advertising and hiring are to be interpreted. We are continuing searches for faculty replacement positions; they are crucial. We are also continuing the search for a Dean of Professional and Graduate Studies, and we have re-posted the position of Chair of Education.
· Our alumni in Theatre have had some notable recent achievements: Tony Shaloub, starring in "Monk," and Jane Kaczmarek who stars in "Malcolm in the Middle" received Golden Globe nominations; Mary Gallagher ('93) will soon appear on "The West Wing," where she has a chance of becoming a regular; and Larry Gruber ('89), a designer, has been involved in at least 20 Broadway productions.
· Our grants keep coming in. The Provost took particular note of Professor Michael Zorn's success in obtaining renewable energy funding for his studies on cow manure. The Chancellor suggested that political scientists have been doing this for some time.
The Provost then reflected on her first six months at UW-Green Bay. It has been especially satisfying to get to meet faculty, but she wants to do more of this and to reach out more to academic staff and classified employees. She has sometimes felt isolated. Getting to know more people and improving communication are going to be a priority. Some possible actions to accomplish this would be:
· an e-mail newsletter (informal in character, keeping everything up-to-date, not a substitute for The Log);
· a web site with drafts and summaries of work in progress;
· announcements when she will be having lunch in the Point Sable Room;
· a process for receiving suggestions and advice (anonymously when necessary);
· written reports to the Faculty Senate covering factual material that doesn't need to be announced at Senate meetings, allowing more time for discussion.
She invited other suggestions. The Chancellor encouraged the idea of informal and spontaneous communication, remembering favorably a suggestion he had heard earlier in his career for promoting freer exchanges of ideas among faculty, the founding of a Journal of Half-Assed Ideas.
2. University Committee Report Presented by Professor John Lyon, who lamented that his report followed directly on the Chancellor's suggestion.
The University Committee Chair listed recent and current committee business:
· Nominations for the Hendrickson and Johnson Professorships will soon be sought.
· The Secretary of the Faculty and Academic Staff position will soon be posted.
· The University Committee has wrestled with problems resulting from changes in campus technology, particularly software, particularly PeopleSoft products. He invited questions and discussion of this issue. The Senate metamorphosed into a Committee of the Whole for a very free expression of complaints about the general subject. Among the complaints were:
o grade standards for Chemistry majors can't be monitored by the software;
o faculty can't get access to student records;
o the process for declaring majors is confused;
o software support seems inadequate, communication of problems difficult;
o no systematic survey of software problems, needed changes, exists;
o we are dealing with software oligopolies;
o cross-listing courses appears more difficult.
There was general agreement that there needed to be a mechanism for identifying problems and where to seek help. The Chancellor said that the assistance of the Associate Provost for Information Services should be sought. The Provost said that the faculty should not be expected to do work that is clerical in nature.
The University Committee also sought advice about how to improve communication among faculty governance bodies. There should be regular reports of faculty committees to the Senate. Lyon handed out a list of faculty committees and councils. Which should report to the Senate? How often? In what form? Among the suggestions were proposals that there should be:
o reports by deans representing the budgetary units;
o written reports followed by questions and discussion;
o reports to Senate only when input is needed for decision-making;
o reports only on matters with all-university implications;
o general and regular reports on all business to keep the Senate informed, to identify overlapping assignments, to stimulate the entire governance process;
o representatives of the councils sitting as members of the Senate.
The Chancellor suggested that the health of governance depended on effective University Committee supervision of the entire faculty governance process. It is too easy now for administrators to make end-runs to obtain endorsements by faculty bodies. Senator Logan thought that the locus of authority should be the Senate. Senator Terry agreed in principle but noted that committees have diverse functions and shouldn't be treated uniformly. The need for confidentiality on the Personnel Council is an instance. Lyon said that only policy, not individual cases, would be considered. Senator Lorenz added that the Personnel Council would never raise individual matters but needed to have a general discussion of issues such as early tenure guidelines. Senator Hencheck asked that the Senate reconsider a proposal developed some years ago by Associate Provost Sewall for a general reform of the committee system. Sewall said he still had a copy.
There being no new business, the meeting adjourned at 4:30 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Jerrold Rodesch,
Secretary of the Faculty and Academic Staff
Faculty Senate Action Item #1, 2/19/03
February 19, 2003
TO: Voting Faculty
FROM: Jerrold C. Rodesch, Secretary of the Faculty and Academic Staff
The Committee on Committees and Nominations has prepared the following slate of candidates for open 2003-04 faculty elective committee positions. Further nominations can be made by a petition of three voting faculty members. These nominations must have consent of the nominee and must be received by the Secretary of the Faculty and Academic Staff no later than February 28.
5 tenured members: one from each voting district, plus one at-large member.
* Continuing members: Victoria Goff (AH), 2-year terms; Joan Thron (at-large PS), 1-year term
*Replacement term: Mark Everingham (SS), 2-year term, sabbatical for 03-04
* Outgoing members: Robert Howe (NS) and Judith Martin (PS)
2 to be elected for 3-year term: 1 from NS and 1 from PS
1 to be elected for 2-year replacement term from SS
Baulieu, NS Sylvia Kubsch, PS
Lyon,, NS Francine
Tompkins, PS
Francis Carleton, SS (2-year
replacement term)
Denise Scheberle, SS (2-year
replacement term)
5 tenured members: one from each voting district, plus one at-large member.
* Continuing members: Laura Riddle (AH) and Georjeanna Wilson-Doenges (SS), both 2-year terms
* Replacement term: Dennis Lorenz (at-large, SS), 1-year term, sabbatical 2003-04
* Outgoing member: Warren Johnson (NS) and Peter Smith (PS)
2 to be elected for 3-year term: 1 from NS and 1 from PS
1 to be elected for 1-year replacement term from at-large
Steven Dutch NS
Margaret Laughlin, PS
Hencheck, NS
Patricia Ragan, PS
Tom Nesslein, at-large,
SS (1-year replacement term)
Cristina Ortiz, at-large,
AH (1-year replacement term)
6 tenured members: one from each voting district, plus two at-large members (with no more than 2 from a single voting district).
* Continuing members: James Marker (at-large, NS) and Marilyn Sagrillo (PS) both 2-year terms; Jeffrey Entwistle (AH), 1-year term
* Replacement term: Tony Galt (SS), 1-year term with LOA spring 2003 [Larry Smith spring 2003 semester replacement. Need 2003-04 replacement term]
* Outgoing members: Tian-you Hu (NS) and Christine Style (at-large, AH)
2 to be elected for 3-year term: 1 from NS and 1 from at-large (AH, PS, SS)
1 to be elected for 1-year replacement term from SS
Robert Howe, NS
David Coury, at-large, AH
Shay, NS
Larry Smith, at-large, SS
Galt, SS (1-year replacement term)
6 tenured, full Professors: one from each of the voting district, plus two at-large members (with no more than 2 from a single voting district).
* Continuing members: Michael Kraft (SS) and Ganga Nair (at-large, NS) both 2-year terms; William Conley (PS) and Craig Lockard (at-large, SS), both 1-year terms
* Outgoing members: Clifford Abbott (AH) and Ronald Stieglitz (NS)
2 to be elected for 3-year term: 1 from AH and 1 from NS
Carol Emmons, AH
Anjani Mehra NS
Cheryl Grosso, AH
Michael Morgan, NS
6 tenured members: one from each voting district, plus two at-large members (with no more than 2 from a single voting district).
* Continuing members: Richard Logan (SS) and Joyce Salisbury (at-large AH), both 2-year terms; Clifford Abbott (AH) and Illene Noppe (at-large, SS); both 1-year terms
* Outgoing members: and John Lyon (NS) and Mimi Kubsch (PS)
2 to be elected for 3-year term: 1 from NS and 1 from PS
Gregory Davis, NS
Sally Dresdow, PS
Patricia Terry, NS
Karl Zehms, PS
5 tenured members: one from voting district, plus one at-large. Members may serve up to three consecutive terms.
* Continuing members: Tracy Luchetta (SS) and Terence O'Grady (at-large), both 2-year terms; Robert Nagy (PS) 1-year term
* Resigning member: Donna Ritch (NS) 1-year term
* Outgoing members: Ken Fleurant (AH)
1 to be elected for 3-year term from AH; l to be elected for 1-year replacement term from NS
Jeffrey Entwistle, AH
Warren Johnson, NS, 1-year replacement term
Brian Sutton,
William Shay, NS, 1-year replacement term
5 members of professional rank: one from each voting district, plus one at-large member. No member is eligible for more than one consecutive term.
* Continuing members: Fergus Hughes (SS) and Kari Beth Krieger (at-large), both 2-year terms; Kenneth Fleurant (AH), 1-year term
* Outgoing members: Heidi Fencl (NS) and Alla Wilson (PS)
2 to be elected for 3-year term: 1 from NS and 1 from PS
Forrest Baulieu, NS
Joy Benson, PS
5 tenured members: 2 members at-large elected by Graduate Faculty only. No more than one member from any one graduate program on the Board. No member is eligible for more than one consecutive term.
* Continuing member: Robert Nagy (at-large), 2-year term, Masters of Management
* Outgoing member: Gregory Davis (at-large), Environmental Science & Policy
1 to be elected for 3-year term: at-large from graduate faculty of ALT&L or ES&P
at-large, ES&P
4 faculty members: one from each of the 4 voting districts
* Continuing members: Troy Abel (SS) and Debra Pearson (NS), both 2-year terms
* Outgoing members: M. Jan Bradfield (AH) and Marilyn Sagrillo (PS)
2 to be elected for 3-year term: 1 each from AH and PS
Kristy Deetz
Meir Russ, PS
4 faculty members: one from each of the 4 voting district
* Continuing members: Laurel Phoenix (SS), 2-year term; Patricia Ragan (PS), 1-year term
* Replacement term: Tian-you Hu (NS), 2-year term, on sabbatical 2003-04
* Outgoing members: Thomas Pfotenhauer (AH)
1 to be appointed for 3-year term from AH; 1 to be appointed for 2-year replacement term from NS
NS, 2-year replacement term
Strategic Budgeting at the University of Wisconsin – Green Bay
Strategic Budget Planning Group (Faculty Senate Budget and Planning Committee, Chancellor Shepard, Provost Hammersmith, and Assistant Chancellor Rodeheaver)
This paper proposes, for purposes of discussion, a set of principles to guide strategic budgeting and outlines a strategic budgeting process. There is always a risk attendant with writing a first draft: in print, nascent ideas may take on an unwarranted sense of firmness if not finality. Nevertheless, in a meeting with the Senate Budget and Planning Committee, Provost Hammersmith and Chancellor Shepard did volunteer to attempt to capture some ideas on paper in the hope that, working from a draft, we could, together, expedite the process of developing a strategic budgeting process suited to our university.
At this stage, UWGB does not currently have a full-fledged strategic budgeting process. We do, however, have resources to draw on. We have had almost a year of discussion that included meetings with our Office of Planning and Budget, the University Committee, the Academic Staff Committee, Cabinet, the Leadership Team, and the Senate Planning and Budgeting Committee; research on processes used at other universities; a "site visit" to another UW campus; what we have learned, sometimes painfully, in implementing budgeting/planning processes at multiple campuses; and review of current practices.
It has been our experience that discussion of planning processes eventually reach a point of rapidly diminishing return. We could talk for years, seeking to dot every "i" and cross every "t," and still not get it right. We reach a point where progress can be more quickly made by "doing" and learning from that "doing," trusting in our abilities as sensible human beings to critically examine and regularly adjust practices. It means accepting, initially, a less than perfect process. Perhaps much less than perfect. Thus we are suggesting that we implement the budget planning structure outlined here immediately and alter it as we need to in the coming years. If we approach the budgeting process with an attitude of openness, integrity, collegiality, and responsiveness to campus needs, and if we make sure to include critical "feedback" loops, we'll get better and improve the process as we go.
That is how we'd like to begin, by adopting a process that builds on what we've learned and what we've heard, and allowing for process improvements over the years. We can be certain that what we agree to for this year will different from what we do in subsequent years. At least that should be the case if we are doing budget-planning with our brains in gear. A key phase of any planning process is to analyze results of plans in order to regularly adjust and improve. That principle applies just as well to the very process of planning itself.
One final observation by way of preamble. Both of us (Bruce and Sue) agreed early on that UWGB'sUW-Green Bay's planning and budgeting processes needed attention and nurturing. Unfortunately, we are pursuing that objective in less than favorable circumstances. Large State budget deficits loom. The University will be affected. In such circumstances, anxieties understandably abound. The complications are two-fold. First, anxiety, fear, and frustration -- even anger -- can interfere with thoughtful, analytical, collegial discussion of what is best for the whole. Second, it may be that processes for routine strategic budgeting will not always be suited to addressing situations that are extraordinary – for example, that require more rapid responses or that are driven by external forces. So, the circumstances for "bringing up" new procedures are not ideal. And yet, forging this process now in the worse case scenario may indeed be useful and productive. By going ahead now, we will know that this process that we are creating will have survived trial by fire and that the structure will work in good times and bad times. We need to acknowledge and be prepared to deal with these potential additional complications. But, we should not and cannot postpone. Arguably, it is precisely at times such as we are entering that we need to emphasize the integration of short-term budgetary decisions with longer-term strategic directions
I. What is Strategic Budgeting?
Any budget says what fiscal resources we plan to have and how we plan to use them. A strategic budget, however, is much more deliberate than that. It is an aspect and form of strategic planning. It is driven, at its core, by imagination, even passion, and a desire for change. It looks at desired changes and improvement efforts, determines what resources we have to work with, and figures out how we can deliberately direct some of those resources to allow the change to move forward. It looks at how we can use the resources we have to create incentives to create changes and improvements we want. It seeks ways to mobilize people to work together in support of agreed-upon goals. It is not just "business as usual."
When people say "budget," they usually mean operational budget, not strategic budget. That's a whole different matter. True, an operational budget allocates resources across the organization as well, but an operational budget is usually just "business as usual." Examples: an operational budget may dole out budget increases or budget reductions across-the-board, with no specific priorities or vision for change or improvement. An operational budget may be based on simple, factual calculations (e.g., increasing S&E by a certain rate of inflation), with no value judgments being made about which areas of S&E expenditures are more valuable to the institution. An operational budget can be built to reflect known changes in current operations (e.g., who will receive salary increases due to promotions), with no effort to deliberately create change (e.g., increased funding for professional development so that current personnel can achieve new things). An operational budget gives little incentive for accomplishing changes we need or desire.
At its simplest level, "strategic budgeting" integrates the budgeting/resource-allocation process with strategic planning. Budgeting is a usually short-term, an annual or biennial process of tactical decisions about short-term resource allocations. Strategic planning, on the other hand, is a broader process of deciding how we will pursue our mission and our vision. While budget deals with dollars and cents, planning taps into our values, our wishes, our relationships, and our goals, our sense of what is meaningful, how we want to conduct our work, and what is possible. Planning and budgeting are integrally connected, but they are also different endeavors. Planning is a broader topic that we'll address in a working draft on that topic. Just bear in mind that this paper deals only with budget-planning, not with all of the other aspects of a comprehensive planning process that we will, in time, consider.
Finally, we must mention one other observation. We have noticed that one problem with UW-Green Bay's budget process has NOT been that we have too FEW strategic plans. Rather the issue has been that we have had too MANY plans. File drawers are full of plans in a variety of areas, compiled by dedicated and talented groups. Subjects include program plans, gender equity, internationalization, diversity, facilities, general education, marketing, child care, growth plans, etc… And, while all efforts seek important ends, resource limitations require that priorities be set and that choices be made. If that is not done, then plans tend just to sit in those file cabinets. A strategic budgeting process does so in ways that are explicit, visible, and collegial. Here, the role of the Strategic Budgeting Committee is not to judge these other plans (no "thumbs up" or "thumbs down"); rather, their role is informational, to make sure that these multiple plans are considered by planning units and at the university level as the strategic budgeting process unfolds.
Hence, this strategic budgeting process integrates planning within the existing budget structure. It creates room in governance and administration for change. This proposal takes our existing interest in planning and our planning methods and formalizes them. Such a process will be not only more transparent but also will allow for planning ideas to become campus realities in a context that is informed by the wider campus community. Thus planning will be linked across departments, units, and all offices.
In this paper, we're concentrating on strategic budgeting per se. Strategic budgeting can be used to develop an annual budget for the campus, but it also seeks much more:
· to foster communication.
· to precipitate dialogue.
· to assure openness.
· to encourage engagement.
· to increase the levels of information and knowledge upon which decisions are based.
· to assure routine and systematic analysis of results so that we can regularly improve our attainment of the ends we care most about as a university – our mission.
One University's faculty/staff strategic budgeting task force chose to define "strategic budgeting" this way:
Strategic budgeting is a community and constituency building process. It involves the opportunity for the inclusion of voices from the University's multiple constituencies. Strategic budgeting emphasizes the generation and preservation of assets as strategic investments. Its purpose is to develop and utilize measures of outcomes to guide decision making. Furthermore, strategic budgeting will help to clarify how each unit adds to and consumes shared resources, and contributes to the collective work necessary for achieving agreed upon missions and goals. Finally, a strategic approach to budgeting will provide incentives for: 1) generating resources and, 2) contributing to collaborative efforts (e.g., University Studies, Environmental Studies, interdisciplinary research, etc.). This approach emphasizes budgeting as an open process with full disclosure of information, assumptions, objectives, and criteria.
The aspirations, then, are ambitious. Do many fully succeed? No, and never the first time around. Will we succeed the first time around? Certainly not. Still, are the aspirations worthy of our pursuit? We think so. We might not get it right the first time. Better institutional decision-making will be one result of our initial efforts. As important, though, is becoming a better institution, one where we value the full and meaningful engagement of all who are the University of Wisconsin – Green Bay.
II. Strategic Budgeting Principles
We propose, as a first draft, several principles as guides for UWGB's process of strategic budgeting. The list is not, at this stage, in priority order. Nor is it complete. We are certain that colleagues will bring to our attention critical considerations that we have overlooked. Still, here is a start:
1. Bottom-Up Engagement and Empowerment
We are a community rich in our expertise, innovative thinking, and high aspirations. Effective engagement of this important strength occurs early in the strategic budgeting process rather than merely at the end. The budget planning process must start at the operational units (departments and offices). To the extent possible, it will use existing committees and governance structures to keep the university community fully informed and engaged, and to ensure the wide range of input needed for wise decision-making.
2. Inclusive Involvement
The strategic budgeting process allows for effective involvement of faculty, staff, students, classified colleagues as well as external members of the UWGB community. It encourages and enables members of different groups to see "the big picture," to learn about other units, and to become involved on behalf of the whole university, not just their own assigned unit.
3. Transparency
The budget process is open and informative. People have access to budget, expenditure, and operational information. They are able to get information about the budgetary constraints, requirements, pressures, resources, and opportunities. They know who is responsible for making budgetary decisions, when, and by what processes they can have input. "Products" are made widely available. In short, members of the campus community know what is happening, when, and why.
4. Sensitivity
The process also is sensitive to and respectful of the worth and dignity of every individual, office, and program. This is especially important in tough budget times. Those involved in the budgeting process may have no choice but to look at possible reductions, alternatives, or changes. They have to be able to look at various "what if" scenarios--almost all of which will be found, upon reflection, not to be desirable or necessary. Yet, the mere discussion of such action can be very costly in terms of students' and employees' morale and confidence, sometimes producing a self-fulfilling prophecy. Somehow, we must protect our students, employees, and programs from this.
This can best be accomplished by protecting the confidentiality of such occasionally necessary deliberations and then arriving at decisions – which are public and open – in a timely manner. Thus, even as we strive toward openness as indicated in #4 above, we are also sensitive to the human implications of budgetary discussions, and we strive to achieve a delicate balance between these two important principles.
5. Governance Primacy
At UWGB, we have separate governance entities for faculty, academic staff, and students. We also have classified staff and administrators who, while they do not have a distinctive governance structure, are nonetheless vital members of our institution. All of those constituencies need to be involved in the strategic budgeting process. Insofar as possible, we will build on, utilize, and include our existing governance entities.
6. Integration
All units and levels of the University are interconnected. The budget process recognizes these interconnections and incorporates them into the process. Vertically, the process integrates university-level and unit-level strategic directions. Horizontally, the process recognizes and takes into consideration the interrelations across programs, departments, and divisions, and the ways in which changes in one unit will impact on others.
7. Information-Based Thinking
The process is informed by and based on accurate, objective information and normative data. This needs to include ongoing assessments of both the internal environment/operations and the external environment. Common beliefs and assumptions need be reviewed against actual data and information—i.e., given a "reality check"—rather than taken for granted. Standard measures need to be available, and information needs to be shared both within and across units. In this manner, members of the university community will have the larger institutional context within which to interpret their own individual experiences and needs, and the solutions that emerge will be informed, realistic, accurate, and fair to the University community.
8. Responsiveness to Differences; No "One Size Fits All"
The University is a complex and dynamic organization. One planning unit will differ from the next, and one planning year will differ from the next. The University will have some areas of greater complexity and change and other areas of greater predictability and stability. Planning units will have wide guidelines (within these principles) to adopt strategic budgeting processes best suited to their particular circumstances. Likewise, the planning and budgeting processes will evolve and improve over time as we learn and as we adapt to future challenges, influences, and opportunities.
9. Initial Simplicity
We can imagine a full-fledged planning and budgeting process that is very elaborate and thorough. After several UWGB faculty, staff, and administrators visited a campus where such a system is being implemented, however, we all agreed that such an investment of time and effort was not appropriate to our context. We have opted, instead, to start with a more minimal process. With time, we can decide what might be added and, perhaps even, what can be deleted.
These principles will help us begin the strategic budgeting process. Clearly, this is not a "one shot" effort. The process will improve over the years. As it becomes more routine, we would expect it to link, easily and naturally, to other institutional processes such as planning, development, assessment, and evaluation. But, as our process evolves, we hope the principles outlined in this section will help keep us "on track" in developing a process that is informative, meaningful, realistic, and wise.
III. Strategic Budgeting Process
The strategic budgeting process will span across all divisions of the University, all organizational levels, and all governance entities. It will be comprised of both "strategic budgeting entities" and "strategic budgeting steps." Both are outlined in this section.
Strategic Budgeting Entities
1. Budget Planning Units
At the campus level, each major budget division will be considered a separate planning "unit." These "units" will be responsible for submitting balanced budget models and unit plans to be considered by the Strategic Budgeting Committee and the Chancellor's Cabinet. Strategic budgeting begins at the unit level. So, what should the units be? From the university perspective, they These units would include, at a minimum, the following:
· Academic Affairs, including, as distinct planning units:
o Arts and Sciences
o Professional and Graduate Studies
o Information Services
o Student Affairs (including Residential Life)
o Outreach and Extension
o Housing [?]
· Business and Finance
o Weidner Center [?]
o Union [?]
· Advancement
· Athletics [?]
These are the major budget divisions units and the minimum number of planning units at the university level. Within a particular budget division, however, there may be additional planning units that participate in the division's planning process. In Liberal Arts and Sciences and in Professional and Graduate Studies, it is expected that each interdisciplinary budget unit will actively participate in the planning activities of the respective academic division. This is where the "bottom up" approach to planning and input into the planning process is ensured.
Thus, each budget unit Each may decide to further organize into constituent budget-planning units. That will be the decision of the unit involved. Further, there is no assumption that the exact same processes for "bottom up" budget-planning will apply to every unit. Indeed, just the opposite. The process for involving those in Liberal Arts and Sciences may be quite differ from the process which SGA, Weidner Center, or Athletics decides best suits their purposes.
Additionally, there may be additional entities that cut across these budget planning units. Nothing precludes such additional bodies from becoming involved in formulating plans and proposals to be considered through the budget process. Possible examples might be initiatives contemplated by the Women's Equality Council, the Campus or Community Diversity Councils, or the General Education Council as just a few examples.
2. Governance
Three of our major existing governance entities (faculty, academic staff, students) would have a senior leader designated to serve on the UWGB Strategic Budgeting Committee (more on that follows). These individuals would be responsible for keeping their constituencies informed and for providing their constituencies opportunities for input into the strategic budgeting process, particularly at the initial stages of the process. There is no a priori reason why each of the governance entities need to decide upon the same types or degrees of involvement; that would be up to each respective governance group.
3. Line Administrators
Line administrators play several critical roles. First, they assure a process that complies with the policies of the unit and the university. Second, after weighing advice, counsel, and information from various sources, they make budgetary recommendations and decisions and are held accountable for the results – for the effective performance of the responsibilities assigned to the units that they lead.
Budget planning is "bottom up" and recommendations are developed initially at the unit level. At that level, the unit and the line administrator should have a great deal of freedom to determine what kind of recommendations they feed into the budgeting process at the next level. Ultimately, line administrators decide what to recommend for their units, provide information and support relative to their recommendations, are responsive throughout the process, and are responsible for implementing the final budgetary decisions of the Chancellor who is accountable to the Board of Regents.
4. The Strategic Budgeting Committee
The challenge is how to integrate these different units and constituencies into one process. While none of us would argue that we need more committees in general, in this particular case, we (Bruce and Sue) believe that we do need to form a new committee. This new committee would be more inclusive and broad-based than any one of our current committees or governance entities. It would be a relatively small group of individuals with senior leadership responsibilities, either administrative or within the governance group from which they are drawn. It would be the "keeper of the process," would ensure input from all constituencies, and would evaluate and modify the process as experience tells us is appropriate or desirable.
a. Coordinate and oversee the strategic budgeting process by providing budgeting instructions and guidelines, timelines, advice, and comment on unit proposals and strategies.
b. Represent the various governance entities of the University by keeping constituencies informed, fostering dialog, and providing input to the discussion and process.
c. Determine information and data requirements for planning and evaluating budget proposals and reports.
d. Chair and Vice Chair participate in the university-level budget hearing process.
e. Review and critique penultimate budget proposals, including the recommendation of changes, prior to final decision-making and implementation.
f. Regularly and critically evaluate the process against strategic budgeting principles to recommend changes and improvements.
Precise membership will need to be worked out, but we would suggest the following.
a. The Chair of the new Strategic Budget Committee would be a member of the Faculty Senate's standing Planning and Budget Committee, and also would serve ex officio on the Faculty Senate (???) (How would the chair be selected? By the University Committee?)
b. Chair of the Academic Staff Committee (would also serve as Vice Chair of the new Strategic Budget Committee).
c. Assistant Vice Chancellor for Planning and Budget (would provide extensive guidance, direction as to procedural/budgetary requirements, and other support to the committee).
d. SGA President.
e. Provost.
f. Vice Chancellor for Business and Finance.
g. A community representative, perhaps from the Council of Trustees.
h. A member of the unrepresented classified staff.
Ideally and insofar as possible, terms would be for three years to ensure continuity and experience on the committee.
Strategic Budgeting Steps
Before outlining the strategic budgeting steps that we would anticipate being involved, we need to reiterate what strategic budgeting is and isn't.
First, strategic budgeting is, at the heart of it, a planning process. But, it does not substitute for—and must not be confused with—the ongoing substantive planning and improvement efforts of the various units across campus. Those plans capture how people want to improve their academic programs, student life, the workplace environment, our physical facilities, etc. They would include the academic plan, the information technology plan, the campus master plan, diversity plan, campus life plan, and unit strategic plans. We want to be clear not to confuse strategic budgeting with the other types of planning that will, eventually, form the texture and backdrop for the annual budget planning process. Strategic budgeting is crucial and effective, but it's only one piece of the picture.
Second, as we noted earlier, strategic budgeting is not a neat, linear process. Those who like clear, crisp flowcharts can be driven nuts. There are top-down guidelines for bottom-up processes and multiple interacting units that must come together. Thus, we outline steps that recognize and allow for the iterative nature of the process. Although we are talking here about the strategic budgeting process, this is where budget and planning come together. Hence, the steps outlined for strategic budgeting also, at this point, begin to represent the same steps we will use for strategic planning at the University level.
Third, this isn't a game of Monopoly where we all get to start at "Go." We're already well into a biennial budget process and well into our campus budget-building process. We're halfway around the game board even as we start this discussion. So, we anticipate that in this first year, we'll be starting the process at about Step 3.
Having said all that, these are the various steps that seem to be required:
Step 1: University-Level Strategic Directions, Assessments, and Assumptions
Purpose: To provide context and guidance for planning and budgeting at the university level and at the level of planning units.
Product: "Strategic directions" identify which direction the University needs and wants to go in. Strategic directions are relatively few in number, identify areas to receive particular emphasis for the university as a whole, and are most likely to be focused on a time frame of at least two or three years. One strategic direction that has been identified by Bruce, for example, is that of connecting with the community. Another (if funded) would be to grow enrollments to 7500. Others could include internationalizing the undergraduate experience, or promoting wellness, or creating 6 new nationally known centers of excellence – whatever we decide. The point is, the strategic directions are campuswide priorities that the whole institution will promote.
"Assessments" identify the major, relevant aspects of the internal and external environments—what works and what doesn't work so well within the institution, and what special opportunities, challenges, or threats we face on the outside. This is the traditional SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) used for strategic planning in general. The assessments of the internal and external environment are short, few in number, and focused on factors most relevant to the university-level strategic directions. For the purposes of strategic budgeting, we will pay special attention to the fiscal realities and options.
"Assumptions" must also be identified. The major assumptions are "educated guesses" that form a common framework within which the various units can develop their thinking. For instance, are we planning for growth in enrollments or for a steady state? Are we planning on increased funding, or reductions, and of what magnitude?
Statement of strategic directions should take no more than a half page. Assessments and assumptions should be similarly focused and concise.
Process: The Strategic Budgeting Committee will establish an iterative process for engaging governance entities and the campus community in assessing the internal and external environments. The Strategic Budgeting Committee will also establish an integrative process for governance entities to participate in developing or critiquing drafts of the University-level strategic directions, assessments, and assumptions. The Committee then recommends to the Cabinet and Chancellor, possibly electing to include minority or divergent views. The Cabinet and Chancellor will then adopt, perhaps after modification, a set of strategic directions, assessments, and assumptions to be used in the subsequent steps. These will be distributed in writing, and all information resulting from this step will be made widely available.
Step 2: Planning-Unit-Level Strategic Directions, Assessments, and Assumptions
Purpose: To guide planning and budgeting at the planning unit level and to increase understanding, university-wide, of the planning unit's direction, concerns, and needs. This is where "bottom up" planning – and, opportunities for meaningful participation – really begins. Do note that the guidance that is provided is broader than for the budgeting of dollars. Most of the resources we have to allocate involve expertise and time, not dollars; the process needs to help a unit agree upon the directions in which time and expertise as well as dollars are best invested. At this point, the unit's strategic planning and strategic budgeting become integrally connected.
Product: Same as the university-level components in type: strategic directions, assessments of relevant internal and external factors, and assumptions are identified. However, these are focused upon the needs, aspirations, priorities of the planning unit. The unit's aspirations and priorities should not contradict University-level strategic directions, and some may help advance those strategic directions. Others, however, may be entirely independent of the University-level priorities and may concern matters of priority primarily for the planning unit itself. (An example of this would be the need of the Professional Program in Education to meet new Wisconsin Department of Instruction certification requirements, effective 2004.) The unit-level strategic directions, assessments, and assumptions should be focused, concise, and written.
Process: Each planning unit will develop and adopt its own process, and these likely will differ between planning units. Each planning unit will also develop the substantive plans needed to carry out its responsibilities. For example, Business and Finance will have a physical facilities plan, Academic Affairs will have an academic plan and an IT plan, Advancement and Marketing will have a marketing plan, and so forth. These substantive plans may be more long-term and general. They will inform and feed into the University's strategic plan and strategic budgeting processes, but are distinct and distinguishable from the University's strategic budgeting. These substantive plans will be available to all. To promote broader understanding, they will be reviewed by the Strategic Budgeting Committee, but they are the primary responsibility of the planning unit itself (as planning units are defined above).
The Strategic Budgeting Committee will provide a common format for reporting and submitting the planning unit's strategic budgeting products. The Strategic Budgeting Committee also may provide feedback on the process adopted by planning unit if the process seems not to be adequately serving general strategic budgeting principles such as those enumerated earlier in this paper. The process adopted by the planning unit must be explicitly published (and kept up-to-date) in a form that is available to all.
While wide unit-level latitude is desirable, the established process must be consistent with university's adopted strategic budgeting principles including opportunities of wide participation by faculty, academic staff, classified colleagues, and – as appropriate to the unit's responsibilities – students and external community members. The process needs to allow for review, feedback, revision, communication. All information resulting from this step is made widely available.
Step 3: Unit-Level Strategic Budgeting
Purpose: This is where inclusive "bottom up" planning in Step 2 pays off. Step 3 is intended to bring forward to the Strategic Budgeting Committee the resource issues that are important to the planning unit and its ability to carry out its strategic plans.
Product: Proposed budget(s) for the planning unit, including proposed increases, reductions, or redirections.
Process: The Strategic Budgeting Committee, drawing on the guidance of the Planning and Budget Office, provides instructions on the format for submission of the proposed budget (e.g., multiple funding scenarios to be considered, scope of resources/changes to be considered, supporting information to be provided). The format may change from year-to-year, but should remain consistent enough to be user-friendly. Whatever the format, in this step the planning unit must also demonstrate that its budget recommendations are clearly and explicitly connected to the products of Step 2 and, perhaps, Step 1 (i.e., to strategic directions, assessments, and assumptions).
The planning units will determine their own internal process for developing their budget recommendations, and these will vary from unit to unit. One unit, for example, may involve directors in a series of meetings or administrative "hearings," while another unit may use a more collaborative committee structure. Whatever variation a planning unit adopts, the process must be consistent with university-level strategic budgeting principles. Whatever process is chosen at the unit level, the lead administrator for the planning unit is responsible and accountable for deciding what "package" is brought forward to the next step.
In times of budget reductions, the planning units have a special responsibility to reach that delicate balance between the principle of transparency and the principle of sensitivity. We can achieve this by making publicly available the method, guiding principles, and overall objectives of the strategic budgeting process, but being discrete about the particular people who might be impacted. Example: If a unit is forced to consider laying off some employees, it could openly state that its objective is to reduce the budget by x%, and its guiding principles are to preserve academic integrity and quality of campus life (or safety, or infrastructure, or material resources, or whatever). Its method could be to use a committee structure, or to have administrative review. It would be appropriate to state that the unit is looking at possibly as many as two layoffs; it would not be appropriate, at this time before any decisions have been made, to say who would be laid off. After all, at the next level, another solution might be found. All discussion within the unit's internal hearings or committee discussions must be strictly confidential.
The unit administrator will be responsible for articulating how the planning unit's budget recommendations relate to the strategic directions, assessments, and assumptions. Normally, these are public and widely available. In times of budget reductions, however, broad public dissemination would be delayed until decisions have been made.
Step 4: University-Level Strategic Budgeting
Purpose: To construct an annual budget which is timely, accurate, responsive to campus needs, and consistent with the University's strategic directions.
Product: Annual budget for the University, including budgets for the planning units, consistent with State regulations and submitted by State deadline.
Process: This is where strategic planning and budgeting come together. Planning unit leaders will present the results of Steps 2 and 3, for their respective units, in university-level budget hearings. Again, Step 2 entails the unit's strategic directions, assessments, and assumptions. Step 3 is the resulting proposed budget. Together, they should form a coherent, understandable whole.
The hearing body will include leaders of all planning units (to address cross-unit impacts), Cabinet, and chair and co-chair of the Strategic Budgeting Committee. Unit leaders may bring in one or two others to help with their presentation and for that portion of the hearing dealing with the unit's presentation.
Following these hearings, the Cabinet will draft a budget plan, explicitly showing the logical connections of the budget to the strategic directions, assessments, and assumptions that were the result of Steps 1 and 2. This draft will be made widely available across campus.
The Strategic Budgeting Committee will review the draft budget and provide the Chancellor with comments, concerns, or recommendations about it. In fulfilling this responsibility, the Strategic Budgeting Committee can, as it wishes, devise means by which it seeks consultation with and input from the governance entities represented on the Committee.
The Chancellor will consider the advice of the Strategic Budgeting Committee, consult with Cabinet, and make revisions as deemed necessary. The Chancellor then announces the University's budget, including connections to strategic directions and the internal and external assessments with which the whole process began.
Step 5: Evaluation of Process
Purpose: To continually improve our strategic budgeting process.
Product: A set of recommendations for improving the University's strategic budgeting process in the future.
Process: Soon after the conclusion of each strategic budgeting process, the Strategic Budgeting Committee will debrief, identifying what worked well and what did not work out as intended, making recommendations for changes for the next year. These could include changes in format, process, or content. Over the years, the process should become more user-friendly, more effective, and more productive. In this effort, the Strategic Planning Committee will get input from others, as they see helpful; it is this feedback phase that is too often overlooked—but that is critical for any effective "learning organization."
Step 6: Analysis of Results
Purpose: To continually improve our operational effectiveness in carrying out our mission and agreed upon strategic directions, and to correct budgetary decisions that were not effective in producing the desired result.
a. Objective feedback on the University's and the planning units' progress toward achieving their strategic directions.
b. A rich array of relevant, objective information to inform our future actions, thinking, and planning efforts.
c. Shared understandings to promote productive consideration and discussion of our various successes and problems.
Process: At the conclusion of the planning year, each planning unit will assess its progress with respect to its strategic directions and goals. It will prepare a concise progress report or "report card." The University will do the same. These progress reports will be made available to the campus community. They will then be incorporated into the next planning and budgeting cycle.
In order to do this, each planning unit will need to identify the critical measures or indicators by which its progress can be measured. The logical connection between measure and goal should be clear. The UWGB Office of Institutional Research and the UWGB Assessment Office will assist the units in identifying reasonable measures and getting data relative to those measures. When possible and appropriate, standard and/or normed measures will be used. When appropriate and feasible, multiple measures will be used to provide a better picture. (Note: Use of the term "data" does not preclude the use of qualitative indicators when appropriate.)
Over time, we will evolve a culture in which all university personnel have easy access to the information they need to inform their thinking, decision-making, and further planning. We are disturbed at the present, for instance, by the number of times we hear people "talking past each other" because they have no agreement or common understanding of whether or not a certain problem even exists. This makes it hard to agree on what needs to be done or how we should spend the valuable, scarce resources we have. By building in this step, we'll have an easier time agreeing what courses of action are called for and what modifications are needed to our operations.
Strategic Budgeting Timeline
Timelines—what step is taken by what date—will be worked out as the outlined process is improved and agreed upon. Timelines must allow for meaningful involvement, dialogue, and deliberation. Perhaps the timeline will differ depending upon whether the first or the second year of a biennium is under consideration. And, given that we are well into a biennial budget process, we will certainly need a compressed, one-time-only, timeline for this year. Indeed, our approach this year will likely need to be one of cutting into the process "mid-stream," say, at Step 3, then beginning with Step 1 for the next year.
Whatever, we will seek to "start simple," elaborating the process where it seems to all of us to be worth the additional investment of our shared time, energy, and expertise. Both of us welcome your comments, criticisms, and suggestions, through whatever channels you're most comfortable with. We look forward to discussing this further.


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One of just two women to make it to this list. When Yolanda Cuba was 29 she was appointed CEO of Mvelaphanda Holdings, a Johannesburg Stock Exchange-listed investment holding company. She was awarded stock options worth over $10 million which she exercised before stepping down as CEO last year. She subsequently took up a job as an Executive Director at South African Breweries. Cuba still serves on the boards of South African blue chips such as Steinhoff International Holdings and Absa Group.
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The maverick Nigerian Internet entrepreneur is founder of Iroko TV, the world's largest digital distributor of African movies. Iroko TV has been dubbed the 'Netflix of Africa'. Earlier this year, Iroko TV raised $8 million in venture capital from Tiger Global Management, a New York-based private equity and hedge fund run by billionaire Chase Coleman. IrokoTV enjoys lucrative content distribution deals with Dailymotion, iTunes, Amazon and Vimeo. Njoku is unwilling to divulge figures, but analysts believe IrokoTV could be worth as much as $30 million. Njoku is the company's largest individual shareholder.
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Monkfish! Finally, Monkfish!
Hopefully you have all had a chance to see the photos from various BTD-related activities. If not, please read the blog previous to this one....
Well, the time had finally come tonight to eat Monkfish. I was randomly given that distinct opportunity at Vincent tonight. I told you about Vincent before in a previous blog about the adventures to the MN State Fair. I ended my bad food journey at Vincent where I was able to turn around my poor eating habits for the more refined, BTD-friendly French cuisine habits that day.
So, tonight, friends (folk musician Cat Kinsey and alt country musician Chad Hinman, along with Cat's dad) and I broke bread, white baguette unfortunately, over lovely wine and entrees at Vincent. And on the menu was monkfish! And strangely enough it has a very funny texture, more like a scallop than a fish but I found it quite enjoyable. I would still have to say, hands down that Sea Bass is my ultimate favorite fish, followed closely by wild salmon. The monkfish was supposed to come with cabbage and Peruvian potatoes, but the server happily substituted Swiss chard and wild rice so that I could attempt to adhere to BTD principles. Thank you!
Now, unfortunately, eating out of the bread basket with whipped creamy butter may be counter-acting my wise entree choice. Oh well. I pray for better will-power next time I'm out with friends.
Finished the meal with one of their appetizer/salad staples.....beets with frisee and whipped goat cheese.
Heaven. Simply heaven.
It was fun having Cat and Chad in town again. I got to hear demos from Cat's new CD that she is working on, little-by-little. I am incredibly impressed with Chad's new CD that Cat dropped by my place a couple of months ago. To learn more about these two rockin' musicians, check out:
www.catkinsey.com and also www.chadhinman.com<br />
Cat informed me that her website is expected to get a lot more hits now, by accident, because of that new movie out called, "Kinsey." Oh, she is so lucky to have a last name like that! Haha! It is truly good for business.
Well, I finally got back to the blog. It was time. As you may have correctly assumed, I was incredibly disappointed with election results. There were many angry and sad things going through my head and heart that could have come out on the blog in the days past 11/02. But I chose to follow that good ol' fashioned advice in this particular instance: If you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything at all. So I remained silent. Too bad for the reader who didn't enjoy my political opinions and spiritual beliefs up to that point. This reader perhaps should have followed this ancient advice before he decided to leave a blatantly personal attack (vs. constructively critical reply) on my comment page:
What is with you Minneapolis types? Howard Dean? Liberally drinking? Is it the water, or what? Anyway, four more years, thank God. The rest of us have good sense.
David Owens
Wednesday, November 3, 2004 at 11:18:52
When I first received this comment, I was a bit dumbfounded as to why a fellow blood type dieter would choose to attack my "sense."
After a week or so of sitting on this issue...I've decided that it's only appropriate to help this reader understand my perspective, however skewed it seems.
Dear Sir:
Gosh, what IS up with us Minneapolis types? (hmmm, you get one point deducted for stereotyping, albeit a stereotype I have no problem perpetuating as I am PROUD to live in a place as progressive as Minneapolis) but I suppose, for your sake, dear reader, I will answer your question...
Well for one, we Minneapolitans have the intellectual capacity and open minds to understand and adhere to a diet as complex and "unorthodox" as the BTD. Is it in the water? Perhaps. There are only 10,000 lakes in Minnesota. Minne being a Native American root word for "water". As in Minnehaha Park. Minnehaha literally means, "laughing waters." Minneapolis: city of water, city of lakes. So, hey, you might get a point back, because, yes, it probably IS in the water. It's all ABOUT the water here!
As we see the value in these sacred waters around us, we in turn realize a certain social responsibility to protect them. Yes, this may lead us to such left-winged activities as joining the Sierra Club and knocking on doors before and on election day in hopes that we elect leaders in our local, state, and national government positions who are interested in protecting these waters as well as the flora and fauna (including ourselves) which inhabit them.
What else is up with us Minneapolis types? OK, well, we have TONS of co-ops. These co-ops have lead to dangerous hobbies such as free and critical-thinking about the world around us, about our bodies, about nature, about our sprituality, however manifested. With these co-ops, not only can we discover such alternative methods of healing, such as the BTD, but FIND AND PURCHASE THE FOODS AND HERBS THAT SUPPORT OUR DIET! We have a chance to BUY LOCALLY. We have a chance to SUPPORT ORGANIC FARMERS. We have a chance to use our pocketbooks and minds to create a sustainable world and try our best in this heavily synthetic world to be in tune with nature. We recognize the interconnectedness of man with nature. With the universe as a whole. We understand how being selfless in our quest for justice for the environment and for respresenting the underdogs and those who cannot represent themselves leads back to good karma and peace within ourselves.
In order to follow the Blood Type Diet successfully, you need fresh organic produce. You need real, unadulterated food. In order to embrace naturopathic medicine, you must embrace NATURE. It helps to live in a community that supports this type of living in harmony with nature with all its heart.
It is simple really. In our greed, we destroy things that are seemingly benign. Rain forest? "Who cares?" people say. Or how about global warming? "Not a threat". Suddenly we recognize how destroying the ecosystems of the world around us leads directly and indirectly back to the destruction of ourselves. Just come to my pharmacy and I'll show you how to make a progesterone vaginal suppository so that a woman can actually become a mother because her body cannot support the initial stages of pregnancy without losing the fertilized egg. Watch male sperm counts go down year by year, first in the smallest animals, and now, here in 2004, in human males.
WATCH AS WE CAN NO LONGER EAT FISH WITHOUT FEAR AND RECOMMENDED GOVERNMENTAL HEALTH LIMITATIONS BECAUSE THE AIR AND WATER IS FILLED WITH MERCURY WHICH LEECHES INTO OUR BODIES AND ADVERSELY AFFECTS THE DEVELOPING BRAINS OF OUR OFFSPRING. In a world where the bottom line has defined our corporations, here is the karma for years of not doing the right thing when we knew in our most infinite wisdom that what we were doing was not right for the earth, and in turn, self-destructive.
To make this an argument of simply right vs. left, or Bush vs. Kerry, republican vs. democrat is to me unproductive. The real argument to me is this: realistic common-sense moderation vs. unrealistic ideological extremes. Each party can justify that each is the former and their opponents represent the latter, but take a deep look at laws being passed and/or rights being banned due to greed and extremist ideology. This is what the majority (80%+) of "Minneapolis types" (according to election results per Hennepin County) have chosen to do.
Perhaps it IS my world. Perhaps, working at a pharmacy where I regularly dispense anti-viral meds to HIV positive homosexual males who now have lifelong partners has led me to believe that despite the great pharmaceuticals keeping them alive and healthy, if they were ever to fall ill and require hospitalization and/or hospice care, either due to AIDS-related ailments or simply old age, I would hope their life partners would not be discriminated against due to unfair hospital visitation rules because their partners are not considered "family." Perhaps, they could also attend funerals without worrying about employers refusing to give them time off because they are not legal "spouses." But the point is that, it is not my decision to take away these rights, but it is my responsibility to protect them and allow them the most peaceful last days that I can, the same rights as heterosexual couples, with my vote and my voice. I have seen a common pattern of LOVE between the men in these partnerships. I have seen a common pattern of HATE (disguised as Godly reverence) from the people who are trying to take away their rights. I am not alone in this perception.
I could say so much more, but I will say one thing regarding "The rest of us have good sense"..... Remember, this was NOT a landslide victory for Bush. He may have won the "majority" of America, but we, the people, have lost respect from the majority of the world. "Who cares about the rest of the world?" Remember, we are all connected. America is a great nation, but not infallible.
Here come more comments, good and bad....please note death threats will be reported to authorities. Not sure why I'd get them. I'm American and I'm just practicing my right to free speech. Isn't that why we put all this money into the war? To protect our freedom? Oh, the double-edged sword of propaganda strikes again.....


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WOW! This looks remarkably alike the Mad Max bad guys. Hope this has a "Mad Max" feel to it, since it's in Australia and all. :D
Good luck with the mod.
WOW! This looks breathtaking.
Really good work guys.
This looks amazing.
How big is this particular part of Middle-Earth compared to the map in Oblivion?
Looks REALLY good.
Keep up the awesome work guys. ;)
The compass should only show important things like cities and quest-related places.
But I think the best would be if possible to bind a key to make the compass appear/disappear. That way you have a compass that shows important place, but if someone doesn't want one it could be easily deactivated.


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Since it is a rock 'n' roll radio station, I assumed the folks at KISS-FM wouldn't care much about "Jesus Christ Superstar" coming back to the Majestic Theatre starting tonight (although it IS a rock musical, albeit a really old one). But since it's a slow weekend, just to be on the safe side, I prepared a hilarious, old-school comedy bit built around the fact that Ted Neeley, who's playing Jesus again, is 65 years old.
I figured we could turn my weekly "weekend happenings/RJ After Nine" gig on "The Lisle & Hahn Morning Show" this morning into a sleazy Vegas comedy show, complete with rimshots and canned laughter. But we spent too much time talking sports, bars and nightclub shows and ran out of time.
So here's how it might have sounded:
"Ted Neeley has been playing the role of Jesus for 37 years. That's longer than Jesus played the role of Jesus!" (Ka-blam!)
"There's no truth to the rumor that he turns water into Metamucil." (thwack!)
"There's also no truth to the rumor that he knew Matthew, Mark, Luke and John personally." (ka-pow!)
"You'd think that after playing Jesus all these years, he'd be in line for a promotion. Shouldn't he be playing God by now?" (bang!)
"65 years old…he's almost old enough to be a Rolling Stone." (bam!)
"The highest-paid backstage person must be his makeup artist." (boom!)
"I hear he inspired a band on this year's Warped Tour. They decided to call themselves Crusty Jesus." (crash!)
Thanks for coming. I'll be here all week. Try the veal. And tip your waitress.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again: being creative is not easy.
There's a growing number of people who seem to think that having a career in the arts is easy. They think it should come naturally, be a piece of cake, and then are seriously dismayed when their own attempts fall short of their expectations.
Let me state again: being creative is not easy.
No matter what your 'art' is — whether it be traditional like music or painting, unconventional like trash sculpture, or painstaking craftsmanship (a la carpentry or metal working) — the fact remains that it takes work.
"Ah," you say, "but you have talent. That makes it easy for you."
Maybe. Maybe not. Certainly I enjoy my creative pursuits, but regardless if I have talent or not, I've put in the time. I have been playing music for over 20 years. Twenty years! That's hours spent practicing, listening, reading, experimenting with music and sound. And I was most definitely not a perfect player from the start. There were aspects of my craft I struggled with, times when I was having so much difficulty I almost quit. But I was stubborn. I wanted to play well, and so I did what was necessary to do so — which was keeping at it! It was sheer dedication and determination that kept me practicing through the rough parts.
Being creative is not easy. Please do not be dismayed when your initial attempts are unwieldy and awkward. We all start somewhere. Even prodigies and talented people. In some ways, they may even have it rougher as talent can work against you — for example, while you may be capable of playing Beethoven on day one, you still have to build up the muscles and stamina with rudimentary exercises to DO it without hurting yourself (like running a marathon).
My point is, just because art is an art doesn't mean it's simple or easy. Don't be disappointed when you don't progress as fast as you would like. Don't throw in the towel after one, two, or even ten lessons when it doesn't 'click' right away. Be determined. Be dedicated, and one day, you will meet your goals.


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Ash Wednesday service planned
A United Methodist Ash Wednesday service will be held at the United Methodist Church of the New Covenant on Wednesday at 7 p.m. The congregations of the Soldotna and North Star United Methodist churches will take part.
A choir practice will be held at 6 p.m.
The New Covenant church is located in Kenai next to the Boys and Girls Club. The service is open to the public.
Jesus movie to be featured
For six consecutive Wednesday evenings, Christ Lutheran Church will show portions of the movie, "Jesus of Nazareth." The film will be the center of the brief evening worship service. "The Power and Authority of Love," "Love Rejected and Condemned" and "The Victory of Love" will be some of the themes found in the story about Jesus' life, death and resurrection.
The services are from 6:10 to 7 p.m. starting Wednesday through April 12. Christ Lutheran Church is at Mile .25 of the Kenai Spur Highway in Soldotna.
Ladies conference starts Thursday
The Kalifonsky Christian Center Ladies Conference 2000 will be held Thursday through March 11. It is designed to encourage, uphold and inspire women of all ages. The theme of the conference is "Lasting Beauty. The speakers are Vicki Toliver and Michelle Faumui.
Two sessions will be held at the center both on Thursday and March 10. They are at 1 and 7 p.m. each day. The conference will end with a luncheon celebration at Old Town Village Restaurant on March 11 at 11 a.m.
There is a $15 fee for the conference, which includes the luncheon. For more information, call Marta Eldridge at 283-7152 or Terri Hutchens at 260-5484. Reservations need to be made by Saturday.
Easter cantata choir to start practicing
The choir of the United Methodist Church of the New Covenant invites singers to be part of an Easter cantata, "Crown Him King," which will be performed at the church April 23 at 8 a.m.
Beginning March 15, practices will be held at the church on Wednesdays from 6 to 7:30 p.m. For more information, call Kari Mohn at 283-4258.
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Police trying to identify the owners of what they believe to be stolen property are hoping family snaps on an iPod will help to reunite them.
The 8Gb iPod was among a number of items recovered by Bognor Regis police, which include Nikon and Inpro binoculars and Canon and Lumix cameras.
Also among the haul were three bicycles - a specialised Stumpjumper, a Carrera Banshee and a specialised Hardrock.
Police believe that the items may have been stolen from anywhere across West Sussex.
If anyone recognises the people in the picture or any of the stolen items, please call Sussex Police on 101 quoting Operation Etna.


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'I don't feel like getting married...'
I am 31 and single. I never fell in love with anyone, even though there was a guy with whom I had got physical once when I was 22
Dear Diana,
I am 31 and single. I never fell in love with anyone, even though there was a guy with whom I had got physical once when I was 22. It was shortlived and I was too naive. Now my parents are forcing me to get married and are lining up prospective suitors at the doorstep. I have been telling them no, but they are in no mood to listen.
— Aarti
Dear Aarti,
No one can force you to get married. You are 31 and mature enough to take your decisions. Keep an open mind, who knows when you might meet someone. Tell your family you will marry when you find the right person. They can do their bit of groom hunting, but ultimately it is you who will say a yes or no.
Dear Diana,
I am fond of a guy at my workplace. We work in a travel agency, so often tour together. He is married with a kid. I am single. He is a great guy, but I get the feeling that he is with me to satisfy his sexual urges. Whenever he is with me, what's topmost of his mind is to get physical. When I say no, he gets angry. I then have to beg him to talk to me again. I know there is no future with him and that he is using me. Still, I miss him when he is not around. How do I tell him to talk to me and care for me rather than only think of getting physical with me?
— Anjoree
Dear Anjoree,
He is sexually attracted towards you. May be he is caught in a loveless marriage, so he just wants you. He demands and you give in, but remember one day he is going to dump you. He is married and indulging in an extra-marital affair. You are single and you can find someone who respects you. You should stop giving into this guy, because it will mess up your as well as well as his. It will also create havoc in your professional lives.
Diana will solve it!
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