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Academic Council
Meeting Minutes
September 17, 2002
Present: Curtis
Johnson, Dean of the College; Dinah Dodds, Interim Dean of
Arts and Humanities; Greg Fredricks, Interim Dean of
Mathematical and Natural Sciences; and Harry Schleef, Dean
of Social Sciences; Terri Banasek, administrative assistant
and recorder; and Rosie Felton, administrative assistant for
budgets and contracts.
Agenda Items:
- The divisional deans have spoken with the chairs in
their divisions regarding the registration process.
- Most found it to be a good process.
- Some faculty in the social sciences wondered
whether we should do away with arena registration.
Faculty in arts and humanities would like to keep
arena registration.
- A number of freshmen had to change their first
courses because they weren't advised properly.
- In the arts and humanities, most faculty found
that the students were better prepared when they
arrive on campus for individual advising
sessions.
- Some students found the three steps for
registration to be confusing. If the College decides
to keep the three different levels, a better job of
explaining the process to incoming students should be
done in the summer.
- Regarding the group advising, some faculty found
the groups to be too large - 20-30 students would be a
better number.
- There is general agreement that the academic fair
went very well.
- There is some difficulty in determining whether
the math requirement has been satisfied. The College
needs to look at a systematic way to note on a
student's transcript that he/she has completed the
equivalent of Math 055.
Dean Fredricks will report back to the science faculty
that the Academic Council is aware of problems occurring
with students choosing the proper science classes.
- Academic Council discussed the implications for
additional sections of lowering the cap in foreign
languages from 25 to 22. Over the past three years, this
would have created a need for 9 or 10 additional sections
(all languages). However, if faculty were willing to
accept up to 25 when necessary, the total number of
additional needed sections would have been only 3. No
decision was made at this time.
- The divisional deans proposed the following times for
divisional faculty meetings with Mervyn Brockett:
- Social Sciences: Tuesday or Thursday at
8:15-9:30, 11:30-12:30, or 12:00-1:00.
- Mathematical & Natural Sciences: Monday,
Sept. 23, or Thursday, Sept. 26, at
4 p.m.
- Arts & Humanities: Chairs would meet with him
first, then the divisional faculty. Chairs meet
Thursdays, 12:00-1:00.
Each of the divisional deans will send final times
(confirmed with Dr. Brockett) to Dean Johnson, and he
will send an email to faculty.
- Kari Chisholm and Erika Meyer from Public Affairs and
Communications met with the arts and humanities chairs
last week. All parties involved felt this was a helpful
exchange.
- Dean Johnson informed the Academic Council that he
would like to meet with each department chair and program
director individually to talk about what is happening in
the departments and learn what concerns they may have.
The Council agreed this would be useful.
Next meeting: Tuesday, Sept. 24, 9:00 a.m.
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