ACADEMIC COUNCIL
MEETING MINUTES
March 2, 1998
The minutes of the February 23, 1998 meeting were approved as
corrected.
Announcements:
Dean Savage said that the faculty computer lab on the 4th floor of
Miller is now up and running.
Agenda Items:
1. Lainie Ettinger and Jeff Anderson joined the Council to discuss
initiatives for foundation grant proposals.
- Keck Foundation. NSF recently announced its focus on the
integration of education and research--similar to aims of the Keck
Foundation. Our goal will be to make the two proposals dovetail.
Dean Atkinson will be the primary investigator and Curt Keedy will
be the project Coordinator. June Jones has agreed to be the
institutional contact. The NSF proposal has a March 17th deadline,
and must be submitted electronically, on-line. Dean Keedy wants it
in by March 9. The Keck proposal will be based on what we have
already done with education and research. The award is $500k. We
will explain our success with the Murdock Foundation grant and the
ways in which it enabled student/faculty research. Some ways in
which the college could use the grant funds are: expand summer
research program, equip labs with wiring, start-up funds for new
faculty, expand research to include the Math Sciences.
- William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has a new multi-year
grant program for liberal arts institutions which focuses on
self-assessment, planning and program development to enhance the
teaching-learning relationship in ways that integrate the ethos of
liberal learning with students' career aspirations, civic
imagination, and development of personal convictions. Dean
Atkinson suggested we use these funds for advising workshops. It
is important that there be something self-sustaining remaining
after the grant. The Foundation is also willing to provide funds
for discretionary funds if the goals are very well articulated
- Henry Luce Foundation. The focus of this proposal would be on
the Enlightenment or environmental issues. Project teams will
begin meeting monthly, and more frequently as the November 1 due
date approaches.
- Booth Ferris Foundation: We will go back to them with a
proposal to endow student-faculty collaborative research. It would
cost approximately $100k to endow this initiative. A letter will
go to them before June.
- Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Proposal ideas: 1) Our general
education program has quantitative reasoning requirement and there
are not enough courses because of limited lab space; 2) electronic
music instruction space--project is designed and drafted now; 3)
concerts and lectures funds; 4) events coordinator who works
primarily with arts and theatre. More conversation about this
later.
Ettinger is working with Evan Williams on a grant to the Cummings
Foundation for support with the Environmental Studies major. The
Tinker Foundation could do something with environmental issues in
Latin America--speak to Larry Meyers.
2. Requests for capital equipment over $5000 should be submitted
to divisional deans before the March 16 deadlines. The forms will be
sent to chairs by June Jones this week.
3. Elizabeth Whitman, a part-time instructor in the Writing
Center, will not return next year. The position description has been
revised and now will provide support to Inventing America
exclusively.
4. The College Housing Program was adopted by the Board of
Trustees at their February meeting. The program enables the College
to purchase homes on adjacent properties as they come up for sale,
sell the houses to interested faculty, with the College retaining
ownership of the land. New homeowners (faculty) would subsequently
share in the appreciation of the house. The plan is designed to
encourage faculty and staff to reside closer to the college, be
involved with the extra-curricular events on campus and ultimately
,strengthen the campus community. VP Pederson said that in any given
year, 1-4 properties come on the market.
Created by: washburn@lclark.edu
- Updated: 10-Mar-98