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Academic Council
Meeting Notes
August 8, 2000
Present: Curtis Johnson,
Dean of the College; Dinah Dodds; Dean of Arts and
Humanities; Gary Reiness, Dean of Mathematical and Natural
Sciences; Harold Schleef, Dean of Social Sciences; Terri
Banasek, Administrative Assistant and recorder; and Rosie
Felton, Administrative Assistant for Budgets and
Contracts.
Announcements:
- Secretarial support for Curriculum Committee: Kathy
Anderson has agreed to serve in this capacity. Dean
Schleef noted that this position involves a considerable
amount of work in addition to the department secretary's
normal responsibilities. The Academic Council agreed to
monitor the workload and to consider another person if
needed.
- Dean Reiness reported that the Louis Kuo has been
contacted by George Fox University. The University has an
open position in physical chemistry and has 10-12
students who need to take a 300-level physical chemistry
course to complete their graduation requirements. They
have requested permission to bring these students to
Lewis & Clark to take the course here. The George Fox
students would be taking the lecture only and not
participate in the lab. This class normally doesn't fill
to the cap, with 15-18 students in the fall and fewer in
the spring. George Fox would be billed for the tuition
for their students. The Academic Council suggested
additional work-students to help with grading, if
necessary. The Lewis & Clark instructor would receive
no additional compensation for teaching the George Fox
students.
- Dean Dodds said that adjuncts in the music
department, who are paid by the lesson, have suggested an
increase in fees from $320 to $360 for 45-minute lessons.
It is too late to do anything for this year. Dean Dodds
will research what other schools charge for private
lessons.
Agenda Items:
- Waseda Exchange: Waseda is a very large and
prestigious university in Tokyo. For many years, Lewis
& Clark hosted a summer program to enable Waseda
students to study in the U.S. It was a program involving
faculty and students from seven Oregon schools, housed on
the Lewis & Clark campus, which focused on
comparative culture.
In November 1999, Dr. Mooney received a letter from the
president of Waseda asking the College to enter into a
new arrangement. The exchange would allow from one to
three Waseda students to study a Lewis & Clark and
also allow from one to three Lewis & Clark students
to attend Waseda. A full-year program, this could be a
very attractive option for overseas study for majors or
minors in the Foreign Languages Department and for East
Asian Studies majors and minors.
Dr. Mooney seeks advice from the Academic Council. He is
reluctant to proceed, as the last program did not have
much faculty support. Dean Johnson will speak with Larry
Meyers about the program before the Academic Council
makes a decision.
- ACE Conferences: Dean Johnson distributed information
about upcoming conferences on chairing departments for
the divisional deans to share with their department
chairs. The College would fund one attendee per
division.
- Booklists: There are a number of courses that have no
booklists in the bookstore. The divisional deans should
contact faculty regarding the booklists for their
classes. All the faculty members have to do is to send
their syllabus to the bookstore. This will give the
students the choice of purchasing their books on campus
or going elsewhere. Some faculty members may not be aware
that the Barnes & Noble contract with the College
calls for faculty to provide them with lists.
- Director of Information Technology: The Academic
Council agreed that there should be faculty
representation on the search committee for this position.
The Education Technology Committee should also be
represented. Dean Johnson will recommend to Jane Atkinson
that she appoint faculty members to the search committee.
Suggested possibilities: Jens Mache, Erik Nilsen, Jeff
Ely, and Stuart Kaplan.
Next meeting: September 5, 2000, 9 a.m., in Dean
Johnson's office.
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