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Academic Council
Meeting Notes
October 10, 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.
Guests: Mervyn Brockett, Acting Vice President of Budget
and Finance; Robert Nayer, Director of Operating and Capital
Budgets; Richard Rohrbaugh, Paul S. Wright Professor of
Christian Studies; and Alan Cole, Assistant Professor of
Religious Studies.
Announcements
· Jean Ward asked whether the College would be
open to her teaching full time next year, taking a
sabbatical fall of 2002, teaching spring semester 2003, and
then retiring.
Agenda Items
- Faculty Meeting: Dean Dodds will introduce the
motion on voting rights, with a copy of motion
distributed to all faculty members present. Dean Johnson
will give his report and then give faculty the
opportunity to ask questions. He will stop the questions
at about 4:50 p.m. to introduce the motion. If asked, he
will name the people who will be invited to apply for
voting rights, and there will be time for questions and
clarification.
- Faculty Home Purchases: Dean Johnson reported from
the Executive Council that the College owns several
properties that are currently available for purchase.
The College retains ownership of the land, and the
purchaser would own the improvements. The properties are
in the $300,000 range, with the improvements costing
approximately $180,000. The Executive Council would
prefer to sell these houses to younger faculty members.
The Divisional Deans will explore this with their
colleagues.
- Faculty Travel Budgets: The Academic Council will
distribute the $200,000, or whatever is left, among the
three divisions and will let the divisional deans make
the final decisions. The allocation will be based on an
FTE computation and will be done as soon as the final
amount available is determined.
- Computer Replacement: Jane Atkinson is trying to
work out the situation without raiding the budgets, and
the PCs should be starting to show up.
- Search Committees: Dean Schleef distributed a list
of his recommendations for the Social Sciences search
committees. Dean Dodds also updated the Arts and
Humanities recommended search committee lists.
- Political Science
Robert Eisinger, chair
Don Balmer
Nicole Aas-Rouxparis
Law school representative
Psychology Neuroscience
Janet Davidson, chair
Erik Nilsen
Gary Reiness
Bruce Podobnik
Psychology Clinical/Community
Tom Schoeneman, chair
Janet Davidson
Bill Rottschaefer
Peter Christenson
Psychology Social
Erik Nilsen, chair
Tom Schoeneman
Robert Eisinger
Dorothy Berkson
Economics Pamplin Chair
Eban Goodstein, chair
Jim Grant
Janis Lochner
Rich Peck
Luce China
Marty Hart-Landsberg, chair
Stephen Lambo
Susan Glosser
Steve Beckham
Next meeting: Tuesday, October 17, 8 a.m., Board
Room.
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