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Academic Council
Meeting Notes
October 17, 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; and Robert Nayer, Director of Operating and
Capital Budgets.
Agenda Items
- Religious Studies position: Dean Johnson prefers
that the Academic Council approve a three-year term
appointment for the Islamic Studies position. Regarding
the replacement for Dr. Rohrbaugh, the Paul Wright
representatives want a distinguished scholar in the
position, and it must be a Christian Studies position.
Dean Dodds will report to Dr. Rohrbaugh that the Council
is not going ahead with a search for his replacement
until next year. The search for the Islamic Studies
position will start immediately. This will be a
three-year term appointment with the potential of
conversion to a tenure-line position.
- Dean Schleef reported that the Neuroscience
Psychology and Social Psychology search committees are
firm. John Krussel has been suggested for the
Clinical/Community Psychology committee. For the Luce
position, Jeff Ely is suggested in place of Steve
Beckham.
Dean Reiness is working on the ad for the computer
science position. Suggestions for committee members:
Harvey Schmidt, Jeff Ely, Kellar Autumn or Ken Clifton,
and Jane Hunter or Deborah Heath.
- Dean Dodds reported on the suggested Development
Review committees for the Arts and Humanities
Division:
For John Fritzman: Nick Smith, chair, Bill
Rottschaefer, Deborah Heath.
For Elliott Young: Jane Hunter, chair, Steve
Beckham, possibly Tom Schoeneman
For Andrew Bernstein: Jane Hunter, chair, David
Savage. Suggestions for third person: Jack Hart, Nick
Smith, Rich Peck, Paulette Bierzychudek
For Stephen Tufte: Tom Olsen, chair, Herschel
Snodgrass, Richard Rohrbaugh.
- Standing Committee Appointments: John Fritzman was
the only nomination for the AAAS vacancy, so he is
automatically elected. As there were no nominations
received for the CPT vacancy, Dean Johnson will appoint
Greg Fredricks to the fill the two-year term. He also
appointed Jim Duncan to fill the rest of the appointed
term of Gary Reiness.
- There was an article in the Pioneer Log stating that
a Laughing Horse Bookstore representative was barred from
campus. The contract with Barnes and Noble requires that
faculty inform them which books will be required in their
classes, but does not require that faculty order the
books through them. The question is, if a student
purchases books from Laughing Horse, can Laughing Horse
then deliver them to the campus? Dean Johnson will
investigate.
- Long-term topics for next week's meeting: Dean Dodds
would like to discuss the feedback from the faculty
meeting. Dean Schleef mentioned that one concern that
was raised was that Inventing American would continue for
a total of 10 years. Some faculty would prefer a
one-semester course. He pointed out that a one-semester
course would free up 20 tenure-line faculty and reduce
our reliance on adjuncts. Jean Ward prefers a full-year
course. The two issues this topic raises are Inventing
American itself and adjunct staffing. Dean Schleef would
prefer more stable staffing and to hire people to term
appointments.
Dean Dodds would like to address the idea of encouraging
tenure-line faculty to teach introductory courses rather
than hire adjuncts to teach senior-level courses. The
Council will also discuss policies for staffing.
Next meeting: Tuesday, October 24, 8 a.m., in the
Breakfast Room.
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