Deans Council Minutes

August 15, 2001

NOTE: At times, issues of confidentiality may require that some items discussed in meetings be excluded from these minutes.

Present: Bill Barnes, Dick Aynsley, Joel Fowler, Alan Gabrielli, Mike Murphy, Sandy Pfeiffer, Dawn Ramsey, Judy Waits

Town Hall Meeting

The president has scheduled a town hall meeting for students on October 9. Deans should plan to attend. Because academic topics are included, this meeting also will serve as the Academic Affairs student forum for the semester.

Faculty Development Proposals

The request for proposals for faculty development funds will be distributed this week.

Agenda Item for Next Meeting

We will examine the way that consulting is being handled across the schools and programs.

Peer Committees

Pfeiffer will email faculty some additional information on interim promotion and tenure guidelines.

Annual Teaching Loads

Fowler handed out a draft memo about establishing annual teaching loads for each program. There will be a called program head/deans meeting on August 24 at noon in J157 to discuss annual teaching loads.

Saturday Services

We discussed the need for services to be available to students on Saturday. Pfeiffer will mention this topic to senior staff. Some administrative offices are still hard to reach. Perhaps a student survey on administrative services is needed.

Criteria for Scholarship

After all changes are compiled, the draft will be sent to faculty for further comments. Further definition of consulting may be needed.

QA and MBA Proposals

Pfeiffer will give the QA and MBA proposals back to Aynsley, who will distribute them to the appropriate program heads for further review.

Other Business

The 55 actions from the Deans Council retreat in July were reviewed; most have been completed.