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
 
VISITORS: Sandra Vasa-Sideris, Walt Thain, Bob Harbort
 
 
1. Advising:
Vasa-Sideris, Thain, and Harbort attended the Deans Council meeting to share their views on academic advising. Vasa-Sideris was chairperson of the Academic Advising Committee, which issued a report in the spring of 2000. Ideas discussed at the meeting, among others, are as follows: web-assisted advising, mandated advising at certain points for certain students, prompts for transfers and major changes, automated remote advising, and training of faculty. Also discussed were topics such as an advising checklist for students, the various advising roles of faculty, frequency of advising, faculty workload issues, the need for an advising committee, national standards for advising, connection between advising and retention, and the use of student surveys. It was noted that we do have an advising P&P (308.0). Finally, we discussed finding out more about possible connections between advising (or lack thereof) and the departure of students who are in good standing.
 
2. Non-tenure-track Faculty:
Deans identified those positions within their school that are considered non-tenure track. Pfeiffer will meet with the president to convey recommendations in this regard.
 
3. Non-Personal Budget:
Deans are to send Pfeiffer an email describing any immediate needs within their school for extra non-personal (i.e., operating) money.
 
4. Enhancement Report:
This report will be discussed again at the meeting on January 30.
 
5. Graduate Coordinators:
Deans are to be considering what level of reassigned time may be needed for graduate coordinators. The budget in this regard will be tight next year. In any case, we want consistency from school to school with regard to the amount of reassigned time and level of responsibility. Deans are to bring suggestions to the next meeting.