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, Mike Murphy, Sandy Pfeiffer, Dawn Ramsey, Judy Waits

ABSENT: Alan Gabrielli

 
1. Distance Learning:
There was continuing discussion on distance learning and decisions that need to be made. For example, Ramsey has $30,000 that must be spent. Ways to spend the money include updating one of the GSAM rooms to be in compliance with BOR policy or identifying a degree program to deliver using DL. Deans should talk with their program heads and come back next week prepared to choose a specific program or project to which the funds will be directed.

2. Promotion and Tenure, Post-Tenure Review:
Gabrielli had asked Pfeiffer about using the promotion and tenure review as the basis for an individual's post-tenure review-when both occur in the same year. Pfeiffer noted that it appears this approach would only work when the promotion or tenure review had been successful on campus. Pfeiffer has talked with the president about the need for an interpretation of the P&P and will determine the degree to which packet materials might be able to overlap.

3. ALC Meeting:
At the next meeting of the ALC on December 6, there will be a specific discussion on scholarship of teaching and application. Before then, the deans are to ask program heads to put in writing, on a page or two, a specific or hypothetical example of the four types of scholarship--discovery, integration, application, and teaching--as applied to their specific programs. Deans are to bring these examples to the November 28 meeting. Deans and program heads should consult Glassick et al's Scholarship Assessed text, as needed.

4. Lab Conversion Factor:
The factor for all programs will be two to one, starting summer 2002. Now the Workload Committee will need to meet soon on this issue and others.

5. Teaching and Learning Center:
Pfeiffer is asking assistance from the faculty in creating a Teaching and Learning Center to start fall 2002. The center will initiate new activities and will bring together T&L projects/programs already started on campus. Among items to be considered are the following: physical location, selection of a director, and use of the CIT. Deans are to bring their ideas to the next meeting on November 14. Pfeiffer will send a preliminary email to faculty this week.

There will be no Deans Council meeting on November 21.