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Minutes of the School of Arts & Sciences
Thursday, April 15, 2004
  1. Rich Bennett called the meeting to order and called for nominations for Secretary and Moderator of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for Academic Year 2004-2005. Bernice Nuhfer-Halten was nominated for secretary. The nomination was approved. Joel Fowler and Meg Dillon were nominated for moderator. The nomination of Dillon was approved.

  2. Mark Stevens announced committee vacancies for Academic Year 2004-2005. An Arts and Sciences position on the Student Status Committee will be open. The body agreed to elect Mark Vickrey, a Lecturer, to the Student Status Committee. The body agreed to elect Bill Burnett to the committee in the event instructors are not allowed to serve. At-large positions are available on the Student Life Committee, Graduate Programs Committee, and the Faculty Council. Interested parties must be nominated and elected at the next general faculty meeting.

  3. Tom Wiseman issued a report from the Ad Hoc Committee on an Executive Committee. The committee's report follows.
    • Further Consideration: The committee feels the idea of forming an Executive Committee is worthy of further consideration. However, the present faculty workload and committee/meeting load is already at a maximum, making the timing of forming yet another committee of some concern.
    • Revisit Next AY: The idea should be deferred until the next academic year and revisited by the A&S leadership at that time.
    • Meet As-needed: Should such a committee be formed, we recommend it meet only on an asneeded basis, similar to the way the Faculty Council currently meets.
    The committee's report was approved. The response of the body to the report also came as a motion to form an ad hoc committee of the four department chairs in Arts and Sciences to act on behalf of the faculty, should such action be required before an executive committee can be formed and charged. The motion was approved.

  4. There was a motion to charge Rich with writing a letter to the Office of Institutional Research regarding the SIR II forms. Forms have been late getting into departments, leaving faculty with a short turnaround time. Faculty members request more time to prepare SIRS. The body approved the motion and Rich agreed to write the letter.

  5. The Ad Hoc Committee on assessment disseminated its final recommendations. This was for information only .

  6. There was a motion to charge Rich with writing a letter to the appropriate parties in the administration regarding the timely flow of information. The motion was approved. There was a motion to use the letter to request an "opt out" email list that would serve to disseminate information to the campus community. The motion was approved.

    The responses to these letters and the one concerning SIRS will be reported by email to the A&S faculty.

  7. Dean Gabrielli reported on the current state of the budget and related matters.

  8. The meeting was adjourned.



Submitted by Meg Dillon, Secretary
Approved by Rich Bennett, Moderator