Deans Council
Minutes of Oct. 20, 2004 Meeting
UC 310
Present: President Hoppe, Bruce Speck,
1. Dr.
Hoppe
Dr.
Hoppe reminded the council of the budget meeting this afternoon. Proposed budget changes will be presented; the
proposals include 13 new faculty positions.
We will be adding a limited number of other positions. We are in very early exploratory stages of
discussing APSU returning to scholarship football. A decision should be made at the beginning of
2005. This would be a gradual process
over the next three years.
Dr. Pinder
asked Dr. Hoppe to consider tuition waivers for graduate assistants.
Ed Davis
was introduced as the new Director of Grants. Mr. Davis started last Monday on a
part-time basis; he will become full-time in January.
2. Academic
Exclusion Policy - Jim Diehr
It
appears that not all faculty fully understand the proper usage of the FA and FN
grades.
Our Student
Financial Aid was cited for dates not coinciding. The date the FA is awarded is not necessarily
the date of the last class attended. Jim Diehr and Houston
3. Classroom
Priority for Departments – Bruce Speck
This
issue will be discussed next week (Oct. 27).
4. Property Control Policy –
A
report will be presented next week (Oct. 27).
5.
Faculty Evaluation Storage – Greg Schutz
Mr.
Schutz informed the council that three copies of the faculty evaluation are currently
sent to deans, one copy for the faculty member, one for the department, and one
for the dean. Dr. Speck believes that
this many paper copies are not needed. Greg offered one of the following three solutions;
1) current filing system of paper copy (improve the filing system); 2) a read
only disk as a backup copy; 3) save in data base with one hard copy and one
disk. What do the deans suggest? A
motion was made that instructor evaluations be kept in a database which will be
kept in the Office of Information Technology; deans and chairs would have
access to the electronic database for all faculty; one paper copy would be sent
to chairs for their review and forwarded to the faculty member for their
dossier. Motion was amended to include
that the deans and chairs would have access to the electronic database for all
faculty. The motion was seconded and all
approved. This procedure will be
effective this fall.
It was
noted that we should consider moving away from the student evaluation being the
sole evaluation of classroom instruction.
Mike Gotcher will chair a subcommittee of Tom Buttery, Stan Groppel, Jim
Diehr, Greg Schutz regarding the feasibility of moving toward portfolios and
campus-wide evaluation of teaching. This
proposal will be due December 1. It was
suggested that Richard Jackson be invited to a meeting to discuss legal issues. This discussion led to the possibility of
having faculty portfolios/dossiers on disk.
Other
Stan Groppel and
- Information regarding the RODP Master of
Arts in Professional Studies (MAPS) was distributed.
- The Deans Council members were invited to attend the
Graduate Council meeting today at 3:45.
- Dr. Pinder reported that the no more than
five members of the Institutional Review Board have shown up for any meetings
held this semester. Dr. Pinder asked if
there is a reason that he should know about why members are not attending. He distributed a list of 14 IRB members and
requested the deans’ support in having their faculty attend these meetings. In an attempt to get more attendance, the
meetings have been reduced to once per month on Fridays.
Mike Gotcher
- Dr. Gotcher reported that he is on a committee
that is reviewing the elimination of the college curriculum committee. Mike Gotcher will bring a copy of the
proposal to the next meeting.
- A
motion was made to change the wording in a policy regarding evaluation period
of department chairs to include chair/director/coordinator. The motion was seconded
and all approved.
- It was suggested that when release time is
considered for department chairs that the number of faculty be considered
proportionately in the amount of release time that is given. The three deans were asked to review and
bring back a proposal regarding this issue.
- Dr. Davis announced that advising issues would
be discussed at the New Faculty Orientation meeting this Friday, 2:30 p.m. in the
UC Cumberland Room.
Bruce Speck
- Everyone will need an Eagle card to get on
base for the next deans council meeting to be held at