Deans Council
Minutes of April 27, 2005 Meeting
Present: Bruce Speck, Gerald Beavers, Stan Groppel,
Deborah Fetch, Sean Hogan, Mike Gotcher, Houston Davis, Tom Buttery, Jim Diehr,
Gaines Hunt, Charles Pinder.
1. Teaching
Load Policy Committee – Bruce Speck
Gaines Hunt will chair this committee. Dr. Hunt requested a charge for this
committee.
Dr. Speck, Dr. Davis and Dr. Hunt will meet to discuss.
2. Evaluation
of Faculty Advisement – Bruce Speck
Dr.
Speck stated that we need to begin an initiative to evaluate faculty advisement
and the entire advisement process.
Houston Davis will ask Robbie Robison to attend Deans Council to provide
update from the ad hoc advisement committee.
3. Minutes
of April 20, 2005 (Attachment A)
A motion was made to approve the minutes
after striking sentence in item three regarding suspending the limit of on-line
courses; the motion was seconded and approved.
Other
Bruce Speck
·
TBR will be
conducting an Academic Leadership Institute and Phil Moery and Keith Belcher were
selected to attend this training institute.
·
Dr. Speck will
address the Faculty Senate Thursday, April 28, at 2 p.m. in UC 307 regarding
the electronic dossiers. The members of Deans
Council were invited to attend.
There was a lengthy discussion of the legal issues
surrounding dossiers and evaluations.
·
By Friday, April
29, please send Tammy activities and meetings that will occur during the weeks
of August 15 – 29.
Stan Groppel
·
It is not too
late to add on-line courses; suggested that retired faculty may be interested
in teaching on-line.
·
Dr. Groppel will
inform the Registrar that the ceiling for on-line courses will not be capped in
the fall. Dr. Speck will announce this
initiative for increasing enrollment.
Charles Pinder
·
More students needed
to apply for scholarships.
Sean Hogan
Gaines Hunt
Mike Gotcher