Deans Council

Minutes of April 20, 2005 Meeting

UC 310

 

Present:  Bruce Speck, Houston Davis, Gerald Beavers, Stan Groppel, Charles Pinder, Tom Buttery, Sean Hogan, Deborah Fetch, Jim Diehr, Gaines Hunt, Mike Gotcher.

 

1.         Minutes of April 6 and April 15, 2005 (Attachment A)

A motion was made to approve the minutes of April 6, 2005 and April 15, 2005, the motion was seconded, and approved.

 

2.                  Fund Raising – Roy Gregory

Roy Gregory and other University Advancement staff were present to seek input, guidance and help from the Council.  Roy’s office will contact the deans council members throughout the summer to prepare for fall 2005 fund raising activities and identifying contacts.  

 

3.                  After Hours – Julia McGee

Houston Davis reported that Julia has been working on this effort for the last three years.

Julia provided survey data of students interested in taking evening courses. There was discussion as to where to focus the evening program. We have many alternative course delivery methods.   

 

Gerald Beavers is working on 2 + 2 programs and developing a 2 + 2 web page; more I-TV courses will be offered.  Also, Mr. Beavers is exploring opportunities of offering early registration for deploying soldiers for on-line courses.

 

Stan Groppel will review a former proposal for an accelerated degree and explore the possibility of offering core courses on night, evening, weekend.

 

4.                  DSP Prerequisites

Houston Davis asked the Council if they are still in agreement with their former recommendations of DSP prerequisites.  The Deans Council reaffirmed the DSP concept that they had previously approved.

 

5.                  Additional Courses for Fall (per Dr. Hoppe) – Bruce Speck 

The additional courses for fall should be given or emailed to Tammy today.  Houston asked the deans to ensure that departments have a system for adding sections when classes close.

 

6.                  Electronic Dossiers – Bruce Speck

Stan Groppel was asked to go forward with this initiative and send a letter to first-year faculty regarding training sessions at the end of August.  A motion was made to use the following timeline for faculty submitting electronic dossiers.

            Fall 2005 – First- and third-year faculty will be required to submit an electronic dossier.

            Fall 2006 – First-, second-, third-, and fourth-year faculty will submit an electronic dossier.

            Fall 2007 – Everyone less than full professor will submit an electronic dossier, including promotion.  The motion was seconded and approved by all.

 

            Stan’s proposal will include a request to wire Harned 130 for review of dossiers.

 

Announcements

 

·         April 27 – Academic Honors and Awards Ceremony – 3 p.m.

·         April 28 – Retirement Dinner – 6 p.m.

·         April 30 – Complete evaluation process of direct reports

·         April 30 – Tenure and promotion template for faculty handbook due to VPAA from deans

·         April 30 – Peay Points

·         May 4 – No Deans Council Meeting

·         May 4 – Academic Council Meeting – 3 p.m., UC 310

·         May 5 – Spring Faculty Meeting, 3 p .m., UC 303

·         May 6 – Commencement

·         Aug. 15 – Faculty academic contract begins

 

Bruce Speck

 

  • Dr. Speck requested recommendations for summer department chairs. 
  • Need to appoint a task force for reviewing the teaching load policy in response to faculty/student ratio.  We will need to have official THEC formula funding before the committee can get started.  The task force will consist of Charles Pinder, Gaines Hunt, Stan Groppel, Houston Davis, Jim Diehr, Gerald Beavers, and Tom Buttery.

 

Charles Pinder

  • Attended Tennessee Council of Graduate Deans – opting for insurance for graduate students.
  • Universities are being encouraged to move toward an on-ground Master’s Degree in Professional Studies. Dr. Speck will check on this at the Academic Sub-Council meeting.

 

Tom Buttery

  • A.J. Taylor announced his retirement