Deans
Council
Minutes of August
10, 2005 Meeting
UC 312
Present: Bruce Speck, Houston Davis, Gerald Beavers, Jim Diehr, Gerald Beavers, Gaines Hunt, Charles Pinder, Lori Buchanan (for Deborah Fetch), Stan Groppel, Diane Berty, Telaina Wrigley, Harriett McQueen, Sean Hogan.
Grants -
Ed Davis
Tim Culver, representative from Noel-Levitz, was present to elicit perceptions of APSU’s strengths, weaknesses and opportunities for funding recommendations to increase retention through the Title III grant. The areas that need improvement should be identified. If the Admissions Standard proposal is approved, how will we focus Title III dollars on the conditional admits, improving DSP.
TLCs for Department Chairs -
Bruce Speck (Attachment A)
Department chairs should have 24 teaching load credits
per year. If the TLC reporting system is
not working, we need to evaluate the system.
Mentoring Program -
The mentoring program has been approved and will be
implemented this fall. The mentor will be
allocated $300 budget monies. The deans
should present a list of the departmental mentors by August 19.
Policy 5:029 -
Houston Davis distributed APSU Policy 5:029 that
included the suggested corrections.
Change of
Grade to a “W” -
We are not following the policy as written in the
Bulletin due to an administrative change and not a change in the policy. Jim Diehr and
Assessment - Harriet
McQueen/
Student assessment instruments have been obtained and
will be used for benchmarking data in various demographics. Harriet McQueen is looking at how to tie
together all of the assessment units to bring everyone on board with the
results of the collected data and how it can be used throughout the university.
Dr. McQueen will email a list of all APSU 1000
instructors to the department chairs and request ten more instructors for APSU
1000.
Computers
for New Faculty - Bruce Speck (Attachment B)
Attached is the list of computers for new faculty that
was sent to Charles Wall. If changes are
needed, please let Tammy Delvendahl know.
Dr. Speck noted that all new faculty will receive a PC, only departments
who exclusively use Macs will receive a Mac, i.e. Art and Education.
Minutes of
July 27 Deans Council Meeting Attachment
C
A motion was
made to approve the minutes as written.
The motion was seconded and approved.
Article,
“Lifting the Weight of College Textbooks Costs” Attachment
D
Article,
“Spending Other People’s Money” Attachment
E
Upcoming
Dates
Aug.
15 Faculty Start Date
Aug.
15 ’06-07 Personnel
Request forms & job descriptions due to VPAA
Aug. 17 Advisement
Training for each college
Aug.
18 Deans and Chairs
Retreat
Aug.
19 APSU 1000
Workshop
Aug.
23 Convocation
& Service Awards
Aug.
24 No Deans Council
Aug.
31 Deans Council –
Resume weekly meetings
Pending Projects
1) Teaching
Load Policy Committee – Gaines Hunt
2) Change of Grade to “W” - Jim Diehr and Diane
Berty were asked to work together to provide clear understanding of this policy
and statement for the Bulletin by Aug. 31.
Charles Pinder will review the need for this policy in the Graduate
Bulletin.
Dr. Speck asked Dr. Groppel to provide a standard definition of the “web-enhanced” class. A statement is in the Bulletin. We need to have a clear understanding of what this means.
It was recommended that the TAF committee communicate the items funded and not funded. Perhaps a web site could be provided.
Dr. Buttery inquired about the charges for using the
Grades for summer are due Monday at 10 a.m. – email has been sent – extra time will not be given. “I’s” will be given at 10 a.m. It was recommended that this issue be addressed at each faculty meeting. Deans and chairs are responsible for letting their new faculty know about the New Faculty Orientation.