Academic Affairs Committee (ACC) Meeting HUM 120
March 23, 2004

Present:    David Blankenship, Lisa Chase, Ben Endres, Wilma Feliciano, Glenn Geher (Chair), Yoav Kaddar, Jason Larsen, Bernadette Morris (Proxy for Debra Miller, Greg Wirszyla, Mohammad Zunoubi.  

The meeting began at 11:35 AM.  Minutes of February 17 meeting were approved without changes.  Minutes of March 2 meeting were approved with minor changes and pending further discussions.

Announcements

·    Glenn Geher informed the committee of the “time capsule” event to be taking place on April 13 and moved the meeting scheduled for that day to April 27, 2004.

·    Bernadette Morris was asked and accepted the responsibility of reserving HUM 120 for the April 27 meeting.

Commentary

·    The issue of academic affairs unbiased opinion on different academic calendars (holidays, non-holidays) proposed by the committee was discussed again.

Discussions on Diversity Calendars:

Items on minutes of March 2 meeting related to the diversity calendars were discussed and changed as following:

·    Item C1 was changed to “…. We propose that the office of the president or the president’s cabinet works out …..”.

·    Item C2 was changed.

With the above changes made, the academic affairs committee unanimously approved for Glenn Geher to submit the lateral part of the March 2 minutes that addresses the diversity calendars to the office of the president.

Discussions on SEI:

·    Greg Wirszyla, the Chair of the SEI Ad-Hoc Committee, presented two SEI survey forms one to be filled by the students and the other by the professors.  The academic affairs committee started discussing the forms.

The meeting ended at 12:28 PM.

Respectfully submitted

Mohammad Zunoubi
Secretary pro temp.