Minutes of the Academic Affairs Committee Meeting

September 9, 2003

 

Present: Glenn Geher (chair), Ben Endres, Jason Carter, Debra Miller, David Blankenship, Wilma Feliciano, Yoni Schwartz, Greg Wirszyla, Lisa Chase, Yoav Kaddar, Chih-Yang Tsai, Hala Elhoweris. 

 

  1. Minutes of the previous meeting were approved.

 

  1. Announcements:

 

    1. Glenn announced that the first faculty meeting for Fall 2003 will be held on Friday September 12. He encouraged all the members of the academic affairs committee to attend the meeting.
    2. Glenn noted that the issue of the calendar (for 2004/2005 year) will be addressed at the faculty meeting.

 

  1. Academic Calendar plan (2004/2005 year):
    1. Glenn discussed the procedures of the academic calendar to the new members of the academic affairs committee.
    2. Glenn stated that the motion of the calendar that have been approved by the academic senate and not supported by the academic affairs committee will be discussed on the faculty meeting of 9/12/03. Glenn also stated that an alternative motion will be presented on Friday’s faculty meeting to vote on.
    3. Wilma suggested that we need to vote on the principles.

 

  1. Longer-term Academic Calendar Plan:
    1. Glenn noted that the idea of the longer-term academic calendar plan is coming from the top and that Debra Miller is working on a 3-year plan for the academic calendar.
    2. Glenn wrote a memo and sent it to the president about this plan.
    3. Glenn said that the goal of this year is to have a 3-year plan ready by May or spring/03.
    4. Debra discussed her proposal of the longer-term academic calendar plan.
    5. Debra stated that she worked on a 3-year plan for the following academic years 2005-2006, 2006-2007, and 2007-2008. And she mentioned that the plan is ready for review. Debra also suggested that we might need to discuss a one year plan at a time for ease of discussion.

 

  1. SEI proposal:
    1. Glenn mentioned that Kelli Parmley and Provost Lavallee don’t like the SEI and that we need to address the issue of SEI in this committee.
    2. Kelli and David Lavallee will come to one of our meetings to talk about this issue.
    3. Glenn mentioned that he will be working Kelli on the reliability and validity of the SEI and at the end of this year their evaluation of the SEI  will be addressed on the faculty meeting.

 

  1. The meeting adjourned at 12:25.

 

 

 

Respectfully submitted,

Hala Elhoweris