Executive Board
Meeting Minutes
April 19, 2005 | 3:00-5:00 p.m.
107 Lab of Mechanics
Present: S. Agarwal (FS President);
C. Baldwin (FS President-Elect); S. Crase (FDAR Council Chair); D.
Holger (Assoc. Provost); J. Girton (Past-President & RPA Chair);
C. Heising (Engineering Caucus Chair); J. Maves (Design Caucus Chair);
G. Palermo (Academic Affairs Council Chair); G. Phye (Education Caucus
Chair); B. Robinson (Judiciary and Appeals Council Chair); E. Thacker
(Vet Med Caucus Chair); D. Vrchota (Governance Council Chair).
Absent: A.M. Fiore (Family and Consumer Sciences
Caucus Chair); B. Mennecke (Business Caucus Chair); A. Van Der Valk
(LAS Caucus Chair); Yang, B. (Agriculture Caucus Chair); T. Zanish-Belcher
(FS Secretary)
1. Announcements by Sanjeev
a. This is his last executive committee board meeting.
b. Sanjeev and Claudia met with Dave Holger earlier
on April 19 regarding Vice Provost for Extension Services. They need
recommendations for people from outside Extension who have been around
and know ISU. Also consider outreach of the non-Extension sort. Julie
Ham is collecting names.
2. Announcements by Claudia
a. Service for Max Wortman, attended by many on Executive
Board; nice service.
b. Need camera and photographer for next faculty senate
meeting.
c. Caucus chairs will meet on May 2 and also need
to let Claudia and Denise know what the council assignments will be.
3. Announcements by Dave Holger
a. Vice provost for Extension search, a complex search
including both political and ordinary citizens, will be underway soon.
Need to keep committee under 20 people. Committee will be a representative
committee including faculty and many other constituencies.
b. The steering
committee report for the Higher Learning Commission visit is due at
the end of 2005. Open forums will be held in fall semester. Holger
et al. attended a meeting recently on the nature of the accreditation
for universities. Goal for universities like ISU is to help us get
better; will look at on going strategic plans, shared governance,
outcomes assessment, college merger (combination) - all important
to our study process. Questions about what is the implication of non
accreditation: one is that students at those schools do not qualify
for federal aid. Our site visit will be on March 27-29, 2006.
c. Provost's
office used year end funds to handle year end short fall for graduate
tuition scholarships; had much cooperative effort to get that done.
d. International Educational Services (IES) will be split into two
units; study abroad and international students and scholars will go
to international academic programs under Holger and to the vice president
for student affairs office, respectively. Clients in the two services
won't see a big change in the next year. How we assist visiting scholars
will be enhanced. The Study Abroad Center will be reviewed in the
fall.
e. Susan Carlson
is in involved in semi-finals for the HS dean search. Four finalists
will be on campus before commencement with recommendations will go
to the provost's office.
4. Council Reports
a. Academic Council:
Gregory passed out the U.S. Diversity and International Perspectives
document which Academic Council has reviewed this year. Originally
passed in l995 (42:36 vote), the document was a second university
requirement (in addition to English). Based on original document's
inclusion of requirement to be studied after five years, a subcommittee
of the faculty senate curriculum committee was appointed to study
the validity and usefulness of the original document, including focus
groups, survey, and about a year of work. That task was completed
in fall 2002 and faculty senate curriculum committee approved a document
in April 2004. Points 1-10 are new, 11 deals with infused curriculum;
focus on 12 and 16. With some changes the academic council recommends
adoption and passage of the the document by the faculty senate. Carolyn
questioned if the professional colleges will be able to judge the
course content. Who has the expertise? Claudia noted that the campus
climate implementation committee discussed courses and what should
be done in the course arena (report turned in 4/15). John M. noted
that an issue might be what is U.S. diversity. Motion by Girton, seconded
by Phye to approve the proposal and place it on the senate agenda
as new business. Passed unanimously.
b. FDAR: Sedahlia reported that her group will meet
later this week to discuss the electronic communication they have
been having this week following the senate’s request that they continue
to work on the faculty development proposal. The revised proposal
will be old business at the April 26 senate meeting.
c. Governance: Denise reported that the reorganization
oversight report will be on the agenda, along with a report on the
distinguished and university awards.
d. J and A: Bill
gave an overview of J and A's work including that ombudsman recommendation
is not yet fully funded in the proposal. He reported the number of
cases (5 started; 2 withdrew [1 left and 1 had conversations]; 3 came
to a vote, with 1 denied, one affirmed unanimously and one affirmed
7:5).
e. RPA: Jack overviewed the RPA work for the year,
including a change in their mission – to advise the provost and work
for the senate. A general discussion of potential budget scenarios
ensued.
5. Motion to approve the faculty senate agenda for
April 26. Seconded; approved.
6. Meeting was adjourned about 5:30.
Sedahlia Jasper Crase, recorder
