DATE: October 25, 1999

BUSINESS:

1. David Legg was elected chair of the committee.  (Because of Legg's ineligibility to serve as chair, James Moore was subsequently elected chair.)

2. The committee unanimously agreed that the deadline for future sabbatical requests be third Friday of October.

3. Judith Lemire resigned so that she could submit a summer grant proposal. Jim Moore approved as her replacement by e-mail the following day.

4. The committee discussed 22 requests for sabbatical leave for the academic year 2000-01. Additional information was requested from one applicant. The committee unanimously recommended that the other 21 requests be approved. Consideration for the remaining applicant will be taken up at the next meeting.

5. The chair announced that summer grant applications will be distributed on Oct. 26. Deliberations on these will begin at the next meeting, which was set as November 8 at noon in NEFF 370.

6. Adjournment

Present: Hite, Legg, Lemire, Montesino, Mourad, Young
Absent: Crismore, McConnaughey