Senate Reference No. 99-17
TO: The Senate
FROM: The Agenda Committee
DATE: 25 February 2000
SUBJ: Items under Consideration by Senate Committees and Subcommittees
The Agenda Committee has asked Senate committee and subcommittee chairs to report items under discussion in the various committees. The following is a compilation of what was submitted.
Educational Policy Committee
Linda Wright-Bower, Chair
1. Academic Calendar, 2002-2003.
2. Senior Scholars.
Subcommittees of the Educational Policy Committee:
Academic Advising Subcommittee
William Bruening and Douglas Neitzel, Co-Chairs
1. Third annual advising conference.
2. Evaluation of advising.
Calendar Subcommittee
Dyne Pfeffenberger, Chair
1. Finished discussion on academic calendar 2002-2003 - forwarded to EPC.
Continuing Education Advisory Subcommittee
Solomon Isiorho, Chair
1. Nothing at this time.
Curriculum Review Subcommittee
James Moore, Chair
1. Three proposals from Health Sciences:
a. Rename Medical Technology Program to "Clinical Laboratory Science"
b. New certificate in Medical Transcription Technology
c. New certificate in Medical Coding
Developmental Studies Subcommittee
John Brennan
1. Nothing at this time.
Distance Education Subcommittee
George Bullion, Chair
1. Assessment of student performance in Distance Education (DE) versus traditional courses.
2. Offering of a degree via DE.
3. Flexibility in processing DE grades beyond the established dates for regular students.
4. Providing of ISP access to all IPFW students and staff.
General Education Subcommittee
Wayne Unsell, Chair
1. Continuing discussion of a revised General Education program to be presented to the Educational Policy Committee this academic year.
2. Reviewing course proposals submitted for February 2000 review.
Graduate Subcommittee
David Turnipseed, Chair
1. Nothing at this time.
Honors Program Council
Gary Blumenshine, Chair
1. Final revisions on IPFW Honors Program Senate Guidelines.
2. Use of honors course tuition vouchers.
3. Scholarships for honors students.
4. Fundraising and organization of Honors Program Center.
5. Formal participation by HPC members in HP public events.
6. Identification of Future HPC members.
7. Review of Honors Course Proposal of Steven Carr and Jeanne Barone.
International Studies Program Advisory Subcommittee
Solomon Isiorho, Chair
1. International Student Organization (ISO) banquet.
2. English Pronunciation and English as a Second Language.
3. Miscellaneous
a) housing
b) best practices in International Studies Conference
Faculty Affairs Committee
David Oberstar, Chair
1. Will be discussing 1) the Purdue continuing lecturer proposal, 2) leave without pay, and 3) salary equity.
Subcommittee of the Faculty Affairs Committee:
Professional Development Subcommittee
James Moore, Chair
1. Proposal to allocate IPFW summer grant money into two pools: one for untenured faculty and a second for faculty at large.
Indiana University Committee on Institutional Affairs
Michael Downs, Chair
1. Nothing at this time.
Nominations and Elections Committee
W. Douglas Weakley, Chair
1. Soliciting nominations to fill committee vacancies.
Purdue University Committee on Institutional Affairs
James Silver, Chair
1. Nothing at this time.
Rules Committee
Kim McDonald, Chair
1. Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the Faculty to broaden the definition of voting faculty to include faculty on partial retirement - sent to Senate.
2. Proposing an amendment to the Senate Bylaws regarding the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affair's membership on various Senate committees and subcommittees - sent to Senate.
Student Affairs Committee
Yvonne Zubovic, Chair
1. Passed resolution in support of university's efforts to provide on-campus student housing.
2. Exploring issues related to changing to Division I status in athletics.
3. Discussing on-campus health services.
Subcommittee of the Student Affairs Committee:
Athletics, Subcommittee on
Carl Drummond, Chair
1. Continuing discussion on proposed move to Division I.
University Resources Policy Committee
Carl Drummond, Chair
1. Student Housing - sent to the Senate.
2. Allocation of Space for Non-University Organizations - sent to the Senate.
3. Funding of 18/20 for Indiana University faculty.
4. Parking surrounding the Science Building and Kettler Hall.
Subcommittees of the University Resources Policy Committee:
Academic Computing and Information Technology Advisory Subcommittee
Margaret Kimble, Chair
1. How best to serve as a viable communication tool between faculty and IT management and purchasing.
2. Determine ways to stay in front of instructional technologies in the future.
3. Determine ways to encourage faculty to utilize new technologies.
4. Review NetTutor as a possible software package for the network.
5. Review and recommend the purchase of a site license for EndNote as a bibliographic software package.
6. Critique the new phone menu for the Helpdesk.
7. ACITAS has been very active on ITPC and VCAA committees for policy and procedures regarding expenditure of funds from the Technology fee and special state appropriations.
Budgetary Affairs Subcommittee
Thomas Guthrie, Chair
1. Developing strategy for supporting equity funding for IPFW at the "long" session of the state legislature beginning in 2001.
2. Proposing to develop spending priorities for approximately $750,000 in funds available as a result of renegotiation of a central service charge from IU-Bloomington.
3. Monitoring the funding strategy if some form of the recent Purdue policy for paying lecturers is proposed for this campus.
Library Subcommittee
David Oberstar, Chair
1. Nothing at this time.