Senate Reference No. 00-10


TO: The Senate
FROM: The Agenda Committee
DATE: 18 December 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

Lenore DeFonso, Chair
1. Consideration of an interim report from the General Education Subcommittee on the computer literacy requirement.

2. Proposal from the Honors Program Council to update the charter of the Honors Program. Changes recommended by the Council and approved by Educational Policy Committee (EPC). Will be submitted to the Senate for approval at its January meeting.

3. Ongoing discussion of the community college initiative and its impact on IPFW.

Subcommittees of the Educational Policy Committee:
Academic Advising Subcommittee
Elaine Foley and Douglas Neitzel, Co-Chairs
1. Nothing at this time.

Calendar Subcommittee

 Lenore DeFonso, Chair
1. Analysis of data from the questionnaire for administrators, faculty, staff, and students re: academic calendar alternatives.
2. Consideration of changes to the calendar formula.
3. Consideration of the 2003-2004 academic year calendar.

Continuing Education Advisory Subcommittee
Solomon Isiorho, Chair
1. Nothing at this time.

Curriculum Review Subcommittee
Margit Codispoti, Chair
1. Nothing at this time.

Developmental Studies Subcommittee
Kate Freeland, Chair
1. We are continuing to monitor IPFW's efforts to provide extra support for freshman students who need it.
2. Rachelle Darabi is providing us with updates on the task force lead by Carl Drummond focusing on developmental efforts at IPFW in the areas of international students, courses and placement, support systems and related factors, and outcomes.

 Distance Education Subcommittee
Mark Myers, Chair
1. Recommendation to Vice Chancellor Hannah to initiate a dialog with departments regarding offering Advanced Placement (AP) courses via distance and to follow up immediately with local secondary school principals. One set of courses would prepare high school teachers to teach AP courses; a second set of courses would be AP classes offered by IPFW faculty directly to area high school students.
2 Recommendation that CELT establish special guidance to assist faculty in assessing teaching of distance classes.
3 Recommendation to Vice Chancellor Hannah that all faculty job postings include an expectation for participation in distance education, even if that expectation is not immediate.
4 Recommendation to the Faculty Affairs Committee that promotion and tenure criteria address explicitly the means of assessing and documenting distance education efforts by individual faculty.

General Education Subcommittee
Susan Skekloff, Chair
1. Discussion and approval of six general education program course proposals.
2. Discussing revision of general education program implementation guidelines to correspond to new requirements.
3. Ongoing: review of documents received from schools containing their definitions of, requirements for, philosophies on current or possible course content incorporating computer literacy. Interim report submitted to the Educational Policy Committee.

Graduate Subcommittee
David Turnipseed, Chair
1. Nothing at this time.

Honors Program Council
Gary Blumenshine, Chair
1. Final revisions of the formal enabling document for the Honors Program approved and sent to Educational Policy Committee.
2. Long-range planning.
3. Honors Program staffing.
4. Formulations regarding the experience of the Honors Program for students currently in the program, specifically the form and substance of contract courses within the Honors certificate.
5. Contents of Honors course evaluations.

International Studies Program Advisory Subcommittee
Solomon Isiorho, Chair
1. Nothing at this time.

 Faculty Affairs Committee
David Oberstar, Chair
1. Nothing at this time.

Subcommittee of the Faculty Affairs Committee:

Professional Development Subcommittee
George Mourad, Chair
1. Reviewed and evaluated 23 applications for 2001/2002 sabbatical leaves and forwarded our recommendations to the VCAA.

2. Reviewed, evaluated and ranked 26 IPFW Summer Grant applications for summer 2001 and forwarded our recommendations to the VCAA.

3. Reviewed, evaluated and ranked 25 PRF Summer Grant applications (22 of which were co-applicants for the IPFW Summer Grants) for summer 2001 and forwarded our recommendations to the VCAA.

Items under consideration:
1. A workshop for "Successful Grant Writing to Diverse Review Panels" to be held in the spring 2001. The committee is currently discussing the possibility of offering this workshop.

 Indiana University Committee on Institutional Affairs
Brian Fife, Chair
1. Conducted election of the IU Faculty Board of Review.

Nominations and Elections Committee
Dennis Marshall, Chair
1. Soliciting nominations for the Presiding Officer and the Speaker of the Purdue University Faculty (January).

Purdue University Committee on Institutional Affairs
James Silver, Chair
1. Nothing at this time.

Rules Committee
Michael Downs, Chair
1. Will be meeting to review proposed amendments to the Constitution of the Faculty and to the Bylaws of the Senate with regard to committee structure.

Student Affairs Committee
Linda Hite, Chair
1. Residence halls.

Subcommittee of the Student Affairs Committee:
Athletics, Subcommittee on
Kim McDonald, Chair
1. Discussion regarding proposed conference membership for IPFW.
2. Discussion of time and priority use of Gates Center facilities.
3. Report on NCAA appeals of athletes at IPFW.
4. New eligibility requirements for student athletes were approved. Sent to Student Affairs for consideration.
5. Created an ad-hoc eligibility subcommittee to assist the Faculty Representative and the Compliance Coordinator with eligibility issues.
University Resources Policy Committee
Michael Nusbaumer, Chair
1. Considering policy changes dealing with open usage of the Gates Center and the allocation of parking spaces.

Subcommittees of the University Resources Policy Committee:

Academic Computing and Information Technology Advisory Subcommittee
Margaret Kimble, Chair
1. Evaluation of strategic plan (items assigned to ACITAS by ITPC)
2. LRC classroom upgrades (Fitzgerald)
3. CELT activities (Birk)
4. Library information (Violette) including computer literacy versus information literacy
5. ITS upgrades (Kostrubanic)

Budgetary Affairs Subcommittee
Thomas Guthrie, Chair
1. No report received.

Library Subcommittee
David May, Chair
1. Coordinated establishment of Information Literacy Task Force
2. Resolution regarding fair use of ReservesEXpress