Indianapolis
Faculty Council (IFC)
Minutes
November 11, 2008 ~ Campus Center, Room 450A ~ 3:00
– 5:00 p.m.
Faculty and Guests Present: Ron Ackerman, Austin Agho, Hasan Akay,
Rachel Applegate, Enrica Ardemagni, Simon Atkinson, Carol Baird, Sarah Baker, Trudy
Banta, Charles Bantz, Robert Barrows, Samantha Bartholomew, Margaret Bauer,
Anne Belcher, Ed Berbari, Robert Bigsby, Marc Bilodeau, William Blomquist,
Janice Buelow, Susan Alvarez (for Amanda Cecil), Andre De Tienne, Nancy
Eckerman, Marsha Ellett, Garland Elmore, Scott Evenbeck, Anthony Faiola,
Lawrence Goldblatt, Linda Adele Goodine, Joseph Harmon, John Hassell, Jay
Howard, Allison Howland, Marilyn Irwin, Kathy Johnson, Areef Salim Kassam, P.
Nicholas Kellum, Joan Kowolik, Kathy Lay, Chris Long, Carmen Luca Sugawara,
Joyce MacKinnon, Virginia Majewski, David Malik, Kathy Marrs, Anna McDaniel,
Brenna McDonald, David McSwane, Ann O’Bryan, C. Subah Packer, Rebecca Porter,
Stephen Randall, Mary Riner, Dawn Rhodes, Lisa Riolo, Bill Schneider, Uday
Sukhatme, David Suzuki, Richard Ward, Stuart Warden, Amy Warner, Jeff Watt,
Corinne Wheeler, Jack Windsor, Andrew Winship, Marianne Wokeck, and Frank Yang
Agenda Item I:
Welcome and Call to Order
IUPUI Faculty
Council Vice President, Jeff Watt, called the meeting to order at 3:06
p.m.
Agenda Item II:
Adoption of the Agenda as the Order of Business for the Day
The Agenda was
adopted as the Order for the Business of the Day.
Agenda Item III:
Memorial Resolution for Dr. Krzysztof Przemyslaw Wojciechowski
A moment of
silence was given by the assembly.
Attachment:
Agenda Item IV:
[Action Item] Approval of IFC October 7, 2008, Minutes
Hearing no
objections, the IFC October 7, 2008, minutes stood as written and were entered
into record.
(http://www.iupui.edu/~fcouncil/minutes/Minutes_IFC_10-7-08.htm)
Agenda Item
V: Updates/Remarks from the IFC
President
IUPUI Faculty
President Simon Atkinson gave the following report:
·
The Office of Faculty Appointments
and Advancements is working on way to increase the number of IUPUI nominees for
internal and external awards. The IFC-EC discussed ways in which to
assist FAA to find nominations. The Faculty Governance Leaders have been
asked for the names of the chairs of the Faculty Affairs Committees in their
schools/units to help in the discussion. Faculty are
also encouraged to think of ways to promote other faculty for awards.
Atkinson asked that the faculty develop lists of internal and external
awards for which faculty from their school might be eligible and competitive.
The nomination process for Indiana University honorary degrees should
also be reviewed. The last few years, the nominations have come from campus
administration. Faculty should be nominating persons for IU honorary
degrees as well, and it would be good to develop ways for the faculty in the
schools to identify potential nominees.
·
Vice President for Research:
The President is constructing a search committee and the IFC-EC will
suggest names to him for this committee.
·
The President also wants to consider
having the University Graduate School report to the Office of Vice President
Research, essential returning to the RUGS model. The IFC Research Affairs
Committee will be discussing this action and providing the President with a
response. Suggestions from the faculty are appreciated.
·
The membership of the Chancellor’s
Review Committee will be made public soon, and it has its first meeting next
week.
·
The Board of Trustees Facilities
Committee will meet on November 19, 2008, at 1:00 p.m., in the University Place
Hotel Ballroom, to hear a report from the Master Planners. This is a
prelude to the Trustee’s meeting in February where they plan to announce the
final draft of the master plan.
·
A Town Hall meeting will be held
with the master planners; however, the date has not been finalized. It
will most likely be during finals week.
·
A draft of the Information
Technology Strategic Plan will be reviewed by the IFC Technology Committee and
Academic Affairs Committee. Atkinson encouraged the Council to read the report
and offer comments. The discussion regarding the plan can be found in the
October 7, 2008, IFC minutes (http://www.iupui.edu/~fcouncil/minutes/Minutes_IFC_10-7-08.htm).
·
The Core Schools Task Force Report
and the President’s response were sent to the IFC members. They can also
be found at:
http://www.iupui.edu/~fcouncil/documents/infodiscussion.htm.
·
A message has been sent to the
voting faculty about their interest in serving on the Faculty Grievance
Advisory Panel and Board of Review members. Requests have also been sent for
the Unit Representatives, UFC Representatives, and Undergraduate Curriculum
Advisory Committee Representatives.
·
NTTF: The Faculty Affairs
Committee has appointed a subcommittee to consider the issues surrounding the
increase in the number of NTTF relative to TTF.
Agenda Item VI:
[Discussion Item] Project RISE
Mary Fisher,
Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, mlfisher@iupui.edu
Handouts:
http://www.iupui.edu/~fcouncil/documents/RISE
PP.pdf
http://www.iupui.edu/~fcouncil/documents/RISE
Talking Points.doc
http://www.iupui.edu/~fcouncil/documents/RISE
to the challenge communication.docx
Fisher gave an
update on the RISE initiative and follows the PowerPoint listed above.
Questions followed
the presentation:
Hassell asked
about transcriptability: Fisher met with the Registrar and Becky
Porter (Enrollment Services) and they are trying to determine the best way to
implement the process and be as automated as possible. They do not want a school recorder to have to
enter all the information. They are
trying to get the system to automatically tag that a RISE experience has having
been achieved. Once two achievements
have been recorded a notation will be placed on the transcript.
How are we
tagging the RISE courses? As courses are
gathered that meet the criteria, each course has a unique six-digit number. That number will be linked to RISE from the
Registrar’s system and it will automatically record on the transcript. If a section is not a six-digit number, a
number needs to be created.” To “If not all sections of a course are RISE, then a separate unique identifier number will need
to be created only for those sections that are RISE.
How is a class
judged to meet the criteria?
International, research, and service learning known courses are already
tagged and listed. On the bottom of the
first page of the proposal linked above, there are five criteria that must be
met. The framework for criteria will be
shared with the schools and the schools will determine if a course meets the
criteria and can be tagged a RISE course.
Packer: At the undergraduate level, students do research
in Medicine that is not tied to a course number. Is there a mechanism that can be used to turn
the experience into a RISE experience?
Fisher said there will be a zero credit option that can be tagged as a
RISE option and the student would need to get a mentor’s signature to okay that
experience for RISE. This item is still
being worked on.
Would there be
an effect on students on a summer research stipend? Fisher said that question has not come up and
she will need to research this before responding.
Fisher is
accepting suggestions or questions regarding the initiative.
Agenda Item VII:
Question and Answer Period
De Tienne asked
why IFC committees cannot use rooms in the Campus Center for meetings free of
charge. Atkinson said the funding for
the Campus Center comes from student fees and other options. The IFC does not have a budget that can cover
the cost of covering meetings held in the building. He hopes to explore ways that meetings can be
held in the Campus Center without incurring costs. Bantz said the students are paying 80% of the
cost of the building through their fees.
Faculty Council does not have a revenue source, and he will need to look
at ways to create a budget for this purpose.
Blomquist asked
about financial exigency planning. Bantz
said the President has asked how each campus will address immediate measures if
the state asks for money back during the fiscal year. There are reserves in the schools and
administration which have been noticed by state budget officers. We need to look at a longer term approach
about how to handle fiscal exigencies.
The state has not issued their report yet, and the President has asked
that we be proactive in looking at the future.
Bantz was
contacted by Mark Miles, Central Indiana Corporate Partnership, and the lead
person for Super Bowl 2012 Committee.
Miles asked that we start a conversation about how the campus can
participate in the event. Parking will
become a problem for the Super Bowl Committee.
The Super Bowl bid did say University Place Hotel will host the NFC East
team and that has not changed. This will
cause added security and traffic on campus.
Bantz asked Miles about positive ideas.
What about student ambassadors who can provide tours? What other items can we think of that can
focus on the campus? There will be a
huge media presence. How can our
students benefit by their presence? Can
we have an international experience related to the RISE experience? Miles said the Pan Am Games created a
generation of leaders through their participation in the event (including himself). Are their
students or people on this campus that can take leadership responsibility that
can take them far? Please give some
thought to opportunities for the campus.
Agenda Item VIII:
Adjournment
The meeting was
adjourned at 3:49 p.m. The Chancellor’s
State of the Campus Address followed the meeting at 4:00 p.m.
Minutes prepared by Faculty
Council Coordinator, Karen Eckert
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