Indianapolis
Faculty Council (IFC)
Minutes
February
5, 2008 ~ IH 100 ~ 3:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Faculty and Guests Present: William Agbor Baiyee, Hasan Akay, Rachel
Applegate, Simon Atkinson, Sarah Baker, James Baldwin, Trudy Banta, Charles
Bantz, Robert Barrows, Margaret Bauer, Anne Belcher, Ed Berbari, Loraine
Blackman, Jacqueline Blackwell, Bonnie Blazer-Yost, William Bosron, Joseph Burrage,
John Butterworth, Won Cho, James Clack, Janice Cox, Jeffrey Crabtree, Marsha
Ellett, Charles Feldhaus, Mary M. Fisher, Danita Forgey, Carlos
Gonzalez-Cabezas, Linda Adele Goodine, Sharon Hamilton, John Hassell, Jay
Howard, Marilyn Irwin, Stanley Jones, Henry Karlson, David Lewis, Greg Lindsey,
Anna McDaniel, Mahesh Merchant, Henry Merrill, Hari Nakshatri, Kim Nguyen, C. Subah
Packer, Megan Palmer, Sandra Petronio, William Potter, Steve Randall, Fred
Rees, Margaret Richwine, Margaret Riner, Ken Sauer, L.R. Scherer III, William
Schneider, Martin Spechler, Uday Sukhatme, Terri Tarr, Chalmer Thompson, Rosalie
Vermette, Amy Conrad Warner, Jeff Watt, Karen West, David Westhuis, Corinne
Wheeler, Robert White, Jack Windsor, Andrew Winship, Frank Witzmann, Marianne
Wokeck, Nancy Young, Weiming Yu, and Oner Yurtseven
Agenda Item I:
Welcome and Call to Order
IUPUI Faculty
Vice President Rosalie Vermette called the meeting to order at 3:08 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.
Vermette noted the
handout on IUPUI Take Back the Night to be held on April 16, 2008. This event is known internationally as a day
to protest against all forms of sexual violence.
Agenda Item III:
[ACTION ITEM] Approval of IFC January 8, 2008, Minutes
Hearing no objections,
the IFC January 8, 2008, minutes stood as written and were entered into record.
(http://www.iupui.edu/~fcouncil/minutes/Minutes_IFC_1-8-08.htm)
Agenda Item IV:
Resolution to Honor Coach Ron Hunter
Bill Kulsrud, on
behalf of the IUPUI Athletics Committee, presented the following resolution in
honor of Coach Ron Hunter.
INDIANA UNIVERSITY-PURDUE UNIVERSITY INDIANAPOLIS
The IUPUI Athletic Committee
PROCLAMATION
To All To Whom These Presents May Come, Greetings:
Whereas: The earth has many rocks and other objects that are generally
disagreeable to the touch of the human foot, and
Whereas: It is accepted that a barrier between the human foot and the
roughness of the earth is desirable, and
Whereas: It
is generally accepted that this barrier between earth and man or earth and
woman shall be called a shoe, and
Whereas: Ron Hunter has recognized that it is a good thing to have a
shoe on one foot, and even a better thing to have two shoes on two feet, and
Whereas: Ron Hunter has taken umbrage at the sight of others who cannot
find a way to put good shoes on their feet, and
Whereas: Ron Hunter, in recognition of Dr. Martin Luther King on the 40th
anniversary of his death and in celebration of Dr. King’s “I Have A Dream”
speech, had his own dream to help the children of Africa.
It is thus and
hereby and therefore accepted that Ron Hunter is a worthy, noble and honorable
man for shirking indifference and fighting for his brothers and sisters who
need shoes, and
Furthermore, it
is known among all Jaguar fans that Ron Hunter values his own feet for walking,
stomping, kicking, and carrying out victory dances at collegiate basketball
events.
In grand
proclamation to all that may come by this news, let them know the events by
which Ron Hunter helped facilitate the accumulation of more than $20,000 and
125,000 pairs of shoes for the shoeless.
Whereas: Ron Hunter joined with Samaritan’s Feet, an organization that
works to equip 10 million impoverished children with 10 million pairs of shoes
in 10 years, and
Whereas: Ron Hunter agreed to coach a basketball game without shoes,
placing his feet in harm’s way and risking the possibility of injury, and
Whereas: Ron Hunter asked his friends to buy a pair of shoes for $19.99
on Samaritan’s website, and his friends and followers including Converse,
Wal-Mart, Nine West, Soles4Souls and the Department of Homeland Security
answered the call with the fervor of a barbarian army, and
Whereas: Mike & Mike of ESPN Radio, ABC’s World News Tonight, and
other noteworthy institutions joined in awe of Ron Hunter’s inspiring actions,
Ron Hunter’s notable size 13 foot, and pondered the possibility that Ron Hunter
may or may not have undergone an extensive transformation known as a pedicure
prior to his shoeless and sockless coaching of the IUPUI Jaguars to victory
over Oakland University, and
Whereas the
world is a better place because of these many things.
Let it be
proclaimed, on this fourth day of February, 2008, to all that may hear, and
joined wherein by all that may be of good heart, that we rejoice of these
things that have passed, and celebrate the dignity of the day and our gratitude
for our deservedly well-esteemed coach, the honorable Ron Hunter.
January 31, 2008
Bill Kulsrud,
Jaguar Fan
Coach Hunter
thanked the Council and updated everyone that at that time, 200,000 shoes were
donated for persons’ feet. 50,000 shoes
were sent to Brazil for the shoeless today.
The shoes will be taken to Africa as well. A motion was made, and seconded, to endorse
the resolution. The resolution passed.
Agenda Item V:
Translating Research into Practice (TRIP)
Sandra Petronio,
Project Leader, gave a presentation on TRIP, on behalf of the Metropolitan
Affairs Committee. Click here to view Petronio’s
presentation. The initiative began five
years ago. Translational means
translating research ideas into practice to make a difference. The program is supported by the IU Foundation
and Chancellor’s Circle Seed Funds. To
become a transitional scholar, you should go to the website listed in the
presentation and self-identify. It is
hoped to hold the countries first translational research conference next
year. Spechler asked if there is money
being put into applied research on campus or is all the funds going to
overhead. Chancellor Bantz said the
Chancellor’s Circle money is being used for promotional uses. Each campus is using funds significantly for
translational research. A center for
translational research in the School of Medicine is being constructed. A number of Signature Centers have
translational research involved. Seed
funds in a large amount have not yet been set aside. Ng thanked Lorraine Blackman for her work on
this initiative as well.
Agenda Item VI:
Indiana Commission for Higher Education
(Stanley G. Jones, Commissioner, and Ken Sauer,
Senior Associate Commissioner for Research and Academic Affairs, http://www.che.state.in.us/)
Strategic Directions document:
IFC President
Bart Ng introduced Stan Jones and Ken Sauer to report on Reaching Higher: Strategic
Directions for Higher Education in Indiana. Jones gave the context of what
the ICHE is trying to do with the document.
Following the community college initiative, several regional campuses
inquired what their role will be in the state.
He said, “If we are putting emphasis on two year degrees in the
community college, then we will also place emphasis on four-year degrees in
regional campuses.” IUPUI pioneered a
relationship with the community college (the Passport Program with Ivy Tech
Community College). A research
initiative was then funded and IUPUI has been a beneficiary of those
funds. Finally, the Framework was constructed and adopted in
2002. This resulted in keeping
Bloomington and West Lafayette the size they were at that time. Determining that they cannot grow, this
leaves more students for regional campuses to grow. Areas focused on are in the Reaching Higher document is
affordability, degree completion, accountability, access, and research. Sauer began with the document and the section
on the Imperatives to Change. He report
the following (paraphrased): Indiana
ranks 35th in personal income.
Economic development plays a role in higher education. We have gone from 34th to 10th
in the nation in graduates. We lag the
nation with adults achieving higher education.
Students graduate with high levels of debt. We have made progress with preparation of
students coming to higher education. He
spoke about Core 40. Research and
development expenditures are still lagging the national average. The role of the Commission in all of this is
that the Commission understands that if we are to succeed in the initiatives,
we need to work with the institutions to have a common shared vision of the
future. He then touched on the
Aspirations section of the paper. The
aspirations are Access, Affordability, Student Success, College Preparation,
and Contributes to Indiana’s Economy.
The document goes into ways in which the five aspirations could be
accomplished. Structure of higher
education: We know Indiana’s system is
insufficient. If we look at individual
campuses, you find they are efficient, but the investment that Indiana has made
at whole, we have an inefficient system.
The most significant change is the creation of the community
college. We have made progress, but we
need to enhance that system. We have
initiatives underway – remediation in the two year sector (not be a part of the
four-year sector), need to improve quality of instruction in the community
colleges, shift campuses from offering associate degrees to offering
baccalaureate and masters degrees (60% of associate degrees come from the
community college sector), emphasis on increasing selectivity of the
Bloomington and West Lafayette campuses, IUPUI’s special mission as a major
urban university is recognized by the Commission, there is a strong need to
serve undergraduate students in central Indiana, BSU has a campaign to be
innovative in its teaching and Learning, ISU is emphasizing experiential
learning, USI should expand its statewide educational and regional service
mission by providing extensive baccalaureate offerings and selected graduate
programs. His talk is summarized on a one-page
handout. Two papers on accountability and research
will be done and placed on the Commission’s website with the other documents
about framework and Reaching Higher.
The
Commissioners took time for questions:
Spechler: Spechler read the report carefully and noted
the references of quality throughout the report. He feels quality is the most important thing
that Indiana’s universities must accomplish.
Most of the report talk about quantitative work. He said it is hard to recruit quality faculty
if you don’t support research at IUPUI. The
comparison of health and non-health is destructive to the morale on this campus. Second, salaries are not mentioned. Faculty are not paid well in Indiana and it is
hard to compete for the highest quality faculty when salaries are not
good. We are the lowest paid university
in the Big Ten. How are we going to
recruit faculty with low pay? In respect
to teaching and research, this is not really mentioned in terms of
quality. External examinations and
comparable things work okay at the elementary level, but to get high quality
university-level instruction is to get high-quality university faculty that are
willing to lend peer support. There is
no realization of what it really means to be a high quality university and what
the state ought to want from IUPUI. Some
of the tough issues are not listed in the report. Quality vs. quantity. Jones responded that the ICHE supports
university standards for freshmen. Core
40 and Academic Honors are examples. 30
years ago, the salary issue was the same. They fought the legislature then as well and
they presently spend more on higher education than many other states. Higher Education has been pushed out by other
social services. He said it is becoming
of all of us to be more supportive of higher education and any progress on
salaries have to do with funding.
White: Aspiration is to enrich the quality of life
in Central Indiana. When you talk about
universities, you talk about IUPUI.
Could you elaborate your vision the School of Liberal Arts and the
School of Science? In terms of economic
development, the School of Liberal Arts is the home of economics. Do you consider us professional
programs. Sauer responded: From the Commission’s perspective, this
campus needs to expand its graduate capacity.
The number of graduate programs the ICHE has approved has been (since
1985) somewhere between 30% or 1/3 of the graduate programs approved by the Commission. The Commission has been supportive of
strengthening liberal arts. It does take
time and for a campus that has expanded greatly (i.e., students and faculty),
it may not seem that we are not moving as fast as we ought to, but we have been
supportive of graduate education and the expanding role of liberal arts. White said he didn’t mean to imply that they
weren’t supportive, but he thanked them for their comments. Jones said it would be helpful for him to
tell the Commission what it will take to develop liberal arts issues. You are an urban university with a distinct
role for students but also for the community.
There are multiple missions and it is important that we pursue all of
those. You can help us better understand
Liberal Arts’ views.
Randall: Regional campuses have a nationwide goal, but
we have a large city that is connected to the country and we always look at
Indianapolis as a regional goal instead of how we can be a top research
university in the country. Why is there
a difference as seeing IUPUI as a regional campus instead of seeing it as a top
research institution in the country?
Jones responded that four or five months ago he toured a building and
administration wanted to be sure the school was on the radar screen. We have a unique responsibility of being in
Indianapolis and an urban center. This
allows you some opportunities that other parts of the state don’t get. Sauer said in respect to the regional campus
policy, the reason for including IUPUI in that agreement was to underscore the
fact that the region has only one four-year institution and that’s IUPUI. The Commission identifies this campus as a
major urban university but IUPUI wanted to include in the regional campus
agreement to underscore the undergraduate programs. IUPUI has a great partnership with Ivy Tech
and should continue to develop. That focus
can contribute to liberal arts and good quality instruction. That helps to relieve, somewhat, the urban
mission you might otherwise have to fulfill.
Thompson: Before coming to IUPUI last year, she taught
11 years at IUB. She came because of the
urban mission at the School of Education.
Recently there was a town hall meeting attended by members of the
community reacting to the resignation of the associate dean on our campus. We believe in order for us to be a strong
school in consistent with the mission, we need to address the inefficiencies of
the core campuses. There seems to be a
lot of resistance for the school to grow, but she feels that growth is being
stymied. Jones said problems of urban
education and dropouts is huge.
Goodine made a
comment: With the robust plan, transfer
students need to go somewhere, including a robust liberal arts program. We want to be greater than IUB and PUWL.
Wokeck: The urban component is an opportunity that
allows students to stay in the state and not be part of the brain drain. Besides that, this is what makes the urban
location as well as the four-year perspective in liberal arts and science the
anchor. That’s where we see where the
optimal growth can be had but we feel we aren’t supported as strongly as we’d
like. Jones said that is one of the
reasons they pushed Bloomington and West Lafayette to restrict their
growth. What has resulted partly is that
the regional campuses have done a better job in attracting students. IUPUI is now their first choice to attend,
not a lower choice.
Nguyen: IUPUI has grown to be a leader to grow
quality teachers for math and science.
Woodrow Wilson Science Institute has recognized this. In order for us to produce quality teachers,
has the money allocation changed since the last time you funded arts and science? Has the Commission, in recommending funding
for IUPUI, thought about the formula to change for arts and sciences at IUPUI? Jones said that we haven’t addressed the
differences in the disciplines. IUPUI
has benefited from research funding.
More recently, the last session of the legislature was able to provide
graduate incentives. You are now
graduating more graduates than you have before.
This is not specific to a discipline.
Barrows: When you look at the description of the
campus of IUPUI, it describes us as a major research university, but the document
talks about economic development and the mission to the city. This includes general education to the state. He doesn’t feel that is worded enough in the
document. Jones said he is open to
solutions.
Belcher: Wants to talk about health professions in
regard to undergraduate nursing. They
appreciate the work of transferring Ivy Tech nursing students to IUPUI and
accepting their credits. Her question
comes from the challenges of competition for placement of students. Where is the Commission going with expansion
of nursing programs throughout the state?
Where will Ivy Tech go? We’ve
been asked to take increased numbers without much funding. Sauer responded (1) we recognize that if
there needs to be expansion of education in associate and baccalaureate, we
need to have more faculty in those areas.
The commission is very aware that if we are expecting more registered nurses
to be available, we need to make sure there are enough graduate nursing
faculty. Things are moving drastically
in that area and we welcome additional ideas as to the future of graduate
education in the state and would be delighted to talk with nursing. (2) In respect to clinical spots and the
details relating to clinical spaces, the Commission tries to stay out of the
level. We know it’s important and we
have tried to get institutions to collaborate with other healthcare
coordinators to make sure there is plenty of clinical spots. There is more support in graduate programs.
School of
Science faculty member: Regarding
finances, he is curious as to why all Indiana University campuses and the medical
school are lumped together. It obscures
the underfunding of general education of this campus compared to other IU
campuses. Jones said the chart he
referred to was developed by NCHEMS.
Baldwin: Why are respondents so low? Jones said it is historical. Sauer said it goes back to the origins of
this campus.
Borgmann: Being interested in accountability issues, are
you considering national system-wide testing?
Sauer said that she may be responding to the voluntary system of
compatibility. The ESA was developed by
NUSULGC as a way to avoid federal mandates in these areas to try to deal with
the growing calls for data to be accessible to students and parents. The Commission thought that institutions are embracing
this, and this was a system they could embrace as well. The approach they have taken is to try to get
all public institutions, including two year.
This is an effort to try to get all institutions engaged in some way to
measure student outcomes. That’s not
true of all campuses in the state, but this was seen as a way to voluntarily
participate. In the developing
initiative, we put together a task force to work through potential funding in
this area.
Akay: IUPUI is very well positioned for making an
impact of economic development in central Indiana. When it comes to research, why is research
only limited to health sciences when there are numerous areas that could be
highlighted as well with other industries?
Why the health distinction? Jones
said that one of the issues is whether we should put federal dollars into other
areas? IUPUI could contribute outside
the health sciences. We continue to have
these discussions. Akay said it sends
the wrong message to industries outside health sciences. He hopes the trend will change.
Jones thanked
the faculty for their input and hoped there would be other opportunities. Ng thanked Jones and Sauer for their
attendance. He said the faculty here are
very much ready to move. The way the Commission
talks about this campus is critical.
Having said this it is important that the Commission be sensitive about
the way IUPUI is mentioned. Akay’s point
on how the state will enter the 21st century with non-science
research is important. One aspiration
mentioned is economic development. It is
important the ICHE take the leadership to instill in our citizens that this is
really for the common good. He thinks
IUPUI has the greatest potential to move in that perspective. To attract industry, we must have an institution
in the state and city in the heart of population center and we are truly ready
to help.
Agenda Item VII: Updates/Remarks from the Chancellor
Chancellor Bantz
gave the following report:
·
The
Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration has been hired. Dawn Rhodes will join us this summer.
·
The
Vice Chancellor for Research, Kody Varahramyan, will begin July 1.
·
He
thanked everyone for their enormous success for the United Way Campaign ($435K
is 10% above the goal for the campaign this year). Roger Schmenner and Marla Zimmerman led the
campaign.
·
He
encouraged everyone to walk through the Business/SPEA corridor to see the new
learning spaces. Also, to visit the
Campus Center.
Agenda Item VIII:
Updates/Remarks from the IFC President
IUPUI Faculty
President Ng gave the following report:
·
Thanked
everyone for participating in the ICHE discussion.
·
The
university is engaging in the master planning project. The university announced David Kane as the
master planner for the project.
·
The
IP policy is with the Trustees.
·
The
Family Leave Policy is with President McRobbie.
·
In
the discussions today, he noted the concern of funding liberal arts and
science. The IFC-EC has received two
letters about the lack of funding for the Schools of Liberal Arts and Science. We do not know the best way to proceed to
have a constructive discussion at this time.
·
The
IFC-EC has heard from representatives from the School of Education and are
aware of the challenges they are facing.
We are working with them regarding the challenges.
·
Vermette
thanked Petronio, Blackman, and the Metropolitan Affairs Committee for the TRIP
report.
Agenda Item
IX: Question and Answer Period
There were no
questions at this meeting.
Agenda Item
X: Call for any IFC or UFC Standing
Committee Reports.
No
reports.
Agenda Item
XI: Unfinished Business
No
business.
Agenda Item
XII: New Business
Vermette
announced a second IFC meeting scheduled for February 19, 2008, at 3:00 p.m.,
in IH 100.
Agenda Item
XIII: Adjournment
A motion to
adjourn was made and seconded. The motion
carried. Vice President Vermette
adjourned the meeting.
Karen
Eckert
IUPUI
Faculty Council Coordinator