Indianapolis Faculty Council (IFC)

Minutes

May 6, 2008 ~ IH 100 ~ 3:00 – 5:00 p.m.

Faculty and Guests Present: William Agbor Baiyee, Rachel Applegate, Simon Atkinson, Sarah Baker, James Baldwin, Trudy Banta, Charles Bantz, Robert Barrows, Margaret Bauer, Terry Baumer, Anne Belcher, Teri Belecky-Adams, Ed Berbari, Jacqueline Blackwell, Bonnie Blazer-Yost, Polly Boruff-Jones, Ben Boukai, Won Kyoo Cho, Janice Cox, Andre De Tienne, Marsha Ellett, Scott Evenbeck, Charles Feldhaus, Mary L. Fisher, David Ford, Roger Schmenner (for Jan Froehlich), Lawrence Garetto (for Lawrence Goldblatt), Carlos Gonzalez-Cabezas, Linda Adele Goodine, Sharon Hamilton, Catherine Bonser-Neal (for John Hassell), Ron Hunter, Josette Jones, Steven Jones, David Lewis, Greg Lindsey, Chris Long, Paula Magee, Anna McDaniel, Mahesh Merchant, Mary Beth Myers, Kim Nguyen Bart Ng, C. Subah Packer, Ellen Poffenberger, Rebecca Porter, William Potter, Mary Riner, William Schneider, Curt Simic, Martin Spechler, Uday Sukhatme, Chalmer Thompson, Rosalie Vermette, Richard Ward, Amy Conrad Warner, Jeff Watt, Corinne Wheeler, Karen Whitney, Jack Windsor, Marianne Wokeck, Nancy Young, and Weiming Yu

Agenda Item I: Welcome and Call to Order

IUPUI Faculty Vice President Pro Tempore Mary Fisher called the meeting to order at 3:03 p.m.

Agenda Item II: Special Presentation

Fisher recognized Simic who presented the President’s Award to Coach Ron Hunter in honor of the Samaritan shoe project. As of this day, 250,000 pairs of shoes have been collected for the children of Africa.

Wokeck presented gifts to Vermette and Ng in honor of their service to the IUPUI Faculty Council.

Agenda Item III: Memorial Resolution for Mary Gilchrist.

The IFC adopted the resolution and stood for a moment of silence.

Agenda Item IV: 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 V: [ACTION ITEM] Approval of IFC April 15, 2008, Minutes

Hearing no objections, the IFC April 15, 2008, minutes stood as written and were entered into record.

(http://www.iupui.edu/~fcouncil/minutes/Minutes_IFC_4-15-08.htm)

Agenda Item VI: Elections (Jacqueline Blackwell, Chair, IFC Nominating Committee)

Blackwell introduced the elections for the offices of President of the Faculty, Vice President of the Faculty, Executive Committee, Nominating Committee, and Undergraduate Curriculum Advisory Committee. She also recognized the new Unit Representatives, UFC Representatives, At-Large Representatives, Board of Review Pool, and Faculty Grievance Advisory Committee. Those elected are:

IUPUI Faculty Council: Academic Unit Representatives

Number of representatives allowed by unit in parenthesis ( ).

Terms: Through June 2009 and June 2010

Herron (1)

Andrew Winship (6/09)

Business (1)

John Hassell (6/10)

IUPU Columbus (1)

Allison Howland (6/10)

Continuing Studies (1)

Henry Merrill (6/09)

Dentistry (2)

Carlos Gonzalez-Cabezas (6/10)

Joan Kowolik (6/10)

Education (1)

Samantha Bartholomew (6/10)

Engineering and Technology (2)

Charles Feldhaus (6/09)

Ed Berbari (6/10)

Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (1)

Jeffrey Crabtree (6/09)

Informatics (1)

Mahesh Merchant (6/09)

Journalism (1)

VACANT (6/10)

Law (1)

VACANT (6/10)

Liberal Arts (3)

Robert Barrows (6/09)

Philip Goff (6/10)

Susan Hyatt (6/10)

Library and Information Science (1)

Rachel Applegate (6/09)

Medicine (13)

H. Glenn Bohlen (6/09)

Kenneth C. Hsiao (6/09)

Margaret W. Richwine (6/09)

L.R. Scherer, III (6/09)

Alan D. Schmetzer (6/09)

Jodi Smith (6/09)

Weiming Yu (6/09)

Ron Ackermann (6/10)

Jeff Anglen (6/10)

John Butterworth (6/10)

Nancy Eckerman (6/10)

G. Marie Swanson (6/10)

Xiaofeng F. Yang (6/10)

Music (1)

Fred Rees (6/10)

Nursing (2)

Janice Buelow (6/10)

Corinne Wheeler (6/09)

Physical Education (1)

Amanda Cecil (6/10)

Public and Environmental Affairs (1)

Terry Baumer (6/10)

Science (3)

Ellen Chernoff (6/10)

Bethany Neal-Beliveau (6/10)

Stephen Randall (6/10)

Social Work (1)

Carmen Luca Sugawara (6/10)

University Library (1)

Polly Boruff-Jones (6/09)

Agenda Item VII: Updates/Remarks from the Chancellor

Chancellor Bantz gave the following report:

· Thanked Ng and Vermette for their years of service to the Faculty Council.

· Thanked Bill Bosron for his service as Interim Dean of the School of Science.

· Congratulated Greg Lindsey on his new position at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs.

· There will be 32 faculty members in the SCRUF program (Support for Recruiting Underrepresented Faculty), which was developed by Dean Sukhatme.

· Campus Campaign – over 120,000 persons have given $317,000 to the Campaign. The funds go to support the core work of our campus.

· The School of Music has become a department under the School of Engineering and Technology. The focus of the program here is on music technology, which makes E&T a perfect fit for the school.

· Thanked the Council for meeting with Barbara Mawhiney regarding the review of the Affirmative Action Office and procedures. He is expecting the report soon from her.

· The new Director of Equal Opportunity is Kim Kirkland.

· The master planning process is on “turbo charge.” The first draft proposal will be submitted by the end of May 2008.

· At the Board of Trustees, the Masters of Science in Taxation was approved for the Kelley School of Business.

· Ben Boukai will meet with the Commission on Higher Education to discussion the Masters in Statistics. There will be a BS in Motor Sports degree on the agenda as well for the Purdue program.

· Commencement is this week. Degrees awarded are: baccalaureate degrees - 2,980 (an increase from last year); 1,828 masters degrees; and 59 Ph.D.s (double from what was awarded the year the Chancellor arrived).

Agenda Item VIII: Updates/Remarks from the IFC President

IUPUI Faculty President Pro Tempore Rosalie Vermette gave the following report:

· Recognized the IFC members who are retiring this year.

· The IFC-EC and Faculty Affairs met with Barbara Mawhiney, who is a consultant on employment diversity and versed in affirmative action. Those who met with her were candid about their comments with her regarding the recent resolution by the Council.

· Affirmative Action Office report – The report was distributed via email on May 5, and the documents will also be available on the website. The new officer will be invited to attend a meeting of the IFC in the fall.

· The committees for the IFC will be put together later in May and you will be notified by email of the selection. If you need to fill out an interest survey, contact Karen Eckert (keeckert@iupui.edu).

· If you have been elected to a position on the IFC and cannot serve, contact Karen Eckert so that your position can be filled.

Agenda Item IX: [Discussion Item]: Honors College Proposal (Kathy Johnson, Professor of Psychology and Faculty Fellow)

Presentation:

http://www.iupui.edu/~fcouncil/documents/IFC Honors College Presentation_5_6_08_final.pptx

Vision Paper:

http://www.iupui.edu/~fcouncil/documents/Honors%20College%20Vision%20Paper%20_final%20draft.pdf

Johnson introduced the vision paper as well as the PowerPoint on the Honors College (see links above). Recommendations listed for creating an Honors College are:

} Curriculum: 24 credit hours of honors coursework

◦ Honors coursework and completion of honors requirements should be clearly noted on transcript

} Faculty: should be compensated for honors instruction

◦ honors instruction should be included in standard teaching load (not overload)

◦ multi-year contracts with units would help stabilize the curriculum

} Space: central location on campus would be ideal (has been added to Master Plan list)

} “College” status would heighten visibility, but would not represent a significant change in programming

} Immediate objective: thoughtful increase in student participation (including continuing/transfer students)

Questions:

Belcher: Has there been any consideration of a capstone course? Johnson said many programs already have a program or creative project that can be used as a capstone. Biddinger said the Honors Program has moved to petition to take upper level courses or a capstone to complete their honors notation. This provides the students with honors experience within their particular field of study.

Schneider asked if this will be coming back to the Council for approval. No response. He asked that a column be added for cost of the program. Johnson said their committee was asked to not focus on cost but the curriculum.

Spechler said there has been few students in the honors program in his program although there has been a course devoted to it. Why are not students flocking to the program? Johnson said she thinks students do not know much about honors as we do not talk much about it in Orientation. Spechler said it would be a good first step to encourage them to try the honors program first as the program will cost funds.

Sukhatme said a budget is being prepared for the initiative adding it to the Honors Program. Space needs to be identified as well.

Agenda Item X: [Action Item] Motion from the Faculty Affairs Committee (Andre De Tienne, Chair, IFC Faculty Affairs Committee)

Vermette introduced the motion which is about adding NTTF representatives to the IFC. She quoted excerpts from the IU Handbook that says that every unit can decide on the ratio of the NTTF on their faculty. However, the vote of the NTTF in any unit cannot exceed 40%. The IFC-EC is recommending to the next IFC-EC that there be a town hall meeting next fall to discuss this issue. De Tienne spoke of the motion and the need for representation of the NTTF by the Faculty Council. The motion is as follows:

Ten at-large representatives from the ranks of the full-time non-tenure-track faculty (NTTF) shall be elected to the IUPUI Faculty Council (‘full-time’ as defined by the schools). No more than two representatives shall come from the same school. There shall be at least two representatives from each of the clinical, research, and lecturer ranks. NTTF voting privileges shall be consistent with the Indiana University Faculty Constitution. From the time of implementation, this policy shall take effect for three years and be evaluated during the third year for amendment, reenactment, or revocation.

Berbari asked who actually votes for the NTTF? Who elects the representatives? De Tienne said the Nominating Committee would do this. The non-tenure track faculty will need to vote for the representatives. Fisher said the Constitution and Bylaws Committee will need to figure out how the vote will actually occurred.

Watt asked how we will know who can vote on curricular issues at meetings. How can you tell who is who