FC 1/10/06 Minutes
Approved 2/7/06
Faculty Council Minutes (“IFC”): January
10, 2006
Wynne Courtroom of Inlow Hall (IH 100): 3:30
– 5:30 pm
Attendance record & original
agenda follow adjournment as attachments.
Agenda Item I: Call to Order: Rosalie Vermette (IUPUI
Faculty Vice-President, 4.0064).
Vermette called the meeting
to order at 3:33pm.
Agenda Item II: Adoption of the Order of Business for the Day.
The order of business was
revised. The revised order of business
for the day was adopted.
Agenda Item III: [ACTION ITEM] Memorial Resolution – David W. Allmann,
Professor, School of Medicine (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology).
The IFC adopted the
resolution and stood for a moment of silence.
Agenda Item IV: [INFORMATION ITEM] Campus Campaign Update: IU
Foundation Representative.
IFC and Campus Campaign 2006
[Faculty] Representative Alan
Schmetzer announced the kick-off of the 2006 campaign. Schmetzer urged faculty to donate and
encourage colleagues to do the same, helping the campaign exceed last year’s
numbers (941 faculty/staff campaign
participants) and meet new goals (1100
faculty/staff campaign participants).
Donation forms should arrive via campus mail or interested donors may visit
the Campus Campaign website at http://www.campuscampaign.iupui.edu/.
Agenda Item VI: [ELECTION] Board of Review Pool and the Faculty
Grievance Advisory Panel (“FGAP”): Cathy Bonser-Neal (Chair – Nominating,
4.3448, cneal@iupui.edu).
Bonser-Neal distributed ballots for the election to the Board of
Review Pool and the Faculty Grievance Advisory Panel (“FGAP”). The following individuals were elected for
the 2006-08 terms:
Board of Review Pool
Simon
Atkinson, Sarah Baker, Ed Berbari, Nancy Eckerman, Robert Goulet, May Jafari,
Robert Jamison, Kathy E. Johnson, Anna McDaniel, Jeffrey Platt, Reed Smith, L.
Jack Windsor
Faculty Grievance Advisory Panel
Hasan
Akay, Susanmarie Harrington, Sara Horton-Deutsch, Rachel Nardo
[On behalf of Bonser-Neal] Nominating Committee representative Dolores Hoyt thanked all the candidates then moved that the ballots be destroyed. The motion was seconded and carried unanimously.
Agenda Item VII: [INFORMATION
ITEM] Call for Nominees for IFC President and Vice President: Cathy
Bonser-Neal.
Bonser-Neal called for nominations President and Vice
President of the IFC for the 2006-08 terms.
Duties of and qualifications for both offices can be found in the IFC
Bylaws (http://www.iupui.edu/~fcouncil/constitution.htm).
Bonser-Neal
directed the IFC members’ attention to the annual report on “Representatives to
be Elected” (http://www.iupui.edu/~fcouncil/documents/to-be-elected_0608.htm)
for 2006-08.
Jones announced that the
committee continues its work on the campus-wide Probation, Dismissal, and
Reinstatement Policy.
Jones gave a third reading of the revised Principles of Undergraduate Learning (“PULs”), originally adopted by the IFC in 1998. Last year the issue of reviewing the PULs was presented to the Academic Affairs Committee. In this draft of the PULs, the committee has attempted to address semantic and formatting inconsistencies, as well as issues relating to implementation and assessment.
VIEW the document as it was presented on 1-10-06 at http://www.iupui.edu/~fcouncil/documents/PUL_1-06.htm
NOTE: In the
document linked above, the 1998 PULs are shown side-by-side with the [proposed]
revised PULs. This draft does not
reflect language relating to implementation and assessment incorporated in
previous drafts reviewed by the IFC in Fall 2005. Language regarding
implementation and assessment will undergo separate review by the IFC Executive
Committee and be returned to the IFC at a later date.
Jones reviewed each of the
six principles, highlighting new and revised language. The definitions and outcomes contained under
each principle were undertaken as individual motions [as detailed below]:
*KEY: Underlined blue type represents revised
language proposed by the AAC. Revisions
to new language proposed by the AAC via motions from the floor of the IFC on
1/10/06 are printed in underlined bold red type. Bold red type that has been struck-through
represents language revised from the floor of the IFC that was not revised by
the AAC [i.e. – is original language, from the 1998 draft].
*NOTE: Detailed information
relating to the motions below is available from the IFC office upon request.
§
PRINCIPLE
1: Core Communication and Quantitative Skills
The motion was made to adopt the Definition
and Outcomes listed under Principle 1 [including friendly amendments from
Professors Katie Hanna, Jim Baldwin, and Mary Fisher]. The motion carried (with some dissent).
[Definition:] The ability
of students to express and interpret information,
perform quantitative analysis, and use information resources and technology--the
foundational skills necessary for all IUPUI students to succeed.
[Outcomes:]
Core
communication and quantitative skills
are demonstrated, respectively, by the student’s ability to
a. express ideas and facts to others
effectively in a variety of formats, particularly written, oral, and visual formats;
b. comprehend, interpret, and analyze ideas and facts;
c.
communicate effectively in a range of settings;
d. identify and propose solutions
for problems using quantitative
tools and reasoning;
e. make effective use of information
resources and technology.
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PRINCIPLE
2: Critical Thinking
Following some discussion and two withdrawn
motions, a motion was made by Professor Fisher and seconded by Martin Spechler
to return the Definition under Principle 2 to committee for rewording. The motion carried (with some dissent).
[Definition:]
The ability of students
to use a wide range of cognitive skills to reach
informed decisions.
Following
some discussion and two failed motions to amend a. and f. [under “Outcomes”], the motion was
made to adopt the Outcomes listed under Principle 2 [including a friendly
amendment to make the language consistent with a friendly amendment to
Principle 1]. The motion carried
unanimously.
[Outcomes:]
Critical
thinking is demonstrated
by the student’s
ability to
a.
use acquired
knowledge to understand new concepts;
b.
apply
knowledge to practical situations and make informed decisions;
c. analyze complex concepts
logically and from multiple perspectives;
d.
synthesize information and
arrive at reasoned conclusions;
e.
evaluate the logic,
validity, and relevance of data and conclusions.
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PRINCIPLE
3: Integration and Application of Knowledge
Following some discussion and a failed
motion to strike d. [under “Outcomes”] the motion was made to adopt the
Definition and Outcomes listed under Principle 3 [including a friendly
amendment to make the language consistent with a friendly amendment to Principle
1]. The motion carried unanimously.
[Definition:]
The ability of students
to use information and concepts from studies in multiple disciplines in their
intellectual, professional, and community lives.
[Outcomes:]
Integration
and application of knowledge are demonstrated by the student’s ability to
a.
enhance their personal
lives;
b.
meet professional standards
and competencies;
c.
further the goals of
society; and
d. work across traditional course
and disciplinary boundaries.
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PRINCIPLE
4: Intellectual Depth, Breadth, and Adaptiveness
Following some discussion and three failed
motions to amend “Outcomes,” the motion was made to adopt the Definition and
Outcomes listed under Principle 4 [including a friendly amendment to make the
language consistent with a friendly amendment to Principle 1]. The motion carried (with some dissent).
[Definition:]
The ability of students
to examine and organize disciplinary ways of knowing and to apply them to
specific issues and problems.
[Outcomes:]
Intellectual
depth, breadth, and adaptiveness are demonstrated by the student’s ability to
a. show substantial knowledge and understanding
of at least one field of study;
b. compare and contrast approaches to
knowledge in different disciplines;
c.
modify one's approach to an
issue or problem based on the contexts and requirements of particular
situations.
§
PRINCIPLE
5: Understanding the
Diversity of Societiesy and Cultures
Professor Spechler moved to revert to the
orginal title of Principle 5. Professor
Marianne Wokeck seconded the motion, which carried (with some dissent). A motion was made by Professor Nathan Houser
and seconded by Professor Anne Belcher to amend the first sentence under
“Outcomes” to reflect the amended title of the Principle. The motion carried (with some dissent). Professor Baldwin moved to restore the final
line from the original version of c. [under “Outcomes”]. The motion carried (with some dissent). Following a failed motion to amend the
Definition and a withdrawn motion to amend the “Outcomes,” the motion was made
to adopt the Definition and Outcomes listed under Principle 5 [including a
friendly amendment to make the language consistent with a friendly amendment to
Principle 1]. The motion carried (with
some dissent).
[Definition:]
The ability of students
to recognize their own cultural traditions and to understand and appreciate the
diversity of the human experience.
[Outcomes:]
Understanding
the diversity of societiesy and cultures is demonstrated by the student’s
ability to
a.
compare and contrast the
range of diversity and universality in human history, societies, and ways of
life;
b.
analyze and understand the
interconnectedness of global and local communities;
and
c.
operate with civility in a complex
world.
§
PRINCIPLE
6: Values and Ethics
Professor Andre De Tienne moved to reword b.
[under “Outcomes”]. Professor Nancy
Eckerman seconded the motion, which carried (with some dissent). A motion to further reword b. then
failed. The motion carried (with some
dissent). A motion to add an item d.
[under “Outcomes”] to reflect health and wellness failed. A motion [by Professors Steve Mannheimer and
Baldwin] to strike the word “aesthetics” from b. [under “Outcomes”] carried
(with some dissent). The motion was made
to adopt the Definition and Outcomes listed under Principle 6 [including a
friendly amendment to make the language consistent with a friendly amendment to
Principle 1]. The motion carried (with
some dissent).
[Definition:]
The ability of students
to make sound decisions with respect to
individual conduct, citizenship, and aesthetics.
[Outcomes:]
A sense of values and
ethics is demonstrated by the student’s ability to
a.
make informed and principled
choices and to foresee consequences of these choices;
b. explore, and understand, and cultivate an the nature and appreciation for of beauty and art (aesthetics);
c. understand ethical
principles within diverse cultural, social, environmental and personal
settings.
The definition contained
under Principle 2 [“Critical Thinking”]
will be up for IFC action on February 7th.
The IFC leadership thanked
Jones and her committee for their hard work.
Representative Marianne Wokeck
reported [on behalf of Distance Education
Committee Chairs Enrica Ardemagni and Anna McDaniel] that the committee met
with Stacy Morrone to discuss the implementation of OnCourse CL. The committee strongly urges the university
not to rush the retirement of [the
original] OnCourse/the transition to OnCourse CL.
Vermette reported [on behalf of Budgetary Affairs Committee
Chair Ben Boukai and Campus Planning Committee Chair L. Jack Windsor] that
the schedule for the 2006 Budgetary Hearings has been set.
Agenda Item XII: Chancellor's
Report: Charles Bantz (IUPUI Chancellor & IU Vice-President).
Bantz briefed the IFC on the
following:
·
Chancellor Bantz
called on Executive Vice Chancellor and Dean of the Faculties William Plater,
who reported that Spring 2006 enrollments appear to have exceeded expectations.
·
Planning and
Budgeting hearings begin in the coming weeks.
·
The Trustees have
convened a committee to review the Responsibility Center Management structure.
·
The Chancellor
has convened a review of the campus hiring process.
·
The search
committee for IUPUI’s Executive Vice Chancellor continues its work, with the
anticipation that candidates will soon schedule campus visits.
·
Faculty can
expect updates on the “Commitment to Excellence” (“CTE) proposal review process
next week.
·
Vice Chancellor
for Student Life and Diversity Karen Whitney is in conversation with faculty,
staff, and student groups to discuss the evolution of IUPUI’s smoking policy
and appropriate, effective strategies for a making the transition to a
smoke-free campus.
·
As announced at
the last IFC meeting, the IUB faculty submitted two resolutions to the Trustees
at their December meeting. The Trustees
met in various executive sessions with faculty representatives, the university Vice
Presidents, and Chancellors to discuss issues raised about the administrative
direction of IU. The Trustees have
called a special session for January 14th. President Herbert is expected to make a
statement this week. In closing, Bantz
remarked “It is extraordinarily impressive how seriously the Trustees have
taken the question have been raised.”
The Trustees, the Chancellor noted, are committed to focusing on the
future of all eight IU campuses.
Agenda Item XIII: President's Report: Bart Ng (IUPUI
Faculty President & UFC Co-Secretary, 4.8185, bng@math.iupui.edu).
Vermette announced that IFC
President Bart Ng was at a conference and will report to the IFC at a later
date.
Vice President Vermette then
directed IFC members attention to Dean Plater’s memo [distributed to faculty by their respective deans] regarding
undergraduate attendance and associated policies (Administrative Withdrawal,
the “FN” grade,” etc.). The IFC
Executive Committee plans to host a town hall meeting in March to foster
further discussion of the issue.
Agenda Item XIV: New Business?
No
discussion.
No
discussion.
No
discussion.
Agenda Item XVII: Adjournment.
A motion to adjourn was made
and seconded. The motion carried. Vice President Vermette adjourned the meeting
at 5:32pm.
Minutes prepared by Faculty Council Coordinator, Molly
Martin
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[Attachment
for FC 1-10-06 Minutes: Attendance Record for FC 1-10-06
127 VOTING MEMBERS (last names
underlined6 NON-VOTING MEMBERS* (last names underlined and followed by
an asterisk), and other assorted NON-MEMBERS (Chairs, FGLs, Guests, Visitors,
VIPs, Employees, and others).
[P
= Present; L = Alternate; N = Notice; A = Absent]
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127 VOTING POSITIONS (last names underlined), 6 NON-VOTING
POSITIONS* (last names preceded by an asterisk), and other assorted
NON-MEMBERS (Chairs, FGLs, Guests, Visitors, VIPs, Employees, and others). |
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Akay, Hasan (Chair: Technology)(Engineering and Technology: Mechanical Engineering) [S/P;
O/ ; N/P; D/; J/P; F/; M/ ; A/; M/] |
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Allen, Ruth (Chair:
Faculty Handbook) (Science: Biology) [S/ ; O/ ; N/; D/; J/P; F/; M/ ; A/; M/] |
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Ardemagni, Enrica (Co-Chair:
Distance Education) (Liberal Arts: World Languages & Cultures)[S/ ; O/ ;
N/ ; D/; J/P; F/; M/ ; A/; M/] |
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Atkinson, Simon (Elected: Medicine 6/06) (Medicine: Medicine: Nephrology) [S/P; O/P; N/N; D/; J/P;
F/; M/; A/; M/] |
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Avgoustis, Sotiris (Elected: Physical
Education 6/06) (Physical Education: Tourism, Conventions, and Event
Management) [S/P; O/P; N/P;
D/; J/N; F/; M/; A/; M/] |
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Bailey, Darrell (Ex Officio: Executive
Associate Dean of Informatics -- |
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Baker, Sarah (Elected: Medicine 6/06) (Medicine: Radiology)[S/P; O/P; N/P; D/; J/P; F/; M/; A/; M/] |
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Baldwin, James (Executive Committee
6/07) (Elected: At-Large 6/07) (University Library: Resource Development) [S/P; O/P; N/P; D/; J/P; F/; M/;
A/; M/] |
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Banta, Trudy (Ex Officio:
Chancellor's Administrative Designee 6/05) (Education) [S/P; O/P; N/P; D/; J/P;
F/; M/; A/; M/] |
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Bantz, Charles (Officer: Chancellor
of IUPUI) (Ex Officio: Chancellor of IUPUI)[S/P; O/P; N/P; D/; J/P; F/; M/;
A/; M/ (Present, aLternate, Notice,
Absent)] |
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Barrows, Bob (Elected: Liberal Arts 6/07)
(Liberal Arts)[S/P; O/P; N/P; D/; J/P; F/; M/; A/; M/] |
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Barth, Andrew (Elected: Science 6/06)
(Science: Biology)[S/P; O/N; N/A; D/; J/P; F/; M/; A/; M/] |
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Baumer, Terry (Elected: SPEA 6/06) (SPEA) (Fall 2005 Alternate – David McSwane)[S/L; O/L; N/L; D/; J/P;
F/; M/; A/; M/] |
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Berbari, Edward (Elected: Engineering
and Technology 6/06) (Engineering and Technology: Electrical
Engineering)[S/P; O/P; N/P; D/; J/P; F/; M/; A/; M/] |
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Besch, Henry (Basic
Medicine: Pharmacology and Toxicology)
[S/ ; O/P; N/ ; D/ ; J/ ; F/ ; M/ ; A/ ; M/] |
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Bogdewic, Stephen (Elected: At Large
6/06) (Medicine) [S/N; O/N; N/N; D/; J/P; F/; M/; A/; M/] |
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Boukai, Ben (Chair: Budgetary Affairs) (Science: Mathematics)
[S/ ; O/ ; N/ ; D/ ; J/ ; F/ ; M/ ; A/ ; M/] |
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Bonser-Neal, Catherine (Chair: Nominating) (Business) [S/P;
O/P; N/ ; D/ ; J/ ; F/ ; M/ ; A/ ; M/] |
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Boruff-Jones, Polly (Elected: UFC 6/06)
(University Library: Professional Programs) [S/P; O/P; N/P; D/; J/P; F/; M/; A/; M/] |
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Brater, D. Craig (Ex Officio: Dean of Medicine) (Basic Medicine: Pharmacology and
Toxicology) [S/A;
O/A; N/N; D/; J/P; F/; M/; A/;
M/] |
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Brewer, Susan (IU
Director of Health and Welfare Plans)
[S/ ; O/ ; N/ ; D/; J/ ; F/ ; M/ ; A/ ; M/] |
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Broome, Marion (Ex Officio: Dean of
Nursing)[S/P; O/P; N/P/; D/; J/P; F/;
M/; A/; M/] |
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Brown, James W. (Ex Officio: Associate
Dean of Journalism) (Journalism Faculty Governance Leader 6/04)
(Journalism)[S/A; O/A; N/A; D/; J/P; F/;
M/; A/; M/] |
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Callison, Daniel (Ex Officio: Associate
Dean of Library and Information Science -- |
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Conrad, William (Engineering & Technology Faculty Governance Leader) [S/ ; O/ ; N/ ; D/; J/ ; F/ ; M/ ;
A/ ; M/] |
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Cowen, Carl (Ex Officio: Dean of
Science) (Science: Biology) [S/P;
O/P; N/P; D/; J/P; F/; M/; A/; M/] |
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Cox, Janice (Elected: At Large
6/06) (Dentistry) [S/P; O/P; N/N; D/; J/P; F/; M/; A/; M/] |
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Crabtree, Jeffrey (Elected: Health & Rehabilitation
Sciences 6/06) (Health & Rehabilitation Sciences)[S/P; O/P; N/P; D/; J/P;
F/; M/; A/; M/] |
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Czader, |
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Crowell, Pamela (Science
Faculty Governance Leader 5/05) (Science: Biology)[S/ ; O/ ; N/ ; D/ ; J/ ;
F/ ; M/ ; A/ ; M/] |
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Defazio, Joseph (Informatics
Faculty Governance Leader 5/06) (Informatics)[S/P; O/ ; N/P; D/ ; J/ ; F/ ;
M/ ; A/ ; M/] |
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*Delaney, Jennifer (Undergraduate
Student Government President) [S/P; O/P; N/P; D/; J/ ; F/; M/; A/; M/] |
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DeBall, Suzanne (Elected At-Large:
6/07) (Dentistry)[S/A; O/P; N/A; D/; J/P; F/; M/; A/; M/] |
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Dickey, Stephanie (Herron Art Faculty Governance Leader) (Herron Art)[S/ ; O/ ;
N/ ; D/; J/P; F/ ; M/ ; A/ ; M/] |
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Dwyer, Owen (Elected: At Large
6/06) (Liberal Arts: Geography) [S/P; O/N; N/P; D/; J/P; F/; M/; A/; M/] |
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Ebright, Patricia (Elected: Nursing 6/06)
(Nursing)[S/P; O/N; N/N; D/; J/P; F/; M/; A/; M/] |
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Eckerman, |
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Eickmeier, Valerie (Ex Officio: Dean of
Herron Art) (Herron Art)[S/N O/A; N/A; D/; J/P; F/; M/; A/; M/] |
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Ellett, Marsha |