IFC 10/3/06 Minutes
Approved 11/7/06
Faculty Council Minutes (“IFC”): October
3, 2006
Attendance record and 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 for the
day was adopted.
Hearing no objections, the
IFC September 5, 2006 minutes stood as written and were entered into record.
These
minutes are available to view online at http://www.iupui.edu/~fcouncil/minutes/fc060905html.htm
Agenda Item IV: [ELECTION] At-Large
Representative to the Promotion and Tenure Committee: Jacqueline Blackwell
(Chair – Nominating, jblackwe@iupui.edu).
Nominating
Committee Chair Jacqueline Blackwell
re-read the slate of candidates for election at-large to the IUPUI Promotion
and Tenure Committee for the 2006-09 terms, a slate originally presented at the
9/5/06 IFC meeting. Blackwell and the
Nominating Committee distributed, collected, and tallied the ballots.
Patrick Rooney was elected
will serve until November 30, 2009 alongside Keith Moore (Dentistry -
11-30-2007) and Richard Meiss (Medicine - 11-30-2008).
Blackwell thanked all of the
candidates and moved that the ballots be destroyed. The motion was seconded and carried
unanimously.
Agenda Item V: [INFORMATION ITEM] General Education at IUPUI: Bart Ng (IUPUI Faculty President & UFC Co-Secretary, 4.8185, bng@math.iupui.edu).
The appropriate IUPUI
committees (including an Undergraduate Curriculum and IFC Academic Affairs
Committees, respectively) and offices have continued their work on a response
to the Trustees’ resolution on General Education (“no later than February 2007
the President and faculty submit to the Board of Trustees a plan to incorporate
a specific general education component in the undergraduate degree requirements
for all Indiana University campuses and programs”). Executive Director of Enrollment Services and
Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Services Becky Porter has developed a
matrix for General Education at IUPUI on which Ng has offered initial feedback. Ng reminded the IFC of a major associated
issue that discussion of General Education has reinvigorated: statewide
transferability. Ng informed the IFC
that he has emphasized the campus’ commitment to the transferability issue in
discussions with the Board. He will also
continue to communicate the unique value of IUPUI’s current, established
approach to General Education—through the Principles of Undergraduate
Learning—to the Trustees.
Agenda Item VI: Updates/Remarks from the
IFC President: Bart Ng.
Ng reported the following:
·
Two
open 'town hall style' forums will be held in order to offer the opportunity
for Dr. Sukhatme to share and discuss the proposed Academic Action Plan for
IUPUI. Faculty, staff, and students can now view the plan and
submit comments about it online at http://www.iupui.edu/administration/acad_affairs/actionplan.html
Please see the forum dates/times
below, noting that the October 9th forum will now take place in BS 2000.
Thursday, October 5 –
4:00-5:30 pm in LE 102
Monday, October 9 –
4:00-5:30 pm in BS 2000
·
The IFC Executive
Committee is seeking to schedule two additional meetings. One meeting would most likely be held on
October 17th, to deal with general IFC business as well as to
discuss the future of the Division of Labor Studies with Interim Director Mark
Sothmann and representatives of the DLS faculty. The second meeting will be held on November
21st (a date previously announced as tentative) and will deal with
the search for IU’s next President.
Agenda Item VII: Unfinished Business?
No
discussion.
Agenda Item VIII: New Business?
Agenda Item IX: Adjournment.
A motion was made to adjourn
the regular business meeting and begin the Chancellor’s address. The motion was made, seconded, and
carried. Vice President Vermette
adjourned the regular meeting at 3:57pm.
A transcript of the
Chancellor’s address, courtesy of his staff, has been appended to the formal
record and can be viewed online at http://www.iupui.edu/administration/chancellorsnews/06_soc_transcript.pdf.
Minutes prepared by Faculty Council Coordinator, Molly
Martin
UN 403 / 274-2215 / Fax: 274-2970 / fcouncil@iupui.edu / http://www.iupui.edu/~fcouncil
[Attachment
for IFC 9-5-06 Minutes: Attendance Record for IFC 9-5-06
[P
= Present; L = Alternate; N = Notice; A = Absent]
[Attachment for IFC 10-3-06 Minutes]
ATTACHMENTS
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A G E N D A (IFC:
October 3, 2006)
VI.
(15 minutes) Updates/Remarks from the IFC
President: Bart Ng (IUPUI
Faculty President & UFC Co-Secretary, 4.8185, bng@math.iupui.edu).
A.
[ANNOUNCEMENT]
United Way Campaign 2006: Mary Myers
or Roger Schmenner.
B.
[ANNOUNCEMENT] The
Town Hall Open Forums on the Academic Action Plan will be held on:
1.
Thursday, October
5 – 4:00-5:30 pm in LE 102
2.
Monday, October 9
– 4:00-5:30 pm in BS 2000 (PLEASE NOTE THE ROOM CHANGE TO BS 2000)
Next Faculty Council Meeting: Tuesday November 7, 2006, 3:30-4:00pm, Wynne
Courtroom of Inlow Hall (IH 100)
Please
visit the Faculty Council website at http://www.iupui.edu/~fcouncil
for agenda, updates & more.
Agenda prepared by Faculty Council Coordinator
Molly Martin: UN 403 / 274-2215 / Fax: 274-2970 / fcouncil@iupui.edu / http://www.iupui.edu/~fcouncil