Present:
Len Frey
Sandra Bevill
Charles Ford
Gauri Guha
Gail Hudson
Carleen Marburger
Jeff Pittman
Tina Quinn
Steve Replogle
Jim Washam
Mark Young

Others:
Chris Collins

Absent:
John Seydel

Meeting was called to order by Dean Frey at 3:30 p.m.

STUDENT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
The committee met to vote on the Professional Development Program. Dr. Replogle asked the committee to have some kind of action on this program today, either go ahead or put off until later.

FACULTY MEETING
Dr. Frey asked that the Faculty Meeting be scheduled for Wednesday, May 4 from 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. – location to be announced.

Meeting with Dr. Allen, Mark Hoeting, etc. switching from compressed video to IPTV. May be 5 years down the road. All five rooms in the library should be up and running by fall. Should hold up to 40 students.

Access Grid is up and running? Dr. Frey asked the committee if they knew what this is. Can use it in lecture mode or conference mode. Rm 200 behind the reference library. Dr. Frey is going to try to get more information regarding this.

Dr. Frey asked if anyone is using the plagiarism program. It’s fading out in July anyway.

Convocation Center Peer Review - Deans and Chairs will be asked to participate in this.

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Honors Banquet was discussed and it was decided NOT to have assigned seating from now on. Maybe have a way to put Honorees at front tables or just reserve the front tables, first come, and first serve.

Dr. Quinn read a letter complaining about having to take mandatory classes when it is not conducive to some student’s schedule.

Dr. Ford doesn’t want to scrap the program. Feels the students need these classes and Dr. Bevill agreed. She doesn’t want to scrap the program either. Dr. Bevill suggested maybe instead of having some of the classes mandatory, maybe pick 2 as an elective instead.

Dr. Frey asked why we’re doing this. Dr. Replogle says that since our students are getting less traditional, they just want to come to class and get off campus as quickly as possible and the heck with the school thing. What are we going to do to differentiate us from other schools. Dr. Replogle thought that this program would do this.

Dr. Hudson suggested getting rid of the card and doing it more electronically. Students will invariably lose the card.

There was much discussion regarding this program.

Dr. Bevill suggested at the class level to have the students try each section of this program for one year and see the resistance, if any, to these requirements.

Dr. Frey asked if Dr. Seydel had any comments from his department regarding this program.

Dr. Replogle asked if he could delay this for spring 2006 and then in the fall have the committee come together and plan out the details. Then decide whether we start with the seniors or with the freshman. Dr. Bevill also asked Dr. Replogle not to forget the alternate events they can participate in as well. Dr. Hudson asked Dr. Replogle about incorporating this with the distance sites as well.

Dr. Frey would like Dr. Replogle to present this to the faculty at the spring meeting. Melodie Philhours could handle it since Dr. Replogle won’t be here on May 4th.
Dr. Ford suggested having a student attend the meeting as well.

Dr. Replogle asked that Melodie go ahead and do this at the meeting and try to get a student to attend.

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The committee is in favor of this program, Tina may not be, but the majority is in favor. We can implement this even if it’s not in the catalog because it’s just part of a syllabus. Individual faculty can pilot this in the fall and then implement in the spring.

Dr. Frey would like for Dan Marburger to present this program together with Melodie Philhours.

The meeting adjourned at 4:45 p.m.

Next meeting scheduled for May 9, 2005.

Submitted by

Chris Collins