Present:

Dean Duggar
Dr. Bill Roe
Dr. Sandra Bevill
Dr. David Boyd
Dr. Charles Ford
Dr. Len Frey
Carleen Marburger
Dr. Jeff Pittman
Dr. Steve Replogle
Dr. John Seydel
Dr. Jim Washam
Mark Young

Others:

Chris Collins

Absent:

Meeting was called to order at 12:00 Noon by Dean Duggar.

Dean Duggar commented that in the RAAC meeting today there was much discussion regarding shutting the University down December 22nd, 23rd, and Friday, Jan 2nd. Anyone on a 12-month appointment will have to take mandatory vacation days. This is going before the Staff Senate today and a memo will go out when the staff senate meeting is over.

Dean Duggar stated that the merit raises that were given earlier in the year, that they did provide money for full-time, temporary people. Regan Caldwell, Henry Torres and Aaron Brown (continuing temporary). Dean Duggar stated that he needs to turn in their evaluation in about a week.

Indirect cost allocation – we should be getting some of the money back on this ABI and other grants. Doesn’t know what the formula will be on this as yet. As soon as Dean Duggar knows, he’ll pass it along. He should know in the next two weeks on this.

STUDENT RECRUITING/FRESHMAN EXPERIENCE
Dean Duggar stated that Dr. Allen is looking more to the units to maintaining and expanding recruiting. He asked the committee if they would take under consideration the faculty getting more involved in recruiting. Carleen suggested taking this up in the outreach committee. Dean Duggar commented that he is not aware of anyone who represents the COB in freshman recruiting. Investigate where we can go, i.e. Community

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Colleges, high schools. Dean Duggar asked Dr. Bevill to move up the college meetings due to the early scholarship dates.

FACULTY

Recruiting

Dean Duggar stated that a Board member called him and told him that there would be money to hire a qualified MIS person at a competitive salary. He asked the committee that we actively recruit qualified people.

Mentoring

Dean Duggar commented that he thinks of mentoring as moving people forward. Clarify this definition. Dean is focusing on the Research side - consider a Code of Conduct on Research issues. He asked the committee that we consider this. Dean Duggar asked Dr. Seydel if he has a group that can work on this or would he like to spread this out more. There are codes of conduct out there that we could modify, clarify authorship; recognize people in the footnotes, multiple publications of similar articles. Dr. Seydel commented that he could put together some people. Dr. Pittman suggested Dr. Ford be involved because the PRT Committee needs to be involved. Dean Duggar commented that co-authorship with husband and wife is the most difficult to deal with and Dr. Pittman also commented that co-authorship in the same discipline is also difficult.

Academically & Professionally Qualified

Dean Duggar discussed new AACSB qualifying criteria – 90% criteria. From 41 – 47 to be academically or professional qualified. In the accreditation process, teaching undergraduate, 2-refereed articles for those teaching undergraduate, 3 pier review articles for those teaching graduate classes, etc. Starts and ends with peer review journals. Inconsistent with our PRT documents and not integrated in our merit system. Move to new accreditation standards; look at being consistent in all areas. We need to address this sooner rather than later so we can have a transition period and everyone realizes what that transition is.

Merit

PRT

Post-tenure Review

Looking at 90% academically and professionally qualified. Look at a program for faculty development to get us there. PRT document lists a whole range of items and lets make it consistent. If faculty member is going to lose tenure due to what they are doing, how can he vote for tenure? If merit is related to this to where you lose academically and professionally qualified, then go to a C in merit. Proceedings vs. journals? Dean Duggar asked the committee how we move forward with this complex list of guidelines.

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Dr. Washam suggested that in the Spring Faculty meeting this needs to be a part of the meeting. Dean Duggar commented that after next week we can be very definitive on this.

Dean Duggar asked if Irene got Appendix A from Dr. Seydel’s department – Dr. Seydel thought that this had been done several months ago.

ASSESSMENT
Dr. Roe passed around the Assurance of Learning Standards to the committee. One program was presented by Dr. Kathryn Martel on development of assurance of learning goals and assessment outcomes. Dr. Martel has been contacted to come here and present this to the faculty and Friday, February 27, 2004 is the date. Dr. Martel responded to Dr. Roe today and stated that she would be happy to come and the previous date was mentioned but not confirmed as yet. In New Orleans, if we do not have our assurance of learning goals defined, we are a little bit behind. Window for creating those goals was March of last year and April of 2004. Need assurance of learning goals for the degree programs. Dr. Roe will keep everyone posted on Dr. Martel and she is on the faculty at Mt. Claire State University. Dr. Roe stated that he sent the slides of Dr. Martel’s presentation to the chairs today. We need to have some identifiable ways to measure these outcomes. We need to have an assessment portfolio. Dr. Roe asked the chairs to look over the handout, become familiar with this and get together to kick some ideas around to see how we can accomplish this. Dr. Jeff Pittman asked Dr. Roe if the goal of this was to get the college in compliance with the AACSB requirements and Dr. Roe said yes. This is an assessment of the individual student.

Dr. Roe will call the meeting. This does not need to be done in every course if he’s reading this right but choose a course.

EMERALD GALA
Carleen commented that she doesn’t have any final figures yet. Any feedback regarding the gala please let her know. Comments were made that we needed a bigger dance floor. Carleen stated that the next date for the Emerald Gala will be set at the next Outreach Committee Meeting.

Meeting adjourned at 12:55 p.m.

Next meeting scheduled for November 24, 2003 at 12:00 Noon in the COB Conference Room BU105.

Submitted by:

Chris Collins