Minutes
College Council Meeting of March 11, 2003
College of Human Services, Education, and Public Policy
117 Willard Hall, Noon to 1:30 PM
Attendance: Tim Barnekov, Bahira Sherif-Trask, Hye-Shin Kim, Jeff Fahnoe,
James Flynn, Pearl Stewart, Kim Yackoski, Kristine Ritz, Theresa Clower,
Heather Pleasants, Denise Methven, Susan Coakley, Tim Miller,
Absent: Barbara Settles, Michael Gamel-McCormick, Nancy Brickhouse,
Sylvia Brooks, Ratna Nandakumar
Excused: Bill Moody, Raheemah Jabbar-Bey, Bob Warren, Zoubeida Dagher,
Fred Hofstetter, Cheryl Ackerman, Paul Sestak, McKenzie Ogrodnik, Ann
Jornlin
Approval of Minutes: Motion Jeff Fahnoe; second Kim Yackoski; approved
Chair’s Report:
- Deans Search
- • Six nominations and 1 application have been received.
(Dean Barnekov was confirmed as the new Dean of CHEP this week.)
Dean’s Report:
- Appointment of CHEP Conflict of Interested Committee
- Requested by Provost Rich and Vice-Provost Russell
- Issues that need to be addressed tend to come up in the sciences were
patents are addressed.
- For CHEP, issues may revolve around consulting (e.g., public service
appointments, hiring University employees as consultants
on grants)
- Committee members are David Blacker, John Kushman, and Leland Ware
- Online course evaluation
- University is working on an online course evaluation
form. Faculty members from education have tested it and the response
was positive. Tend to get better response on open-ended questions.
- Online Sabbatical Forms
- New online sabbatical request forms will be available at
the end of this month.
- Committee on grade inflation
- Committee on grade inflation on clinical courses has been
established. Chairs have decided to look at how grading practices
impact learning.
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Committee will be chaired by Betty Paulanka
- Workload controversy
- There is no comment from administration regarding the
current workload controversy with the College of Arts and Sciences.
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The approach by Deans and Provost is that all units are required
to resubmit workload agreements by the end of June. Units that
fail to resubmit their workload agreements will not receive approval
for new lines.
- Units will not be penalized if the
AAUP holds up the workload agreements of units.
- Legal Studies
- A three college administrative council (B&E, A&S,
and CHEP) will oversee Legal Studies.
- CHEP will provide governance
and A&S will oversee administration.
- Admissions
- There are currently 22,000 applicants. All CHEP unit
indicators are up for both in-state and out-of-state students.
- Largest ever number of applications from minority students.
- University
is criticized for not admitting Delaware residents. However, every
Delaware resident predicted to success will be
admitted. No Delaware resident is in competition with other Delaware residents
or out-of-state students.
- The number of minority graduate student
applications have gone up.
- Status of relocation
- Issues have developed between A&S and H&NS
for use of Willard space.
- The ERC has 3 options – Pearson
(old band room and TV Studio), 1st floor of maintenance building,
2nd floor of Alison West currently
occupied by Nutrition
- Ideas concerning relocation are
on-going.
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- Career Ladder Group
- Continues to meet weekly, today is meeting #8.
- Draft should be forwarded to the Dean soon.
Old Business:
- Students of color in CHEP
- Dean Barnekov contacted chairs for overview on departmental
efforts in recruiting students of color.
- CHEP needs to examine current
strategies in place and new efforts to recruit students of color.
Also need to be addressed is how
students can success.
- There will be more central support
from the Provost’s office.
- CHEP’s goal is to triple
proportion of students in undergraduate programs.
- Currently, CHEP
has 80 applications from the Urban League.
- Ideas from meeting:
- Establish mentoring programs (e.g., Center for Black
Culture, “Each One Reach One”)
- Urban Education – To
encourage recruitment in a specialization. Examine programmatic
focus in disciplines.
- Guest speakers that address the needs of students of color
on predominantly white campus.
- RISE (Michael
Vaughn) – Invite to speak on their successes.
- Involve Delaware State students in study abroad programs.
- Develop webpage with activities of interest.
- Initiate a committee by the CHEP College Council.
- College committee members for next year
- Each unit must submit a list
of names for college committees by May:
- CHEP Council
- College Faculty Promotion and Tenure Committee
- College Undergraduate Curriculum Committee
- College Graduate Curriculum Committee
Next Meeting: April 15, 12:00-1:30 pm, 202 Alison Hall
Motion to Adjourn: Motion Jeff Fahnoe; second Theresa Clower; approved
Minutes submitted by: Hye-Shin Kim
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