College of Human Resources, Education & Public Policy

Present: Cole, Sine, MacArthur, Hermes, Mayhew, McLaughlin, Rys, Wearne, Roe, Okolo, Warren, Rich, VanDornick, Piscolish, Ferrari, Eyman, Siders, Johnson, Gottfredson, and Denhardt.

The meeting was called to order at 11:04 a.m.

1.   The minutes of the February 3 meeting were approved as humbly submitted by Cole (with the addition of Gottfredson being marked as present).

2.   Chair's report

The Chair set the final Council meeting of the year for Tuesday, May 19, from 11-1, location to be announced.

The Chair reported on a successful forum on the DCTE proposal held February 27 in Willard Hall. Following presentations by Rich and Stanley, questions and discussion continued for about an hour. The full recorded transcript of the meeting will be available in the Dean's Office (Judy Holmes) in Graham Hall, in the ERC in Willard, and the Student Services office in Alison for all members of the CHEP community to review.

The Chair indicated that she had appointed a committee consisting of Eyman (chair), MacArthur, and Piscolish to track progress of the DCTE. (See report below.)

The Dean reported that he would soon establish a committee to aid in the transition to the merged School of Education. He also expected subgroups to be formed to deal with specific issues such as promotion and tenure or workload policy.

The Dean indicated that several important meetings were upcoming, including a meeting of the Board of Trustee's Subcommittee on Education and Training to discuss teacher education as well as a meeting of the Societal Studies and Human Resources Subcommittee. The Joint Finance Committee of the State Legislature has also asked questions about the University's and College's State Budget requests, which the Dean took as a positive sign.

The Dean and Chair announced co-sponsorship of a Forum on College Financial Issues (including budgeting and planning) to be held on March 27 in Willard Hall 107 from 3:30 - 5:00. The session will be open to the entire CHEP College community.

Warren moved and Roe seconded a motion to interpret the by-laws so as to include ex officio members of the College Council from those councils listed in Section IV but not otherwise represented on the College Council. Warren then withdrew his motion, only to reconsider and return his motion to the floor at Denhardt's urging. A motion to table by MacArthur, second by someone else, then carried so the motion will be returned at the next meeting of the Council.

Warren then moved and Sine seconded, a lengthy motion that was amended in friendly fashion by a variety of members of the Council to eventually read as follows: College units should elect new College Council members and nominate candidates for standing committee membership by April 15 of the spring semester and forward the names to the Chair of the College Council. The motion passed unanimously.

Warren then reported on the Committee on Committee's recommendations for determining one and two year terms of current College Council members as follows:

3.1. Units with an even number of representatives will replace one half of their Council members. Who will be cycled off the council will be determined by decisions of members not to continue for a second year and/or by lot.

3.2. Units with more than one and an odd number of representatives (Education, SUAPP, and Professional Staff) will determine by lot which one of the three will have one more representative returning than will be cycled off. For example, if Education won the draw, it would have three members returning and two cycled off. SUAPP and Professional Staff would then have one returning and two cycling off.

3.2.1. The process by which a decision would be made within these units as to who would cycle off would follow the same procedure indicated in 3.1.

3.3. In the case of units with only one representative:

3.3.1. The two academic units, Consumer Studies and HRIM will be clustered together and follow the same procedure in 3.1 above.

3.3.2. The Salaried Staff representative and the Student representative will continue for a second year.

After discussion, the motion by Warren and seconded by Sine passed unanimously.

The Council immediately proceeded to implement the policy by drawing lots, actually lots of colored paper. The outcome was the following:

Education	5 delegates	3 returning
IFST	2 delegate	1 returning
CNST/HRIM	2 delegates	1 returning
SUAPP	3 delegates	1 returning
ProfStaff	3 delegates	1 returning
SalStaff	1 delegate	1 returning
Students	1 delegate	1 returning

5.   Alice Eyman, Chair of the Council's Ad Hoc Committee on the DCTE, reported on the Committee's mission to track the progress of DCTE and report to the Council on developments of interest to the Council, especially those with College-wide implications. The committee is also spending time gathering information, including information developed by Piscolish based on the February 27 open meeting on DCTE. (See attached report.)

6.   The Council was adjourned with enthusiasm at 1:58 p. m.

Next meeting: April 6, 11-1 in 187 Graham Hall

Also note: College Forum on Financial Issues, March 27, 3:30-5:00, 107 Willard Hall

Minutes cheerfully submitted by Robert B. Denhardt