- Chair's Report
- Dean's Report
- Committee Reports
- Old Business
- Interdisciplinary Studies major status update
- New Business
- Discussion of a change of one word in the College name – suggested
by Dean Rich
While the CHEP acronym is now well known and well-received and
there is no intention to change it or the full name it signifies
at this time, it would be helpful to change one word of that name
to avoid confusion. The phrase Human Resources is now causing confusion
on campus because there is now a Department of Human Resources (that
used to be the employee relations office) and often off campus because
many other institutions use Human Resources to denote their personnel
offices. Changing the phrase Human Resources to Human Services would
better serve the college, leave the acronym intact, be consistent
with the name of the new CHEP major, and lessen confusion. The Dean
is prepared to bring forward a recommendation for this single word
change as a "technical and non-substantive" change with the support
of the Council and the College Community and the advice of others
(eg. CHEP Alumni Association). He expects it would be approved as
a "technical" change at higher levels so long as it remains a change
in that single word and does not change the full name or the acronym.
- Establish a committee to discuss the issue of what procedures
should be used to discuss college-wide academic issues.
During our first 2 years, CHEP struggled to create policies and
procedures for the Graduate and Undergraduate Curriculum Committees,
departments and schools, and the College Council. Many felt that
last fall’s discussion of the Interdisciplinary Major revealed two
shortcomings. First, there is no good forum for all faculty to discuss
college-wide academic issues. Once the issue is sent out of a department
or school and on to the appropriate committee, many faculty felt
that there was not a good way to gather views across departments
and schools. Second, in a more forward-looking sense, there seems
to be no good venue for the emergence of new academic ideas that
span several departments and schools. The work of this committee
would be to gather faculty input and to propose one or more models
to serve this need.
- Establish a committee to develop and conduct a survey of all
members of CHEP to gauge interest in many areas of the workings
of CHEP.
We seem to be at a turning point in the life of CHEP. We have
taken care of many of the burning issues of becoming a single College
and now can move on. The survey would gather the views of members
of CHEP on such issues as instruction, finance, personnel and governance.
The results of the survey would be used to help set agendas and
priorities for CHEP.
- Discussion of meetings for spring 2000
Next Meeting: TBA
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