College of Human Resources, Education & Public Policy

Present: Dean Rich, Pat Sine, Paul Sestak, Jim Morrison, Pamela Brown, John St.Julien, Bahira Sherif, Bob Warren, Joanne Golden, Jo Fitzpatrick, Nancy Brickhouse, Barbara Curry, Kathy Denhardt, Raheemah Jabbar-Bey.

Excused: Kim Yackoski

The meeting was called to order by Chair Sine at 12:10 PM

APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES

Motion to approve the Minutes of February 15, 2000: Morrison, second: Fitzpatrick, vote: unanimous

CHAIR'S REPORT

• Chair Sine announced that the last two meetings of this school year will take place on Tuesday, May 2, 2000 and Tuesday, May 23, 2000 both from noon to 1:30.
  
  
• Sine read a letter from Dean Rich to Mark Huddleston, President of the Faculty Senate requesting the support of that body for our College name change efforts. Dean Rich reported that it was approved at the April 3rd meeting and will be on the agenda for the next Board of Trustees meeting for final approval.

DEAN'S REPORT

• Dean Rich reported that the College Campaign has reached 80% of its goal or a little more than $13 million after 19 months.
  
  
• Dean Rich discussed admissions and stated that enrollment is up 68% over the last two years. It was noted that a smaller freshman class is coming in but that the quality of that class in up. There were 18,000 applications this year with approximately 3,500 being accepted. CHEP will have a freshman class of between 300 and 500 students.
  
  
• Dean Rich gave a brief profile of CHEP since July 1, 1999. While teaching 2,140 undergraduates and approximately 600 graduate students, we provided research, data analysis and similar academic services to between 500 and 700 various organizations. CHEP had $24 million in expenditures during the last fiscal year with $13 million coming from the University and $11 million coming from these academic services.
  
  
• There was nothing new to report on College space allocation.

COMMITTEE REPORTS

• Ad Hoc Committee on What Procedures should be used to Discuss College-wide Academic Issues
  
  Morrison outlined the Committee's direction which was listed in the agenda for this meeting. Two proposals were listed. The primary concern for both proposals was to avoid procedural delays in academic business.
  
  
1. Decisions of any college-wide committee regarding proposals for new courses/progams that originate in and are voted on by a faculty unit are to be communicated (in oral format) to the CHEP Council at each meeting. (Distributing such actions to faculty via meeting minutes or on the web is not sufficient. The current process appears to be generally working except for keeping all parties in CHEP informed.Requiring committees to report systematically to CHEP Council will help generate discussion.)

It was suggested that reports from both the Undergraduate and Graduate Studies Committees be listed in addition to posting information on new programs/courses via e-mail. Morrison explained that Proposal #1 gives a greater opportunity for faculty to discuss program and course proposals. It opens up communication. Morrison feels that faculty want to be more informed about these academic issues and that e-mail listing of proposals is not working effectively to this end. Chair Sine stated that Proposal #1 will become a standing item on future CHEP College Council Agenda.


2. Proposals for new courses/programs whose scope involves more than one unit and/or there is no formal faculty vote by a sponsoring unit are to be submitted to the CHEP council for formal discussion and vote. (This may require a by-laws change.)
   

   Proposal #2 suggests that this may require a change to the Council’s by-laws. Chair Sine stated that this would require at least a revision to the procedures.
   

   Denhardt explained that program/course proposals are currently voted on at the committee and Council levels.
   

   Morrison stated that, for efficiency reasons, there should be no significant time delays in any program/course proposals.
   

   Dean Rich added that there was no need to change the by-laws of the College Council to accomplish Proposal #2.
   

    Morrison further explained that if a formal faculty vote did not exist at the sponsoring department level, then the CHEP College Council would conduct a formal vote on that particular proposal.
   

   Denhardt stated that she preferred that a vote be conducted by the Undergraduate Studies Committee or by the faculty of the sponsoring department first and then have it proceed to the College Council.
   

   Chair Sine offered to rewrite the Undergraduate and Graduate Curriculum Committee’s procedure section that pertains to this proposal. The revision is as follows;

   In the case where the effected academic units have not voted their approval for new or revised courses or programs which involve more than one unit, the Chair will forward the additions or revisions to College Council where such a vote will be taken. The results will then be forwarded to the Dean’s Office.
   

    A vote will need to be taken on this procedural revision at the next Council meeting.

   Dean Rich stated that the job of the Council would be to send program/course proposals on or to send them back to the unit’s Undergraduate or Graduate Committee.
   
   

• College Undergraduate Curriculum Committee
  
  Bob Taggart has gone on sabbatical and Jim Raths has been selected as a replacement.
  
  
• Ad Hoc Committee to develop and conduct a survey of all members of CHEP
  
  Sestak reported that committee met and discussed two areas of concern, the timing of the survey and the content of the survey. The committee tentatively decided that the survey would go out near the end of April and would be due back within ten days. This would allow time to contact those that did not initially respond. The results of these surveys would then be analyzed over the summer with a final report being issued in September.

  The committee will seek the input of Dean Rich on the types of questions. From this, a draft of the survey will be reviewed before the final product is issued.

  The committee will also seek the assistance of Dean Rich in “advertising” the importance of responding to this survey.

• Committee on Committees

  Warren discussed the need to have the College Council issue a notice to our units to provide nominations for the various College committees and to elect representatives to fill those vacancies.

Meeting was adjourned at 1:35 pm.

Minutes submitted by Paul Sestak (sestak@udel.edu, Ext. 8553 )