College of Human Resources, Education & Public Policy

Present: Pat Sine, Paul Sestak, Pamela Brown, Bahira Sherif, Kim Yackoski, David Kaplan, Elaine Stotko, Jim Morrison, Nancy Brickhouse, John St.Julien.

Excused: Barbara Curry, Bob Warren

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

APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES

Motion to approve the Minutes of April 6, 2000: Morrison, second: Kaplan, vote: unanimous

CHAIR'S REPORT

• Chair Sine reported that the only nominations received so far for the College Promotion and Tenure and Undergraduate Curriculum Committees have come from Urban Affairs.
  
  
• Morrison reported that appointments from Consumer Studies have been made. All nominations need to be submitted as soon as possible.
  
  
• Chair Sine requested that College Council representatives for the 2000-2001 academic year be appointed by May 10, 2000 so that they can be invited to the last Council meeting of this school year.

DEAN'S REPORT

• Elaine Stotko reported for Dean Rich.

• The College name change effort has past through the Trustee’s Committee and will now go before the Board of Trustees for final approval. This will occur at their next meeting.

• Stotko stated that there are now 28 accepted students in the College’s Interdisciplinary Studies program. Overall, freshman numbers are down for the College as well as the University.

COMMITTEE REPORTS

• Ad Hoc Committee to develop and conduct a survey of all members of CHEP
  

  Sestak reported that the Committee sent out the first draft of the survey to selected individuals including Dean Rich. The input received back was incorporated into the second revision of the survey. This version was presented to the Council for review. A general discussion followed.

  Sine suggested that the Committee contact the group that produced a job satisfaction survey that was issued University-wide a while back.

  Sestak stated that the issuance of the survey was under a somewhat tight time constraint. Both Brown and Stotko stated that the Dean was in favor of releasing the survey at the beginning of the 2000-2001 academic year rather than to rush it out at this point in time.

  The Committee will meet this coming week to incorporate all of the input received from the Council. The third revision of the survey will be presented at the next College Council meeting.

• Ad Hoc Committee on What Procedures should be used to Discuss College-wide Academic Issues
  

  Chair Sine discussed the revisions to the procedural text as listed in the agenda for today’s meeting. These are revisions to the CHEP Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Policies and Procedures and the CHEP Graduate Curriculum Committee Policies and Procedures.

  Stotko suggested that the word “courses” be deleted and have it read “programs” only. The change was accepted.

  Motion: to approve this revision to the text of the CHEP Undergraduate Curriculum Policies and Procedures and the CHEP Graduate Policies and Procedures as listed in the Agenda for this meeting: Morrison, second: Sestak, vote: 7 for, 0 against, 1 abstain.

  NOTE: The online versions of these documents now reflect these changes.
  
  
• College Undergraduate Curriculum Committee
  
  No report
  
  
• College Graduate Curriculum Committee
  
  No report
  

• 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.

OLD BUSINESS

No additional business was discussed.

NEW BUSINESS

There was no new business discussed.

Meeting was adjourned at 1:20 pm.

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