Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Attendance: Robert Aiken (Pres.), Karen Turner (V. Pres.), Paul LaFollette (Secretary), Bonnie Averbach (FSBM), David Baron (Med), Jon Clark (TYL), Judith Goode (CLA), Diane Maleson (Law), Bernie Newman (SSA), Joan Shapiro (EDUC), Joel Sheffield (CST), Roberta Sloan (SCT), Roy Stevens (Dent)
1. Call to Order:
The meeting was called to order at 1:00 PM.
2. Guest: Larry Lemanski, Sr. Vice President for Research and Strategic
Initiatives.
Dr. Lemanski gave a presentation about his vision for supporting research at Temple. He has had good experience at other universities enlisting the help of faculty committees. He proposed here to develop
1) Internal grant application committees, one for Science
and Technology and another for the "Arts and Letters."
2) A reactivated Patents Committee to look at rules relative
to patents and distribution of funding.
3) An external Outreach Advisory Committee composed of
people supportive of the university and geared towards
research, commercialization, and entrepreneurship.
J. Shapiro noted that patent committees often have to deal with the tension between encouraging research and their gate keeping responsibilities.
Averbach asked what effect the NIH cutbacks in funding may have at Temple. Answer: We will have to become more competitive, although we are already doing quite well in these competitive times.
There then followed some discussion about his plans to help find funding for the arts.
Goode and Sheffield pointed out that to be seriously involved in funding, departments need to have adequate clerical staff and similar infrastructure.
Baron said that we sometimes are too insularly unaware of what departments other than our own are up to and proposed finding ways to increase the amount of publicity among various schools and colleges.
At this point it became necessary to adjourn so that we could attend the Representative Faculty Senate meeting.
Officers' and committee reports, old and new business, and approval of the minutes were all deferred until our next meeting.
8. Adjournment:
The meeting was adjourned at 1:40 PM.
Paul S. LaFollette, Jr.
Secretary
