Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Attendance: Jane Evans (Chair), Lois Millner (VP), David Baron (Med), Judy Goode (CLA), Paul LaFollette (CST), Diane Maleson (Law),
Ira Shapiro (STHM), Bonnie Averbach (FSBM), Jeffrey Solow (BCM&D), Maxine Chisholm (Coord).
1. Call to Order:
The meeting was called to order at 1:08 PM.
2. Approval of Minutes:
The minutes from November 8 were approved.
3. President's Report:
Dr. Englert's memorandum following up on his meeting with us was distributed. It includes a list of the members of the Provost's Committee on Faculty Workload.
4. EPPC:
There will be new policy forthcoming with respect to undergraduate programs which bring in large numbers of students and after one or more semesters re-evaluate which of them may continue in the program.
CATE forms will soon be available on the Web through tuportal. There is ongoing discussion about how to apply gen. ed. requirements to transfer students.
The State of Pennsylvania is anxious to make it easier to transfer between institutes of higher learning through development of uniform courses/requirements.
5. Vice-President's report:
The Committee on the Status of Women meets this Friday for the first time.
We voted to approve all who volunteered to serve on the Committee on the Status of Faculty of Color (which I believe we changed the name of but I can't find to what.)
6. Old Business:
In light of our meeting with Dr. Englert, we decided to postpone any motion from the Steering Committee with respect to workload.
Judy Goode is working on organizing and analyzing previous awarding of merit
7. New Business:
We began a discussion of the proposed Promotion and Tenure guidlines. Jane Evans will summarize our comments for further discussion at our next meeting.
8. Adjournment:
Meeting adjourned at 3:00
Paul LaFollette
Pro-tem
