Present: R. Osgood, J. Brand, J. Swartz, E. Dobbs, W. Ferguson, T. Moore, D. Smith, B. Voyles, M. Pillado-Miller, H. Scott, P. Smith.

The meeting came to order at 2:38 p.m. in the Nollen House Conference Room.

Minutes and excerpts of the meeting of April 12, 2000 were distributed for approval next Wednesday.

Dean's Remarks

B. Ferguson/M. Pillado-Miller moved approval of the recommendation from the Political Science department to offer a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Political Science to Leonard Feldman, for the two-year period of AY 2000-01 and 2001-02, contingent on his completion of all Ph.D. requirements by the beginning of AY 2000-01.The motion passed unanimously.

M. Pillado-Miller moved, and D. Smith seconded, a motion to untable discussion of the Theatre department recommendation to make an offer of tenure-track appointment. The motion to untable discussion passed. Council members discussed the recommendation. Council members agreed that they now had a clearer understanding of the recommendation. The motion carried unanimously.

Discussion of Faculty Allocation Priorities

The Dean and B. Voyles distributed additional tables of enrollment data. The President distributed a comparative table of academic expenditures as a percentage of total budget at Swarthmore, Macalester, Carleton, and Grinnell. Of these four colleges, Grinnell College devotes the highest percentage of its budget to academic expenditures. The President urged the Council to consider each request for expansion of the faculty in the context of this total financial picture.

Council members presented brief statements of their positions and priorities on faculty allocation goals.

Preliminary Brief Discussion of Each Departmental Proposal

The chair of each division summarized the proposals coming from departments in that division. Council members raised pertinent questions and issues for discussion of each proposal.

D. Smith left at 4:32 p.m.

The Council will begin with the science division proposals at Wednesday's meeting, with the plan to move on to the social studies proposals. M. Pillado-Miller, chair of the Humanities division, has announced that she will be absent from that meeting.

The meeting adjourned at 4:45 p.m.

Paula V. Smith
Secretary