Present: President Osgood, Dean Swartz, Associate Deans H. Scott and P. Smith, Special Assistant to the President J. Brand, E. Dobbs, B. Ferguson, M. Pillado-Miller, T. Moore, D. Smith, B. Voyles

The President called the meeting to order at 4:17 p.m. in Nollen House.

Remarks by the Dean

Council needs to elect one of its members to serve on the Affirmative Action Committee. Dobbs moved and Pillado-Miller seconded that T. Moore serve for one year on that Committee. T. Moore agreed to serve and Council unanimously approved the motion.

The Dean raised the topic of the Secretary to Council. Council discussed various ways of relieving Scott of that duty and will return to that discussion at its next regular meeting.

The Dean reminded Council members of the Friday, September 3 meeting of Council to discuss the Campus Master Plan.

Approval of Faculty Position Descriptions

Pillado-Miller moved and D. Smith seconded a motion to approve the description from the Philosophy Department for a tenure-track position in Analytic Philosophy, similar to that previously occupied by Sandy Goldberg and approved last year. The motion carried unanimously.

Pillado-Miller moved and Dobbs seconded a motion to 1) approve the description from the Spanish Department of a tenure-track position in Latin American literature, similar to that previously occupied by Bladimir Ruiz, and 2) approved the description, also from the Spanish Department, of a three-year term full-time position, areas of specialization open, which is designed to handle enrollment and curricular pressures. Both positions were approved last year. The motion on the descriptions was unanimously approved.

Discussion of the position description from the Chemistry department will be postponed until Friday of this week since not all Council members received the e-mail description from the Dean’s Office. This will be the only official business which will be conducted prior to the discussion about the Campus Master Plan.

Continued Discussion of East Asian Proposal

The Council continued its discussion of the revised and expanded Fund for Excellence proposal from the Chinese Concentration Committee and members of a summer workshop on Japanese/East Asian Studies to add Japanese to our curriculum and to create a department of East Asian Languages and Culture.

The direction of the Council’s own discussion of the proposal led it to conclude that a search for a position in Chinese language and literature, similar to that occupied by Y.K. Lo, should be approved and that it should be at the senior level.

Pillado-Miller moved and Dobbs seconded a proposal to search for a senior-level faculty member in Chinese language and literature. The motion passed unanimously.
H. Scott, Acting Chair of the Chinese department, was asked to bring a position description to Council for approval at its next meeting.

The President left the meeting at 5:40 p.m.

Council continued its discussion of implications of the East Asian proposal by turning to the proposed new position in Japanese. Council will return to this discussion at its meeting next Wednesday.

Remarks by Council Faculty Members

Dobbs circulated her recommendation for an amendment to the “Statement on Faculty Allocation Procedure” (November 18, 1998 Council minutes) which set April 1 as the deadline for departments wishing to request filling a current or adding a new faculty position. This amendment will be discussed and voted on at the Executive Council meeting on September 8.

The meeting was adjourned at 6:10 p.m.

Helen Scott
Secretary