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

The meeting was called to order by President Osgood at 4:20 p.m. in the Nollen House conference room. The minutes and excerpts of the 9/22 meeting were corrected and approved.

Remarks by the President

President Osgood announced that the Board of Trustees voted to approve the Campus Master Plan. He noted an excellent presentation by the Dean in which he reviewed all of the staffing proposals that had come to Council during the past year. He also noted that everyone involved thought that the arts weekend was a tremendous success and very enjoyable and should be an annual event.

Remarks by the Dean

The Cheney group (which produced the Viewbook this year) will now begin working on a series of mini-viewbooks focusing on various aspects of the academic program. The Dean said these would only include FT faculty. T. Moore asked that department chairs be allowed to proof and vet the text of any viewbooks involving their departments. The President agreed.

D. Smith moved, and E. Dobbs seconded, that the Executive Council approve and endorse the candidates recommended by the Marshall and Rhodes Scholarships Committee. They are:
Susanna Drake ‘00 (Rhodes), Neil Gipson ‘99 (Marshall and Rhodes), Christian Peterson ‘00 (Marshal and Rhodes), and Julian Zebot ‘00 (Rhodes). The candidates were approved.

Helen Scott asked for assistance of Council in revising the Position Description for the Chinese Studies recruitment in order to comply with size restrictions of the Association for Asian Studies. Pillado-Miller moved, and B. Ferguson seconded, approval of the revised Position Description.

GWS Staffing Proposal

Pillado-Miller moved, and B. Ferguson seconded, approval of the expansion of the Roberts-Skerrett position as presented in the Gender and Women's Studies proposal of September 15. She handed out an addition to the proposal which discusses the proposed changes as a result of this expansion. A lengthy discussion ensued. E. Dobbs summarized the discussion by pointing out that Council is being asked to deal with two issues raised by this proposal: 1) solving a problem in GWS; and 2) expanding a contract.

The motion was approved.

Library Staffing Proposal

B. Voyles moved, and E. Dobbs seconded, approval of a Library proposal to change the title and duties of the position currently held (and soon to be vacated) by L. Czechowski to Access Services Librarian. In doing so, C. Rod, will assume the duties of College Archivist.

The motion was approved.

Strategies for Achieving a More Ethnically Diverse Faculty

The Dean discussed our efforts to increase diversity among the faculty. He noted past failures and insisted that past efforts have not been sufficient. Most successful among past strategies has been the CSMP Program. The Program will now be administered from the Dean's Office. A lengthy discussion ensued regarding various aspects of the CSMP program and other efforts to improve our performance in this area.

Principles Governing Council Staffing Recommendations

E. Dobbs deferred discussion.

Council Remarks

The Dean announced that S. Baumler, C. Trosset, and L. Sinnett will be joining the Council next session to discuss their "Overview of Findings: Student Course Evaluation Research", which was attached to the 9/27/99 Council agenda. T. Moore handed out a paper from the Center for Faculty Evaluation and Development at Kansas State University for Council discussion next week.

D. Smith brought up the fact that several faculty have been talking with him about the desirability of having a continuing faculty forum on the Campus Master Plan. President Osgood responded that he sees the value of this because the Trustees are going to want input in the immediate future in relation to Plan priorities and we need to engage faculty in that planning process over the next six months.

Associate Dean Scott reminded the Divisions of the teaching colloquium on capstones on Thursday, September 30.

The meeting was adjourned at 6:05 p.m.

Karen Wiese
Secretary