Present: R. Osgood, J. Swartz, B. Grey, D. Kaiser, K. Kamp, J. Mohan, M. Montgomery, J. Mutti, B.Voyles, H. Scott.

The meeting convened at 4:20 in the Nollen House conference room.

The minutes and excerpts of April 24 were approved.

The following remarks were transmitted electronically in advance of the meeting.

The Dean reminded Council that we nominated Grinnell College in the competition in the program, Institutions of Excellence in the First College Year. This is an effort supported by the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Atlantic Philanthropies. We were notified today that we have been selected as a semifinalist. We will be listed on a WWW site and will submit additional materials in the next round, to see if we are one of the twelve finalists. This is further testimony to the very positive effect of a Grinnell College education. He thanked Paula Smith and Karen Wiese for their assistance with this nomination. He noted that we earlier distributed the submission, but if anyone wants a copy, Paula can provide it.

He noted that two years ago we began posting minutes of the Executive Council and various faculty committees on the Dean's Office website and regularly sent messages to faculty letting them know that the minutes had been updated. Several of them requested that we discontinue the email messages as they knew that they could go to the website to find the minutes. After discontinuing the email messages, some faculty members have requested that they be notified when minutes have been posted.

To (hopefully) satisfy allof the faculty we have created an opt-in listserv. To subscribe to the list, the individual will need to send an email to join-minutes@lyris.grinnell.edu. You will receive an email message asking you to verify your subscription. If there are any questions, please contact Angie (story@grinnell.edu).

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President's Remarks

The President noted that the College is changing back to its former logo and showed Council an example.

He asked Council members who wanted to attend a dinner with a small group of Trustees while they are in town next week to let Susan Schoen know.

Dean's Remarks

The Dean updated Council on the status of faculty searches.

He distributed several bar charts representing the total number of four credit or more courses each year over the decade. There was some discussion.

Council Remarks

B. Grey thanked Council and especially P. Smith for all the work to pass the Mentored Advanced Projects program on Monday and noted that this is the only significant curricular change since the addition of the tutorial several decades ago.

Discussion of Staffing Proposals

The Council members discussed departmental position proposals for the remainder of the meeting.

The Dean also noted that he would not be in town for the next Council meeting, but might be able to arrange to listen in by teleconference to the discussion.

The meeting adjourned at 6:30 p.m.

Secretary
Karen Wiese