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

The meeting convened at 2:05 p.m. in the Nollen House conference room.

The minutes and excerpts of May 8 were approved.

President's Remarks

The President presented an overview of changes which will be made to the College's major annual publications. He stated that he does not believe we are publicizing the work of our faculty as extensively as we should. Beginning next year the Grinnell Magazine will be issued four times a year. Three of those issues will be in the traditional format but a bit longer. The fourth issue will include the Honor Roll of Donors and the President's and Dean's annual reports. Every two years we will publish a magazine devoted exclusively to the activities of our faculty. Between fall and winter and winter and spring issues of the Grinnell Magazine we will publish two or three newsletters focusing on faculty. This change will probably cost an additional $25,000. K. Kamp asked what would be gained. The President noted the additional exposure. D. Kaiser asked how this information would be collected. K. Kamp expressed concerns about the accuracy of information being prepared for publication and asked for pre-publication screening by the faculty involved. The Dean mentioned that the College, as part of the Mellon Faculty Career Enhancement grant, would be developing an electronic system of tracking faculty accomplishments. K. Kamp suggested that perhaps Division Chairs could bring their broad perspective to the process of identifying priorities for publication. B. Voyles stated that the Public Relations staff had met with the Science Division faculty last year and the faculty have found the staff to be responsive to their concerns and needs.

Dean's Remarks

The Dean noted that the Forum Grill will remain open over the summer. The decision will be easier to make next year if patronage is steady over the summer. The hours are 9:30-1:00 during the week.

He stated that he is intending to ask Helen Scott and Wayne Moyer to work together to plan events around Martin Luther King day next year and within the context of the current academic calendar.

The Dean updated Council on the status of faculty searches.

He distributed a memorandum in which he presented the case for experimenting with Mentored Introductory Projects (MIPs). He stated that the MIPs are being used by a small group of faculty as a means of attracting first year students to a certain major. The Curriculum Committee has discussed and approved the MIP as a component of the academic program and it will appear in the catalog as a 299 offering. Part of the proposal is to offer compensation for those faculty mentoring MIP students. He suggested offering of stipends which are parallel to those providing MAPs this summer as an interim measure while the Executive Council and Curriculum Committee work out the whole compensation issue for independent work with students. K. Kamp asked asked if a student who has done a MIP would be prevented from doing a MAP. P. Smith replied that they would not be prohibited from both. The Dean pointed out that the number of faculty doing MIPs is very small and is not likely to increase. K. Kamp asked if the MIPs would be targeted to minority students. P. Smith replied that it would not. B. Voyles stated that there will be problems for some departments who place restrictions on the number of courses above the 200-level. Given that the MIP course title is Directed Summer Research, J. Mutti asked whether we should think about the implications of this for non-science departments. D. Kaiser thought that it could serve as a bridge to the MAP and has the possibility to expand beyond the sciences.

Discussion of Staffing Proposals

The rest of the meeting focused on faculty staffing proposals.

The Council reaffirmed a previous decision to recommend a tenure-track position in the Education Department pending a successful outcome of their external review.

The Council approved a motion to allow the Philosophy Department to retain this faculty line, and to direct the Department to conduct a self-study and external review to be timed in order to make a specific request and full proposal that addresses the Department's needs and the review by April 1, 2003.

The Council approved a motion to give the Psychology Department a clinical psychology position as a new tenure-track position, and to put the Department on notice that they should anticipate there will be a request for at least three sections of Math 115 and/or a tutorial as the Dean works with the Department to clarify the laboratory issues.

The Council voted to approve a two-year continuation of the term dance position while the Theatre Department conducts a self-study and external review during that period.

The Council recommended that the Dean work with the Mathematics and Computer Science Department over the summer to revise the statistics proposal to address specific course load issues and determine how consultancy would work and bring the proposal back to Council at the beginning of the fall term.

The Council recommended that the Dean write a highly complimentary letter to the Physics Department expressing Council's appreciation for a well thought out proposal and to convey Council's concern that internal departmental leave proofing needs further discussion by the faculty and administration before it can be explicitly approved.
Council approved both Mathematics replacement proposals and the Physiological Psychology replacement proposal.

Council Remarks

Bruce Voyles stated that during his past four years of Council membership it has been his privilege at all times to serve the Science Division and the College. The other members of Council, the Dean and President thanked him for his service, and also thanked Bob Grey, who with this meeting completed a two-year term as Chair of the Faculty, and Kathy Kamp, who completed two years of service as at-large member of Executive Council.

The meeting adjourned at 5:10 p.m.

Secretary
Karen Wiese