Minutes of the Meeting of the Executive Council
April 16, 2003
Excerpts
Present: S. Barber, J. Chenette, D. Kaiser, M. Montgomery, J. Mutti, R. Osgood, M. Schneider, J. Swartz.
The meeting came to order at 4:20 in the Nollen House Conference Room.
The President welcomed Jon Chenette to Council as newly elected Humanities Division Chair.
The minutes and excerpts of 4/9/03 were approved.
Council members observed a moment of silence to remember their colleague John M. Mohan.
President's Remarks
The President made no prepared remarks.
Dean's Remarks
The Dean updated Council on the status of faculty searches.
Sociology Proposal
There was discussion of a staffing proposal from the Sociology Department.
M. Montgomery asked what the role of Council is in this Departmental request and more broadly in the consideration of departmental staffing requests. The Dean responded that it is to make a recommendation of action to the President.
Council Remarks
M. Schneider asked if there is a place where service related course release information can be found. The Dean responded that there is not but that the policy is that department chairs receive one course release for each two years of service, division chairs receive one course release for each year of service, and the chair of the faculty receives two course releases for each year of service.
Discussion of Departmental Staffing Proposals
M. Montgomery asked what parameters should guide these discussions. The Dean noted that the projected budget has no growth in the size of the student body or the faculty. M. Schneider asked what the recent experience has been with additions to the faculty. The Dean noted that five were added last year. The President noted that if one corrects for the special diversity initiative which was carried out with the goodwill of the Board of Trustees the recent growth seems to average one position each year. J. Chenette noted that several of the staffing proposals are requesting less that a full position and asked if these were to be considered expansions. The President responded that they were.
The Dean noted that the proposal from the Department of Economics poses a direct conflict of interest for M. Montgomery. The President recommended that M Montgomery excuse himself for the discussion of that proposal but participate in all other discussions.
The Dean characterized the departmental proposals as follows:
Art Replacement (Crowley)
Chemistry Expansion
Japanese Regularization
Classics Replacement (Lalonde)
Economics Expansion/Regularization
Education Replacement
History Replacement
Library Replacement
Math A Replacement
Math B Expansion/Regularization
Philosophy A Replacement
Philosophy B Replacement
Physics Expansion/Leave Proofing
Religious Studies Expansion
The Division chairs provided a brief overview of departmental proposals.
The President announced that he would not be in attendance at the next Council meeting but would like the opportunity to address Council in regard to both the Japanese and Education Department proposals. He also noted that an addition to the faculty at this time is not likely.
The meeting adjourned at 6:25 p.m.
Secretary
Karen Wiese