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Minutes of April 12, 2006
Noon
Faculty House
Attending: Cecilia
Knight, Jon Chenette, Megan Goering, Anatoly Vishevsky, Christopher
McKee, Mark Schneider, Margarita Pillado, Bill Francis, Justin Abramson,
Terri Phipps
Minutes of last
meeting approved.
Fast track approvals:
Math Wavelet Theory workshop, two participants, up to $505 each.
Curricular Development
Proposals:
Anthropology (attend French language course): Approved, up to $2000.
Currently no precedent for this type of proposal coming through ISC.
Previously, this type of development was funded by the PEW grant. This
proposal supports the interdisciplinary curriculum initiative and will
have a definite curricular impact. ISC's mission is to support faculty
development and institutional priorities. The proposal also supports
ISC's decision to move away from stipends and toward expense-based funding
opportunities.
Jon will draft new guidelines for summer workshop and seminar attendance
and forward these guidelines to the Executive Council for review and
possible approval.
Art: Final Cut
Pro Workshop, approved, $1777.50
This workshop will provide skills necessary to develop a 200-level digital
art course. CTSs do not have this expertise. ISC suggests that the faculty
member share knowledge gained with the CTSs and with other faculty members
through a workshop or presentation.
Faculty-Faculty
Tutorial (Food): Approved, $650 each stipend plus $75 for books. This
expense will fall under next fiscal year's budget.
Faculty-Faculty
Tutorial (Interdisciplinary statistics lab modules): Tabled.
Scholarly and Pedagogical impact. The work is in applicant's field;
the examples will be pulled from outside the applicant's area of expertise.
Statistics is used across disciplines. It is not clear from the proposal
how this work will enhance the College's curriculum. Ask faculty member
to resubmit with a focus on curricular impact if still wants to pursue
ISC funding.
Wireless Internet
Survey
The survey has not yet been distributed. One concern about wireless
access is that students will be able to surf the web, read email, etc.,
in class. Since wireless devices will become smaller and ubiquitous,
it will be a fact of life for faculty members that they need to state
clearly what their policies are concerning use of laptops and other
wireless devices in their classes.
It was suggested
to add hallways near offices and classrooms to the survey.
The purpose of
the survey is to help prioritize areas where the need wireless access
is greatest. The difficulty is not with adding access points to campus.
The difficulty is in getting the appropriate wiring to the access point.
SPAM Filter
Some faculty members have been experiencing an increase in SPAM messages.
ITS will re-advertise the filter. Faculty can contact ITS will specific
concerns.
Summer Workshops
Three workshops have three participants each. Those with fewer participants
have been cancelled.
Digital art workshop:
Not approved with stipends. Participants can meet with the CTS on their
own or as a group, but will not receive a stipend.
Peace Studies and
Food workshops: Not approved. ISC will likely overspend its budget,
so cannot approve this expense.
Online teaching
resource
A suggestion was made to create an online resource where faculty could
ask for and receive advice from other teaching faculty. Posts would
be anonymous. Some faculty, especially some junior faculty, may be hesitant
to have their posts known for fear of tainting a review, etc. Discussion
indicated some support for the idea but concern about the feasibility
and wisdom of anonymity in the posts.
ISC currently funds
Early Career Faculty Lunches (previously known as Junior Faculty Lunches).
Senior faculty members are sometimes invited to attend these lunches
as well to address particular topics. ISC also funds a mentoring program.
Mentors and mentees are paired upon request. A more formal mentoring
program was not successful. Jon will contact current pairs at the end
of the semester to determine the success of the informal pairing.
Forum update
Two sets of plans should arrive today. We will discuss this more at
the next meeting.
Respectfully submitted,
Terri Phipps
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