Instructional Support Committee

Attending: Paul Munyon, Richard Fyffe, Leslie Gregg-Jolly, David Romano, Chris Davis (STAC), Shuchi Kapila, Karen Shuman, Roger Vetter, Al Lacson, Terri Phipps

Minutes of March 30 approved.

Update on Library Self Study: Reviewers will be on campus April 27-28. ISC members are encouraged to attend sessions.

Interviews for the Reference and Instruction term position will be conducted April 20-21. ISC members are encouraged to participate in the open sessions.

Curricular Development Proposals :

GRM (Weimar seminar): ISC agreed to fund at the second meeting level. Leslie will work with CSFS to make sure expenses are charged to the correct budget.

MAT (linear algebra): Discussion tabled. Leslie will contact faculty member for more information.

HIS/ENV: Discussion tabled. Leslie will contact faculty members involved for more information. Specifically, ISC would like a clear definition of the project design and database plan (platform, metadata standards, formats of data, referencing between types of data, and indexing), and timeline for the project.

SOC: Registration and transportation approved ($255). Per diem was not approved as the conference is being held in Des Moines.

SOC (Fudan University conference): ISC will forward this proposal to CSFS as it relates to faculty member's research.

Faculty-Faculty tutorials: discussion tabled. HHMI funding may be available for three of the proposals.

For further consideration:

• Guidelines for multi-tiered proposals. For instance, if a faculty member is attending a meeting for research, but while there has an opportunity to do pedagogical work.
• Guidelines for faculty-faculty tutorials
• Should ISC, in consideration of heavy demands on faculty time, limit the number of concurrent projects they will fund for individual faculty?

Respectfully submitted,
Terri Phipps