Main Campus Faculty Council Meeting: 20 February 2004

MCFC members present: Gady Agam (CS), Glenn Broadhead (HUM), Jeffrey Budiman (CAE), Steffany Evanoff (student representative), Andy Howard (BCPS /secretary), Robert Krawczyk (ARCH), Christena Nippert-Eng (SOC), Ken Schug (BCPS), Phil Troyk (BME / MCFC chair), Michael Young (Psyc / UniFC chair), George Schipporeit (ARCH), Geoffrey Williamson (MMAE),

Absent: Kevin Cassel (MMAE), Jeffrey Duan (AMAT), Joyce Hopkins (Psyc), Vijay Kumar (ID), Kenneth Noll (ChEE), Ganesh Raman (MMAE), Jay Schieber (ChEE), Xian-he Sun (CS), Miles Wernick (ECE), Judi Zawojewski (MSED).

UniFC members present: Ralph Brill (Stuart).

Visitors: Ellen Mitchell (Psyc), Mary Ann Smith (Counsel).

The meeting convened at 12:15pm. Minutes from the January meeting have not yet been posted.

Committees

• UG Studies:Committee members were absent.
  There has been extensive discussion of IPros recently. Faculty members have received mailings on this recently, and an extensive report on IPros was completed 19 February, including responses by Tom Jacobius and Dennis Roberson to the conerns that faculty members have voiced. The content of the report is not available yet, but among the issues discussed are identifying the people primarily responsible for specific IPRos and the role of IPro staff acting as "classroom managers," with regular faculty acting as "technical consultants." Recall issue regarding admin issues wrt these The Undergraduate Studies Committee will continue to examine these issues and report back to the MCFC. The MCFC will discuss it more fully at that point. Christena Nippert-Eng asked how well the system is working overall. She suggested that these six semester-hours of General Education requirements might be drifting out of faculty control.
• Grad studies: (Glenn Broadhead)
  This group will meet next week; Glenn missed the last meeting, and has nothing to report other than that the group is planning to consider a proposal regarding Intellectual Property Rights associated with Internet delivery of courses.
• Sabbatical leave:
  This group has not met yet, and the 1 March deadline for submission to the Provost of its list of candidates for sabbaticals is near.
• Library committee: (George Schipporeit, Phil Troyk)
  George is in his third year on the committee, and would like to cease being chair; he would like to turn the chairmanship over to Phil. Michael Young suggested that he wait until late in the semester, when other assignments are turned over. George argued that the continuity of the group is better served by changing chairmen now. After some discussion it was suggested that Phil assume the chairmanship informally now and make the transition official after the new handbook goes into effect.
• All other committees: no report.

Other business:

No other MCFC business was brought before the group, so the meeting adjourned at 12:30 and the University Faculty Council meeting immediately convened.