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Eastern Michigan University College of Arts and Sciences

College Advisory Council

Minutes

Thursday, September 5, 2013 Scheduled Meeting Time: 3:30-5:00pm

Pray-Harrold, Room 219 Present: Ensor (SAC), Kovacs (G&G), Angell (Biology); Shen (P&A), Johnson (Chemistry); Sambrook (Sciences DH), Dionne (English), Ramsey (Arts DH), Vosteen (WL), Hammill (CMTA), Egge (H&P), Bonem (Psychology), Venner (CAS Dean), Laporte (CAS AD), Mehuron (CAS AD), Higgins (WGST), Plagens (Political Science). Absent: representatives from Africology & African American Studies, Art, Economics, Music & Dance, Computer Science, Mathematics Visitors: Doug Baker, CAS Assessment Committee I. Call to order by outgoing CAC Chair Jill Dieterle at 3:30 pm II. Minutes of April 18, 2013

The council, acting on Dieterle’s recommendation, agreed to table a vote on the meeting minutes from the previous meeting because they had not been posted or circulated electronically to council members.

III. Elections

Chair: Peter Higgins accepted nomination for chair. No other nominations followed. Higgins was elected by acclamation. Vice Chair: Amy Flanagan Johnson accepted nomination to serve as vice chair. No other nominations followed. Johnson was elected by acclamation. Secretary: Natalie Dove (in absentia) accepted nomination for secretary. No other nominations followed. Dove was elected by acclamation. Procedures committee: Geoff Hammill agreed to serve on the procedures subcommittee. The Vice Chair (now Johnson) is automatically a member of this committee, per the Input Document. Budget committee: Angell (Sciences) and Dionne (Arts) agreed to serve on this committee. The Chair (now Higgins) is automatically a member of this committee.

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Following elections, outgoing chair Dieterle turned the meeting over to incoming chair Higgins.

IV. Old Business

A. New Member Guide: Johnson raised the idea last year, as a new member of CAC, that the council put together a new member’s guide to facilitate the integration of new members, a draft of which she subsequently created. Vosteen produced a copy of the council’s bylaws from 1991. It was agreed that the Procedures Subcommittee would look at the issue, in particular for overlap between the new member’s guide and the by-laws, and for their consistency with the Input Document. B. EPEO Advisory Council: Donna Selman (SAC) accepted nomination (in absentia) to this council, and was elected unanimously. There were no further nominations, though one additional representative is needed. Higgins asked CAC representatives to continue to seek nominations from among the faculty, particularly from the Sciences, which are not represented on this council currently. There will be an election for the remaining space on this council at the next CAC meeting.

V. New Business

A. Deadlines for program change proposals: Ensor requested the council revisit the idea of a February 1 deadline for receiving applications for program changes. SAC submitted a proposal by February 1, but the proposal did not make it through the process in time to make it into the 2013-14 catalog. Discussion clarified that the February 1 deadline is a deadline for consideration of proposals by CAC (which no longer regularly meets after the Winter term ends) by the end of the current academic year. However, submission of proposals by February 1 cannot guarantee that they will have received final approval for implementation by the following Fall term. Mehuron reported that, due to unpredictable contingencies, it is not possible to provide a precise date submission of proposals for consideration in CAC by which would allow implementation of approved proposals for the following Fall term.

Ensor also alerted the committee to a problem resulting from action taken last year by the Provost’s Office to implement a new undergraduate program in Public Health in the College of Health and Human Services. The approved program includes as a required course SOCL 345. SAC was never approached by the proposing department and will not be able to offer additional sections of the course to accommodate CHHS. A lengthy discussion of what happened in the approval process ensued. In piecing together the events of last year, the council came to understand that it never actually voted in favor or against the CHHS proposal. The Science subcommittee did vote against it, but the Arts subcommittee had difficulty getting its questions answered by the proposing department. As a result, it tabled the proposal twice. It appears that the 60 days allotted to the college

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to provide feedback elapsed and the Provost’s Office went on to approve the program. The council agreed in principle that it should develop a means of preventing a repeat occurrence of this in the future. Ensor, Angell, and Higgins agreed to bring language to the next meeting for the council to consider.

VI. Dean’s Remarks

Visitor Doug Baker provided updates on the CAS Assessment Committee, and reported that the committee is seeking one new member. This person should be familiar with current practices in assessing student learning. CAC representatives are asked to solicit nominations from their departments. Baker offered to visit any department to discuss the college’s assessment efforts. Mehuron passed out nomination forms for the 2014 Undergraduate Symposium Keynote Speaker. She encouraged departments to recommend possible speakers. Venner asked for volunteers to serve on the Search Committee for a permanent Associate Dean, a position currently held by interim Associate Dean Mehuron. He also shared some changes in the college. The Eastern Echo has moved under the College of Arts & Sciences purview. The Nonprofit Leadership Alliance (headed by Claudia Petrescu), which was previously under the purview of the Provost’s Office, is also now in CAS. Laporte shared budget related information. The college exceeded its target for reducing cost per credit hour. The college will keep for a second year its model for assessing cost per credit hour. LaPorte shared 2013-14 targets by department.

VII. Chair’s remarks: None. VIII. Faculty remarks: None. IX. Adjournment: Meeting was adjourned at 4:30pm. Recorded by Greg Plagens (substituting for Natalie Dove)