2003-2004   No. 33

 

ACADEMIC CABINET

Monday, November 10, 2003

 

 

Present:

Alfred Guillaume, Academic Affairs

David Freitas, Education

Linda Fritschner, Academic Affairs

Paul Joray, General Studies

Suzanne Miller, Continuing Education

Tom Miller, Arts

Paul Newcomb, Social Work

Nancy Plennert, Academic Affairs

Mary Jo Regan-Kubinski, Nursing and Health Professions

Michele Russo, Library

Roy Schreiber, Academic Senate

Bill Schwartz, Business and Economics

Miriam Shillingsburg, Liberal Arts and Sciences

Absent:

Sarah Cooke, Off-Campus Programs

David Frantz, Purdue

Leda Hall, Public and Environmental Affairs

Paul Mishler, Labor Studies

 

Proposed Schedule for Budget Hearings for 2004-2005(Alfred Guillaume):

            Alfred distributed a draft schedule for the Budget hearings.  After some discussion Academic Cabinet members recommended that the time devoted for each presentation be shortened, that the presentation for Honors, International Programs, and UCET (University Center for Excellence in Teaching) be part of the Academic Affairs presentation, and that General Studies be a part of the presentation of CLAS (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences).  The budget presentations will begin at 8:30 a.m. on December 8, December 15, and December 19.  Academic Personnel Committee Chair, Mark Fox will be asking for faculty position requests for 2005-2006.

 

Announcements (Alfred Guillaume):

·                                             People Soft and Schedule of Classes 

            People Soft brings in its wake some changes in classroom scheduling.  In the scheduling process, pedagogical priorities will be first followed by personal priorities for particular classrooms.  Faculty will need to bear with Student Affairs during this transition. 

·                                             Fee Payment and Application Center

            People Soft is driving some of the changes in the admission process.  Graduate Student admission applications will go first through an Application Center for fee processing and then the application will be forwarded directly to academic units.

·                                             Electronic Letters

            Be aware that e-mail correspondence is subject to public disclosure.

·                                             IU South Bend Counseling Center and the Child Development Center (CDC)

            There has been discussion with the dean and faculty of the School of Education to align these two centers with the School of Education.  The Dean of the School of Education, David Freitas, has appointed a search committee to be chaired by Dan Holm, Program Coordinator for Elementary Education.  This committee will see a Director of the CDC who has a deep understanding of early childhood education and the leadership ability to implement best practices.

            There is also a proposal to Chancellor Reck and Vice Chancellor Alfred Guillaume to explore the possibility of aligning the Counseling Center with the School of Education.  In this proposal the Director of the Center will be a faculty member who teaches one or two courses a semester; the Counseling program of the School of Education would provide interns to the center.  Paul Newcomb, Director of the Social Work program, said that the Counseling Center has been a field site for his students and he asked that he be updated on the proposal and plans.

·                                             Publication Board

            Alfred and Jacquie Caul will meet with Jim Blodgett regarding oversight of the student newspaper, the Preface.  Should the paper be a part of Student Affairs or Academic Affairs?

·                                             Conflict of Interest Form

            All faculty are to complete the conflict of interest form.

·                                             Enrollment and Retention Report

            The enrollment and retention report was distributed.

 

IU South Bend Avalon Quartet (Tom Miller):

            Tom announced that the Avalon Quartet members are beginning to arrive on campus.  The group is diverse:  one from France, another from Canada, one from China, and one from Japan.  There first performance will be in late February.  There will be small soirees before that time.

 

Master Course Inventory and New Courses to IU South Bend (Linda Fritschner):

            Linda distributed the statement regarding new courses to IU and new courses for our campus that are taught on other IU campuses.  Essentially the appearance of courses on the Master Course Inventory which are offered at another Indiana University campus does not imply that the course number or title can be appropriated for our campus.  We must first process the New Course Form with the notation “New to IU South Bend” or “New to this Campus” in the justification line.  The course requires approval at the campus level (School or College Curriculum Committee and Academic Senate Curriculum Committee0 and then the course is to go through the Remonstrance Process which requires a thirty days time period.  If there are no objections the course will be approved for our campus.  The Master Course Inventory can be found at http://registrar.iupui.edu/mci/mci-home.html .  This inventory is updated on a regular basis.  The date of last update will appear at the top of the summary page.

 

Respectfully submitted

Linda Marie Fritschner

Monday, November 10, 2003

cc:  Chancellor Mae Reck