Minutes of the Committee on Committees

 

Continuation of meeting that began on March 5, 2008,

continued on March 19, 2008, and ended on April 16, 2008.

 

The meeting was called to order at 12:00 pm.

 

Regular members Tom Caron (Education), Michelle Eble (English), Puri Martinez (Foreign Languages), Mike Tahaney (Theatre and Dance) and Christopher Grymes (Music) were present.

 

CoC members absent: William Allen (Chemistry)

 

Ex-officio members present: Mark Taggart (Chair of the Faculty, Music)

 

Ex-officio members not present: Catherine Rigsby (Past Chair of the Faculty, Geology)

 

Lori Lee and Vice Chancellor Mageean & Interim Vice Chancellor Horns were also present.

 

The committee and the vice-chancellors discussed the mechanisms, contexts, and committees involved in undergraduate and graduate curriculum program development.

 

 

ACTIONS TAKEN:

 

1.  The Committee on Committees agreed that the EPCC committee charge (and possibly other committee charges) should be updated to be more inclusive.

 

 

2.  The Committee on Committees also suggests that the Graduate School Administrative Board (GSAB) be reconstituted to include more faculty.

 

3.  Nominations were made for vacancies on the Teaching Grants, Budget, Faculty Grievance, Libraries, and Hearing committees and the Committee continued discussing and recommending additional nominations to the various standing committees via email until the work was completed.

 

The meeting was adjourned at approximately 1:30 pm.

 

Respectfully Submitted by Michelle Eble, 04/16/08