Minutes: Committee on Committees
Meeting Date: Tuesday, August 28, 2008 at 3:00 p.m. Rawl 142.
Person Presiding: Past-Chair, Tom Caron, called meeting to order and continued presiding upon his re-election as second term committee chair.
Members in Attendance:
Tom Caron, Chris Grymes, Michael Tahaney, Puri
Ex-officio Members in Attendance: Jan Tovey, Mark Taggart
Other: Lori Lee
Actions of Meeting:
1. Committee Officers Elected: Tom Caron-Chair, Margaret Bauer-Vice Chair, Michael Tahaney-Secretary
2. Scheduled Standard Meeting Dates. Members agreed to follow proposed 3:00 p.m. Tuesday meeting dates for fall term as noted below. Meetings to go no longer than 50 minutes.
September 23, 2008
October 21, 2008
November 18, 2008
Committee will consult personal schedules for spring and establish spring meeting times currently proposed as:
January 13, 2009
February 10, 2009
March 17, 2009
April 7, 2009
3.
Approval
of Agenda
4.
Begin
review of Business Carried over from 2007-2008:
a. Discussion pertaining to interpretation of the Educational Policies and Planning Committee charge and whether altering order of reporting might simplify conflict of issues between UCC and EPPC.
ACTION: Item tabled for discussion next meeting. Faculty Chair, Janice Tovey to seek more information for the committee.
b. Confusion surrounding graduate school faculty qualifications, policies, unit codes, faculty handbook policy and resources still being discussed with regard to EPPC and UCC charges. ACTION: item tabled for discussion next meeting.
ACTION: Item tabled until next meeting when more information has been gathered.
5.
Begin
New Business:
a. Proposal to allow fixed term faculty to serve on standing academic committees. Committee discussion on topic.
ACTION: Item tabled to next meeting for further discussion.
b. Proposal to establish a standard academic committee on service learning. Committee discussion on topic.
ACTION: Proposal to be discussed at next meeting when more information can be brought before the committee.
c.
Proposal
to consider initiating a new graduate school committee. Proposal from floor was discussed as an effort to help facilitate clear communication
between the graduate and undergraduate needs as ECU experiences rapid
growth. Perhaps, a
ACTION: Proposal to be discussed at next meeting after details can be gathered for informed discussion.
d. Proposal to evaluate Scholarships, Fellowships and Financial Aid Committee Charge. Proposal from the floor instigated discussion to evaluate the charge for this committee and its current state of effectiveness (or lack thereof).
ACTION: More information for be gathered and presented on this item for further action.
Meeting Adjourned: 3:51
Next Meeting: September 23, 3:00 p.m.
ITEMS TO BE DISCUSSED: Items as noted above, 4 “a” and “b”, and 5 "a", “b”, “c” and “d”.