EPC Minutes 10/18/2005

 

In attendance: Barb Wiese, Jeremy Burke, Jim Van Speybroeck, Tom Hill, Bill McAleer, Deanna Stoube, Lori Rodriques-Fisher, Mara Adams, Fr. Bud Grant

 

Start 3:16 pm

 

  1. Minutes from Sept. 27, 2005 meeting were reviewed. Motion to accept Jim second Deanna. Passed with no dissenting voice.
  2. Letter to be sent to Chairs regarding 5 year review requirements was discussed  edited. Accepted by consensus of committee attendees. See attached copy.
  3. Fr. Bud brought the same document presented at Faculty Assembly of Oct. 13, 2005 for discussion with committee. A copy of the document is included below. It has been annotated with circled numbers to mark the items discussed in this meeting in regard to the committee’s responsibilities and opinions.

Item 1. Committee felt it was reasonable to go ahead and fix the web site to reflect reality.

Item 2.Formation of new General Education Committee was strongly endorsed. The membership formula used is ok.

Item 3. Gen. Ed. wants to participate in Assessment Workshop. This was encouraged and hopefully some of new committee could also be active. Caution was raised regarding 5 year reviews in this regard.

Item 4. Investigation of a different approach to themes was encouraged.

Items 5 -7 ere explained and discussed. No need for official input resulted.

 

The current Themes committee was also discussed. Everyone likes the idea but no input is required from EPC at this point.

 

In summary, EPC encouraged Fr. Bud to make use of Gen. Ed. Committee to the greatest extent possible in dealing with items 2 – 7.

 

  1. Next meeting will be Nov. 8, 2005.

 

  1. At 3:59 motion to adjourn made by Jim, seconded by Pat.