Minutes for the Meeting of
the Faculty Assembly
February 14, 2002
1. The meeting was called to order at 3:08 by J. Stauff; a prayer was offered by Dr. K. Colwell.
2. J. Stauff called for a motion to approve the
minutes from the November 8 meeting. The motion was made by T. Burns,
seconded by K. Trujillo and carried by the faculty.
3. J. Stauff asked for a motion to allow 30 minutes for
the General Ed. Discussion and 20 minutes each for the other 3 agenda
items. A motion was made by A. Preston and seconded by T. Schlabach.
4. R. Legg provided an update on the General Education
“Themes” and provided handouts of the tentative descriptions of the six
themes. He invited anyone to make suggestions for additional themes by
mid-March. Ideally he would like to have them finalized by April 1st giving time for faculty approval and being sent to
Ed. Policies by Oct. 1st so they could be
included in the new catalog.
Discussion
and questions followed.
5. J. Stauff asked for a discussion on +/- grades
for undergraduates. The discussion included, but was not limited to,
topics such as the + grade started in the Fall of 1989; if we’re going to have
a finer system, can we add the students class ranking on the transcript?; can
we review the point structure allowed with a +/- system? L. Sanborne is
conducting a teaching circle on grades on Feb. 27th and 28th,
it
was decided that this would be a good place for this discussion to start.
If
necessary, a task force could be formed later.
6. C. Shoemaker provided an overview of the mission of
the Academic Support committee and asked for assistance in defining the purpose
of this committee.
Discussion
followed with several ideas that the committee members can discuss at their
next meeting.
7. W. Oberle announced that the AP Newsletter Integrity is adding a section on book reviews and invited everyone to volunteer to write a book review or other topics of interest for the paper. He wanted to emphasize that this is the faculty paper, not his. Also, non-members are invited to the meetings and the next one is Feb. 20th at 8 a.m.
8. Father B. Grant had an announcement about the student
30 hours fast and invited faculty to join them.
9. J. Stauff asked for anyone interested in being on the
faculty chair-elect committee to email him. Also, the committee to
evaluate administration will be meeting soon.
10. As there was no additional new business, J. Stauff
called for a motion to adjourn. The motion was made by T. Burns and
seconded by Father Miclot. The motion carried and the meeting adjourned
at 4:25.
Respectfully Submitted,
Linda Brown