Draft Minutes
Academic Executive Committee
February 16, 2006
Meeting was called to order at noon by
Administrative Co-Chair, Dr. Sue A. Blanshan, Vice-President for Academic
Affairs. Dr. Blanshan identified Dr.
Roberta Goldberg as the Faculty Co-Chair.
Others in attendance: Dr. Saundra
Oyewole, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences; Dr.
Meeting minutes from October 14, 2005, were approved
as presented.
Due to the participation of some new members to the
committee, Dr. Blanshan reviewed the role and responsibilities of the AEC.
Planning for the next Academic Assembly scheduled
for March 2 was discussed. Dr. Blanshan
indicated that President McGuire would need a portion of the agenda to review
the fiscal model from the Strategic Plan.
Dr. Blanshan requested updates on the work of the
faculty standing committees. Though no
one was present from the Faculty Welfare Committee, the consensus of opinion
was that the faculty survey results were being tallied and a report was
expected in March.
Dr. Parsons reported on U-CAP and the ongoing
concern that some departments are not responsive to the U-CAP to the process of
program review. In the future, the
Office of the VP for Academic Affairs will coordinate the start and end of the
cycle with each department. The length
of time for the process of review is being reduced from 5 years to 3 years. The transition plan to institute the new,
shorter model is being developed.
Dr. Blanshan and then Dr. Mello indicated that the
Ed. Tech. Committee has been charged with developing a plan for infusing
Information Literacy across the curriculum.
A plan is anticipated by the end of the current semester.
Dr. Blanshan indicated that she is aware of many
faculty members being engaged in discussion of the Middle States Self-Study and
the pending visit of the Middle States Examiners Team. Dr. Blanshan is currently conducting 3
meetings with CAS to
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engage faculty in discussion about the document and
the pending visit. She offered to
schedule a meeting with SPS and EDU faculty if that is desired.
Discussion followed about how we are going to
utilize the document and the process to guide the changes needed to move
Trinity to new levels.
Meeting was adjourned at 1:00
Respectfully submitted,
Suellen Meara