CAA's General Education Subcommittee

will present its report on

Thursday, September 21, 2000

 

MINUTES OF THE COUNCIL ON ACADEMIC AFFAIRS 9-14-00

The September 14, 2000 meeting of the Council on Academic Affairs was held at 2:00 p.m. in the Arcola/Tuscola Room.

Members present: Dr. Bock, Mr. Brinkmeyer, Dr. Cosbey, Dr. Dietz, Dr. Marlow, Dr. Methven,

Ms. Ninness, Dr. Obia, Dr. Owen, Ms. Rutter, Dr. Shonk, Dr. Wall, and Dr. Wohlstein.

Staff present: Ms. Herrington-Perry and Mrs. Chancellor, Academic Affairs.

Guests present: J. Niziolkiewicz, J. Lynch, S. Harvey, K. Woodward, A. McNitt, J. Tidwell, G. Hild, C. Roszkowski, and Dean Johnson.

I. Minutes.

The Minutes of August 31, 2000 were approved as published.

  1. Communication.
    1. Academic Waiver Report from the College of Sciences for August 2000.
    2. Academic Waiver Report from the College of Arts and Humanities for August 2000.
    3. Academic Waiver Report from the Lumpkin College of Business and Applied Sciences for August 2000.
    4. Academic Waiver Report from the College of Education and Professional Studies for August 2000.
    5. Executive Action (9-1-00) from the Lumpkin College of Business and Applied Sciences.
    6. Letter from Provost Abebe (9-5-00) regarding Senior Seminar Advisory Committee appointments.
    7. Copy of a letter from President Surles (8-30-00) regarding the appointment of Lida Wall as the Interim Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs.
    8. Copy of an email from Sue Harvey (9-6-00) regarding transfer issues.
    9. Dr. Tidwell discussed the upcoming Fall Faculty Forum. The tentative date for the forum is 11-7-00.

  1. Agenda item 00-28.

Dr. Methven moved and Dr. Obia seconded the motion to add the following items to the agenda. Voting will be later.

      1. Proposed Revisions to the Undergraduate Waiver Regulations.

IV. Agenda item 00-29.

CAA initiated its discussion of technology-based teaching and learning by forming the Taskforce on Technology-Enhanced and-Delivered Courses.

Representatives will be Dr. Shonk, Dr. Dietz and Mr. Brinkmeyer. They will meet September 19 at 11:00 a.m. in 179 Lantz.

 

The meeting adjourned at 2:30 p.m. Kathy Chancellor, Recording Secretary

 

All Council Minutes and Agenda are available on the Web at http://www.eiu.edu/~eiucaa. In addition, an electronic course library is being developed at http://www.eiu.edu/acaffair/courselibrary.htm.

 

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ANNOUNCEMENT OF NEXT MEETING

Thursday, September 21, 2000 at 2 p.m.

Arcola/Tuscola Room

 

Agenda:

98-59 General Education.

00-28 Proposed Revisions to the Undergraduate Waiver Regulations.

    1. Taskforce on Technology-Enhanced and-Delivered Courses.