MINUTES OF THE COUNCIL ON ACADEMIC AFFAIRS 9-30-99

The September 30, 1999, meeting of the Council on Academic Affairs was held at 2:00 p.m. in the Arcola/Tuscola Room.

Members present: Dr. Abebe, Dr. Addison, Dr. Bock, Mr. Brinkmeyer, Dr. Cosbey, Mr. Davenport, Dr. T. Mason, Dr. Methven, Dr. Obia, Dr. Owen, Ms. Riley, Dr. Shonk, Dr. Wohlstein.

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

Guests Present: J. Allison, Dean Augustine, G. Aylesworth, D. Barker, L. Bates, M. Brown, M. Burns, A. Burton, D. Carpenter, S. Canfield, E. Corley, L. Curry, P. Church, M. Deming, J. DePetro, J. Dietz, R. Desrochers, K. Doyle, J. Emmett, G. Foster, A. Furlan, M. A. Hanner, S. Harvey, R. Hendrickson, Dean L. Hitch, Dean F. Hohengarten, Dean J. Johnson, E. Karbassioon, E. Keiter, M. Kelm, N. Koch, B. Kuykendall, M. Layette, J. Mahoney, J. McCausland, M. McMahen, D. McMillan, A. McNitt, M. Mueller, R. Murray, B. Poole, L. Prater, H. Price, D. Reid, D. Ringuette, J. Ruppel, A. Samuels, A. Shelton, J. Tidwell, T. Sloup, D. Smith, C. Tozer, M. Voss Hubbard, C. Waldrep, Dean L. Wall, R. Wandling, M. Wohlrabe, D. Wolf, B. Young.

I. Minutes.

The Minutes of September 23, 1999, were approved as published.
  1. II. Correspondence.

    1. Memo from Jake Emmett, Fitness for Life Coordinator, regarding the value of the Fitness for Life course to General Education, 9/24/99.

    2. Memo from Dr. Melanie Burns, Family and Consumer Sciences, requesting that FCS 2472, Nutrition and Well-Being remain in General Education, 9/24/99.

    3. Position paper from the Department of Health Studies regarding the role of Human Health in General Education.

    4. Email from Dr. Frank McCormick, reminding the CAA of the Phi Beta Kappa Lecture by Dr. George Saliba tonight at 7:30 p.m. in Phipps Lecture Hall.

    5. Email from Dr. Kipp Kruse, Chair of Biological Sciences, regarding the Science segment, 9/30/99.

    6. Memo from Dr. Ebi Karbassioon, Chair of Economics, regarding the New General Education Proposal, 9/28/99.

    7. Memo from the Political Science Department regarding General Education Proposals, 9/30/99.

    8. Memo from Associate Dean Lynch, College of Arts and Humanities, regarding General Education, 9/30/99.

III. Review of General Education, 98-59.

The Council discussed the Humanities and Fine Arts and Social and Behavioral Sciences segments and courses. Several guests addressed the Council regarding these segments and/or deleted courses from these segments.

The meeting adjourned at 2:55 p.m. Billie Rawlings, Recording Secretary.

 

All Council Minutes and Agenda are available on the Web at http://www.eiu.edu/~eiucaa.

 

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ANNOUNCEMENT OF NEXT MEETING

October 7, 1999 at 2 p.m.

Arcola/Tuscola Room of the MLK Union

 

Agenda: 98-59 Review of General Education -Mathematics Segment/Physical and Life Sciences.