Present:	Marc Ethridge, Alice Gillam, Renee Meyers, Ellie Miller, Julio Rodriguez-Luis, Craig Sandgren, Dave Schultz, Mark Schwartz
Excused:	Mark Harris, Erl Olfe (ex officio)
Absent:	Pat Kissinger (ex officio)
Guest:	Connie Jo

1. Call to Order - The chair, Mark Schwartz, called the meeting to order at 1:32 p.m. in Holton Hall 241.
   
   
2. Automatic Consent - Minutes #6 (May 31, 2000) were approved as submitted.
   
   
3. Procedural Matters - None
   
   
4. Old Business
   
   1. Parameters for a School within a College – continue tabled
      
   2. Evaluating Replacement Position Requests
      Connie explained how the list of replacement positions was derived and answered questions concerning specific positions. There was a brief discussion about how to proceed. Connie also reported that Dean Goodman indicated we would be able to do only 2-3 senior hires, and those only in departments where the salaries would be 1.25 - 1.5 times a mean salary of about $48,000.
      
      Committee reviewed recruitment proposals by departments for positions that they have open for replacement. Members decided to give committee recommendations concerning these replacement positions to the dean immediately so departments can get an early start in the hiring process. The Committee recommendations are given below. With two exceptions (indicated below), all hires are recommended at the assistant professor level. Committee members agreed that the Department of Sociology should be permitted to hire just one assistant professor as a replacement for Professor Squires.
      
      
      Humanities
      English (6 positions: Blau, Bontly, Chang, Joyrich, Kuist, Woodward)
      1. Rhetoric and Composition (senior hire recommended)
      2. Creative Writing: Fiction
      3. Film Studies
      4. Modern Literature and Critical Theory
      5. African American Literature
      6. Film History and Criticism
         
      
      FLL (1 position: Shey)
      1. Recommend hiring with specialty undetermined; department should indicate its top priority
         
      
      FICL (1 position: Mueller)
      1. Comparative Literature
         
      
      Spanish and Portuguese (2 positions: Perez de Mendiola, Vilches)
      1. Spanish (spousal hire)
      2. Spanish Peninsular Literature (senior hire recommended)
         
      
      Natural Sciences
      Biological Sciences (1 position: Remsen)
      1. Ecological Plan Physiologist
         
      
      Chemistry (1 position: Hill)
      1. Inorganic Chemistry
         
      
      Geosciences (1 position: Taylor)
      1. Igneous Petrologist
         
      
      Mathematical Sciences (2 positions: Skinner, Soms)
      1. Industrial Mathematics
         
      2. Dynamical Systems and Geometric Topology
         
      
      Physics (1 position: Tong)
      1. Experimental Optics
         
      
      Social Sciences
      Economics (3 positions: Belman, Kandil, MHRLR carry-over)
      1. Replacement in Belman's specialty
      2. Replacement in Kandil's specialty
      3. MHRLR (carry-over)
         
      
      History (2 positions: Hamdani, Weare)
      
      1. Ancient/Early Medieval Europe or Mediterranean
      2. Middle East and North Africa/Islam
         
      
      JMC (2 positions: Berkman, Academic Staff carry-over)
      
      1. Minority and Community Media
      2. Advertising/Public Relations (carry-over)
         
      
      Political Science (1 position: Burgess)
      1. Judicial Politics/Constitutional Law
         
      
      Psychology (2 positions: Madison, Faculty carry-over)
      1. Child Health and Child Neuropsychology
      2. Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental (carry-over)
         
      
      Sociology (2 positions: Rambo, Squires)
      1. Social Psychology
      2. Political Sociology
         
      
      Urban Studies (1 position: Barndt)
      1. Open Specialty (49% USP)
         
      
      The Committee also took the following action:
      
      It was moved, seconded, and approved unanimously to recommend that the College designate $15,000 for the Women's Studies position approved by the PAR process in order to hire a department leader at a senior level. It is assumed that these funds will be available from salary savings by hiring most replacement faculty at the assistant professor level.
      
      
   3. Evaluating New Position Requests - deferred until early July
      
   
   
5. New Business - None
   
   
6. Adjournment - The meeting was adjourned at 2:36 p.m.