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College of Letters and Science Faculty Document No. 682 Committee on Committees The Letters and Science Committee on Committees met five times during the 2002-2003 academic year: September 24, 2003; November 12, 2003; February 4, 2004; April 7, 2004; and April 28, 2004. September 24 Robert Hessling was elected unanimously as co-chair for 2003-2004. The annual report for 2002-2003 was approved unanimously. November 12 The L&S Faculty meeting date was unanimously approved for December 11, 2003. A draft of the Faculty meeting agenda was reviewed. A proposal to rename the department of Chemistry and the recommendation to establish a graduate certificate in Applied Gerontology were added to the agenda. The Committee agreed that any annual reports could be added to the agenda. The agenda was approved. The Committee discussed an on-going problem with getting enough volunteers to run for various faculty committees. Chair Charles Wimpee agreed to contact department chairs asking for potential nominees for the committees. February 4 Connie Jo reported that she did not receive any additional responses from faculty willing to serve on a committee. Members discussed alternatives to the current committee service system, including changing the requirement that there should be two nominees for every vacancy, changing some elected positions to appointed positions, and reducing the number of committees. The functions of the committees also were discussed. It was approved to recommend to the Faculty and to the affected Committees that the functions of the Graduate Program Committee, the Academic Policies and Appeals Committee, and the Course and Curriculum Committee be combined into a Curriculum and Policies Committee and the Academic Planning Committee be combined with the Committee on Committees. Robert Hessling and Connie Jo were asked to draft a letter to the chairs of the affected committees asking for their committee's endorsements of these recommendations. For reasons of health, Charles Wimpee reported that he could not continue as the Chair of the Committee on Committees. The proposed Faculty meeting date of February 26, 2004, was approved unanimously. April 7 Alice Gillam was unanimously elected as Chair of the Committee for the 2004-2005 academic year. The Committee members selected nominees for Faculty Committees and agreed to leave nominee slots empty if no candidates were available. The proposed Faculty meeting date of April 22, 2004, was unanimously approved. Proposals to modify the mission statement and to reduce the number of faculty committees as outlined in the COC's draft proposal, were approved for addition to the agenda for the Faculty meeting. An implementation section was approved for addition at the end of the proposal. It was approved to recommend to the Faculty that some L&S Faculty Committees be combined April 28 The Committee agreed to contact continuing and newly elected members of the L&S Committees to ask if they would be willing to serve on the new committees. Connie Jo was asked to prepare for the members of the L&S committees a letter defining the implementation of and the nomination process for the new committees. Respectfully submitted, George Clark, English C:annual reports/CommitteeonCommittees03-04 |
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