Rob Whitnell sent the following to me and said I could post it here if I thought it would be helpful. I do, so I am. The rest of this is Rob’s words. Somewhere deep into the multi-year process that led to the 1998 curriculum, Jeff Jeske started leading the task force focused on curriculum …
Clerk’s Committee Meeting Agenda Thursday February 8, 2018 8:30 am Gathering and Moment of Silence 2 minutes Figuring out who’s doing the minutes (Alfonso?) 1 minute Approval of Minutes from February 1 2 minutes Review of Faculty Forum Feb 7 10 minutes For approval: Agenda for Faculty Meeting on Feb. 8 10 minutes Possible topics: …
Clerk’s Committee Minutes Thursday January 25, 2018 8:30 am (January 18 canceled for snow) In attendance: Frank Boyd (attended for first 25 minutes), Eva Lawrence, Dave Dobson (clerk), Alfonso Mancheño, Darryl Samsell, Jill Peterfeso, Don Smith (recording) Regrets: Kathryn Shields The committee gathered in silence at 8:34 am to conduct its business. Don Smith was …
Sorry, approval of these were delayed a week or two because we couldn’t get access to them to approve them. Clerk’s Committee Minutes Thursday January 11, 2017 8:30 am In attendance: Frank Boyd (recording these minutes), Eva Lawrence, Dave Dobson (clerk), Alfonso Mancheño, Darryl Samsell, Jill Peterfeso, Don Smith , Kathryn Shields The committee began …
Vance Ricks sent me an e-mail looking for ways to provide a discussion space for those who support and are excited about the 12-3 change. We agreed that a Moon Room post might be a good place to help facilitate that discussion. He wrote up the following and asked me to post it for him. …
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Here’s another logistical issue we’ll need to deal with if we move forward with the 12-3 schedule. It’s a different kind of challenge to staff a three-week course than it is a 15-week course, and with the current low number (at least in recent history) of tenured and tenure-track faculty, it’s likely we’ll need to …
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Frank put up a slide at yesterday’s faculty meeting comparing the credit hours in the current curriculum to an implementation of the 12/3 plus the Q major as has been described in recent discussions. I had a chance to look over the numbers, and I found a couple of what seem like minor calculation glitches …