I. General Agenda

• Chari Norgard reported on two instructional technology staff members' coming from UH to train program assistants on the use of an online support package call "Remedy."
• Joe Dahlstrom noted the licensing of certain online library resources for the Sugar Land center appear to duplicate what is now available System-wide. He will consult with Sharon Baca on dropping the duplicate licenses.
• Joe Ferguson reported that the new ITV rooms are now functional on campus and in Sugar Land.
• Reserving ITV for committee meetings involving Fort Bend faculty was again considered in light of Sharon Baca's e-mail on the schedule. Two mid-day time periods will be reserved for the coming year.

II. Specific Items

• Student Appeals

--Approved student request to be admitted despite three suspensions at a previous institution, on condition that that institution consider him eligible to return.
--Postponed appeal of a student to count certain undergraduate Business courses as substitutes for graduate ones, since Dean Bullock was away at a conference and could not address the issues involved.

• Faculty Development and Grants/Reports

--Approved payment of submission fees for two articles Dr. David Satava is submitting to refereed journals.
--Agreed that Dr. Horace Fairlamb could draw on any remaining portion of the $1,700 limitation on travel grants for a paper presentation at a conference in Greece this summer.
--Accepted reports on grant-funded conference travel from Dr. Marie Plemons and Ms. Tina Herrington.

• Summer Research Grants

--Since the grants no longer seem to be effective as initially intended and currently structured, the council agreed to restructure them. Provost will bring draft language back to the council for approval.

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