Academic Council Minutes, December 17, 2001
I. General Agenda
--The council thought that the proposed web site protocols posed no
particular issue. The major concern is development of the 3rd-level
sites (unit level), which will need to be data-base driven and
interactive. Time and expertise to develop these are challenges that may
require outsourcing.
--Data imaging protocols were seen as relatively simple. Members
agreed with the approach Liz Branch presented do records of current
students first and then proceed alphabetically. The major issues were
considered to be process management, file management, and access. Liz
Branch will develop and share a list of some of the considerations
involved. A task force may be needed.
II. Specific Agenda
--A proposed new fee (Business) and potential fee (Library) were
extensively discussed, with several handouts distributed. Individual
members expressed their reactions, which were generally supportive.
--The council denied a student appeal requesting that a failing grade
on a comprehensive exam be overturned.
--It also denied the appeal of another student to take a
comprehensive exam as an exception to established procedure.
--It approved a student request to waive the TOEFL requirement, since
the student had lived in the U.S. for many years, had taken several
college courses, and was from a country in which English is commonly
spoken.
- Faculty Development Travel/Research Grants
--Approved the requests of Dr. David Satava for travel grants ($1,100
and $600) to present at the 2002 meeting of the Midsouth Association of
Business Disciplines, in Jackson, MS, in February; and to serve as a
paper discussant at the 2002 Southwest Regional Meeting of the American
Accounting Association, in St. Louis, MO, in March.
--Approved the request of Dr. Sandy Venneman for a travel grant
($1,100) to present a poster presentation at the 24th Annual National
Institute on the Teaching of Psychology, in St. Petersburg Beach, FL, in
January.
--Approved a request of Dr. Richard Gunasekera for a research grant
($1,700) titled "Investigating the effects of lycopene extracts on
human (LnCap and PC3 human cell lines) and rat (Dunning R3327AT3 and
benign parent type I tumor epithelial DTE cells) prostate cells,
immunohistochemical staining and analysis on biopsies and studying the
cellular mechanisms by which lycopene interacts in its possible
inhibitory mechanisms within these tissues."
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