Academic Council Meeting Minutes, March 1, 2004
I. Minutes
- Academic
Council meeting of 2/16/04—approved.
II. Guest
- Liz
Branch visited the Council to update us on the PeopleSoft project.
She informed us that UHD will stay with Banner for the time
being and that the Provost of UH will assume leadership of the
project. It is not clear
whether UH and UHV will migrate together, but because of WebCT and
other issues the Council thinks they should. Fit gap sessions are postponed until May.
Liz asked that each school name a person to work with the team
on information regarding programs, admission requirements, etc.
They will need a half-day training.
Liz also wondered if we wanted to include the Prospects
capabilities of PeopleSoft. Dick
Phillips will make a person available to be trained in preparation for
that possibility.
III. General Agenda
--Trudy Wortham reported that the spring
enrollment analysis would be out soon.
It will include two new tables, one on semester credit hours by
ethnicity and another on ethnicity by county.
She also raised the issue of students who enroll in the same
course three times and our loss of formula for them.
The Council agreed that some fee probably needs to be assessed to
them, although that depended on the difficulty of doing so.
The Provost will take the matter to the Budget Committee.
- Instruction
Technology and Online Issues
--Chari Norgard discussed Vista training
times for the schools, the upcoming electronic grading demos, and the
issues of ITV and WebCT addressed at the DE directors meeting last
Friday. The DE directors
are crafting a document on ITV and online resources for review by the
Provosts Council.
--Joe Ferguson raised the
issue of ITV and its future. Issues
are costs, need, training of faculty, and the implementation of
synchronous technology. The
Council agreed that ITV would not soon go away for teaching.
Chari and Joe will work on a survey of faculty using ITV to assess
their needs. They will also
put together a draft of a plan on the future of ITV in light of
synchronous systems and other forms of course delivery.
Meanwhile, Joe will include costs in his budget hearing.
Joe also reported that most email lost several weeks back would be
sent to those it belongs to in the near future.
He added that M-drive operations from home are about ready.
- Fort
Bend Issues and Updates
--The Provost noted that issues regarding
faculty services in Sugar Land are under discussion, that we need a list
of services we want, and we need a system of notifying Sugar Land staff
who is to receive those services.
IV. Specific
Agenda
- Faculty
Conference Requests
--Approved a development grant for
conference presentation ($300) to Dr. Massoud Metghalchi for The Global
Business and Finance Research Conference, in London, UK, in July.
--Approved a development
grant for conference presentation ($400) to Dr. Luh Yu Ren for the 2004
Federation of Business Discipline, in Orlando, FL, in March.
--Approved a development
grant for conference presentation ($601) to Dr. David Satava for the 2004
Southwest Regional Meeting of the American Accounting Association, in
Austin, TX, in March, pending receipt of outstanding report.
Note:
--The Provost reported that we had
approximately $11,000 left in Faculty Development funds and that we will
probably need $17-18,000. We
have approximately $3,000 left in research funds.
Perhaps some instructional technology grant monies can subsidize
the Faculty Development funds for this year.
--As the Council requested at its previous
meeting, Trudy proposed wording for 10-year-old credit; the Council
approved it. The Provost
will send it to the Graduate Affairs Committee.
Her proposal to redefine junior status was put on hold until the
School of Business Administration was represented in the Council.
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