Academic Council Meeting Minutes, September 1, 2004
The Academic Council met on September 1, 2004, from
9:30 to 11:30 in Conference Room A. Attending were Mary Natividad,
Charles Bullock, Ron Sardessai, Joe Dahlstrom, Dick Phillips, Trudy
Wortham, Chari Norgard, Dan Jaeckle, and guests Rachel Trevino-Garcia, Eunice Mesa,
Carolyn Mallory, and Margaret Rice. The minutes follow.
I. Guests
--Rachel Trevino-Garcia came in to discuss
career services and the survey her office does of recent alumni.
She distributed some information on the services, noted that all
services can be accessed online, and gave an example of the form and
process. She has met individually with the deans on the survey, and
some customization of the survey form for the needs of the schools
is underway. She announced that her office will embark on a
campaign to market our career services among our students. We
discussed means such as a letter from her office to all students
after they have been formally admitted, and the use of ENG 3430 for
undergraduates. We also discussed a career fair in Sugar Land,
preferably with all four universities involved. Rachel introduced
her new assistant, Eunice Mesa.
--Carolyn Mallory came in to resume our
discussion of course termination dates and financial aid reporting.
We agreed to move to the 50% rule for one year, with a follow-up on
effectiveness at that time.
II. Minutes
- The Council approved the minutes of our last
meeting.
III. General
--Trudy noted we currently had 2,366
students and 17,649 paid sch’s. Mary and Dan will work with Trudy
on a way to divide A&S and Education sch’s according to school
responsibility rather than rubric. She also distributed the
articulation agreement with North Harris Montgomery Community
College, which the Council approved and will send forward for the
president’s review. 2+2’s with NHMCC have been completed for all
schools but A&S, and they are in the works. We hope to review them
at the next meeting.
·
Instructional Technology/Online Issues and Updates
--Chari reported problems with Vista.
They were reported to UH, and the staff there was working on them.
We also discussed a new form that the IT people from Sugar Land and
Cinco Ranch have put together for faculty to request software.
Chari will notify the faculty of the new form. We discussed whether
they could be completed at the time of textbook orders.
·
Fort Bend Issues and Updates
--We discussed the tuition revenue
bond requests of UHS, including UHV’s request for a Sugar Land
building. We also briefly discussed the staff space issue.
IV. Specific
·
Student Appeals
--We approved a student appeal to use
1997 GRE scores for admission. We also approved a student appeal to
seek higher graduation honors by taking an additional undergraduate
class.
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Faculty Development Requests and Reports
--Approved a development grant for
conference presentation ($500) to Dr. T. T. Rajan Selvarajan to the
Southern Management Association meeting, in San Antonio, TX, in
November.
--Approved the request of Dr. Harold
Smith, for a research grant ($150) to be used to purchase copies of
unpublished research material that will be used in preparing a book
on twentieth century Texas women’s history.
--Accepted grant funded conference
reports from Drs. Jane Fry, Nora Hutto, and Carol Klages (2).
--Accepted grant funded research
reports from Drs. June Lu, Ziad Swaidan, and Chun-Sheng Yu.
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Other
--The Council members thanked Dr.
Jaeckle for his service as interim provost.
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