Academic Council Minutes, November 15, 2006

I.  Student Issue 

--Student presented her case.  The council discussed the issue and made recommendations to the provost. 

II. Minutes 

--Approved as circulated, with one typo correction. 

III. General Data 

• Data Collection

--Trudy Wortham reported Victoria College had invited UHV to join them for registration day at the Victoria Mall on Saturday, December 2, 2006.  The council agreed to participate in order to raise awareness about UHV and its programs.  Dr. Gunasekera will check to see if any faculty would like to participate. 

• Instructional Technology/Online Issues and Updates

--Joe Ferguson shared handouts on social networking and blogs guidelines.  After some discussion the council requested the guidelines be added to the next AC agenda for further discussion. 

• PeopleSoft Issues

--Mrs. Wortham announced integrated testing will be reviewed the last week of November. 

--Dr. Richard Gunasekera announced Dr. Sandy Friedan will present to the faculty. 

• Fort Bend Issues and Updates

--Nothing reported 

• Other

--Chari Norgard addressed the Coordinating Board Notification-House Bill 400/Higher Education Assistance Act and reported that the CB mandating of school districts with high schools among lowest 10 percent college-going rates requiring partnership agreements do not apply to UHV since VISD is above 10 percent. 

IV. Specific Agenda 

• Faculty Development Grant Requests and Reports

--Mr. Andrew Baerg was awarded $600.00 for the National Communication Association meeting, in San Antonio, TX.

--Dr. Rick Harrington was awarded $715.00 for a research on examining self-awareness variables and how they relate to life satisfaction variables.

--When last year’s publication report is submitted, Dr. Nagarajan Ramamoorthy will be awarded $600.00 for the published article “Individualism/Collectivism and attitudes towards human resource systems:  A comparative study of American, Irish, and Indian MBA students” in the International Journal of Human Resource Management.

--Accepted grant funded conference travel reports from Drs. Joseph Ben-Ur, Linda Hayes, Jun-Yeon Lee, Mary Natividad, Yixi Ning, Marie Stern Plemons, Ronald Salazar, and Ziad Swaidan.

--Accepted a grant funded research report from Dr. Joseph Ben-Ur.

• Other

--Mrs. Wortham proposed an earlier ending time of 8:00 a.m. for regular registration for Spring 07 for the Friday before first class day. The payment system will remain the same and will not be affected by this change.  By ending earlier, this will eliminate the last-minute registrations that would not be able to meet the payment process deadline and allows extra time for the Bursar’s office in preparation of the disenrollment notices.  The council supported this proposal for January 2007 registration. 

As recorded by,
Kathy Walton
11/27/06