COUNCIL FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING

(Approved by CTL on meeting of April 26, 2002)

 

 

Date:                March 29th  2002

Time:               11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Place:               Faculty Senate Room

Present:            Patricia Dean (presiding), Joe Kruger, Catherine Kunicki, Alyce Sato,

                        Laura McKnight, David Squires, Steve Adkison, Frank Plewa, Malinda Reynolds, Sudip Das

 Excused:         Patricia Packer, Jan House

 

1. It was established that a quorum was present. The approval of minutes for March 1st, 2002 as submitted was motioned by Sato, second by Plewa, no discussion, motion carried.

 

2. Director hire for Center: Adkison reported an offer was made to Ed Nuhfer. No information was currently available as to the acceptance of the offer by Nuhfer or any negotiations.

 

3. Innovative teaching grant: Committee was asked to review 2 applications, both from the English department. Adkison reported for Jan House that there was money available to fund both proposals. The two applicants were Roger Schmidt and Margaret Johnson (see attached RFPs). Discussion followed. Sato moved to accept the Schmidt proposal, Adkison seconded the motion. Motion carried. Kunicki moved to accept the Johnson proposal. Plewa seconded the motion. Motion carried. Dean will notify Jan House that both proposals were passed.

 

4. New Chair: Dean, Kroger, and Kunicki will finish their CTL term at the end of this semester. Dean reported that the CTL needs to be thinking about a new chair for the next academic year.

 

5. Goal assessment: Dean opened the discussion for outcome assessment for goals and using the OIR database. Dean was impressed by Nuhfer's survey and booklet on goal assessments provided during his on‑campus interview. Further discussion by the group reinforced the importance for the goal review to not appear to be evaluating the instructor, but, instead if/how the course was reaching the goal requirements. Adkison volunteered to write a template for Goal I for CTL to review and respond. Sato reported that data had been collected some time ago on Goal 6, but that no report was ever written. Sato felt it best to collect new data for Goal 6. She has asked to be reappointed to CTL as faculty senate representative in order to finish the Goal 6 assessment.

 

6. Final meeting for the academic year was scheduled for April 26th , 2002 at 11:30.

 

Respectfully submitted,

Laura McKnight, acting secretary