COUNCIL
FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING
Minutes
(Approved
by CTL during their April 25, 2005 meeting)
Date: January 24, 2005
Time: 10:00 am
Place: Room 208, Gale Life Sciences Building
Present: Adkison, Dean, Devine,
Neill, Kunicki, Reis, Reynolds, Sato, Schneider, Smith (Chair)
Absent: Bunde, Devaud, Nuhfer, and Packer
Action: Motion by Kunicki and
seconded by Adkison to approve the Minutes of November 29, 2004. Passed unanimously.
Adkison stated that with the loss of Dr. Lawson as
AVP, the project is at a standstill. He
has corresponded with Barbara Adamcik with little response and with Dr. Bowen
with no response. The project was to be
used as ideal classrooms for the Rendezvous Building. With the vacancy of the AVP the charge is no
longer clear; the council discussed asking Faculty Senate for a new charge to
continue the work they have started on the ideal classroom and prioritizing a
list of assessments and evaluations of current classroom conditions. Devine will ask the Senate for a new charge
at the meeting tonight.
According to Adkison, there have been two councils
named as The Council for Teaching & Learning – one, which is a sub council
of Faculty Senate and one that was a council formed from the OIR. The second council is no longer convening. In 1997 the OIR had a sound assessment in
place that is no longer used or implemented.
Adkison would like to see it back in place. The assessments should be from the department
level to the college then the university level – a bottom up approach. It was advised that the council act as an
advisory group to the OIR.
Members were asked to contact their assessment
coordinators to see what further information they would like to have. There has been no feedback from OIR in three
years.
Adkison is attempting to adopt the assessment
handbooks from University of Massachusetts - Amherst.
Reynolds and Adkison will review the council bylaws
to make Dean’s position a standing position and no longer an ad hoc
member.
Respectfully
Submitted
Connie
Patchin