MINUTES

MINUTES
COUNCIL FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING
March 18, 1999 I. PRELIMINARIES
A. Attending: Mullin, Belzer, Hjelm, Nitse, Johannsen, Pehrsson, Thackray, Bain.

Excused: Bosworth, Sirotnak, Enos, Wabrek, Westphal, Fisher, Paulson, Das.

Absent* DeJesus B. Minutes. MSC to approve CTL Minutes as corrected (previously distributed) for 1/28/99

II. BUSINESS

A. Anne reported on the satellite conference on retention. In general, the information presented was similar to other information in that students who are involved with the campus and who have personal contact with faculty are more likely to return. B. Update on Faculty Senate Ad Hoc Task Force: Mullin reported that the Task Force (A. Mullin, S. Belzer, Yates, J. Attebery, N. Sirotnak) met with Dr. Jonathan Lawson on February 8, 1999 to discuss what the Center for Teaching and Learning should be doing. The functions presented to Dr. Lawson seemed to be appropriate. The responsibilities of the Center may be assigned to the new Assistant Academic Vice President. The Council for Teaching and Learning will then monitor the functions of the Center. The bylaws of the Council will likely need to be revised if the attached draft of the Statement of the Council's Purposes (or a revision of the draft) is approved. C. Statement of the Council's Purposes: The attached draft was discussed.

Membership. Consensus of the Council was to change (1 1) 1 Deans' Council member (non-voting) to the Dean of Arts and Sciences (voting). The rationale was that the Dean of Arts and Sciences is involved the most with the General Education Goals of the University. In addition, members thought that this member should be a voting one to foster the existing collegiality between faculty and administrators who work in a collaborative manner on the Council.

Center for Teaching and Learning. The Center may be assigned to the new position of the Assistant Vice-President of Academic Affairs. Currently, the role of the Center for Teaching and Learning is not being addressed. After discussion, members decided that Anne Mullin would write a letter to Dr. Lawson requesting that the Center for Teaching and Learning be included in either the Office of Institutional Research or the Assistant Vice-president position. Anne will write the memo and obtain feedback from Council members via e-mail.

Name of the Council for Pedagogy. The name change was discussed. Although pedagogy incorporates both teaching and learning, the word seemed to council members to be a bit "stuffy" and less clear. The Council members were in agreement that the Council be called "The Council for Teaching and Learning". To avoid confusion with the Center for Teaching and Learning, the suggestion was made that the center be renamed 'The Teaching and Learning Resource Center".

After discussion, the members agreed that concern 1. pedagogical development for individual faculty or programs and concern 3. pedagogical resources for faculty should remain two separate items. Item 3 refers to material, financial and personnel resources.

Concern 4. Academic freedom in instructional settings was discussed. The council members suggested that concern 4. be incorporated with concern 6. This would then read "other considerations related to pedagogy such as academic freedom in instructional settings.

The council agreed that another concern needed to be added: collaboration with the Teaching and Learning Resource Center and the Faculty Senate.

See the attached revised draft for changes suggested during the meeting.

D. Other agenda items were deferred to the next meeting. III. NEXT MEETING: Thursday, April 1, 1999 at 1 PM.

IV. ADJOURNMENT: 2:15 p.m.

Note: In an e-mail ballot, Council members were asked to vote if the Director of the Teaching and Learning Resource Center should be a voting member. The vote was unanimous in support of this member being a voting one.

Approved: April 1, 1999