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11:00, Burling Conference room
Attending: Lee Sharpe, Todd Armstrong, John Stone, Jennifer Greene (in Christopher McKee's absence), Doug Caulkins, Victoria Brown, David Harrison, Helen Scott, John Kalkbrenner
Discussion of proposed Bookstore relocation:
Science Division:
General consensus is the desire to keep the Bookstore near the campus. Preference is the corner of 6th and Park St. This placement may help push the stoplight issue through.
Mears could be used for faculty offices once it becomes available. Suggestion also made to place Bookstore in the Welcome Center.
Social Studies Division:
Evenly divided between moving the Bookstore downtown and keeping it on campus.
Divided on faculty being housed in Mears to alleviate shortage of office space.
Humanities Division:
Current office space, especially considering the English Department, is intolerable. In particular for those housed in interior, windowless spaces with poor ventilation.
First choice for Bookstore relocation is the corner of 6th and Park St. It will be beneficial to have an expanded Bookstore space for readings, book signings, etc. Some members feel strongly that the Bookstore should be moved downtown.
The Bookstore encompasses more than a "Book"store, and therefore does not need to move in its entirety. For example, the books and clothing sections could move to one location (near or off-campus), and the "convenience" store aspect could remain on-campus in another area. The College needs to consider the economic impact to the community if the Bookstore is moved downtown.
Suggestion to move the Bookstore to Mears. Mears cannot effectively be reconfigured due to its structure and framing issues. It could, however, be used to house the various Centers on campus (International Studies, Prairie Studies, Humanities, etc).
Suggestion to use Main dining hall as the Bookstore once it is available. Use current Bookstore space as faculty office space. If houses along Park St. are used for faculty offices, departments could be even more scattered than they are currently. However, if Prairie Studies, Noun Program, and Rosenfield are moved to Mears, Harry Hopkins House could be used to house a department.
Todd will draft options for faculty office spaces.
Discussion of curricular development proposals:
MUS: New course: RECD recommends approval including $250 student labor. ISC approves.
REL: New module: RECD recommends approval. ISC approves.
FRN: ProCite: After discussion with the IMTS committee, the decision was made not to approve this proposal. Rebecca Stuhr will support the software when she returns from leave in the spring semester. The library will offer a ProCite workshop for interested faculty. This faculty member will be encouraged to resubmit the proposal when it pertains to curricular development.
Suggestion concerning workshops offered by IMTSs: Faculty may not receive stipends just for attending workshops. Stipends will be paid once the skills are applied to courses. This suggestion will be discussed at a later date.
Technology proposals will now be routed to the IMTS committee for recommendations to the ISC.
Discussion of budget:
ISC funded approximately $34000 last year for curricular development, teaching and learning groups, and reading groups. So far this year approximately $31000 has been allocated. Typically the spring semester results in a much higher number of curricular development proposals. ISC needs to be very careful in budget decisions.
Respectfully submitted,
Terri Phipps
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