11:00, Burling Conference Room

Present: Todd Armstrong, Doug Caulkins, Lee Sharpe, John Stone, John Kalkbrenner, Helen Scott, Bob Grey, Victoria Brown, Christopher McKee, Bill Francis

Helen raised the topic of new faculty lunches. It was suggested to have a representative from each division from the ISC. Lee, Doug, and Todd will represent their divisions at the lunches.

Agenda items for the coming year:
*Motivation and goals of the ISC
What is the best use of college resources?
What are our priorities within our budget?
*What data is being collected from the one-card and how is it being used?
(Privacy policy will be reviewed by Executive Council.)
*What are the college's plans for the website?
Disorganized, does not conform to HTML, what about Blackboard and portal status?
*J-STOR - online storage for journals
Initial cost is approximately $20,000. Can library support yearly fees if the initial cost is funded elsewhere?
*The Mellon Technology grant is depleted and the Culpeper grant will end by June 2002. What happens to projects funded by those grants?
*Field trip guidelines

Curricular Development funding: Are we maintaining regular course development or providing funds for going outside a faculty member's expertise?

Peer model: Give each faculty member a set amount per year to spend as they see fit. This model does not necessarily support collaborative work.
How many faculty-faculty tutorials have there been over the past few years?

Note to Concentration Chairs and MICD Chair:
Explain why we are changing the process and what advantages will result.

ISC will allocate funds once ranked proposals are received from concentrations.
The ISC can respond to demand and varying needs on a timely basis.
Fuller distribution of ISC reporting of funds.
The budget has not changed. The procedure for allocating the funds has changed.
The menu of stipends ($500/$1000) will remain the same.

Look at budget priorities. What is more important, money or time? Course releases, leaves, part-time faculty are more likely to allow faculty the time to develop courses.

Helen will revise the memo and send out September 10 or 11. She will also create a draft memo to faculty and distribute to the ISC for comments.

Agenda for next meeting: Monday, September 24, Burling Conference Room