Burling Conference Room


Attending: David Harrison, Helen Scott, Bill Francis, Lee Sharpe, Doug Caulkins, Christopher 
McKee, John Stone, Bob Grey


Discussion of meeting with concentration chairs:
* Should we proceed with change for disbursing funds or keep as is?
* Was the meeting sufficient to clarify our intent?
* Concentrations want guarantee of available funds.  ISC agrees that guaranteeing funds 
will not work allow us to see whether the change in procedure is effective.  ISC will 
continue the change in procedure experiment this year.
* Can a memo be sent to concentrations and worded in such a way as to reassure them 
that most, if not all, projects will be funded?  For instance, "Assume these proposals 
endorsed by the concentration chair will normally be funded."  A memo will not be sent 
this year.  The issue will be addressed once ISC learns how the experiment worked this 
year.


The Bridging Project will be funded this year and next.  The grant will then end.  ISC needs to 
address how to continue funding.


ISC will look at stipend and faculty development support as a whole this year.


ISC has routinely funded the same areas.  We need to step back and look at priorities as a 
college.  Are there areas that are lacking?  (Departments, curriculum components) 
* Question for concentration chairs:  What are the consequences of projects that were 
funded?  If a faculty member received a stipend for adding a gender component, is it 
permanently in the curriculum or was it one time only?


Executive Council is looking at the big picture of curriculum, particularly depth of majors.


Where do initiatives come from? (geography, bio/chem. Science major)
	Initiatives come from faculty and departments.


Discussion of J-STOR
* J-STOR covers some journals not subscribed to.  It is searchable and downloadable.
* Social Studies Division made three recommendations:
 -- Request that startup cost is funded through President's discretionary fund.
 -- If not entirely funded by President's fund, then partially fund through ISC. 
 -- If neither option is accepted, then fund through ISC.  
* Humanities Division: general sense that J-STOR is a good idea, but has not discussed it 
in full yet.  
* Once recommendations are received from other divisions, ISC will make a formal 
recommendation to President Osgood.
* If ISC funds some or all of the startup costs, we need to consider impact of not being 
able to fund projects in an already sensitive time.
* In peer colleges, the President's discretionary funds have paid startup costs for J-STOR.


Library could not increase budget, so could not add J-STOR to the budget.  Need to cost 
savings, particularly in cutting periodicals.  The Library budget has not been sufficient to 
properly operate budget for the past ten years.  The trend has been that serials take more and 
more of the budget.  Library has cut budget in other areas, such as travel.  They will find a way 
to fund J-STOR's annual fees.  The forecast is for a 10-11% increase in serials. Electronic 
storage is projected to increase 17%.  Library budget increased only 2% this year.


Peer data on distribution of budget (books vs. periodicals) is being collected.  Christopher will 
distribute when available.  


ISC annual report should include that the Library budget is not sufficient to support instruction.


Discussion of Bookstore:
	Social Studies Division will continue discussion at next meeting.
	Humanities Division will discuss later this week.


Bob will mention the Bookstore, J-STOR and web discussions at the next faculty meeting.  The 
web issue is being addressed in terms of ISC's role in academic computing and how technology 
can be used to enhance academics.  ISC had a background meeting with the webmaster.  We 
have not yet addressed Blackboard.


The College needs to decide what we want from technology and then find a tool that can do it.


Where do academic computing questions go that don't fit in with ISC's charge?  For instance, 
How do we present ourselves on the web?  Some issues should be addressed by the 
Admission committee.  Suggestion to create a subcommittee of ISC to look at academic 
computing areas.


The ISC has subsumed various committees.  Is it too much?  Look at academic computing 
minutes to see breadth of issues.  ISC has limited time and so needs to prioritize.  Can the web 
committee be reinstated?  What are the channels for future suggestions for the web?  
Suggestions and comments should go directly to the webmaster.


Current proposals:
	Teaching/Learning groups
		Usually $300 per year for refreshments and materials
	Reading groups
		Historically up to $750 per year for books


	ISC needs to send a note to these groups approving budget proposals.


	Lee and Helen will meet the Monday after break to discuss the proposals.




Agenda for Nov. 5:  Feedback on J-STOR, Bookstore, Discussion of Proposals
Overall priorities of faculty development
Stipend discussion


Respectfully submitted,
Terri Phipps