Instructional Support Committee

Minutes of March 2 approved with slight revision.

ISC will meet with SBRA architects to discuss Library Planning on April 6 during the regular meeting time. This meeting will be held in Burling Conference room.

Discussion of honorarium for local speakers (classroom visitors):
Should local speakers be compensated differently than speakers who travel to Grinnell? The current policy for classroom visitors is $75 honorarium plus mileage. ISC concluded that the honorarium is a gesture of appreciation more than a wage. Therefore, honoraria for local and traveling speakers will remain the same.

This discussion led to a general discussion of ISC's role in expanding speakers' obligations while on campus, for instance, contacting faculty who may be interested in including the speaker in his or her own class during their time on campus. Future approval letters should suggest that the host faculty contact faculty in other relevant areas to see if they would like to include the speaker in their courses as well. It should be remembered, though, that if the visit expands beyond the classroom to a public forum, funding for the visit may no longer fall under ISC's purview.

Classroom speaker proposal was approved.
Wilson call for summer curricular development proposals was approved.

Discussion of Library Planning
Some issues for consideration:

• Whether ITS should be housed in the Library
• Whether the TDC and parts of the AV Center should be combined with the Listening Room
• Should the Library include a classroom that will seat 20-30?
  • Should this classroom be limited to classes needing specific technology or proximity to the library?
  • Should this classroom be reserved as needed, similar to ARH 224?
• There are two IIF-type rooms planned, one of which will seat up to 24
• Should the Curriculum Library currently housed in Steiner be moved to the Library
• The Print & Drawing Study Room, Archives, and Special Collections areas will be expanded, and may include some sort of seminar room
• Current plans include group study space
• Concern from SACC: Will students lose open computer lab space outside of class times?
  • The IIF rooms become open lab spaces after class hours, so there will actually be an increase in lab space.

Consensus of ISC members was that the committee should not dictate number of rooms. Rather, they should focus on the educational mission of the college. The Library needs to meet current and future expanded needs.

Bob will address faculty at a future meeting concerning the mission of ISC. The FOC has expressed concern with consistency from year to year on ISC. The ISC is a very diverse group with diverse opinions. As such, they are working to create guidelines to help this and future committee members make decisions regarding funding and policy decisions. The committee is also currently involved in library planning as well as computing issues.

The FOC and some faculty members have expressed concern that the ISC cannot adequately address computing issues on top of the committee's other duties. Since computing and library planning are so closely tied, it would be impractical to try to separate them at this point.

Jon distributed an update from the Foreign Language Technology group. One recommendation was for a Cultural Education Center and Video Resource area.

Bill distributed an update on the AV Center and TDC. The situation has greatly improved, but is still a work in progress. Some major changes are being planned for the summer.

Discussion of Curricular Development Proposal announcement to faculty:

• Regarding Strategic Plan section: This should be approved by Executive Council before distribution.
• Suggestion to delete Concentrations section. Agreed. "Interdisciplinary Concentrations" will be added to the first item in the Strategic Plan section.

Discussion of whether technology workshop participants should receive a stipend or not. If so, should it be tied to certain criteria (length of workshop, product produced)? It was decided that a set stipend would be paid for workshops at least three days long after the specific implementation of the technology for teaching and learning is developed and a report supporting this implementation is submitted to ISC.

Committee members should read through the draft policy and priorities for approving requests for curricular development funding and submit suggested revisions via email before the next meeting.