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Minutes of October 13, 2004
Noon
Faculty House
Attending:
Bob Cadmus, Mark Schneider, David Ellison, Susan Ireland, Shuchi Kapila,
Bill Francis, Christopher McKee, John Kalkbrenner, Avram Lyon (SACC representative),
Terri Phipps
Minutes of September 29 approved.
Student representatives: Still need a representative from SGA. Students
will be invited to all meetings and informed if and when a topic is not
appropriate so they may leave the room. The agenda will indicate when
student perspective will be most beneficial so that the students' time
is not wasted. Student rep's can go through the Faculty House line and
purchase their own lunch, bring their own, or eat outside of the meeting
time. ISC does not provide lunch for any meeting participants.
Library Planning Meeting: David, Mark, and Katya will attend. A preliminary
meeting for all attendees is being arranged by the President's Office.
AV Center: Ivan Perry has resigned. ISC members agreed that the College
should better communicate when those in pivotal, public positions leave.
The ISC has been asked to work with Bill Francis in shaping support from
the AV Center, including classroom needs, public events, administrative
support (meetings, etc). MITC (Midwest Instructional Technology Center)
will be a resource for the College's planning. Bill would like to form
two groups to address issues: language instruction and campus audio visual
needs. One member suggested to include a representative from Burling Library,
particularly to discuss collections, lending procedures, etc. Tentatively:
Gail Bonath and Susan Ireland will work with the language instruction
group; Shuchi or Bob will work with the campus needs (OCE/FM) group. Mark
has volunteered to serve as well should one of the other members not be
able to meet with their group. Avram asked that the SACC also have a representative
in each group.
Students use the AV Center for both classroom and extra curricular activities
(film-making, for example). The majority of activities inside the Center
itself are related to foreign language study. This is only a portion of
AV's duties.
In the short-term, until Ivan can be replaced, the Blue and Green Teams
from ITS are filling in. The College will hire a term replacement through
mid- to late-2005, perhaps longer. This person will allow the College
time to plan and shape the AV Center so that an appropriate permanent
person can be hired.
Curricular Development Guidelines: Who decides ISC's role in overseeing
College initiatives (GWS, Interdisciplinary projects, Technology, etc)?
Members do not want to overly emphasize one area or ignore another. One
suggestion was to change the language on the Application form to something
like "ISC especially encourages proposals that address…"
(interdisciplinary, technology, etc). It may also be helpful to give examples
of what successful proposals contain, such as classroom impact, etc.
Mark will research the history of what groups had been targeted and had
their own funds to distribute, and will discuss at the next meeting. One
concern is that since the Concentrations' curricular development budgets
were folded into ISC's, that Concentrations no longer had incentive to
"beat the bushes" for proposals.
ISC needs to decide what constitutes normal course development and what
is above and beyond their normal course of work. Members should think
about, and be prepared to discuss, their ideas about normal and extra
course development for next meeting.
The College's current Strategic Planning work and Expanding Knowledge
initiative could affect ISC's guidelines.
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