Present: Jonathan Brand, Jon Chenette, David Clay, Leslie Gregg-Jolly, John Kalkbrenner, Jacob Kaufman-Osborn, Mark Montgomery, Mickey Munley, Russell Osgood, Todd Reding, Susan Schoen, Helen Scott, Marci Sortor, Jim Swartz, Frank Thomas, and Karen Voss.

Jonathan Brand opened the meeting at 1:06 p.m. Central Standard Time. He initiated a discussion of the College's current 9th semester program. The current program allows enrollees to borrow money from the College for the tuition for this semester. If they teach at least one year within four years of completing the semester, the loan is forgiven. Discussion ensued, including an explanation by the Dean of the curricular aspects of the semester and the Education Department's recent proposed change in the 9th semester to a term solely consisting of student teaching, rather than a semester which also included intensive methods courses. The Dean will discuss with the Education Department the fee issue for the 9th semester and ask for its view on the matter. Some data on peer schools was available for the Committee with respect to this type of arrangement, and more data will be on hand for its next discussion.

Karen Voss reported that the FY2005 budgets will be distributed to managers in the next few weeks for review.

The Committee discussed the Strategic Planning sub-groups and is anticipating their recommendations to the President, especially those related to the budget. Discussion ensued. Jonathan Brand will produce a shorter version of the question and answer document (FAQ document) for the website and post it after approval by the Committee. There will be one more meeting of the Committee before the end of the academic year.

The meeting was adjourned at 1:43 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,

Susan M. Schoen

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