Minutes of Physical Sciences Task Force
Meeting
Time: 10:00 am
Participants: Paul Williams, Lala Guerra,
James Friedrichsen, Ron Johns, George Staff, Karl Trappe, John Cise, Allen Underwood, Saad Eways, Paul
Nacozy, C.D. Rao, Chris Cavalli, Sal Valastro, Bob Blodgett, Jim Heath, Dean
Becker, Michael McGraw, Hadi Parhikhteh, Thomas Grimshaw, Jeff Bechtold, Elliot
Richmond
1.)
Approval of Agenda
2.) Approval of Minutes from: September 7, 2007 - Spelling corrections were
made.
3.) Announcements
a.) Fulltime Faculty
Names in Summer Schedules – Paul Williams announced that Fulltime
Faculty
names for the Summer schedules are due December 10,
2007.
b.) Turn In Travel Request – Paul Williams advised everyone
in the meeting to turn in their
travel request as soon as
possible. He also mentioned that Math
and Science had been
awarded $19,000 for travel and that $9,000
of that had already been approved.
c.)
Update Status of Proposed Change of Administrative Rule of Student
Travel - Paul
Williams announced that the
administrative rule for student rule Bob Blodgett had drafted received positive feed back and that with
revisions had a good possibility of going forward.
4.) Discussion
& Action Items:
a.) SEM – Ron
Johns announced that the Bureau of Economic Geology was giving away a
scanning electron microscope. After a brief discussion, it was agreed that
we did not need
the microscope and the matter would be
forwarded to the dean.
b.)
Do We Want to Add Information on 6 drop rule to Master Syllabus – Paul
Williams asked
everyone in the meeting if the 6 drop
rule should be added to the master syllabus.
After discussions it was decided not
to add it to the master syllabus.
c.)
Discussion of the Evaluation Process – James Friedrichsen and Ron Johns discussed
the
Evaluation Process
with everyone at the meeting. They
talked about the differences
between Portfolios,
Faculty Input Forms and Faculty Evaluations.
Everyone was also
reminded of
the deadlines for those items. November
2, 2007 being the deadline for
portfolios,
February 1, 2008 for Adjunct Faculty
Input Forms, March 3, 2008 for Fulltime
Faculty Input Forms, Evaluations for
Adjunct Faculty sometime in March and Evaluations
for Fulltime
Faculty sometime in April. Everyone had
questions, shared suggestions and
concerns in
reference to the item.
6) New Business: None
Minutes of PHYS/AST/ENG Subcommittee
October 5, 2007
Participants Paul Williams, Lala Guerra,
James Friedrichsen, Karl Trappe, John
Cise, Allen Underwood, Saad Eways, Paul Nacozy, C.D. Rao, Chris Cavalli, Jim
Heath, Dean Becker, Michael McGraw, Hadi Parhikhteh, Jeff Bechtold, Elliot
Richmond
Approved EEO Assessment Plan
– Approved
Do we want to buy Mathematica
Licenses with the Math Department – It was decided to purchase 6 seats for
a year on an exploratory basis.
Review Master Syllabi – Tabled
AC Circuits on GPII Required
Topics List – Tabled
Data on Prerequisites and
Students Success in Physics – Dr. Cise passed out a handout with data on
prerequisites and Students Success in Physics that show how students succeed in Physics
when they have completed their math prerequisites.
Is Math 1324 a Suitable
Prerequisite for PHYS 1401 - Tabled
Minutes of GEOL/NVR/STE Subcommittee
October 5, 2007
Assessment - The proposed
assessment plan was reviewed and approved.