Present: Julia Bondanella, Geoffrey Conrad, James Craig, Steven Girvin, Elizabeth Raff

1. The minutes of the February 18 meeting were approved.

2. No meeting is scheduled for March 10, 2000.

3. The Committee discussed the budget conference schedule.

4. The Committee has scheduled the College Policy Committee election for the month of March. An announcement will go out to all faculty at the beginning of March telling them how to vote on the web site. A reminder will be sent after spring break. The Committee agreed that the web site should contain some instructions to assist faculty in voting.

5. The Committee reviewed the main points of the discussion with Jeanne Peterson and Carol Greenhouse concerning the proposal to make Gender Studies a department. A number of questions remain to be clarified concerning the department's intellectual, scholarly and teaching mission and the definition of adjunct faculty.

6. The Committee discussed various issues raised in budget conferences, including the effectiveness of Chancellor's Fellowships in meeting departmental needs, the replacement of faculty lines, inefficiencies in the organizational structure of the College, and problems experienced by programs as opposed to departments.

7. James Craig reported on the discussion of evaluation procedures for the TOPICS curriculum at the February 25th meeting of CUE. The Committee noted that the College does not provide a written rationale for any of its general education requirements. Dean Hanson joined the meeting at 2:25 p.m.

8. The Committee relayed its reflections on several themes common to the budget conferences. Rigid numerical criteria (i.e., GREs, GPAs) for the Chancellor's and Dean's Fellowships preclude recruiting some students with outstanding preparation and potential for graduate study. Also, many interdisciplinary programs currently experience real difficulties in securing the services of faculty from other units. Ways of resolving these problems were briefly discussed.

9. Dean Hanson announced that the College had made its budget presentation, which he intends to share with the Policy Committee, chairs, directors and the two COAS advisory boards.

The meeting ended at 3:00 p.m.

Questions or comments regarding the minutes and actions of the Policy Committee may be addressed to Geoff Conrad, 855-5340, Mathers Museum, 601 East Eighth Street, conrad@indiana.edu.

Submitted,

Julia Conaway Bondanella