March 2, 2006

Present: Judith Anderson (chair), Bob Becker, Erik Bucy, Sandra Dolby, Roger Levesque, Rosemary Lloyd, Al Ruesink (recorder), and Rick Van Kooten.

The meeting convened at 4:15.

Minutes of the February 23rd meeting were approved unanimously (as presented!).

Bob and Sandy discussed the Chairs and Directors meeting that they had attended earlier in the day. That whole meeting was a conversation with the Dean Search Committee, sharing information about timeline, procedures, and desirable qualities to seek in the top candidates.

We discussed whether Bob should stay on the CPC now that he is beginning to shadow Associate Dean Joe Steinmetz so as to become his replacement on May 15. We agreed that we value Bob's presence on the CPC very much and that it would be disruptive to bring in someone new just to complete the school year. Because Bob thinks he can take the time to be with us, we agreed that he should stay on the CPC and recuse himself from our work only if issues arise where he clearly has a conflict of commitment or interest.

Volunteers from the CPC signed up to attend additional College planning meetings with departments and institutes. We are attending most but not all of them.

Dean Swamy joined us at 4:30. He shared with us the present thinking in his office regarding the requests the College should make for funds from the Provost's Fund (with about $1.6 million apparently left uncommitted in it) when the College has its budget conference on March 8th. Putting on our College Budget Committee caps, we engaged in a discussion with him regarding the most urgent financial needs of the College and the effort to match those with President Herbert's strategic plans. Without additional funds, it will be difficult both to give reasonable salary increments and to replace retiring/resigning faculty. Swamy left at 5:12.

The CPC turned to a consideration of candidates for the upcoming election of new CPC members. This is complicated by the returning of a person for a final year as member and the leaving of another for what would normally be his second year on the CPC. We now know what slots will be vacant and suggested an order in which Erik should contact possible folks to stand for election, two candidates for each vacant slot. Each candidate will be encouraged to submit for dissemination a short statement regarding issues that the College should address during the next three years, the standard term.

The meeting adjourned at 5:50.

Note: In the minutes of our February 23rd meeting we mentioned a BFC circular on General Education requirements for the Bloomington campus. That particular circular is no longer current and the Educational Policy Committee of the BFC is working on a new document. We will presumably include reference to a newer document in upcoming minutes.

Albert Ruesink, recorder

Questions or comments regarding the minutes and actions of the College Policy Committee may be addressed to co-chairs Judith Anderson (anders@indiana.edu --855-3845) and Bob Becker (becker@indiana.edu --855-3014). Past minutes and College Policy Statements can be found at the CPC web page: www.indiana.edu/~college/faculty/policy/policies.shtml .