April 4, 2005

Present: Rob Shakespeare (chair), Judith Anderson, Erik Bucy, Katy Fraser, Roger Levesque, Al Ruesink (recorder), Pam Walters, Yasuko Watt

The meeting convened at 2:30.

Minutes of March 28 were approved unanimously after some amending.

The selection of candidates for the CPC elections was considered. Three of the nine seats will be open, with the winners of the election to serve three-year terms. Rob and Katy were asked to prepare a final or near-final ballot based on the results of our discussion of possible candidates.

Erik updated the committee on the work of the Second Language Studies subcommittee, summarizing a draft report he is compiling based on interviews, received letters, received e-mails, and an analysis of several documents related to proposal for a Department of Second Language Studies. About 15 minutes of discussion followed, in which major issues surrounding the proposal were raised. A revised version of the report from the CPC will be considered at next week's CPC meeting, and then submitted to Dean Swamy for his consideration.

Further attention was devoted to fleshing out the CPC proposal for establishing a Senior Faculty Recognition Committee. It was agreed that individual faculty should be allowed to remove themselves from consideration by such a committee. Four key areas that remain fluid and where the CPC would like to give Dean Swamy additional guidance are:

1. Who chairs the committee
2. What kinds of faculty should make up the 6-member committee
3. What should the committee procedures be
4. What are the intended results of the work of the committee We will return to the plans for the Committee one more time in the near future.

Dean Swamy joined the CPC at 3:15.

He began by emphasizing some of the highlights of the 69-page budget document for 2005-2006 that had been distributed to us at the beginning of the meeting. This is the document that was prepared for the budget conference that the College had with Ken Gros Louis and Neil Theobald on February 25th. Swamy then engaged us in a discussion of our draft report to him titled Gender Bias and the Faculty Gender Gap (March 28th version). Almost all the time was focused on the nine "Recommendations" at the end of the report. Most were considered by Swamy to be cogent and persuasive. A few needed some redrafting to provide clarification, and Pam will do that. We ran out of time before considering the last recommendation, and discussion with Swamy will continue at a later date.

Dean Swamy left at 4:01.

Discussion of the Gender Bias recommendations continued after Swamy left.

The meeting adjourned at 4:10.

Albert Ruesink, recorder

Questions or comments regarding the minutes and actions of the Policy Committee may be addressed to Rob Shakespeare, Dept. of Theater and Drama, Theater and Drama Ctr. A300H, 5-4367, shakespe@indiana.edu. Past minutes and College Policy Statements can be found at the CPC web page: www.indiana.edu/~college/faculty/policy/policies.shtml.