Present: Julia Bondanella, James Craig, Daniel Dinnsen, Steven Girvin, Noretta Koertge, Dale McFadden, Elinor Ostrom, Vic Viola, Geoff Conrad (Chair)

Also Present: Dean Russell Hanson

1. The minutes of 20 August and 3 September were approved as amended.

2. James Craig updated the committee on the search for the new dean. He stated that the search is still open and nominations of external and internal candidates is encouraged.

3. Dean Hanson joined the meeting at 9:50 a.m.

A. He informed the committee that a more detailed plan for the reorganization of Folklore and Ethnomusicology will be formulated.

B. As he had requested in the meeting of 8/20, Dean Hanson again asked that the committee develop a policy for distributing funds to COAS departments in order to meet the unfunded Trustee mandate to raise salaries campus wide in each rank to number 4 in Big Ten public institutions.

C. There was a wide-ranging discussion of the repercussions this mandate might have on the College, and the committee began initial discussion of what a policy regarding this mandate might include.

D. Dean Hanson requested the committee review the policy on clinical ranks.