September 13, 2004

Present: Rob Shakespeare (chair), Judith Anderson, Erik Bucy, Katy Fraser, Jeff Hart, Kevin Hunt, Chuck Livingston, Al Ruesink (recorder), Pam Walters

Minutes of the meeting on Sept. 6th were approved.

Next week Ted Widlanski will be joining us to discuss the research infrastructure of the College and the campus. We anticipate spending the whole meeting on that matter.

Some new potential agenda items were proposed. In most cases, Rob will be talking with Swamy about whether there are policy issues involved before we consider the point at which we wish to place the item on our agenda.

Chuck Livingston has agreed to be the Policy Committee representative to the College Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) for the year.

We spent most of the meeting discussing the priority ranking of items for our upcoming agendas. Here is the ranking as of the end of the Sept. 13th meeting.

1. Research infrastructure and support on this campus. As noted above, Associate Dean Widlanski and College Director of Budgetary Administration Chris Puckett will join us on September 20th to facilitate our consideration.

2. A look at promotion and tenure procedures and timelines. We hope that Associate Dean David Zaret and someone from the Dean of the Faculties Office can join us to help with this one.

3. Policies regarding the assignment of teaching space, the times for classes, the availability of paper copies of the schedule of classes, late changes in classroom assignments, and so forth.

4. The roles of non-tenure track faculty in the College and their voice in faculty governance.

The committee adjourned shortly after 4.

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.