Friday, November 1, 2002, 10:15a.m.

Present: Tom Gieryn (chair), Jim Franklin, Roy Gardner, Susan Gubar, Kevin Hunt, Charles Livingston, Deidre Lynch (BFC liaison), Ellen Dwyer (recorder)

1. The meeting began at 10:15 AM with approval of the minutes of October 11 and October 18.

2. Chuck Livingston reported on potential problems associated with the implementation of PeopleSoft. Individual schools, including the College of Arts and Sciences, may lose the ability to control the calculation of student grade point averages; the wait list process will change and "rain checks" disappear. Committee members commented on the need to investigate these issues further, in particular those with the potential to affect College enrollments.

3. John Kennedy of the Center for Survey Research joined the meeting to discuss the questions submitted by the Policy Committee for use in the review of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. After Kennedy summarized the recent history of such reviews, Committee members asked him to whom the final results would be distributed. Because the survey is commissioned by Chancellor Brehm, he explained, the results go first to her. In the past, subsequent dissemination of review results has varied a great deal.

The Committee then turned to its review questions and, after changing slightly the wording of several, approved them.

4. At 10:45 AM, Dean Subbaswamy joined the meeting. In response to questions about Gender Studies, he reported that five tenured faculty members have agreed to move part of their lines to Gender Studies. The upcoming national search for a new chairperson of Gender Studies will be conducted by a committee made up of faculty members from Gender Studies and representatives of last year's review committee. As is typical of such searches, the committee will be headed by a faculty member from outside the unit.

In response to questions about the PeopleSoft program, he said that the College plans to do a "fit gap" analysis to determine what modifications in the program are essential and what are not (given the high cost of changes at this point).

5. At 11:45 AM, the meeting concluded.