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Worley Student members: Ex-officio: D. Collins, R. English, H. Hudson, L. Maule, B. McLaren, J. Ozmun Executive Committee Liaison: Absent: Guests: M. Petrowski, T. Sawyer, A. Garakani M. Murphy called the meeting to order at 3:31 PM. 1. A motion to approve the minutes of meeting #2, 9-16-08, was made and passed, 8-0-1, (Peters/Stemmans). 2. T. Sawyer distributed a new proposed organization chart for the College of Nursing, Health, and Human Services. The new unit has been operating for a year without an approved structure, governance documentation or structure. The Faculty of the College has voted 41-5 to approve the proposed structure on 9-29-08. Discussion followed the presentation. There will be one new dean position created. The structure draws together functions under clearly defined deans that are presently scattered out among deans, chairs, and program coordinators. It is important for the CONHHS to progress expeditiously as the lack of approved structure and documentation will soon hinder promotion and tenure decisions and curricular changes. 3. Executive Committee Report: None. 4. General Education Council Report: None. 5. General Education Task Force Report: The Task Force has not met but there is an open forum scheduled for Wednesday afternoon and a meeting Friday. L. Maule again emphasized that there are no plans to allow any “Grandfathering” of courses into the new Foundational Studies Program. The General Education Council will be the reviewing body for all courses requesting to be included in the new program. It is clear that the total number of offered courses will be less than the number currently in the GE2000 Program. 6. NCA Report: None. 7. M. Murphy distributed material on the question of defining a Department/School/College. It appears that the use of the terms is a local application with little or no universal applied use. Local rules, institutional history, prestige, etc. all play a role in how various intuitions of higher learning use the terms. It looks like it will be up to ISU to define the manner in which we desire to use the terms. A. Garakani addresses the situation from the standpoint of Banner and possible limitations. The question should be addressed to S. Gick for further clarification. At ISU, one situation is the CONHHS due to the fact that Nursing accreditation required the head of the unit to be a nurse. A question arose if schools would have a “Head,” “Dean,” or what form of the administrator? There needs to be a consistent structure and purpose/intent for a school D. Malooley mentioned that perhaps a “School” would be a unit that houses multiple programs of study that may be similar but are true disciplines. (A discipline being a field of study that has specific language, terms, paradigms, etc.) This would then make a “College” a collection of disciplines. 8. A motion was made and passed to suspend the rules to allow immediate action on the CONHHS proposed Organizational structure, 9/0/0, (Malooley/Stemmans). 9. A motion was made and passed to approve CONHHS proposed Organizational structure as modified, 9/0/0, (Malooley/Stemmans). (Pending CAAC Chair receiving final document from CONHHS). 10. D. Malooley requested a formal ruling from the CAAC on the operation of units undergoing, or have undergone, reorganization and do not have the approved documents such as a Constitution to operate under. 11. A motion was made and passed that the College of Technology will operate under the Constitution approved by the COT Faculty and the three department structure approved by the Senate and Board of Trustees as the document moves through the approval process, 9-0-0, (Rosenhein/Worley). 12. H. Hudson discussed the desire of several programs in CAS that have “Emphasis,” “Concentrations,” and “Tracks.” The desire is to change the titles to “Concentrations” so they may be tracked in DARS etc. Following extensive discussion, it was determined that there needs to be a method allowing an expedited path of approval for such minor changes of name only with no curricular modifications. 13. A motion was made and then tabled that a Department desiring to submit a Proposal with no modifications other than the name change to a “Concentration,” shall submit only the F2 and F3, with included DARS and Registrar reports, to the Dean for signature and then Academic Affairs for CAAC review for an expedited movement through the approval process, 9-0-0, (Worley/Allen). 14. The committee adjourned at 5:23 PM. Respectfully Submitted David J. 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