FACULTY FORUM
SEPTEMBER 19, 2002
Vice
Chair: Dick Horwath
Secretary: Roland Madison
Chair
Ernie DeZolt called the meeting to order at 3:33 P.M.
I.
Invocation: Verghese Chirayath
II.
Minutes
from April 18, 2002 Meeting: Approved.
In
order to accommodate those persons with commitments to various concurrent meetings occurring on campus, the
Chair moved to Part IV, New Business, the Introduction of New Faculty and
introduced Dr. David LaGuardia, Academic Vice President. After making several remarks about change on
campus, Dr. LaGuardia introduced Deans Mary Beadle (Graduate School), Nick
Baumgartner (College of Arts and Science) and Frank Navratil (Boler School of
Business), who each introduced new administrators in their respective units,
and then introduced their Departmental Chairs.
The department chairs in turn introduced twenty-six new faculty
members. The list of the names, with their
unit affiliation, of all new faculty members and adminsitrators is attached
(Source: Office of Academic Vice President).
Dr.
Navratil introduced Dr. Marian Extejt as Interim Associate Dean of the Boler
School of Business, Ms. Sara Andersen as Assistant to the BSOB Dean, and he
welcomed Drs. Gerald Weinstein and Jonathan Smith as the new chairpersons of
Accountancy, and Management, Marketing and Logistics, respectively.
III.
Announcements:
·
The
Chair thanked Carl Spitznagel for placing Forum Committee reports on the JCU
Web page. These committee reports will
no longer be presented at Forum meetings unless some formal action is needed by
the Forum to move forward based upon the Committee’s report or proposal.
·
Several
items that were approved by the Forum last Spring have been forwarded to
President Glynn and await his approval.
·
A
change was made to the Forum’s Constitution whereby the Forum Secretary was
replaced on the Nominating Committee with the Forum’s Vice Chair.
·
The
Chair reported that he has spoken with each of the Ad Hoc Committees in place.
The proposal for a change in the language used on the JCU diploma will be
studied; also, the four faculty members appointed to meet with the President on
the role of faculty in university governance will join with the Forum’s elected
officers in their monthly meetings with Fr. Glynn.
·
The
Chair welcomed Ruth Connell as a CAP replacement member.
IV. New
Business:
Dick
Horwath (acting as Faculty Service
Committee Chair) reported that seven faculty members, out of our total of 265
faculty persons, were on leave this semester.
Accordingly, he reported that a procedural quorum for the Forum is
fifty-two (52) faculty members, and one hundred and four (104) faculty members
are required for a substantive meeting of the Faculty Forum.
Tom
Fanning, as Director of Admissions, presented a reported describing our 2002
freshman class. He provided a handout
for those in attendance (copy not attached).
Some of the items he highlighted in his presentation included in the
following: class size of 843 is third largest frosh class in JCU history; 434
of frosh are “local”; yield rate has improved (number of students who enrolled
divided by number of applicants accepted – 33% (2001) to 35% (2002). The 2002 frosh have an H.S. GPA of 3.3 versus a 3.27 GPA for the 2001
frosh entrants. Sixty-two percent (62%) of frosh 2002 class were in the top
quartile of their HS class and eighty-seven percent (87%) were in the top half
of their HS class. The acceptance rate
for minorities who applied to JCU was 73 percent while the acceptance rate for
non-minorities was 87 percent. Ninety
percent of the 2002 freshmen class will reside on campus. The Admission’s Office has added three new
staff persons. Some of these are
replacement hiring while others are expansion hiring. Tom received a round of applause for “a job well done” by the
Forum attendees.
V.
Forum’s
Forum
A
question was raised asking if Fr. Glynn was “sitting on the items” forwarded to
him for approval by the Forum.
The
Chair replied that he did not believe these items were being deliberately delayed. He indicated that Fr. Glynn, in his very
busy schedule, had simply not gotten to them yet and he felt their approval
would be forthcoming shortly.
A
question was asked about identifying the faculty members were that were to meet
with Fr. Glynn involving faculty governance issues. The Chair identified these faculty members as:
Dave
Robson, History
Bob
Kolesar, Math
Brent
Brossmann, Communications
Chris
Roark, English
VI. Adjournment. The Chair, hearing no further items for discussion, declared the
meeting adjourned at 4:45 P.M.
Minutes
prepared by Roland L. Madison, Secretary