Meeting Minutes
Academic Affairs University Policy Committee Minutes -
09/13/05
Minutes of the Academic Affairs UPC Meeting
September 13, 2005
Meeting held via tri-campus video-conference
Members Present: Isiaah Crawford, Paula DeVoto, John Frendreis, Alan
Gitelson (chair), Kenneth Holtz, Patricia Jung, Janice Rasheed, Denise
Starkey.
Members Excused: Anthony Barbato, Fred Kniss.
Guests: Janet Pierce Ritter
This initial meeting of the 2005-2006 academic year was called to order
at 2:32 pm by the chair, Alan Gitelson. After reviewing the current
membership roster, he announced that the meeting scheduled for October 4th
will be cancelled as the Jewish holy day of Rosh Hashannah falls on that
date. Consequently the next meeting date will be October 25th.
On a motion by Patti Jung and a second by Paula DeVoto, the minutes of
the AAUPC meeting of May 10th were approved by a vote of 5-0-1.
The proposal for a B.S.Ed in Secondary Education with a secondary
education major and foreign languages K-12 was formally presented by Janet
Pierce Ritter, assistant dean in the School of Education. She noted that
this proposal evolved from a joint effort between Isiaah Crawford and Darice
Birge of the College of Arts and Sciences, and David Prasse and herself from
the School of Education.
Its intent is to make Loyola University Chicago graduates more attractive
to potential middle-and high-school principals during the hiring process.
The proposal itself addressed a re-focusing of the current minor which
requires 32 semester hours in education courses; the major in secondary
education would consist of 36-to-39 hours but result in a degree, the
Bachelor of Science in Secondary Education. Students would still be
required to complete the B.A. or B.S. in the content discipline, so they
would in fact be pursuing a dual degree program, unhindered by the
burdensome requirement of earning a total of 160 s.h. This joint B.A./B.S.
and B.S.Ed program requires only the standard 128 s.h. This is made viable
due to the newly-revised core curriculum. An option for study abroad would
be possible during the Spring semester of the sophomore year.
The AAUPC voted to recommend this proposal to the Academic Vice President
6-0-2.
Discussion about the committee's agenda for the academic year ensued. In
addition to receiving proposals directly from faculty and deans, the AAUPC
also considers issues directed to it via the Academic Vice President and the
UCC. A list of eleven issues had been cited at the conclusion of the
2004-2005 academic year by the former provost and this list was reviewed for
priority.
Item 1) a) and b) concerning the Rome Center were deleted from the
committee's agenda following the AVP's explanation that he had reconstituted
the Rome Center Advisory Committee as one comprised solely of faculty whose
charge is to consider academic and curricular issues at that campus. It
will have oversight for academic programming but most likely will not deal
with policy issues at the Rome Center. The chair is Brian Lavelle
(Classical Studies); Alan noted that he also sits on the committee.
In response to Patti's question about whether the RCAC would deal with
the prerogative of Loyola-Chicago faculty to teach at the Rome Center, John
emphasized that no policy decision has been made to prevent LUC faculty from
teaching in Rome, despite persistent and virulent rumors to the contrary.
The policy is and has been that, if there is need for a LUC faculty member
to teach at the Rome Center due to program demands, then that faculty member
may be invited to do so. There also has never been, except for the
classical studies department, a "prerogative" to send a faculty member over
to Rome from Chicago, and its prerogative to do so lapsed from failure to
comply.
What has changed is that the courses offered and the staffing of
Rome-based courses has shifted to the purview of the dean/director at the
Rome Center rather than to chairs or deans in Chicago. That is a procedural
change and not a policy change, designed to help stabilize the curriculum.
One of the tasks for the RCAC is to recommend, in consultation with the
dean/director in Rome, a fixed curriculum to be taught in Rome that fulfills
that campus' mission and purpose. The ideal would be to establish several
groupings of courses that would be taught regularly. Doing so would also
aide in the recruitment effort of students from other institutions to the
campus. Consequently the AAUPC will not consider any issues concerning the
Glancing down the list, the chair mentioned these items for the
committee's attention:
Review of the charter for shared governance and the AAUPC's
charge (02/2003)
Reading of the document for "academic program development: the
process and review" (09/28/2004)
Progress review of the governing committee for implementation of
the core curriculum,
including refining the distinction between policy matters
and procedural or
implementation issues
Question of a mandatory internship for all the professional
schools.
Other committee members asked that these issues be addressed:<ul>
Communication about approved programs: how are the impacted
offices notified (Isiaah)
"Centers of Excellence:" how are they decided (criteria); what
is the avenue for faculty input;
how do centers interface with academic programs; there is a
certain
vagueness about the concept itself (Patti) AAUPC's self-evaluation of the shared governance structure
(Paula)
Another comment concerned the direction for the School of Professional
Studies. John noted that he has requested two additional proposals, along
the lines of the B.A. in Organizational Development and Leadership, from its
new dean, so the committee will likely see those.
The AVP prioritized three items for the agenda of the AAUPC this
year:
the academic calendar the catalog material relevant to academic policies, i.e., the
academic regulations of
the University
the current admission policies and admission criteria of the
University
The first item needing to be addressed is the academic calendar for
2006-2007 and 2007-2008. Alan will distribute to the AAUPC the data from
the AVP's office. Such questions as the minimum number of "class contact
hours," the maximum number of weeks in a semester, the ideal day of the week
to start, etc., all need to be considered.
Possible guests to be invited are John Pelissero concerning the
communication of approved programs procedure, Jack Wall as there are
proposals on credit hours and certificate programs expected from the School
of Social Work, and Clare Korinek and/or John Frendreis for further input on
the academic calendar.
Alan confirmed that he has disseminated the deadline dates for submission
of proposals to the AAUPC. The next deadline is September 22nd, a week
prior to his sending items to the committee on September 27th for a meeting
on October 4th. Should a meeting on that date be required to move along
some pressing items, a substitute chair will conduct the meeting as Alan
will not be able to do so.
Isiaah moved and Denise seconded a motion for adjournment; the vote was
8-0-0. The meeting adjourned at 3:45 pm.