Eastern Michigan University

COE COUNCIL MEETING
September 22, 2004

2 p.m.
Porter Building, 301B

 MINUTES OF MEETING

 Attendance:   M. Kinney-Sedgwick (TED), P. Smith (SPED), K. Carney (SPED), N. Maylone (TED), S. Ginsberg (SPED), L. Parks (SPED), D. Choudhuri (LC), D. Anderson (LC), A. Starko (COE)  G. Harder (COE), J. Tracy (LC), L. Rocklage (SPED), D. Bennion (TED)

 1.      Call to Order - The meeting was called to order at 2:05 pm by M. Kinney-Sedgwick.  

2. Election of a secretary and student representative to Graduate Council

Teacher Education will forward the name of a student representative to the COE Council (D. Bennion)

In place of L. Lee (SPED), K. Carney (SPED) has agreed to serve as co-secretary for the Council for Winter 2004.  In addition, since L. Lee is now on the Executive Committee of the Faculty Council which meets at the same time, P. Smith will serve as her alternate on the COE Council.

3. Approval of the minutes of September 8, 2004

The minutes of the meeting were approved (D. Anderson/ K. Carney).

4. Reports of Committees       

a)      Reports from Standing Committees

i)        Basic Programs:

(1)   The History Major and Minor for Specialty Studies was passed by Basic Programs.  The Program was reviewed and approved (N. Maylone/ D. Anderson).

ii)       Advanced Programs: no report

iii)     Professional and Affiliated Programs: no report

iv)     Personnel Committee: no report

v)      Planning and Finance Committee: No report

b)      Reports from other Colleges or University Groups

i)         Faculty Council –  No report

ii)        Graduate Council – A. Starko reported that a student member was needed to represent the COE at Graduate Council and would be selected, as per rotation, from Teacher Education.

iii)           Continuing Education Advisory Council

iv)           EMU Research Advisory Council - No report

v)            COE Resource Development Board – No report

vi)           COE Human Subjects/Research Advisory Committee - No report

vii)         COE Student Advisory Committee - No report

viii)  Ad hoc Diversity Committee - No report

ix)                 Ad hoc Porter Chair Advisory Committee – J. Tracy stated that Joyce Epstein will be available to meet with interested faculty in discussion groups to talk about School Family Community Involvement on September 27th, at 10:00 a.m. in the Dean’s Conference Room and at 1:00 p.m. in the Special Education Conference Room.

x)            Ad hoc COE Alumni Hall of Fame Committee – no report

xi)           Ad hoc Education Students Data Assessment Committee – Have a new chair - D. Anderson.

xii)         Other COE Groups – No report

xiii)  COE Department or Offices – no report

xiv) Porter Building Status - no report

xv)         NCATE/State status - no report

xvi) Dean's Report –

(1)   President I on board as seen by upcoming convocation and emails.

(2)   Board of Regents broke ground on the new student center with state approval, with a projected opening date of Fall 2006.

(3)   Additional 25 searches have been approved and the green light has been given to move ahead. 

(4)   John Dugger (Dean, College of Technology) is heading the search committee for the position of Dean of the COE.  He will be contacted by the COE Council requesting an update on that process.

(5)   There is a new federal grant proposal in the planning stages to focus on middle schoolers in the Ypsilanti and Willow Run Schools in a 6 year longitudinal study examining factors in college success. Contact Nelson Maylone or Russ Olwell if interested in being a part of this process.

(6)   Due to the resignation of D. Staub there is a vacancy to be filled in the Office of Collaborative Education.  Perhaps this is an opportunity to rethink the parameters and scope of the school programs of that office.

5. Old Business

      a) Proposal to revise governance system for professional education

                  Dean Starko presented the NCATE requirements for unit governance and discussed the major factors in the impetus for the proposal to revise the governance structure. After some discussion regarding the future of NCATE, possibility of other accreditation boards, institutional and leadership support for revision, the issue was tabled pending further information.

      b) Hours to Graduation Committee - No report

7. New Business:

Ballots for the Standing Committee on Diversity were collected and counted.  There were a total of 42 ballots of which 37 approved and 5 rejected the proposal. Since a majority of the voting members of the COE  (total of 80 members) are required for the proposal to pass, J. Tracy, L. Rocklage, and D. Bennion agreed to present the ballot in individual department meetings and collect the votes.  This vote will be ready to be counted by the October 27th COE meeting.

8. Adjournment

                        The meeting was adjourned at 3:45 p.m. (D. Anderson/S. Ginsberg)

Next Meeting: Wednesday, October 13, 2004, 2 pm, 301B/C Porter