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Present: Ernie Ackermann (Ernie), Karen Anewalt (Karen), Aaron Clemmer (Aaron), Stephen Davies (Stephen), Schli Hamadi, Jennifer Polack-Wahl (Jennifer), Ron Zacharski (Ron) and Marsha Zaidman (Marsha).

1. Ernie made a motion to approve the 23 November minutes. Jennifer seconded. Motion passed.
2. We had a discussion about what to offer for fall.
   1. FSEM (2) Marsha
   2. 106 (2) or a mix of 106/105/104/103
   3. 125
   4. 110 (5) Ernie 2 sections; Jennifer 1 section; Ron 2 sections;
   5. 220 (2) Stephen
   6. 230 (2) Karen
   7. 330 Stephen
   8. 310 Marsha
   9. 326 Ernie
   10. 405 Ron
   11. 414/470
   12. 430 Jennifer
3. We determined our proposed class schedule.
4. We discussed the prerequisites for the AI class. We suggest 125 and 230. Ron will write the draft memo starting the rational for changing prerequisite. The existing catalog copy and the proposed catalog copy. Suggestions are "topics may include ..." The deadline is next week.
5. Regarding CAS Strategic Plan, Karen reports that only 1/2 of the departments are interested in a 1 course / 1 credit model. Most chairs appear interested in creating an “honors program” at UMW. What this would look like is unclear. The overall concept is that we need bigger carrots to get top students to choose UMW over other choices.
6. Marty Wilder visited for an extensive conversation on what the future UMW student might look like. Again, the summary is that based on population info and projections, we should expect more ethnic diversity in our students, we should expect to have more student in need of “remedial” academic support (need help with addition, simple writing assignments, etc), and we’ll continue to pull a lot of first generation college students.
7. Regarding the one course / one credit model, Karen wonders what our thoughts are about this as a department.
8. Outcomes assessment.
   1. Discussion of Alumni Survey questions. We agreed to change the existing forms to add current courses. Ron will draft a new survey. We discussed ways to encourage people to complete the surveys. Ron will create a draft on GoogleDocs.
   2. What years are we surveying.
   3. discussion of outcomes.
9. Handbook discussion. Discussion of how handbook should look. We need to add info about the minor and about the CIS track.
10. The SI all instructors application for 310 was submitted.
11. We need a volunteer to make posters and fliers for summer school. Everyone agrees we should ramp up publicity. Design Services would do this for us. Stephen volunteers to take the lead on this. Ernie suggests finding a student who took a cs course last summer to put a face on this.
12. Ernie volunteers to take the lead in coordinating story ideas for the newsletter.
13. Jennifer reports that UPE induction is scheduled for April 11th around 1pm.
14. What do we want to purchase with our department budget. Aaron recommends having the outlets in B52 cleaned. Ron asked for money for components for cs305 lab kits.
15. Karen has received a key for Contribute. She will work on it during spring break.
16. Recruiting – the administration wants individual departments to work more directly on recruiting students
17. March 13th is when Showcase is scheduled. We plan on passing out CDs. Jennifer will coordinate having lab aids do this.
18. Marsha reports that there are 3 motion in front of the Senate. One is that the James Farmer Committee be under the Senate. Another is to amend the faculty handbook to change how nominations and voting occurs. The last one is from academic affairs committee that a change be made to the dictionary of academic regulations related to the number of repeats a student can take in a given semester. We are in favor of all of these.