November 3 2008
From MWCSWiki
Present: Ernie Ackermann (Ernie), Karen Anewalt (Karen), Trillane Burlar (Trillane), Stephen Davies (Stephen), Diane Ditko (Diane), Schli Hamidi (Schli), Jennifer Polack-Wahl (Jennifer), David Hyland-Wood (David), Marsha Zaidman (Marsha)
The meeting began promptly at 4:00pm.
- Karen moved to approve the minutes from the 9/29/08 meeting, Jennifer seconded, unanimously passed.
- Ernie moved that the deadline for independent study approval move from Dec. 12th until Jan. 5th. Karen seconded, and this motion carried 2-1 (with 2 abstentions.)
- Marsha formed a "External Web Presence Committee," with Karen as the chair. She will e-mail the student groups and ask for volunteer participation.
- Ernie's course proposals for CPSC 348 and CPSC 448 were well-received. He will submit final versions to Marsha by end of week. We will retitle 348 "Web Application Development" and 448 "Advanced Web Application Development."
- David discussed his ideas for a Distributed Computing course, which the department liked a lot. We think that "CPSC 348 or CPSC 350" would be the right prereq. We will tentatively schedule this for spring 2010.
- Jennifer proposes that category B under the CIS track be: "CPSC 414, CPSC 448, MMIS 510, MMIS 515, MMIS 532, MMIS 533, MMIS 535." Karen seconded. Motion passes 4-0 (with 1 abstention.)
- Discussion of CPSC 125. We do not want to change the content, number, or title of 125. We do not want to add any pre-reqs or co-reqs. Karen did note that we need to explicitly say "can't receive credit for both CPSC 125 and MATH 225."
- Marsha moved that we recommend to the Gen Ed committee that 230 and 401 be counted as Foreign Language Course Substitutions. Karen seconded, and this motion passed (3-0.)
- Jennifer presented a draft of a motion to request that the Faculty Senate create a Sabbatical Committee to evaluate sabbatical applications. The department was unanimous in supporting this request in principle.
- Ernie moved that Karen succeed Marsha as department chair. Stephen seconded, and the motion passed unanimously.
