September 1 2008

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Department meeting September 1 2008 3:00 pm

Present: Ernie Ackerman (Ernie), Karen Anewalt (Karen), Trillane Burlar (Trillane), Stephen Davies (Stephen), Diane Ditko (Diane), Schli Hamidi (Schli), Jennifer Polack-Wahl (Jennifer), Ron Zacharski (Ron), Marsha Zaidman (Marsha)

1. Marsha moved to approve the minutes from the April, May, and August meetings. Karen seconded. Motion carried.
2. Discusion of the department chairs letter part of which talks about faculty contributing news to the Office of University Relations. Ernie thinks we that the dept. sign on to the letter. Marsha thinks the letter is over-the-top. Ernie believes that the information is available elsewhere.
3. Discussion and Approval of Updated Honors Application. Ernie would prefer a different term rather than 'Service Project'. Diane suggests that a student who works on coursework not offered in the department should count. Trillane suggests that students doing coursework have clearer criteria than determining the worth of novel work. Jennifer believes that research being novel should not be required. Karen moves that we accept the form. Stephen seconds. Motion carries.
4. We discussed the needs for adjuncts.
5. Update on overhaul of Department Website. We are waiting to hear from Teresa Mannix to do a web page make-over. Marsha will contact her. Gail Brooks requested that we post sufficient info on our Department Web page to raise participation in the accelerated MS-MIS program.
6. Discussion of process for Peer Review Evaluation of "additional duties" e.g. What happens if someone expects 5 individual study students but only 2 materialize? Marsha wants to discuss this prior it to becoming an issue.
7. Course Offerings for Spring 2009. Jennifer says that if the dept. policy is to teach 3 courses, faculty are not supporting the dept. if they teach 4. She says if we teach 4 we are shooting ourselves in the foot. Ernie suggests that we rough out a schedule on the board on Wednesday. Our deadline is Sept 22nd.
   1. Karen:  CPSC 430, FSEM 100 (2 sections)
   2. Stephen:  CPSC 350, CPSC 110 (2 sections)
   3. Jennifer:  CPSC 230 (2 sections), CPSC 310
   4. Ron:   MBUS 555 or 550 CPSC 305 (1 section) and CPSC 110 (1 section)
   5. Marsha:  CPSC 220 (2 sections)
   6. Ernie:  CPSC 401 (1 section), CPSC 330 (1 section), CPSC 110 (1 section)
   7. CPSC 414 Hyland-Wood
   8. CPSC 125 Basit
   9. CPSC 110 Forbes (Alice), Hlywa (Python)
   10. Need to schedule an extra meeting to select rooms.
8. Update on application form for individual study – Ernie
9. Should students applying for Honors also submit applications for individual study? If not, do we need to include from Individual Study form.
10. Update on cross-listing MSMIS courses as 400-level CPSC courses: Jennifer is still waiting to hear back from Gail.
11. CPSC 440 is not listed as an elective that fulfills the major. Need to request exceptions for all affected students. Need to submit request to Curriculum Committee to amend CPSC 440 omission for future majors. We would like to allow any 400 level course to count for major except for 499.
12. Discussion on requiring CPSC 125 for both tracks.
13. Report on Spring 2008 Exit Interviews—Ernie has no report
14. Update on Trinkle Renovations—Marsha has no report
15. Changes to major program? Request for CIS to be separate major? Marsha believes we should pursue making CIS a separate major. Stephen asks does it make it harder to change from one major to another. Jennifer will take the lead on investigating this further. Karen says having a separate CIS degree would be good for us marketing wise. The con is that cis students will no longer get a CS degree. Jennifer would like to change the major if we spin off. Most faculty is in favor of having a separate major.
16. Regarding new course offerings. Marsha says the only downside is that the courses should be offered as a unit. Stephen says it duplicates material covered in other courses. Ernie moves that we accept these courses. Jennifer seconds. Motion carries. He will bring detailed course proposals to next meeting.
17. Faculty Senate Issues. Karen reports that there are no new action items. There are a number of opportunities to improve teaching (for ex., travel grants). They made a website teachumw.org, a social networking site. Karen mentioned that the UMW faculty governing study group is holding a faculty governance conference, which costs $100.
    1. Request from Mary Rigsby for $25 from Department Budget for Faculty Senate use (to fund snacks before meetings). Ernie moves that we support this. Karen seconds. Motion defeated.
18. Annual meeting with Rosemary is scheduled for September 17, 2008 Please let Marsha know of any matters that you'd like her to raise/clarify with Rosemary. Karen suggested we ask Rosemary for feedback on our strategic plan.
19. Marsha presented a computer science request form to handle exceptions to major and moves to adopt the form. Karen seconds. Motion carries.
20. Approval of Individual Study proposals (closed meeting)