MARIETTA COLLEGE FACULTY MEETING
October 13, 2003
MINUTES (Approved 11/10/03)

A meeting of the Marietta College faculty convened at 5:00 p.m. October 13, 2003, in the Selby Science Center, room 143, Professor Edward H. Osborne, Chair of the Faculty, presided.

1. Announcements
Copies of forms from the Human Subjects Committee were distributed. A copy is attached as Exhibit A (yellow). It was announced that the forms were also available from the committee’s website.

2. Minutes
The minutes of the meeting of September 15, 2003 were approved as submitted.

3. President’s Report
Trustees: President Scott reminded faculty that a regular meeting of the trustees would be convening later in the week. Among the issues to be discussed were Faculty Manual changes, the re-accreditation process, deferred maintenance. instructional technology plan, the transfer to the College of Don Drumm Stadium and other “fields” issues. The trustees would be presented with a balance budget for 2003-04. Faculty was invited to join the trustees for lunch on the Friday.
Sexual and Discriminatory Harassment Policy: Dr. Scott also reminded faculty of the obligation to participate in one of the Discriminatory and Sexual Harassment Workshops scheduled for October and November.

4. Faculty Manual: Amendment to the Handbook

Dr. Young moved that Due notice of the motion and the rationale had been given and a copy of the notice is attached as Exhibit B (pink).
A memorandum arguing against the motion had been distributed at the beginning of the meeting and a copy is attached as Exhibit C (green).

The question was called and sustained on a show of hands.

On being put to a ballot vote, the motion passed: Yes 43, No 17, Abstentions 4. The vote included absentee ballots and Drs. Catalano, McDaniel, and Young served as tellers.

5. Provost’s Report
Assessment. Dr. DeWine thanked faculty who had participated in the recent session on assessment.
On-line Course. Dr. DeWine encouraged faculty to participate in the simulated Leadership on-line course.

6. Advising
Dr. DeWine announced that Dr. Suzanne Walker had assumed responsibility for aspects of the College’s advising program. Dr. DeWine reminded the faculty of the current practice of having the instructor of the First Year Seminar be the students’ advisor until the students transfer to an advisor in the department of the students’ major. She expressed concern over the uneven spread of the advising load among faculty and asked reaction to an idea of creating an advising “partners” system whereby faculty with few or no advisees could be partnered with a department with a disproportionate number of advisees.

Dr. DeWine introduced John Davis, Chief Information Officer, who outlined the plan to phase in on-line registration in the Spring of 2004. Questions raised included: having the students do their own registration without the advisor as intermediary, how would the current staggering (seniors, first, etc.) of registration be incorporated.

Dr. Michael Harding, Director of Counseling Services, then described his work and pointed to the number of students now bringing “problems” with them to college. He encouraged appropriate intervention on the part of faculty. An example was that of behavior changes where a student has stopped taking prescribed medication.

Dr. Suzanne Walker, Director of the Freshman Year Program, spoke briefly about the changes brought about by the 21st Century Curriculum. She distributed copies of key points for advising and revised degree audit sheets. These are attached as Exhibit D (blue).


Fraser G. MacHaffie
Secretary of the Faculty


Circulation:
Dr. Jean A. Scott
Dr. Sue DeWine
Prof. Edward H. Osborne
Dawes Memorial Library


Exhibit A (yellow): “Review of Proposals…” 10/13/03
Exhibit B (pink): “Notice Concerning the …” 9/25/03
Exhibit C (green): “Resolution to change…” 10/13/03
Exhibit D (blue): “Advising-Scheduling…”