The Citadel Faculty Council
Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Jan. 31, 2002
Bond Hall, Room 166

1. Prof. Steve Silver, Faculty Council chairperson, called the meeting to order at 11:13 a.m.
   
   
2. Members attending: Profs. Bishop, Briggs, B. Carter, Chen, Foster, Hoyle, Kelley, Matthews, Silver, G. Williams, Woo, Peeples for Dunlop, Wilson for J. Templeton and Rushing for Zuraw.
   
   
3. Members absent: Profs. Foley, Jones, Kuzenski, Lally, Ouzts, Pilcher, Skow-Obenaus, Thompson and Webb.
   
   
4. Prof. Durgun, who came to the meeting as a private citizen, raised the question of how a post-tenure review committee was supposed to evaluate a colleague who was, as a long-term department head, mostly an administrator and not a teacher. This was not resolved.
   
   
5. A quorum was never achieved at this meeting, and there was a discussion of the reasons of the six excused absentees and the four who had not given a reason.
   
   
6. Prof. Silver reported on the Academic Board meeting of Jan. 29th. Dean Metts advised caution in dealing with the Registrar's Office as they were short-handed. The Board voted against the Faculty Council motion, passed at the Nov. 15, 2001 meeting, to grant senior status to foreign students if they had taken four out of five, rather than all five, of their required English courses. Their reasoning was that the catalogue says all students must take all their core requirements to get senior status, but Faculty Council members noted that a lot of students take core science courses as official seniors and thus this was not adhered to strictly. Academic Board proposed that each department have a liaison to address special problems of foreign students. The only other issue at the meeting had been the fact that VMI had been ordered by a court to stop having prayers at meals in the mess hall, and this might also come up at the Citadel.
   
   
7. There was some discussion about the progress of committees meeting to revise their charters. Prof. Hoyle noted that the Faculty Council liaison was supposed to get his or her committee to meet, and Prof. Silver noted that the Curriculum Committee had met and done its recharter. He asked each Council member what committee he or she was on in aid of getting the meetings started for some of them. There was some speculation about which committees might get an increased membership as a result of the schools reorganization, with comments about a possible ludicrous increase in the proportion of "department" heads to regular faculty.
   
   
8. Prof. Bishop asked for clarification on whether the Administration had actually taken seriously the strong Faculty Council vote against being absorbed into a combined Faculty Senate. Prof. Silver noted that Vice-President Carter, though the combined group had been his desired project, had indeed taken Faculty Council at its word and left the structure of faculty governance as is.
   
   
9. The upcoming events of the Gold Star Parade and Groundhog Day were mentioned, and the Council dispersed at 11:50 a.m.