SOS Steering Committee Meeting 11/02/2001

Minutes

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Attending: Pam Crowell (Biol), Beth Neal-Beliveau (Psych), Gabe Filippelli (Geol), Kathy Johnson (Chair), Jon Luke (Math), Fritz Kleinhans (Sec), Joe Kuczkowski (Assoc Dean), David Malik (Chem), Kim Nguyen (Assist Dean), Gautam Vemuri (Phys); Kathryn Wilson (Assoc Dean)

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Chair Kathy Johnson opened the meeting at 10 AM:

David Stocum is out of town and Deans JK and KW will each be present for half of the meeting.

Faculty Council News: The SOS needs to nominate two candidates to the system wide Faculty Council (UFC) by Dec 21. The UFC has half their meetings in Indy and half in Bloomington.

Phase one of Campus Housing is expected to open in August 2002. The housing people want to use historically relevant names. Suggestions are welcome. Ten M$ is appropriated for a new Student Center. This is not enough to start.

The School of Allied Health is looking for a solution to their financial problems. These problems apparently began at the time of the IU-Methodist merger. Allied Health has suggested a merger with the School of Medicine but this is unacceptable to the SOM. Occupational Therapy may be killed to save money. Faculty Council input on these problems was invited but ultimately higher administration will choose the solution. It appears there will be an effort to come up with a new plan.

Mud to Bricks Letter: Dave Malik drafted a letter requesting that Facilities fix the SE entrance of the LD building as was done for the NE entrance of the SL building. David and the Committee requested KJ sign this letter as our representative.

Undergraduate Admissions and Recruitment (KN): Admission criteria will be raised again for the coming year. Rather than looking at class rank, as in the past, emphasis will be given to the HS transcript and performance in Core 40 HS courses. The impact on SOS enrollments is hard to predict. We will probably lose 2 to 8% of our incoming students. Math may drop Math 001. Psych and Math will be most affected by an enrollment drop. Kim reports that she finds a more favorable view of IUPUI and the SOS at High Schools these days. A payoff for years of hard work on everyone's part. Campus Day is on Nov 11.

Agenda for Fall Faculty Assembly: The SOS Fall Faculty Assembly will be Monday Nov 19 from 3 to 4:30 in LD 010. Karen Whitney and Vic Borden will make presentations. There was a brief but spirited discussion about the problem of instate/out-of-state tuition issues for graduate students, while considering agenda topics. We use the same rules as Bloomington, however, they seem to have more resources for paying the out-of-state 'tax'. Purdue does not engage in this foolishness.

Long Range Strategic Plan for IUPUI/Purdue (KW): The IUPUI Plan is at Purdue. They are nervous about the use of the word 'autonomy', by which we mean direct reporting to the Purdue Graduate School, and future PhD programs in Engineering. The Plan will be reworked. KW has been consulting with our administrators with discussions centering around an incremental approach to autonomy wording or a direct approach, with KW favoring a direct approach. David Malik suggested a 'delegation of authority' as a way to get away from the 'autonomy' word. He also would like to see us have direct representation on the Purdue Graduate Council.

NSF Fastlane Grant Processing: Grants from IUPUI show up as IU Bloomington grants. Some effort has been made to fix this, but it remains a matter of debate, whether it will actually be fixed.

The meeting adjourned about 11:30.

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Fritz Kleinhans

SOS Secretary

11-14-2001

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