Council for International Education
Meeting Minutes
9/19/11
Present: Michael Stryker, Kitty Karn, Samit Chakravorti, Emily Gorlewski,
Davison Bideshi, Rita Kaul, Ray Diez, Carla Paciotto, Linda Zellmer
1. Minutes from 8/25/11 approved by email – all should have an electronic
copy of the minutes.
Senate has requested minutes from this Council because there is a great deal on
our plates this semester. They want to facilitate communication between ExCo
and our Council.
2. Reporting on Faculty Senate Meetings held 8/30 and 9/13 – Senate actions
on courses CIE approved for GI credit (PSY 353 – Cultural Psychology) (this is
now approved both as a course and for GI credit) and informational items
(Short Term SA requests – both now approved):
a. RPTA 379 – Recreation, Sports, and Leisure of Spain
b. HS 379 – Ethiopian Health Care System
3. Meeting scheduled for 9/27 with Angela Lynn (Registrar) and Ron Williams
(Assistant Vice President of Academic Affairs). Ron is involved with many
things on campus, including transfer students (Academic Affairs transfer
coordinator) and the Illinois Articulation Initiative & 2 + 2 agreements.
Kevin Bacon, last year’s CIE chair will join me.
I’ll report to you by email and/or at our next scheduled CIE meeting the
important parts of those discussions. Topics will be FLGI and feedback
coming from admissions counselors regarding FLGI implementation.
There is still some confusion as to which students must fulfill this requirement;
it is catalog driven but what about transfer students?
Dr. Diez says there is an articulation meeting coming up with the two-year
schools next week or so. 23rd or the 25th or something. FLGI may be addressed
there. Ron Williams will be there and Dr. Stryker will contact him about it.
4. Primary purpose of today’s meeting is to start discussing CIE policies and
procedures, approved in 2007, but which we’ve been asked to update and/or
amend as needed by the Faculty Senate.
a. Word change in Mission Statement
b. Open discussion regarding CIE membership, duties, definitions,
procedures for conducting our regular duties, etc. – Email copy of
approved CIE policies and procedures sent to new committee
members on 8/23/11, resent to all current members on 9/16/11
Dr. Chakravorti asked for some background on why Senate is asking us to
review. There is nothing specific that prompted it.
Word change in mission statement: “interdependent” to “interconnected” was
discussed. Dr. Chakravorti moved to replace the word and Ms. Karn seconded. 4
were in favor and 2 opposed. 2 abstained. Linda Zellmer will research the
words in scholarly dictionaries and bring up the issue again if there are any
problems.
More word changes in the mission statement were discussed, resulting in the
following mission statement:
The Council for International Education (CIE) serves as the Faculty Senate’s
representative body at Western Illinois University to assist undergraduate
students, faculty, and administration in creating an international education
environment that fosters the understanding, knowledge, and skills necessary
for life within a globally interconnected and culturally diverse world.
Dr. Zellmer moved to change the mission statement to this new one and Dr.
Chakravorti seconded.
Dr. Diez moved, and Dr. Zellmer seconded, to add two sentences to the policies
and procedures just before the last sentence, as follows:
In a year when there is student representation on the Council, six voting
members shall constitute a quorum; if no student representatives have been
appointed, five voting members shall constitute a quorum.
Eight voted in favor.
The meeting was adjourned at this point as it was after 5 p.m.
5. Sub-Committee assignment (3 members) to consider a mechanism to review
GI approved courses for compliance with the goals and objectives laid out for
International Courses. Report back at next scheduled CIE meeting on 10/3.
Include a draft rubric that could be used by different committee members to
assess course syllabi, evaluate a lecture, etc.
6. Final comments, concerns, items on our agenda in upcoming meetings.
7. Adjourn