Eastern Michigan University
College of Arts & Sciences
College Advisory Council
Agenda
September 4, 2014, 3:30 – 5:00 p.m.
219 Pray-Harrold
I. Call to order
II. Approval of Minutes (April 17, 2014)
III. Elections
A. Chair
B. Vice Chair
C. Secretary
D. Procedures Committee (second member)
E. Budget Committee (one Arts, one Sciences )
IV. New Business
A. Nominations for EPEO Advisory Council (two 2-year terms, 2014-2016, beginning 9/22/14);
meets six times/year (Mondays from 3:30 to 5pm).
B. Summer meeting schedule: consider changes to Input Document and Bylaws to clarify the
circumstances in which we may meet in May-June.
V. Old Business
A. Proposal to change the Input Document to reclassify ECON as a “Sciences” department:
Faculty vote is imminent.
A. CAC statement on EMU’s role in the EAA: updates from the ad hoc committee (Dove,
Dumitrascu, Merrill, Molloy)?
B. Provost’s rationale for approval of SOFD 250: In the previous CAC meeting, Dean Venner
reported that Associate Provost Longworth stated that our input was taken into account in the
approval of this (and one other) course. This claim was true of the other course (LEGL 211), but
not SOFD 250, our concern with which was that PHIL was not consulted about impacts to three
of its courses. From the minutes of 4/17/14: “Dean Venner will get back to us about SOFD 250.”
C. Update: IDE 416: CAC accepted the Arts recommendation to not pass on 4/17/14. It was
subsequently approved by the Provost’s Office, but some revisions were made in response to our
input: (1) the title was changed in the manner we requested; (2) a bibliography was added (note,
however, that the bibliography needs to be in place for input to be given in the first place; it is
pointless to add it after the fact – this was our main reason for rejecting the proposal); (3) the
attendance policy was revised to comply with the University policy.
VI. Dean’s remarks
VII. Chair’s remarks
VIII. Faculty remarks