College of Education
Council of Chairs
October 26, 2010
Meeting Summary
Present: P. Burke, E. Driver, F. Hultgren, D. Kivlighan, S. Koziol, M. McLaughlin, A. Patty,
C. Ray, A. Wigfield, D. Wiseman
1. Reorganization Update: Dean Wiseman reported that 94 faculty members voted on the
referendum to alter the reorganization proposal with almost 89% of faculty, staff and
student representatives voting; however, a few student votes still need to come in. The
Dean’s Office will be working on the revised proposal for submission to APAC and the
Dean will forward the timeline after her meeting with Associate Provost Betsy Beise.
The Dean received feedback from the three departments on the reworked vision statement
forwarded to the College following the Assembly. The three departments have responded
in a unified way and their views will be represented in the College’s Vision Statement.
With regards to renaming the College, Allan Wigfield has agreed to chair a Task Force on
Renaming the College. It is a small committee composed of Linda Valli, Gary
Gottfredson, Rebecca Silverman and Wigfield. A name change for the College must be
approved at the campus level and also by MHEC.
Maggie McLaughlin reported that there are no changes regarding APT issues since last
year. One issue that needs to be resolved relates to faculty five-year reviews. The Provost
has requested each college on campus to submit their plans for these reviews by December
15. McLaughlin will draft a one-page document with questions and concerns raised at
today’s meeting and share it with chairs before she meets with Associate Provost Juan
Uriagereka. The hope is to get clarification on how we proceed in view of reorganization
and also request an extension of time.
2.
Review of Academic Programs. As we move forward with review of academic programs,
some decisions need to be made. The Dean asked Dennis Kivlighan to explain how the
overlapping specialty areas in Higher Ed in the two departments can come together as a
consolidated program. As we consolidation programs, we need to be mindful that while
admission of new students to programs can be suspended for up to two years without
campus approval, decisions to suspend programs must be approved at the campus level and
any new programs must be approved beyond campus. Decisions about what goes forward
will be determined after the Dean meets with Beise.
3.
General Education Curriculum Program: Steve Koziol reported that proposal
submissions begin on December 1 and run to mid April. Campus is working on an
electronic process for submissions and hopes that submissions will be sent earlier rather
than later during the time period. Existing core courses must also be submitted. Guidelines
for submissions are on the web but decisions are still being made about setting up the
process and making final decisions about outcomes for categories. These should be out later
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this week. The following nominations for faculty boards have been submitted: Denis
Sullivan for Humanities, Natasha Cabrera for Social Science, Sherick Hughes for Diversity
and Polly Maccini for Scholarship of Practice. Each board will have five to six people
selected from nominations and Lilly Fellows will also be pulled in.
Koziol called attention to the Working DRAFT of EDUC Proposed General Education
Offerings (October 26, 2010) handout that is a listing of existing courses that was put
together from information received from departments and is an indication of interest and not
a final list or commitment. He suggested that we look at the document as a starting point to
see if it represents an accurate picture of our courses. He asked if the current level of
commitment and financial support accurately represents what we do now before we decide
how much expansion should be planned for and what resources are needed. He cautioned
that I-Series courses should not be submitted as permanent courses but as special interest
courses for a period of three years.
Koziol, Wiseman and Kathy Angeletti will go over the list and run it by chairs. They will
look at what we are already doing with exiting courses and what we could do with more
resources. Anyone who wants to be part of the process should let him know.
4. Update on External Funding. McLaughlin distributed the following charts: 1) College of
Education Award Activity (FY 1999-2010); 2) College of Education Award Activity (FY
1999-2010); 3) College of Education Proposal Activity (FY 1999-2010); 4) College of
Education Award and Proposal Activity (FY 1999-2010; 5) College of Education Award
Activity Deans’ Office (FY 1999-2010); 6) Award Activity by PI/Lead Faculty in $$ (19992010); and 7) College of Education Ratio of External to State Funds (FY 2002-2010).
Additionally, each chair received information for their department and individuals in their
department.
McLaughlin noted that while we are generating more proposals the amount of awards
received has not gone up. Strategies need to be put in place to address the issue. She
mentioned that LEA doesn’t see us as part of the solution and we need to position the
college for L3 and LEA grants. Also there doesn’t appear to be willingness on the part of
faculty to serve on an Ad Hoc Advisory committee so she has spoken with several SPARC
committee members to get some idea of thoughts about what we can do as a College to
stimulate interest.
To monitor grant activity, proposal charts will be produced quarterly. Also, resources for
faculty and grant alerts are posted on the College’s research website and faculty will be
alerted to foundation awards. McLaughlin would like to know of any contacts people may
have for grant alerts.
5. Updates and Reminders.
 U.S. News peer reviews are due to McLaughlin. Business managers will get
information from April Patty.
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Information will be forthcoming from Student Services regarding graduation dates
and soliciting nominees for College commencement speaker and student marshals.
Also faculty members are needed to serve as marshals for the College ceremony.
Thursday is the College’s Technology Awareness Day, information was sent on the
College listserv.
Two new employees are in place in ETS.
Chairs need to forward to the Dean’s Office their three books for President Loh’s
library.
6. Future Fall Meetings: All meetings, 9:00-11:00 a.m., room 3237.
November 9 & 23
December 14 (note - changed from Dec. 7)
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