Associate Deans and Academic Support Group Meeting
March 16, 2004
8:30 – 10:00
CU-Denver Bldg., room 299
Present: Laura Goodwin, Chris Smith, John Lanning, Jana Everett, John Trapp, Denise
Sokol, JC Bosch, Dorothy Yates, Obe Hankins, Rod Anderson, Clark Strickland, Ken
Bettenhausen, Patty Godbey, Mary Lou Fenili, Carmen Williams, Peggy Lore
1.
The minutes from the March 2 meeting were approved.
ANNOUNCEMENTS/REMINDERS
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Center for Faculty Development Director search: An internal search will commence soon; information about the search committee chair and members will be announced in the near future, as well as the timeline.
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Reminder: Send the NTT e-mail lists to Chris; she still needs to hear from
Engineering and Architecture & Planning.
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School/College/Library processes for faculty professional plans: We want to collect information from each school/college/library regarding what processes are currently being used for professional plans. Laura will follow up with an e-mail message, asking specific questions. After we have collected information about current processes, we will discuss ways to make the process more useful.
5.
Reminder: On March 30 (a 5 th
Tuesday), we will not have a regular AD/ASG meeting. Bob Tolsma and two of the Faculty Fellows (Dave Thomas and Ellen
Stevens) will present information about services available to faculty for support in the areas of technology and teaching.
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AD/ASG web page and group photo: Chris is working on the web page, so please look at it and give her feedback; also, she will arrange for a group photo at one of our future meetings.
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Reminder: Sabbatical requests are due in Academic Affairs by March 15 (or as soon as possible).
DISCUSSION ITEMS
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Uniform Grading Policy (proposed policy attached): It is time for the faculty on our campus to vote on the proposed changes to the Uniform Grading Policy.
Laura will get clarification from Rod Muth on some of the background information and then will send out instructions and a ballot to the Deans and
Associate Deans. We would like to have all voting completed by April 30.
9.
Feedback on the Access CU-Denver proposal: As a follow-up to the presentation made by Rod Muth and Allan Wallis at our last meeting, we discussed the proposal for a new Access CU-Denver center. We discussed issues related to marketing/branding, funding sources, leadership for the center, how the proposed center ties to a possible consolidation with the Health Sciences Center, and need for a clear identity for CU-Denver. Laura will take the comments and questions to the Dean’s meeting when they discuss the proposed center.
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Student academic rights: Mary Lou presented the document she recently wrote, summarizing existing policies regarding academic freedom and students’

academic rights at CU. We discussed ways to educate students and faculty about their rights as well as grievance procedures. Distributing information at new student and new faculty orientations is important. Obe and Peggy will work on information for the student orientation, and Laura’s ad hoc committee on new faculty orientation will work on this issue for faculty. We might also ask the
Center for Faculty Development to develop one or more workshops next year.
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AASCU query on notifying students about academic dishonesty policies: We discussed the request from AASCU for information. Laura will follow up with an e-mail message to Associate Deans. (Note: The undergraduate school/college group is also going to discuss this topic in the near future.)
INFORMATION ITEMS
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Minutes from 3/2 meeting (attached to the agenda)
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Call for papers for the 2004 Teaching and Learning with Technology Conference
(attached to the agenda)
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New sabbatical application form (attached to the agenda)
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Other: Jana reported that the “opt out” bill had failed in the Senate; however, the forums on each campus will still occur.