College of Education
Council of Chairs
January 28, 2014
Meeting Summary
Present: K. Angeletti, S. Bennett, H. Cherif, N. Drezner, E. Driver, N. Fox, F. Hultgren, R.
Lent, M. McLaughlin, J. Phelps, J. Rice, K. Stevelt, D. Wiseman
Guests: A. Altshuler, S. Davis, S. Goodwin, P. Leone, B. Lim, J. Peng, O. Saracho,
1. Introduction: The Dean introduced the College’s new Assistant Dean of Finance and
Administration, Suprena Bennett. Suprena was previously the Senior Financial Officer for the
College of Health Sciences at the University of Delaware and prior to that was the Associate
Director of Financial Operations, School of Education, Johns Hopkins University.
2. General Education Courses: Peter Leone mentioned that the Curriculum Committee met a
couple of time with faculty and the committee’s objectives were to make recommendations for
Gen Ed courses and set targets for seats. Since the college now has the obligation to provide
broad interdisciplinary courses, the committee is working to recruit faculty and is willing to
provide support to faculty in developing courses. The committee’s recommendations include:
asking the Dean, for equity purposes, to assign each department a set number of courses to
contribute to our Gen Ed obligation; and having students on fellowships serve as teaching
assistants. They also would like to encourage more faculty to serve on campus Review Boards.
Olivia Saracho said that Gen Ed courses provide an opportunity to recruit students into our
programs and for instructors to teach outside the box. Kathy Angeletti distributed a copy of a
letter from Associate Provost Donna Hamilton to the Dean that provides the minimum number of
Distributive Studies seats estimated for FY15 and targets. Support will be provided at the
College level and also from the committee for technical assistance and guidance for turning
existing courses into Gen Ed courses. Gen Ed courses will be a topic at the College Assembly
and future discussion at COC.
3. Finance and Administration: As a wrap up before her departure, Julie Phelps reported on
the following items:
a. Outreach. Handout “Draft & Pending Board of Regents Approval Schedule of Tuition
and Mandatory Fees Fiscal 2014” that shows a 6.5% increase for the College of
Education. She explained that once a year tuition setting is a way to get away from
Waiver requests for each program. The rate requested this year is the first step but in the
future we could have different requests for different programs; all will need to go
through campus to USM for approval.
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b. Ed.D. Handout, “Doctorate of Education Degree Programs in School Leadership
Financial Accounting and Costing Practices”. The document explains the Allocation of
Cost for Individual Instructors and Multiple Instructors of Organized Courses, Summer
Salary Allocation for Academic Year Faculty, Allocation of Cost for Individualized
Instruction, Corse Development Compensation, Incidental Guest Faculty/Lecturer
Compensation and Bi-Annual Distribution of Net Income form Ed.D. Programs. Julie
noted that the last section is what has changed and that the bottom line is that
departments that participate get revenue.
c. Entrepreneurial Academic Programs: The handout, “Definition of ‘Entrepreneurial
Academic Programs’” is from the Guidelines for Establishment of Academic
Entrepreneurial Programs, approved by the University Finance Committee on May 7,
1998. Entrepreneurial programs cannot be in completion with programs on campus and
they need to be offered to new groups and show they are for new markets.
d. 97% Allocation. The “Policy on 97% Maximum Allocation of Faculty Salaries to
Contracts & Grants (Sponsored Programs)” was handed out and is self-explanatory.
4. Advancement: Kelly Stevelt introduced Andrew Altshuler, Associate Director of Alumni
Relations & Annual Fund, and Sarah Davis, Donors Relations Coordinator, and mentioned
that Liska Radachi will be joining the team on February 10 as Associate Director of
Development. To move forward, Kelly looked at data on donors, alumni and the Great
Expectations Campaign and is working with Halima Cherif on new strategies. Her slide
presentation focused on where Alumni are located and their giving history by regions, their
racial composition, their majors and degrees, and the Great Expectations Campaign.
Moving forward, chairs can help by updating her on faculty research and accomplishments
and engaging faculty in departments to connect her with their peers. At a future COC
meeting, Brian Darmondy, AVP for Corporate and Foundation Relations in UR will join us.
5. Announcements.
 Maggie McLaughlin mentioned that there is only one viable candidate for the Grant
Administrator position and that a Brown Bag is planned on the subject of how to get
foundation funds.
 Ebony Terrell has agreed to be the College’s Diversity Officer and will serve on the
campus Diversity Council.
 Four candidates for the CHSE Chair position will be on campus in the next several
weeks. If schedules permit, the Dean would like chairs to attend the candidates’
seminars.
 The proposal for updating the College’s website is being finalized and will be forwarded
to Procurement.
 The Dean attended a recent TLPL departmental meeting and talked about the possibility
of going forward with major space renovations. She feels TLPL is the department to
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start with since they are mainly contained on the second floor. She is interested in
knowing how much the faculty is willing to be disrupted. She will continue the
conversation with the other departments.
New Search and Selection procedures are taking place early March. As soon as the
guidelines are received they will be forwarded to Chairs and Business Managers.
Searches in progress will continue under the old guidelines.
The deadline for FAR and OPA reporting is February 28.
Course evaluations from last Fall are available for review.
The Post Tenure Review Policy has not yet been approved by the College Senate.
Spring 2014 Meetings all 9-11 a.m., 3237 Benjamin.
February 11 & 25
March 25
April 8 & 22
May 6 & 13
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