TLAC Minutes, meeting of Friday, April 20, 2007, 8:30am, Whitman Commons
Present: Barb Coleman, Dave Bonsall, Keith Ellis, Jill Leonard, Bob Marlor, Dave
Powers, Russell Prather, Judy Puncochar, Carol Steinhaus, Carol Strauss
Meeting opened with minute of silence in memory of the students and faculty who died
at Virginia Tech.
I.
Approval of agenda (Barb, Carol Str); Mar 16 minutes (Keith, Dave P.)
II.
Reports, updates, discussion topics
a. Judy is about to submit the TLAC final (annual) report to the Academic
Senate. Fred Joyal has been very pleased with the activities and offerings
sponsored by TLAC, and he has approved $10,000.00 for our 2007-08
TLAC budget.
b. Adding sponsors' names to 2006-07 TE’s. Motion to approve
amendments: Carol Steinhaus, Russell
September--Engaging the Non-diverse Classroom in Diversity (UNITED
Conference 2006) – Judy Puncochar
October --Forum on Writing at NMU: Writing Beyond EN 211 (Jim Schiffer &
English Department) – Russ Prather
October --Building a Syllabus with Academic Service-Learning (Center for
Student Enrichment & ASL Advisory Board) – Dave Bonsall
October --Developing Community Partnerships for Academic Service-Learning
(Center for Student Enrichment & ASL Advisory Board) – Dave
Bonsall
November --Politics and Science: Building Capacity to Restore Scientific Integrity
to Federal Policymaking (Sigma Xi & Office of Dean of Graduate
Studies and Research) – Jill Leonard
January --Managing to Thrive in the Online Classroom (Academic Affairs) –
Fred Joyal and Judy Puncochar
January --Defining Internationalization in Higher Education: Concepts and
Case Studies (Modern Languages and Literatures) – Carol Strauss
January --Building Learning Communities with RSS Feeds, Wikis & Blogs
(Academic Affairs) – Fred Joyal and Judy Puncochar
February --Copyright & Plagiarism (Communications & Marketing) – Keith Ellis
and Cindy Paavola
February --Teaching Students to Collaborate Effectively Online (Academic
Affairs) – Fred Joyal and Kathy Saville
March
--Creating an Exemplary Online Course (Instructional Technology,
Academic Information Services) – Kathy Saville and Darlene Walsh
March
--One-on-one Sessions for Creating an Exemplary Online Course
(Instructional Technology, Academic Information Services) – Kathy
Saville
April
--Classroom Preparedness (Health, Physical Education, &
Recreation) – Barb Coleman
TLAC main contact person follows the sponsors' names.
i. TLAC main contact person follows the sponsors' names.
ii. Please send Judy any materials from any of the TE’s for the
notebook she is maintaining
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c. Budget (Carol Steinhaus): Approx $4,000.00 in account, however
invoice for John Blattner not yet received. Please turn in any bills to
Carol Bergmann.
i. Note: although refreshments were ordered for the April TE
(Classroom Preparedness, nothing was produced aside from tea
bags—Conf & Catering should not be paid for refreshments
d. April TE (Classroom Preparedness): session was taped, will be on
website (had first to be reviewed by univ lawyer); front page article in
Mining Journal; good info & discussion by Dean of Students (Chris Greer)
and head of Counseling Services (Tom Stanger).
i. Important point to dispense and reiterate – whatever the
concern – report it! Faculty/staff need not try to figure out which
precise office—whether you report a concern to the Dean of
Students, Public Safety, Counseling, Equal Opportunity Office,
etc, the concern will be directed to the appropriate office.
ii. Question: what if student complains about faculty reporting
concern, i.e., privacy rights invaded – response from univ lawyer:
univ more concerned with potential wrongful death than with
infringement of rights
iii. Questions raised re preparedness for emergency event such as
that at Virginia
1. Tech: NMU does have a plan in place.
(Carol Strauss [secretary] to class; minute taking assumed by Kathy—many thanks!)
Minutes of TLAC meeting- Part II (Kathy Saville recorder)
e. New TLAC members appointed
i. Marcus Robins and Alan Beauchamp will join the committee Fall
2007
f.
Teaching Engagements 2007-08
i. Keith will make the poster for fall’s events including January.
He needs information by 3rd week of July for distribution by
the start of school
ii. Ideas for 07-08
1. UNITED conference – TLAC diversity – September 24 – 25
– Judy as liaison
2. Academic Service Learning – October – Research and
Publishing Opportunities – Dave Bonsall as liaison
3. November 6 is plagiarism – with Chris Greer – Dave
Powers as liaison
4. No session in December
5. Sigma Xi – Research and student learning, making the link
– in January – Bob Marlor is considering being the liaison
for this session
6. How the Students Use the Laptop – YouTube, Facebook,
My Space, Xanga, Instant Messaging, etc. – Kathy Saville
as liaison
7. We will continue to review the Magna Webinars.
8. Spring session on Internationalization to focus on
opportunities for faculty to teach abroad (most applications
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due Aug through Oct for following academic year) – Carol
Strauss as liaison
iii. Judy will ask the President’s office to promotion the Teaching
Engagements at convocation
g. TLAC Website – Keith – $2,000 devoted to the website
h. Grants – (Jill, Dave P, Kathy) – Thanks given to the three TLAC members
for working on the TLAC Conference Grants Subcommittee.
i.
Other – Carol Steinhaus, Jill Leonard and Russ Prather were thanked for
their service to TLAC.
j.
Good of the Order
i. EQUITY Conference Update – March 25-27 – went very well
k. Tentative Scheduled Meeting Dates & Times – Use the same time and
place next year (?) Sep 7, Oct 19, Nov 9, Dec 7, Jan 25, Feb 8, Mar 14, &
Apr 18 at 8:30am in Whitman Commons (136)
l.
Keith moved to adjourn and Dave seconded.