Minutes of the Committee on Academic Planning
for April 13, 2001

The Committee on Academic Planning met on Friday April 13, 2001 at noon in Greenquist 344A. Members present were Michele Gee, David Holmes, Don Kummings, Ron Singer, Susan Takata, and Gary Wood (Chair). Also present
was Donald Cress, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

The purpose of the meeting was to continue the review of position authorization requests and make recommendations for approval.

I. School of Business and Technology

A. Business.

At its last meeting, the committee recommended that the four searches in progress be continued. In addition, the committee recommends approval of the new request for a position in quantitative methods, Dudycha replacement.

B. Computer Science.

The committee recommends approval of both PARs, one for a tenure track position and one for a lecturer.

II. College of Arts and Sciences

A. Overview.

The following PARs for tenure track positions were received from the College of Arts and Sciences.

Biological Sciences Bioinformatics/Protein Structure Goodman
Retirement
Biological Sciences Science Education New
Position
Chemistry Inorganic/Polymer Chemistry Wheeler
Nonrenewal
Communication Media New Position
Criminal Justice Open New
Position
English American Literature Shucard Retirement
(98)
History Middle Eastern/African Reeves Retirement
HPEA Sport/Fitness Management New
Position
Mathematics Open Carr
Replacement
Mathematics Open Rotenberg
Retirement
Modern Languages Spanish New Position
Music Music Education New Position
Physics Stat/Computational Greenebaum
Retirement
Sociology/Anthro Demography/World Systems Schneider
Resignation
Teacher Education Math Education New Position
Teacher Education Early Childhood Education New
Position
Teacher Education Social Studies Education Olsen
Retirement

The following PARs for Lecturer positions were also received from the College.

Interdisciplinary Studies-Full Time Open New
Position
Interdisciplinary Studies-Half Time Open New
Position
Modern Languages Spanish Vitharana
Resignation

B. Recommendations.

1. tenure track positions

The committee recommends approval of the following positions.

Biological Sciences-Protein Structure
Chemistry
Criminal Justice
English
HPEA
Mathematics-Carr replacement
Sociology/Anthropology

After clarification from the chair of Communication and revision of the PAR, the request from Communication was also recommended for approval.

The committee does not recommend approval of the following positions.

History. The most recent hire in the History department was made under the provisions in plan 2008 and the department was given to understand that it would not affect their ability to replace Professor Reeves. The committee felt that plan 2008 hires should be made with programmatic considerations in mind, however, and does not recommend increasing the number of positions in history.

Mathematics. Rotenberg replacement. Given the nature of Professor Rotenberg's teaching responsibilities and the number of majors in the program, the request for refilling this faculty line is not warranted at the present time. The math department is encouraged to consider adding a staff member in the area of math education. The visiting assistant professor position currently held by Sal Liriano should be continued for one year.

Modern Languages. Spanish. The request for an additional faculty position in Spanish is not justified by an increase in the number of majors.

Physics. The committee recommends filling Professor Greenebaum's position with a second lecturer for the present.

Recommendations on the five teacher education related positions (biological sciences, music and three from teacher ed.) were deferred until a later date.

2. lecturer positions

Interdisciplinary Studies. The committee recommends approval of the one full time position.

Modern Languages. Spanish. The committee recommends refilling this position.

The meeting was adjourned at 2:00 PM. The committee will meet again in May to consider the teacher education requests.

Submitted by,
Gary M. Wood