2003-04 FSCC Minutes

Present: John Schroeter (Chair), Ken Kruempel (Graduate College), Bill David (LAS), Char Hulsebus (Registrar's Office), John Cunnally (Design), Sedahlia Crase (FCS), Barb Licklider (Education), Doug Jacobson (Engineering), Marv Bouillon (Business), Howard Shapiro (VPUP).

a. The FSCC will revisit the proposed university-wide learning outcomes in the fall. Research will be done and the Chair will seek funding for a graduate RA to assist. Committee members should seek input from their college committees about:

1) the outcomes themselves and 2) what would be the practical implications and ramifications if the proposed university-wide learning outcomes were adopted?

b. LAS has interest in a 4-credit ISUComm foundation course option. FSCC members should visit with college committees to determine if there is additional interest.

c. The first meeting of FSCC for fall will likely be the second week of classes.

d. The ISUComm Steering Committee would like input now to help prepare its presentation to the FSCC, the Academic Affairs Council, and the Faculty Senate in the fall. The package they plan to present will include a motion on the new curriculum, an accompanying 10-15 page report, and a website with supporting materials. Schroeter will ask Michael Mendelson to provide an outline of the items that will make up this package. This outline will be distributed to committee members. Committee members will be asked to give Schroeter their suggestions and questions for forwarding to Mendelson.

3. Proposal for Religion 342X: Religion and U.S. Latino/a Literature for inclusion on list for U.S. Diversity requirement was approved.

a. A course equivalency table, showing how current undergraduate Botany and Zoology courses will be re-designated and re-numbered as Biology courses, will be posted on the FSCC webpage. Similar tables for the graduate courses are in preparation.

b. There was some question as to whether entries for the B.S./M.S. concurrent degree programs in Food Science and Technology and Nutrition belong in the undergraduate curricula sections of the colleges of Agriculture and FCS. FSCC members from Ag and FCS will visit with respective college committees to consider dropping these entries.

c. Teacher Education: There is difficulty getting accurate and timely information for this section. FSCC's Education College representative will visit with the Education Curriculum Committee Chair to ensure it is being addressed. In addition, other FSCC members will inform the appropriate college committees to review the Teacher Education section and communicate with Jeannette Olson in the College of Education if they discover things that need to be changed.

d. Front 50 pages: This part of the catalog has been the responsibility of the office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Programs, a position that will disappear on June 30. The Provost's Office has posted vacancy announcements for 1 full-time or 2 1/2-time Associate Provost positions with responsibilities that include undergraduate programs. Whoever fills this position will serve as the Provost's Office liaison to FSCC and will assume responsibility for the front 50 pages.

e. PDF files of editing documents should be submitted to the Registrar's Office via e-mail from College Curriculum Coordinators by June 1. Department Curriculum Coordinators should submit information to college coordinators by April 30.

5. Proposal for a university-wide course requirement. Schroeter received a proposal from four students asking that "Financial survival for students," a course that has been offered through ISU's Financial Counseling Clinic, be required for all undergraduate students. Some input (in the form of an e-mail to Schroeter) from Mark Oleson, Director of the Financial Counseling Clinic, was also considered by the committee. The committee noted the university's tradition of keeping university-wide course requirements to a minimum. (Lib 160, and Engl 104 and 105 are the only university-wide requirements of specific courses at this time.) The committee also noted that the budgetary implications of creating a new required course for all undergraduates would be enormous and especially difficult to justify in a time of serious budget cutbacks. It was moved and approved that the FSCC not recommend a university-wide undergraduate requirement of this nature. Schroeter will communicate the committee's decision to the students who made the proposal and offer to meet with them, if requested, to clarify the committee's rationale for the decision.

6. The following changes to the 4/14/04 draft of recommendations on the U.S. Diversity and International Perspectives requirements were approved: In recommendation 13: Delete the sentence beginning "The form will elicit . . ." Begin the next sentence: "The course proposal form . . ." Change "objectives" to "outcomes" twice in second and third last lines. In recommendation 15: Delete the sentence beginning "The new requirements could . . ." The amended document was approved by a vote of 7 in favor, 0 opposed (2 voting members absent).

7. The FSCC empowered the Chair to act on its behalf over the summer. The last meeting of the FSCC for the 03-04 academic year adjourned early (!) at 9:30 PM.

Present: John Schroeter (Chair), Ken Kruempel (Graduate College), Bill David (LAS), Char Hulsebus (Registrar's Office), John Cunnally (Design), Sedahlia Crase (FCS), Barb Licklider (Education), Laura Doering (Registrar's Office), Doug Jacobson (Engineering). Guest: Mary Huba (Dept. of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies).

1. The meeting was called to order at 8:00 AM.

2. Minutes: a motion to approve the minutes of March 29 was made by Crase and seconded by Jacobson. Minutes were approved.

3. Announcements: The next and last meeting of the year will be April 19.

4. Schroeter reported on a recent meeting to plan how to proceed with the ISUComm proposal that will advance to the Faculty Senate in Fall 2004. The meeting was attended by Schroeter, Michael Mendelson, Howard Shapiro, Jack Girton, and Sanjeev Agarwal. They decided that the Senate will discuss and vote on an ISUComm proposal in the Fall consisting of the new communications curriculum and catalog copy. Some members of the Committee felt that the proposed curriculum should again be reviewed and passed by the FSCC before reaching the Senate, in light of changes that have been made since the Committee last examined it. Schroeter suggested that members discuss this issue with their colleagues in the various colleges.

5. At the March 29 meeting a question was raised about the need for a 5-year post audit review for the Production/Operations Management major, which had been approved in June 1998 by the Regents. Schroeter noted that this program was one of two that had been left off of the post-audit review list by mistake, the other being the secondary major in International Business. He will contact the appropriate department chairs to remind them to prepare the reviews.

6. Proposed University-Wide Learning Outcomes. A set of sixteen learning outcomes or "abilities" have been drawn up by a subcommittee of the so-called Alverno Group of faculty, who are working to establish an abilities-based assessment system at ISU. This document had been sent to members attached to the agenda on April 6. Mary Huba was present to lead a discussion of the proposal. She noted that there are no centralized standards or guidelines for the general education requirements at ISU, which are left to the discretion of the individual colleges. This constitutes an "invisible curriculum" with no university-wide agreement about the content, rationale, or intended outcomes of the general education component.

Huba distributed a chart showing the diverse minimum credits required among the seven colleges in the four general education areas of Communications/Library, Natural Sciences/Math, Humanities, and Social Sciences. This credit-based system, and the lack of any university-wide agreement on general ed, may prove to be a problem or an embarrassment during the upcoming re-accreditation process, since the North Central Association has adopted new criteria requiring intended learning outcomes and assessment procedures for all programs.

In the ensuing discussion the members agreed that a university-wide general education curriculum, such as exists in a number of other institutions, would not be appropriate at ISU because of its decentralized college-based tradition, but a common set of general education learning outcomes like those proposed by the Alverno Group could be acceptable to the faculty. The individual colleges would remain responsible for adapting and assessing these common outcomes Schroeter asked the members to discuss the proposed learning outcomes with their faculty and be prepared to report on this issue in the Fall. In the meantime he will appoint a subcommittee to gather information about general education from other universities, and from the extensive scholarly literature on this subject.

7. Huba also commented on the latest (12/16/03) draft of the Committee's Recommendations to the Senate on U.S. Diversity and International Perspectives Requirements. She said it represented a great improvement over the existing system, but advised the Committee to add the phrase "by means of assignments and/or exams" at the end of item 4 on p. 2, and at the end of item 13 on page 4. She recommended eliminating the third sentence in paragraph 14 on page 4, beginning "The FSCC may serve, etc." which she felt was confusing and could hold up the approval of the recommendations in the Senate. David moved to accept Huba's proposed changes in the text, with Licklider seconding. The motion was approved.

Present: John Schroeter (Chair), Ken Kruempel (Graduate College), Bill David (LAS) Char Hulsebus (Registrar's Office), John Cunnally (Design), Sedahlia Crase (FCS), Larry Booth (Vet Med), Marvin Bouillon (Business); Barb Licklider (Education); Laura Doering (Registrar's Office ); Guests: Vasant Honavar (Computer Science and BCB Chair); Mike Crum (Logistics, Operations, and Management Information Systems)

1. The meeting was called to order at 8:00 am.

2. The minutes of March 22, prepared by Larry Booth, were corrected to include the current and new names of two majors proposing name changes. A motion for approval was made by Sedahlia Crase and seconded by Larry Booth. Minutes were approved with correction.

3. Announcements: The next meeting is April 12. Mary Huba will attend to discuss a proposal of university-wide learning outcomes. Ken Kruempel asked that several issues pertaining to 05-07 catalog preparation be included on the agenda for the next meeting.

4. Five year post-audit review of M.S. and Ph.D. in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

a. Vasant Honavar, BCB Chair was present to answer questions. He reported that the program has grown and prospered.
b. The committee asked for a few minor editorial changes and corrections of some small discrepancies in the reported numbers.
c. Motion to approve was made by Bill David and seconded by John Cunnally. The motion carried.

5. Revised proposal to change the names of two majors in the College of Business: "Transportation and Logistics" to "Logistics and Supply Chain Management" and "Production/Operations Management" to "Operations and Supply Chain Management."

a. Mike Crum was present to answer questions.
b. The first draft of the proposal was reviewed by the committee at its March 22 meeting. Crum pointed out how the revised draft addresses the concerns raised by the committee at that meeting. Bill David asked that the proposal be amended to clarify how Iowa State's program in Production/Operations Management is different from a similar program at the University of Iowa.
c. Kruempel noted that the proposal states that the "POM degree program is only about six years old," yet no 5-year post-audit review has been done. It was agreed that Schroeter would check with the Provost's Office to determine if this is an oversight, or if there is a reason to waive the post-audit review requirement in this case.
d. Some members of the committee again expressed their reservations about the similarity of the two majors: A set of courses fulfilling the requirement of one major could differ by as little as one course from a set meeting the requirements of the other. Crum presented the arguments for having separate majors.
e. A motion was made by Barb Licklider and seconded by Marvin Bouillon that the proposal be accepted subject to minor editorial changes. The motion carried by a vote of 6 for and 1 against.

6. The committee resumed its discussion of the recommendations on the U.S. Diversity and International Perspectives requirements. Most of the discussion focused on the question of who would be responsible for assessing the requirement's proposed learning outcomes and on the recommendation's prospects for approval by the Faculty Senate.

3. Five year post-audit review of Ph.D. in Health and Human Performance

a. Jerry Thomas, Chair of the Department of Health and Human Performance was present to answer questions. He reported that the program has grown and prospered.
b. It was noted that the review had already been approved by the Graduate Curriculum Committee.
c. It was suggested to add: "submitted in 1999" after "program proposal" at the end of the second sentence in the answer to Regents' question 1.
d. A request was made to clarify the order of the footnotes in the table on page 4.
e. Motion to approve was made by Bill David and seconded by Barb Licklider. The motion carried.

4. Proposal to rename the Water Resources Major.

a. Bill Crumpton, Chair, Water Resources Supervisory committee was available to answer questions. He pointed out that this was just a name change from Water Resources to Environmental Science major that more accurately reflected the program's curriculum and that there were no proposed changes in the curriculum.
b. This name change has already been approved by the Graduate Curriculum Committee.
c. Ken Kruempel expressed concern about the number of cross-listed and co-listed courses under the new Environmental Science course designator.
d. Bill Crumpton noted that the faculty would probably maintain a specialization in Water Resources within the Environmental Science major.
e. A motion to approve was made by Barb Licklider and seconded by Marvin Bouillon. The motion carried.

5. Courses proposed for Diversity and International Perspectives credit.

a. History 474X "Tradition and Transformation of China's Foreign Affairs" (IP)
b. Sp Cm 323 Gender and Communication (Div)
c. Relig 372X/AST 372X, Religion and Agricultural Sustainability (IP)
--Correction noted: Colleges should be LAS and Agriculture
d. All 3 courses were reviewed and approved.

6. Proposal to merge two curricula in Family and Consumer Sciences.

a. Sue Crull and Nancy Meredith were present to answer questions.
b. The proposal is to merge two existing undergraduate majors, (a) Family Resource Management and Consumer Sciences (FRM) and (b) Housing and Near Environment (HNE) under a combined major titled Family Finance, Housing, and Policy (FFHP).
c. This proposal reduces the number of small degree programs by one.
d. A few editorial comments were suggested for clarification.
e. A motion for approval was made by Barb Licklider, seconded by John Cunnally. The motion carried.

7. Proposal to change the names of two majors in the College of Business:

"Transportation and Logistics" to "Logistics and Supply Chain Management"

"Production/Operations Management" to "Operations and Supply Chain Management"

a. Mike Crum was present to answer questions.
b. There was some committee concern that there was only a 1-3 course difference between the proposed majors. The LOMIS department faculty voted unanimously to offer separate degrees, however, rather than provide two options under a single degree, in order to make it easier for students to market their skills to companies.
c. Bill David suggested that the proposal be strengthened by:
--Adding the new course designators for comparison
--Providing information about what other Regents schools are doing in this area.
--Improve the organization of the material by breaking it into sections with separate headings and subheadings.
d. A motion was made by Ken Kruempel and seconded by Bill David that the proposal be revised and resubmitted. The motion carried.

Present: John Schroeter (Chair), Ken Kruempel (Graduate College), Bill David (LAS) Char Hulsebus (Registrar’s Office), Brad Skaar (Ag), John Cunnally (Design), Sedahlia Crase (FCS), Larry Booth (Vet Med), Marvin Bouillon (Bus); Doug Jacobson (Engineering); Howard Shapiro (Provost’s Office); Guests: Jim Colbert (EEOB); John Mayfield (Graduate College); Ed Brown (Plant Pathology)

1. Minutes from Feb. 16 meeting.

David proposed two revisions:
Under #2. Replace third to last sentence with: “Mendelson noted that he believes a proposed two four-credit course sequence incorporating English 104,105, Sp Cm 212, and Lib 160 being considered by the LAS Curriculum Committee is pedagogically viable.”

Under #2 second paragraph add before last sentence: “The same assessment data regarding students’ writing skills from two sections of “traditional” English 105 being taught this semester will also be analyzed by RISE for comparison. These sections have slightly larger enrollments than the ISUComm 105 sections. They were randomly selected by Mack Shelley.”

Approval of the minutes with those two revisions were moved , seconded, and carried.

A. There will be an extra FSCC meeting March 22.
B. The LAS Representative Assembly has approved a reduction in the minimum credits required for its BA and BS degrees from 124.5 to 120.
C. Pending issues which will require FSCC consideration this semester include a merger of two curricula in FCS, changes in the names of two majors in the College of Business, a pending post audit of the Ph.D. degree in Health and Human Performance, and a possible name change of the Water Resources graduate degrees.
D. Shapiro gave a brief summary on the Provost’s Taskforce on Low Enrollment Courses and Programs. The Taskforce proposes minimum enrollments of 20 and 50 students in graduate and undergraduate programs and 10 and 15 in graduate and undergraduate courses. Copies of the Taskforce report will be provided to FSCC members.

Jacobson moved and Kruempel seconded approval for IP list. Motion carried. A number of inconsistencies between the proposal form and the course syllabus were noted, including course title and prerequisites. David will bring these to the immediate attention of the instructor.

4. Proposals to discontinue undergraduate majors in Botany and Zoology (Ag. and LAS).

Jacobson moved approval of the discontinuation proposal subject to minor revisions suggested by the FSCC. Crase seconded. Motion carried.
Revisions requested:
A. More specific data in item #7.e describing impact of the discontinuation on women and minorities. Colbert indicated that he foresaw no problems, in spite of the current 60% enrollment of women in the Botany major.
B. The discontinuation proposals for the Zoology major from the two colleges will be merged into a single proposal.
C. Correction of a few typographical errors.

During a general discussion of the reorganization of the biological sciences which followed, Colbert indicated the immediate fate of the graduate degrees in Botany and Zoology is uncertain. Kruempel also requested that the new departments create as soon as possible a table indicating the old and new number and designators for all courses in the biological sciences for use in the catalog revision process. Colbert promised that such a document would be made available soon.

Approval of the discontinuation proposal subject to minor revisions suggested by the FSCC was moved , seconded, and carried.
Revisions requested:
A. Rewriting of item #4 to more clearly indicate the rationale for discontinuing the program.
B. Revision of the “Departmental /interdepartmental Review” section rewriting sentences indicating program faculty are both “inactive” and “old”, as well as adding specific results of the survey of program faculty.

6. Proposal to discontinue undergraduate program in Plant Health and
Protection.

Approval of the discontinuation proposal subject to minor revisions suggested by the FSCC was moved, seconded, and carried.
Revisions requested:
A. More specific data in item #7.e describing impact of the discontinuation on women and minorities.
B. Inclusion of specific results of the survey of current students in the program in section #7a.
C. In section #5 second sentence, delete phrase “…which has had very few students over the last few years.”

The FSCC agreed that henceforth, new courses numbered 490, 599, or 699 will not require processing as experimental courses. They will be added to a department or program’s offerings upon receipt by the Registrar’s office of formal notification from the appropriate college curriculum committee.

8. Ongoing discussion of our recommendations on the Diversity and
International Perspectives requirements.

There was a discussion of whether the student’s major department or college should be responsible for assessing his/her fulfillment of the new DIP requirements. No conclusion was reached.

Meeting adjourned at 9:50 AM. Next meeting, Monday morning, March 22 at 8:00 AM.

1. David made a motion, seconded by Crase, to approve the February 2 minutes, with a capitalized “Perspective” two places in #3. Minutes approved.

2. Michael Mendelson, Chair, ISUComm Steering Committee, gave a brief history, especially the most recent history, of ISUComm. In spring, Michael met with Howard Shapiro, Sanjeev Agarwal, Greg Palermo, and John Schroeter to exchange information/concerns. Michael wanted our view on what we perceived would be the main point of discussion at the Faculty Senate in fall 2004; it was agreed that budget implications would loom large. Discussion included topics of class size for the new sections, exemptions from the first foundation course, and the role of library in the ISUComm courses. The operating assumption is that, except for training costs, ISUComm needs to be budgetarily neutral. Class size will be higher than hoped for; placing-out of the first foundation course will be permitted, much as it is permitted now for Engl 104. However, this will create problems with the integrated nature of communication instruction across all four years. Mendelson noted that he believes a proposed two four-credit course sequence incorporating English 104,105, Sp Cm 212, and Lib 160 being considered by the LAS Curriculum Committee is pedagogically viable. ISUComm teaching and consulting staff will probably remain in LAS, probably as part of the English department. Course designators have to be determined.

In fall 2004, the Faculty Senate expects to receive assessment data related to the 15 sections of the foundation courses (pilot sections of Eng 104 and 105); RISE is partnering with ISUComm to evaluate the sections. The same assessment data regarding students’ writing skills from two sections of “traditional” English 105 being taught this semester will also be analyzed by RISE for comparison. These sections have slightly larger enrollments than the ISUComm 105 sections. They were randomly selected by Mack Shelley. Brad suggested that the outcomes/assessment information be taken to departments to increase their awareness of it.

3. Peter Orazem, Director of the Industrial Relations Program, was present to respond to questions about the proposal to discontinue the M.S. in Industrial Relations. Faculty contributions to the program have been on an essentially volunteer basis for years. Recent faculty resignations and retirements have made it impossible to staff key courses. Motion by David, seconded by Cunnally, to approve the discontinuation proposal. Approved.

4. A list of sections in the "Courses and Programs" portion of the catalog was circulated prior to the meeting. For each section, a college curriculum coordinator was identified as the primary conduit for changes to the section. These assignments are the same as those used in the preparation of the 03-05 catalog. Ken asked that everyone review the list carefully so that there will be no misunderstandings about responsibility for jointly-administered programs.

Present:
John Schroeter (Chair), Ken Kruempel (Graduate College), Bill David (LAS), Char Hulsebus (Registrar's Office), Doug Jacobson (Engineering), Brad Skaar (Ag), Corly Brooke (Vice Provost's Office), John Cunnally (Design), Sedahlia Crase (FCS), Laura Doering (Registrar's Office)

2. Announcements: Schroeter reviewed the meeting schedule for the remainder of the semester (Feb 16, March 8 & 29, April 12 & 19) ISUComm will attend the next meeting to talk about the current plans. Doering indicated the list of courses not taught should be ready soon. Kruempel indicated he would work with Doering to have the list reflect 3 catalogs. Hulsebus announced there has been preliminary discussion to scrap the hard copy version of the catalog. She indicated 35,000 03-05 catalogs were produced and that many have not been used. Some discussion followed about why there should be some paper versions. Schroeter provided an update on future events like, the reorganization of the life sciences and any new programs. Several possible new programs were mentioned, but none of them had made it very far in the process.

3. Experimental courses Arabic 110X, and Relig 284X were presented as possible International Perspective courses. David moved and Cunnally seconded that they be approved. Motion passed. Honors Seminars 322 F, G, J, K, Q were presented as possible International Perspective courses. Cunnally moved and David seconded that they be approved. Motion passed.

4. A handout that described the reorganization in the life sciences was passed out. It was decided to wait until the new catalog review process to discuss the issues. The committee wants to see a list of new and old courses and how they map so that other departments can adjust there catalog listings.

5. Diversity and International Perspectives: The Committee discussed the most recent (12/16/03) draft of the Recommendations to the Faculty Senate on U.S. Diversity and International Perspectives Requirements. There was some discussion that followed on the following issues.
a) Clarify responsibilities for assessment in the colleges and programs.
b) Insert wording about how the phase in and how old courses would be handled. Doering and Hulsebus will write a draft of the implementation details and the committee will review for possible insertion into the document.
c) Change 7.v to "communicate competently in a second language"
A short discussion about assessment followed.

Present:
John Schroeter (Chair), Ken Kruempel (Graduate College), Char Hulsebus (Registrar’s Office), Sedahlia Crase (FCS), Larry Booth (Vet Med), Barb Licklider (Education), William David (LAS), John Cunnally (Design), Brad Skaar (Ag)

2. Announcements: Kruempel reminded the Committee to check the Registrar's Code Book which he has e-mailed to the members, and let him know of any corrections needed. Schroeter distributed the "Tentative Summary of Important Dates" for catalog revisions and reminded the committee of the upcoming Catalog Editing Workshops (Jan. 27 and 29). David, speaking for the LAS committee, suggested that in light of the serious budget cuts, which could eliminate many courses and even programs in the near future, it might be wise to postpone the catalog revision process and retain the present catalog for another two years. The catalog revision also involves considerable time and effort by faculty and staff, already burdened with an increasing work load. After some discussion of this issue the Committee agreed to continue with the usual process.

3. Diversity and International Perspectives: The Committee discussed the most recent (11/15/03) draft of the Recommendations to the Faculty Senate on U.S. Diversity and International Perspectives Requirements. There was some concern about the process of approving anew the courses already on the approved list before the revised requirements go into effect in the Fall of 2005, as indicated in paragraph 15 of the Recommendations. There is also the problem of the transition period when the list will include both the old courses and new courses added under the revised guidelines. A motion was made and seconded to set a moratorium on approval of new additions to the old list. Colleges may still submit proposals for additions to the list, but these must meet the new standards; and if approved they will be added to the new list for the Fall of 2005. The motion passed.

There was much discussion about the kind of periodic report expected from the colleges on the effectiveness of their courses in achieving the Diversity and International Perspectives requirements, as mandated by paragraph 14 of the Recommendations. It would be impossible for this Committee to scrutinize and evaluate the effectiveness of every course on the list. The Committee agreed that its role in this process should be advisory and that the evaluations should be conducted by the colleges themselves. The Committee could fulfill its advisory role by accepting executive summaries from the colleges, and examining a limited number of selected or sample courses. A standard form, like the one required in paragraph 13 for the initial approval of a course, should be developed to measure outcomes and effectiveness.

1. Approval of minutes from the meeting November 10, 2003: It was noted that Sedahlia Crase’s name was misspelled. The minutes were approved.

a. Michael Mendelson will visit FSCC early spring semester re ISU Comm.
b. Please review codes for curricula for your college for accuracy and send changes to Ken Kruempel by December 5th. Urge departments to be diligent in their reviews.

3. 2005-2007 Catalog: Char briefed the committee re catalog preparation, providing copies of a tentative Summary of Important Dates (revised 4/2/03) and Editing Guidelines (draft 11/26/03). Curriculum coordinators for each college must remind appropriate individuals to do their parts in time for coordinators to submit final edits. Files will all be posted and distributed via website. Curriculum coordinators will be notified when the Editing Guidelines are available (likely early January), and they will, in turn, notify department curriculum coordinators. Char will be very available to provide assistance.

4. Laura provided a draft of a table of approval requirements, reflecting current practice, for any mid-catalog changes to catalog course listing(s). She asked for suggestions from the committee re appropriateness of current practice. Much of the discussion focused on identifying the parties that need to be notified of particular mid-catalog changes. Laura will incorporate suggestions into the next draft. The goal is to put this information on the Faculty Senate website after FSCC approval.

5. Recommendations on the Diversity and International Perspectives requirements. Discussion of the recommendations was postponed until the next meeting because of insufficient time.

Present:
John Schroeter (Chair), Ken Kruempel (Graduate College), William David (LAS), Doug Jacobson (Engineering), Marvin Bouillon (Business), Sedahlia Crase (FCS), Howard Shapiro (Provost), John Cunnally (Design), Larry Booth (Vet Med), Barbara Licklider (Education), Laura Doering (Registrar), Char Hulsebus (Catalog Editor), Lynn Zwagerman (Guest).

1. Approval of minutes from the October 27, 2003 meeting: The minutes were approved as distributed.

2. List of courses not taught, 2003-2005 Catalog: To help in preparation of the 2005-2007 Catalog, the Registrar’s office and the Office of Institutional Research will provide a report in early February 2004 listing the courses in the 2003-2005 Catalog that have not been taught during the period from fall 2001 through spring 2004. Additionally, an effort will be made to see if any of the courses in the report also appeared in the two previous courses-not-taught reports that were produced in spring 2002 and spring 2000.

3. Academic calendar proposal: Bill David noted that the university is about to make an important decision pertaining to the academic calendar with little or no college or Faculty Senate curriculum committee discussion of the proposal's implications for student learning. He suggested that the FSCC might want to make a statement pertaining to the academic calendar proposal. The committee held a general discussion of some student-learning impacts of calendar "Proposal B."

The FSCC’s vote on this motion was 8 in favor, 0 against, 1 abstaining, and 1 absent.

John Schroeter will forward FSCC’s opposition to Proposal B to the President of Iowa State, the President of Faculty Senate, the Chair of Faculty Senate Academic Affairs Council, and the Chair of the Calendar Task Force.

4. Catalog announcements: Char Hulsebus discussed online and printed catalogs. Currently, the 2003-2005 catalog is online and available in print. The printed version costs $1 to $2 to print. We currently charge $5 for a copy. Very few students purchase them.

5. U.S. Diversity and International Perspectives Requirements: John Schroeter reviewed the November 5, 2003 draft of the FSCC's recommendations on the U.S. Div/IP requirements, indicating the changes made in light of our discussion at the last meeting. The following two subcommittees were established and asked to report to FSCC at its next meeting (if possible).

Committee 1 (Brad Skaar and Sedalia Crase): The charge of this committee is to consider point 14 of the 11/05 draft, the requirement that colleges report to FSCC on the effectiveness of their courses in achieving the recommended learning outcomes, and to suggest additional specifics about this reporting process.

Committee 2 (Laura Doering, Deanna Jordan, and Char Hulsebus): The charge of this committee is to look at the current implementation policies and try to anticipate changes that may be necessary in light of the new recommendations.

John Schroeter asked the entire committee to think about the kinds of material (e.g. portions of the Evaluations Subcommittee's report, the original Faculty Senate-approved resolution on U.S. Div/IP, etc.) that should be appended to the new recommendations.

Next meeting will be at 8:00 a.m. on Monday, December 1, 2003.

Submitted by:
Marv Bouillon.

Present:
John Schroeter (Chair), Ken Kruempel (Graduate College), Warren Franke (Education), William David (LAS), Doug Jacobson (Engineering), Marvin Bouillon (Business), Sedalia Crase (FCS), Howard Shapiro (Provost), John Cunnally (Design), Brad Skaar (Agriculture), Deanna Jordan (Registrar), Larry Booth (Vet Med), Doug King (guest).

1. Approval of minutes from the meeting October 20, 2003: It was noted that Jacobson’s name was not spelled correctly. In section 7, Kruempel noted that while he said there were two post-audit reports to be done, there are actually three. The amended minutes were approved.

2. The curriculum committee considered the proposal for a linked B.S. and M.S. degree with a major of Diet and Exercise. The proposal is for a program in which a student is required to finish the requirements for both the B.S. and M.S. before receiving either degree. Doug King answered questions about the proposal. The following changes in the proposal were suggested:
a. On page 4 of the proposal in the bullet on GPA, remove “/4.0”
b. The letter on page 28 from Mary Jane Oakland is confusing in that it refers to courses in a prior catalog.
c. In the Regent’s question on resources, Howard suggested that the information on resources will be important to the Provost’s office and that the people making the proposal work with him.

A motion to approve the proposal subject to the suggested revisions was made and approved.

3. Relig 335X War in World Religions was considered for International Perspectives. (Part of the syllabus for the course was missing in the copy of the experimental course form/syllabus that was provided to the FSCC.) It was noted that the prerequisite is Relig 105 which is also on the International Perspectives list. A motion to approve the course for International Perspectives was approved.

4. The proposed changes in the U.S. Diversity and International Perspectives Implementation Policies were considered. A draft of the changes had been sent to the FSCC prior to the meeting. Numerous changes were made to the draft and the following was approved as new language in items 2 and 3 of the Implementation Policies.

Substitution. Requests to consider the requirement to have been met other than by taking a.) a course on the approved list or, b.) a course as defined by item #3 of these implementation policies, should be referred to the dean of the student's college. This includes . . .

An ISU course, including work experiences under the auspices of Iowa State University cooperative education or internships, involving a stay in a foreign country of three weeks or greater duration will meet the International Perspectives requirement regardless of the content of the course. An approved ISU Study Abroad course involving international travel for less than 3 weeks will also meet the International Perspectives requirement regardless of the content of the course if it carries 3 or more academic credits. The procedure for substitution requests, described in item #2 of these implementation policies, is not required in these cases. (Revised by the FSCC 10/27/03.)

5. Recommendations of the Ad hoc Diversity and International Perspectives Evaluation Subcommittee. A draft, dated 10/22/03 and titled "Faculty Senate Curriculum Committee Recommendations to the Faculty Senate: U.S. Diversity and International Perspectives Requirements," was circulated prior to the meeting. The draft is a reformatted version of an earlier document summarizing the FSCC's progress on the Evaluation Subcommittee's recommendations.. There was some general discussion of the draft, and some suggestions, but no formal motions for changes. Schroeter agreed to write and circulate a revised draft incorporating suggested changes.

Minutes for October 20, 2003

8 to 10 am. 107 Lab Mechanics
Approved Oct. 27, 2003

Present:
John Schroeter (Chair), Ken Kruempel (Graduate College), Roger Smith (Education), William David (LAS), Doug Jacobson (Engineering), Yoshi Suzuki (Business), Sedalia Crase (FCS), Howard Shapiro (Provost), Brad Skaar (Agriculture), Char Hulsebus (Registrar), Larry Booth (Vet Med).

1. A review of upcoming meetings for the remainder of the term. They are scheduled for: October 27, November 10, and December 8. The chair is holding December 1 as a date for a possible additional meeting. All meetings are scheduled from 8 until 10 am in 107 Lab Mechanics.

2. There are some new proposals coming. FCS has a proposal for a new major coming (Crase). FSCC will soon see a proposal from the departments of Food Science and Human Nutrition and of Health and Human Performance for a linked BS and MS in Diet and Exercise. Also, the reorganization of the Biological Sciences, and all of its associated curricula changes, will be coming (David).

3. Discussion of renaming and repackaging degree programs. Kruempel indicated that there is no required format for proposals for name changes. Repackaging follows usual program proposal procedures.

4. Approval of minutes from the last meeting of S03: May 1, 2003. The minutes from the May meeting were reviewed and approved following a motion by Crase, seconded by Jacobson to approve. Passed unanimously.

5. Approval of a list of F03 Honors seminars proposed for use in meeting the IP/US Div. requirement. The proposals were circulated by e-mail prior to the meeting. No disapproving comments were received. The following seminars have been approved for use in meeting the requirements:

For Diversity credit (all 1 credit):

HON 321F Folk Tales and the Meaning of Life
HON 321G Latinas/os and Popular Culture
HON 321R The Future of Affirmative Action in Higher Education

For International Perspectives credit:

HON 321B Russian Culture Through Popular Humor (2 cr.)
HON 321C Hunger, Poverty, and the United Nations Millennium Development Project (1 cr.)
HON321J Great Decisions (1 cr.)
HON 321L The Lesson of the Vietnam Era (2 cr.)
HON 321M The Origins of World Hunger and Inequity: How did Things get this way? (1 cr.)
HON 321K From the Renaissance to the Blue Rider: Three Centuries of Western Art (1 cr.)

6. Schroeter asked permission to sign off on the revised proposal for an MS in Enterprise Computing. Kruempel expressed concern about the time lag between our initial review and receipt of the revised proposal, and so Schroeter agreed to see if the enthusiasm to proceed is still there. As a point of information, David asked Shapiro to check on whether the Linguistics program has gone forward and is approved.

7. Kruempel indicated that 3 5-year post-audit reviews will reach the committee by S04. Schroeter agreed to check on their status.

8. Schroeter distributed copies of the Implementation Policies for the U.S. Diversity and International Perspectives requirements (reference: www.iastate.edu/~registrar/courses/div-guide.html). There has been confusion about the interpretation of rule 3. Some believe that a course that is not on the approved list but involves a three-or-more-week stay in a foreign country can be used to meet the International Perspectives requirement only if a request for substitution (implementation policy 2) is made. This does not appear to be the original intent. Shapiro reviewed how he has dealt with this problem to date. The committee agreed that the stated policies need to be clarified.
Crase, Hulsebus and Schroeter offered tentative suggestions for new language to be inserted in implementation policies #2 and #3:
In #2, indicate that a request for a substitution is required when the requirement is to be met by other than a) a course on the approved list, or b) courses or experiences as defined by item #3 of these requirements
In #3, add words to the effect that substitution requests (as per #2 above) are not required for these types of experiences . . . and indicate that the policy stated in #3 applies regardless of the content of the course.
Finally, clarify that #3 also applies to cooperative educational experiences and work experiences under internships.
The committee agreed to table this until specific language can be drafted and reviewed by the committee at the next meeting.

9. Schroeter distributed a memo from Dan Ashlock concerning Math 181 and 182 and the inability of the math department to continue offering the courses' "wet labs" because there are no funds to support the TA’s necessary. At question is whether the substitution of a web-based "laboratory" experience for the wet lab would require approval of the College and/or Faculty Senate Curriculum Committees. Doering reviewed the procedures for making mid-catalog changes to course contact hours and credits. Because the FSCC typically does not concern itself with the details of how labs (or lectures or recitations) are run, the committee members decided that the proposed reorganization of the Math 181/182 labs should be left to the math department.

10. Recommendations of the Ad hoc Diversity and International Perspectives Evaluation Subcommittee. Schroeter referenced the May 8, 2003 document summarizing last year's FSCC work on the recommendations of the Ad Hoc committee. A review of current status was presented. Discussion ensued regarding procedures for review of proposed courses and whether courses already on the approved lists would have to be "re-reviewed." Item #20 of the 5/8/03 document became the focus of discussion. Discussion was tabled until next meeting.

Submitted by:
Brad Skaar

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