MINUTES OF THE UNIVERSITY FACULTY JANUARY 11, 1960 1596

    

The University Faculty met in the Assembly Room of Lafferty Hall Monday,
January 11, 1960 at 4:00 p. m. President Dickey presided. Members absent
were Philip Austin, A. J. Brown‘, George B. Byers, Bernard Fitzgerald, Lyman
’ V.Ginger, C. P. Graves. William E. Grubbs, W. A. Heinz, w. M. Insko,R. D.
Jacobs, Sidney J. Kaplrn, Helen Marshall, J. E. Heeves‘, Robert W.Rudd*, G.W.
Sdnwider*, Doris M. Seward, Lawrence Thomps0n, Bennett H. Wall,Warren W.

f Walton, and M. M. White.

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{ The minutes of December 14 were read and approved.
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Dr. B.D. Haun presented the report of the Committee on Committees. which
was voted approval by the University Faculty.

*1 - The Committee on Committees continued to study the committee structure
of the University Faculty during the current year. This study was carried
on in line with the original directive in President Dickey's letter of

’ August 3, 1957 creating the committee and outlining its functions. The
Committee also considered the report of the COmmittee on Composition and
Role of the UniVersity Faculty which the Faculty approved at its meeting

L on May 11, 1959 and which gave some indication of the functions the Faculty
might wish to assign to committees.

It has been the belief of the committee that there are certain areas
in which purely administrative matters are concerned and that the eighteen
administrative committees of the University for 1959 operate predominately
in these areas. On the other hand there are areas with which the committee
feels the Faculty as such is concerned but which the four standing committees
of the Faculty for 1959 (other than the Committee on Committees) are not
authorized to consider. One such area has to do with the admission policy
of the University on which an ad hoc committee prOposed by this committee
I and established by the Taculty made a final report during the current year.

Another such area is the handling of the gifted student and the Committee

‘ on Committees was pleased to COOperate in the creation during the year of
' a new standing committee of the Faculty known as the Honors Program com—
mittee to work in this area. This committee was the outgrowth of a study
and recommendations of a subncommittee of the Committee of Fifteen chairmaned
by Dr. Betsy Estes.

. Two additional new standing committees have been recommended for

7 establishment by the Faculty during the year. The first of these, to be

3 known as the Committee on Course Offerings. is designed primarily to relieve
the Faculty of certain recurring duties in the application of existing
policy. The second new committee, to be known as the Program Committee for
the University Faculty, is proposed as a means of opening the way for the
Faculty to keep itself infOrmed on comtemplated University activities and
to arrange to take up in orderly fashion matters considered important to
the academic welfare of the institution. This 00mmittee is to serve in an
advisory capacity to the President in setting up the major topics for dies
cuSsion at Faculty meetings.

The recommendation of the creation of the Program Committee represents
the outgrowth of the view of the Committee on Committees that it should
proceed with caution in recommending new Taculty committees until it can be
seen how effectively the newly created committees will Operate. Whether or
not the individual faculty members will have the necessary time and desire
to take on additional respOnsibilities will be known only after a longer
period of experience.

* Absence explained.