January 13

Creg n State
Meeting #99
College
MINUTES OF FACULTY COUNCIL
13 January 1955
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----,-----------------------ROLLCALL
President Strand ca l ed the Faculty Council to order in regut.ar .
session at 4:00' olel ck. Members present were:
Bett" ~rnier
(~ice
for Bogart on leave), _Charle,y s: Colby,' Crossen, 'Foreman" Friday,
'Gleeson, Goode, Hans n, Hovland" Ingalls,
Langton, Lemon, ~i,
Litwiller
(for Schul z), McClellan, McCulloch, Maser, Miller,'
Milligan, Moor, Nico emus, Norton,.Ordeman, Orner, PfanneI",'Poling,
Pratt" Price "Robins n, Rynearson Cfor 'Knapp)" Scholl,,' Sisson, .
Stone, Strand, Tresser
(for Cqrlson), Wallsl Wiggenhorn, Wilster
(for RiChardson), Ze ani Zimmer (forReston).
Also present were:
Professors
James E.erry,
W. T4 Cooney, ~. W. Groshong, p. C,
Magnusson; and C~ V. Plath.
WELCOME
TO
NEW MEMBERS
President Straad.int
educed individually
members of the Faculy Council.
and welcomed, the new'
.
FUNCTION
OF
President Strand exp eBsed appreciation
of the service of Professor
VICE CHAIRMAN Gc W. Gilkey as Vice Chairman of the Faculty Council during the
past year.
He said
ofessor Gilkey had performed more duties than
usual as Vice Chairn.
He said further that it was his intention'
that the Vice Chair
shall have a larger 'function than in the
past ~ leader~hip 0 . the council.
in
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APPROVAL
OF
MINUTES
The minute; of the D cember 9, 1954 meeting were considered
were deolared approv d.
STUDENT
SENATE
REPRESENTATIVES
Election of t,'Vofacu
called for.
It was
Consti tution of the
of Physical Educatio
Professor Ida Ingall
that her name, be wit
Dean Moor and Mr. Ba
ty representatives
on the Student Senate was
oted that one of these, according to the
ssociated Student,s, must be from. the Division
~ Nominees proposed were: Dean Helen Moor,
, and Mr~ James Barratt~.
Miss Ingalls asked
drawn. There were no other nominations.
ratt were elected: Student Senate representatives.
COMMITTEE
ON
REVIE1.11f
AND
APPEALS
Election of two memb
called for.
Preside
mittee and its impor
and Dr, S. M. Dietz.
and Dr~ Dietz were e
Appeals.
'rs of the Co_ tt.ce on Revj~ewand Appeals was
t Strand explained the functdon of the 00 ia..:
ance , Nominees .proposed were Dr_ J. A. Pfanner
There were no other nominations.
Dr. Pfanner
'ected members of the Commi1~teeon Review and
ELECTION OF
Nomt natd.one for Vice Chairma~ for 1955: were called f~r. 'Professo:r'
W. A'. Frazier was no Inated; There were no rur ther ~ominations,
and Professpr Frazie
was elected Vice, Chairman. Fo~ Secretary
Mr. Goode was nomina d. No other nondnations were p,roposed, and
Mr~ Goode was electe
Secretaz-y.
I .
OFFICERS
and
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EXEDUTIVE
COMMITTEE
1955
'
Eleotion was 'next in order of two additional
Executive Committee
members, The Execut've Committee of the 'Faculty Council is composed of five member ': the President,
Vice Chairman, Secretary,
and two additional
me mbers so chosen tha t the four members other
than the President
s all include two members from the elected members of the Faculty
ouneil arid two from t.l-J.e
ex officio (Admfnf.atz-a-:
tive C01IDCil) groupo DeanF. E Price and Professor C. Bs Friday
Were nominated,
8th r nominations 'were called for~ but none were
offered and the nomi tions were orrmctd.on c'Losed , Dean Price and
Professor Friday wer elected members of the Executive Committee.
Q
FOUNDATION
FORADVANCEMENTOF
EDUCATION
President Strand rea
the names of thE! Western Regional Committee
for the Foundation f ,r the Advancemenb of Education which screens
all proposals .for gr nta, He reported and commented on Some
problems that Oregon State College has faced in obtaining grants.
Only one grant had g ne to an Oregon State College faculty member"
he said, and it was nly a half grant"
PREPARATION
OF INCOMING
STUI;ENTS
Assistant
Dean WI) Te 'Cooney, chad.rrnanj presented a report for the
special Connnittee on Preparation
of Incoming Stude!its~
He
described the way th committee had worked; distributed
copies
of its eight-page re ort, read its tell findings and its recommendations eo He said the ommittee hoped it,s report would be helpful
and would lead to de irable adjus tmente and changes to improve
the .preparatd.on of i coming students.
The report was~ on motion;
ac cepted., A general! discussion
follo1fJed. Various que stions were
asked and dascuaseds] President Strand emphasized the importance
of the IDatters
cove d in the report.
A copy of the ~eport has'
been placed in the 81 cre tary+a permanent file,
On motion the'
council VOTEDto co tinue the committl3e and to expect all officers;
s chonLs., and depar-t ents to study the reporttoth~
end of imple,..'
menting it as fully
possible,
and to expect specific
programs
and projects
to be rought in for latar consideration
and action~ . '
I
as
President
Strand .sa· d he would send a copy of the report to each
of the following:
he Chancellor,
the President of the Universi ty
.of ()regon,,' and all
eansj,
COMMITTEE
ON
SUPERIOR
STUDENTS
He ann~unced that a the next meeting Dr. Dietz would present a
report of the speci 1Committee on Superior Students~
This report
would, supplement th progress report 'Dr, Dietz gave at the Facul·l:.y
Counoil meeting of a;rch 13" 1~52•.
ADJOURNMENT The meeting was dec ared adjourned
at, ); 25
0 I clock;
Delmer-M.· oode
Secretary