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Meeting #97
MINU
gori state College
S OF F.:\CULTYCOUNCIL
2 December 1954
ROLL CALL
A special
o'clock wi
ing member
day), Blan
Gilkey, Gi
seth, McCu
Pas), Park
Richardson
Winger. A
faculty m
COMlvIITTEEON
FACULTY
ORGANIZATION
Dean Maser chairman, said that the Committee on Reorganization of he Faculty Council requested that discussion of
the prelim'nary report of the committee given at the November 11 meting be postponed until the final report is
presented, which it was hoped would be at the January meeting of the Faculty Council.
ADDITIONAL
REPRESENTATIVE
President trand announced that the Executive Committee,
after stud' of the current "full time equivalentll of the
the several schools, had allotted one addi'faculties
tional rep sentative on the Faculty Council for the Lower
Division 0 Liberal Arts. This would bring the total number of elec ed members to thirty, which is the maximum set
in the appr ved plan for the Faculty Council. No other
school coul now be allotted an additional representative
without red cing some school" President strand mentioned
the fact th t the working committee on possible reorganizations in he Faculty Council had had its origin in a
suggestion hat the number of elected members be increased.
He asked fo a motion on the recommenciatiQn of the Executive Commit ee. The council on motion approved the allotment of an dditional represEmtative for Lower Division.
FOR LOl.'iER
DIVISION
RECOGNITION
OF FACULTY
eeting of the Facu Lty Council 'toTas
held at 4·:00
h President Strand in the chair and the follow·present: Bailey (for Shideler), Bett (for Frih (for 1rJood)
, Clinton, Dietz, Dunn, Engesser,
1, Goode, Grill, Hovland, Langton, Lemon, Loncheon (for Crossen), Maser, Hilbrath (for Ten
(for Colby), Pfanner, Pilcher, Price, Read,
Robinso~, Scheel, Stone, Strand, Tressler,
so present were Professor J. S. Walton and five
bers who did not leave their names.
Dr. Lonseth chairman, gave a progress report of the work
of the spec.al Committee on Recognition of Faculty. He
named the m mber s of the conani.t t.ee, about half of whom were
present. H spoke of many factors in recognition of faculty that h d been considered, including the Carter Awards,
evaluation f teaching, information obtained from deans, information 0 tained from other universities, etc. The committee had ormed some tentative views on a number of matters.
It felt tha criteria for recognition i,nterms of salary
and rank mi ht best be dealt 'with at the departmental and
school leve s rs.ther than at the institutional level. It
believed thi3Jtan annual report would be proper and helpful
from each falculty member covering and interpreting his
work. It feb.t that an informal talk between the departmental chairlnan and each staff member each year would be
helpful. r-. felt that faculty opinion should be consulted
in promotions.
It favored extension of the Carter Award
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idea.
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have gui
He invit
asked an
Lonseth f
ADJOURNHENT
• Lonseth said he hoped that the committee would
nc,,, from the Faculty Council in its further wor-k,
comments and ques't.i ons , Some questions were
briefly
discussed.
President
Strand thanked Mr.
r his report and the wo rk of' the committee.
g was declared
adjourned
at 4: 40
0 I
Delmer M. Goode
Secretary
clock.