November 9

State College
F FACULTY COUNCIl~
Meeting #58
9 November 1950
"ROLL CALL
With Dr. J. M. swa
Council met at 4:0
coffee period was
was hostess. Pres
Ca11arman, Campbel
Colby, Craft, Davi
(for Brandon), Fri
Las1ett, Lemon, Me
Robertson, Scheel,
Weswig (for Muth),
APPROVAL OF
MINUTES
The minutes of the meeting of Oct-ober 12 were declared approved
as circulated to c uncil members.
ELECTION OF
NEW' STUDENT
SENATE REPRESENTA'l'IVE
The chairman annou
could not accept e
Senate. He called
nominated Mrs. Ire
motion the nominat
to cast a unanimou
the student Senate
ced that Prof'essor Betty Hawthorne found she
ection as representative on the student
for nominations for the position. Dean Bash
e Butts of the Department of English. On
ons were closed and the secretary was asked
ballot for Mrs. Butts as representative on
CIVIL SERVICE
AND arHER
PAY INCREASES
& ADJUSTMENTS
Dean Lemon was ask
pay increases and
staff members. He
or less will recei
four (probably eig
academic staff mem
graduate assistant
d to present the:main facts abo\lt the recent
djustments for state civil service and other
said academic people whose salaries are $4,800
e a cost of living increase of ~lO a month for
t) months beginning November 1. Part-tLme
ers will receive proportionate increases and
will receive $3 per month.
FACULTY
"WELFARE
COMMI'rTEE
Dr. Swarthout anno nced for President Strand that the December
meeting of the Fac lty Council will give special attention to
faculty welfare ma ters and the Committee on Faculty Welfare will
have a report.
MEETINGS WITH
INSTRUCTORS
& .ASSISTANT
PROFESSORS
At the October mee ing elected membeni of the council were asked
to arrange meeting with the instructors and assistant professors
of the groups they represent to discuss the proposal of having
a provost or any m tters they might like to take up. Most of the
groups either had eld meetings or had them planned. Professor
Cockerline reporte for engineering, Dr. Campbell for business
and technology, Dr. Childs for lower division of liberal arts,
Miss Thompson for hysical education, Professor Davies for forestry,
MIss Diedesch for lome economics.
MATTERS
PENDING
Dean Colby said th new Commtttee on Grades and Grading would be
meeting immediatel after the eouncn meeting to schedule plans
for its work. He entioned also a matter now before the Curriculum Council pertai ing to reducing credit for "subco Ll.egIat.e"
courses. Chairma Swar1{hout reminded council members that the
executive commrt.t.eewelcomes communacat.Lons from members and
others suggesting topics for Faculty Council COI)sideration.
hout, vice chaar-aan, presiding, the Faculty
o'clock in regular session. A preliminary
joyed for which Professor Betty lifnd Thompson
t were: Bash, &~ach, Blanch, Bollen, Butts,
, Carlson, Chd.Lds, Cleaveland, Cockerline,
s, Demuth, Diedeseh, Dimick, Dixon, Fincke
dman, Gleeson, Goode, Jensen, Keene, Langton,
teheon, Maser, Norton, Ordeman, Reichart,
warthout, Swygard, Thompson, Ware, Wells,
Williams, Zeran.
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Meeting #58 - 2
FUNCTIONS &
OBJECTIVES OF
OREGON STATE
COLLEGE
Chairman Swarthout p esented a proposal that had been made to
President Strand and the executive comnti.tteethat a study be
made of the function and objectives of Oregon State College.
He cited a recent re ort of the educational survey of Massachusetts
Institute of Technol gy which included such a study. Discussion
was invited. Dr. C pbell spoke in st~port of the idea. He said
that, whereas discus ions of promotion often emphasize training,
experience, and abil ty, he thought promotions should be made on
a basis more closely tied in with faculty members' actual service
to the institution, heir contribution to the furtherance of its
objectives. ~~. Sch el spoke of a long~time study maintained by
the agricultural div sions of Oregon State College--the School of
Agriculture, the Agr cultural Experiment; Station, and the Extension Service •....
to ana yze the needs of Oregon that should be served.
This study, he said, had been found atd.muLatdng and valuable •.
Dr. Hells referred t the study a few years ago in the Lower
Division of 1i. beral rts, with Dr. Childs as chairman, concerned
with objectives in gneral education. Dr. Swygard referred to a
current study on a n tional basis by the American Association of
University Professor dealing vvith objectives of college teaching.
Dr. Fincke said that the home economics faculty is interested in
study of objectives nd believes such study should be continuous.
Dean Maser spoke of
whole should first d
deal with objectives
way about. He menti
the institution as a
primary responsibili
visions, a school 1i
research program wou
for such a program.
he question whether the institution as a
al with its objectives and then the sthools
in relation to school functions, or the other
ned one advantage in the former plan. If
whole should determine that research is a
y of the institution and its component die business and t.echnoLcgy which now has no
d be stimulated and helped in obtaining funds
On motion the counci voted to ask Pre sf.dent, Strand to appoint a
committee to formula e a plan ]ror conduct.Lng a survey of the
functions and object ves of Oregon State College.
ADJOURN1iENT
The Faculty Council
djourned at
4:50
o'clock.
Delmer M. Goode
Secretary
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