Or gcn State Collage!
MINUTE OF FACULTY cotn.rc:Il~
11 May 1950
The Faculty Council was called. to ordel~ by President
Strand at
4:00 o tc l.cck in Roon·Z08, Memorial U!lli(m. Member$ present
wer'e e
Adrion, Bash, Butts
Campbell, Car Ls cn, Childs,
Cockerline,
Colby"
Cooney, Craft,
:Oavi~s, For s Lund (for MeCutcheon), Friedrnan, Gil .•
f'Ll Ian , Gleeson,
Go xie , Jensen, Kuhn (for Dimick), Laslett,
Lenon,
Milam, lioshberger
( 'or Demuth), Norton~, Ol'der..an, Strand,
Sv{arthout~
S1i"Ygard, ~~are.• 'dl){ nson,,'iillian'ts,
Zer an , Also present wer-e
Professors
~~atherin
Read and Dr. L. A~, l{irkendall
of the Department of Household. A ministration,
and Professors
V. Bei(t, J. R.
De Ll.e nback , G. V. Path,
and R, 'T, $;,~!~th, members of the Coinnittee
on Academic freedom
Tenure, and Promotion of the local chap tar of
the American 4ssociltion
of University
Professors.
AIfPROV
i!,.L OF
M~NUTES
It was reported
tha~ on€1 Or two verbal corrections
in minutes of previ )US meetinGS.
The mi.nu'bes for
~j'ebruary l;l, March 9 and AprU 13 were appr oved ,
HONORS
A)TD
NUiliDS
On motion the Counc 1 r~tif:l,.ed the HIay 8 action
of the Executive
Comndttee in approv ng on behalf of tihe Counci 1 the r ecommendabd ons
of.' the Co;,uuittee on Hcnor e and Awar-ds for tl1e current
academic year.
AFPHOVAL OF
President
Strand sa
at t he coming Comme
the Faculty Council
de Le ja+e to the ,Gq)
lists
on behalf of.'
delegate
this
autho
d.NDIDATES
D·~GR·C>'""c:!
FUR
1
~:r J..J.t!i~
COURSES ON
"PASEiED"OR
"NOT PASSED"
PLAN
had been made
the neetine;s of
d t ha t faculty
acti on on candidat e s for def,rees
cement would nece asd tate a special
meeting of
at a busy til!l€l. HE) sugf~osted that the Council
utive Committee thE) t:\.uthority to approve the
he Council.
The CQuncil on l!lo't;;ionvoted to
ity to its Lxecutive
COMmittee.
President
Strand pr serrced for d Lscus s i on a proposal
by the School
of .dome ~conomics t at it be allthorip;ed to offer certain
courses
(HAd 222, 223, 422, IW5) without usua l iSrades.
Students
in these
courses would recel e a Grade of either
"Passedtt Or "Not Passed,1t
Such credits
would e orai.trt ed in computinl':;rade-point
aver ages ,
The request
was for a three-year
exper ImerrbaI period.
?resident
Strand sa td this
re uest had been discussed
by the Administrative
Council, wht ch had oted to refer
it to the Faculty Council for
discussion.
Presid rrb Strand ca l l ed on Dr • .:.cirl<;endall who outlined
the reasons for the proposal.
Ee said the w-ork in these courses
is highly indi v i dua Lz ed , It aims to help individuals
vfOrk out
their
specific
pr obLema in the area of family relations..
He
relJo~ted experience
elsewhere
in offer in,:; such wor k on the no-grade
msis
and said he was sure he accomplished
more.
Pr of'ee sor E:atherine
Head also sp oke in rxpIana'c i on tand support of the proposal.
A brief
discussion
was call d for in o:rder to open up the problems involved.
These were chiefly
he question
of a precedent--ultimate
extension
of the no-grade ide --and the difficulty
when students
transter
credits
mo sb of wh i, h carry nrades and some no grades.
President
Strand requested
th
School df '10)1e Economics to supply a state •.•
ment in explanation!
and auppor-b
of the proposal
whd ch can be serre
to COl-moil mernben e for ~t~dy in a dv'ano.e of the next meetj,np.;.
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AC DEIvIIC
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FREEOOM,
I
TEHURE, AND
PRdlVDTION
ADJO URNlIiJ1:;NT
Professor
K. Swygard chairman of the A"A.U.P.
Committee on
Academic ll'reedom, Te ur e , and Pr omoti on, presented mimeographed
copies of the final
eport
to be presented
soon to the society.
He presented the reg ets of two :nembers of the commi,
ttee who wer-e
unable to be present
Professor
Gara :1•• "'rentiss
and Dr. Henrietta
1viorris.
Discussion
va s participated
in by many members of the
Council and members f the A.A.lI.P. cormritrcee , President
S-irand
asked the Council if it would like to have Hs own committee in
this field.
Since t e A.A.U.P.
itself
had not yet acted on the
report it was felt t ,at no action was as yet in order by the Fl'l.culty
Council.
President
'trand said that further
discussion
wcuLd be
arranged before any _nstitutional
action is taken.
The Council
adjourns
at
5:20 o'clock.
DELIIDR M. GOODE
Secretary