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MINUTE
01<' FACULTY COUNCIL
9 February 1950
------------~-----------+------OLL CALL
After a brief per" od for coffee ser-ved by Professor Betty Lynd
Thompson and her ommittee President Strand called the Faculty
Council to order "n regular monthly session at 4;10 o'clock in
208 Memorial Unior. The following members signed the roll call
sheet: Blanch, Ch "Ids, Colby. Demuth, Friedman, Gilfillan, Gleesonl
Hansen,
Jensen, L mon , ildilam,Munford, Or-deman , Robertson, Swar-bhout, Thompson, Wa
Wilkinson~ Williams.
l
ECUTIVE
C MMITTEE
R 'fURT
CURRICULUIiii
PRO ro SALS
The Council appro
the minutes of the meeting of 12 January 1950.
The President ann
Council (Gleeson,
this meetinr;. A
be taken to provi
bel'S, with inform
how it can be rea
ject is planned.
unced that the Bx(~cutive Committee of the Faculty
SNllrthout. and Williams) had met just prior to
uggestion ariSing in that meeting is that steps
e 1;;hefaculty, particularly younger faculty memtion as to how the Faculty Council functions and
hed. A Facu Ity Bulletin dealing wi th this sub-
The President rev" ewed the action or the State Board of Higher
Education in rega d to the curriculum proposals passed by the
Faculty Council 0 8 December 1949. Al,thol,lgh
the Board turned
down a number of equests for new courses and revisions of old
courses -.•partie lar1y in Arts, Le trt er-s I and Social Science and
the geography cou ses in General Science -- it acted favorably on
all the requests
om the professiol~l schools, granted a major in
physical educa t i o , and authorized a major in General Agriculture
with a minor in J rnalism. Details of the Board action may be
found in the Secreary's files.
The President r epo ted that the Chancellor had asked each institution to name the ields in whichl they had been "pressured!! to add
courses. The Um ers i tiy said It;h~tinstitution had been asked to
offer major work j. Home EGonofibs and Engt neer Ing and service
courses in Forestr1 for majors in Business Administration.
President Newburn, hows er, had refused to consider adding Engineering
at the Univer~ity. President Strand :indicated that most pl'Gssure
on this campus had come from those who desired more work Ln Social
Science.
In copnection wit future r~ o li.cyreg;arding requests for upp.erdivisiop courses i Social Sciellce DeaP Coloy suggested that
"maturity of mind " be give, as a pr-er-equ i sdt e rather than lowerdivision courses.
ADJO URhlJlENT
ad at 4;59 o'clook.
J. K. Munford
Acting Secretary
January,
ElECTED
MEJ.~ERS OF
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195'0
FACULTY C()UNCIIJ
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(Terms expire on December 31 oi the year indicated
at the head of column)
195'0
1952
~griculture
R. E. Dimick
l[filburT. Cooney
Busine~s
G. E. Blanch
and Technology
-,-
C. C. C al.Larman
R. K. Campbell
Education
H. R. Laslett
~ngineerir1.g
G. B. Cox
S~
H.
Cockerline
R. A. Wanless
Forestry
William A. Davies
--
Ho ne Economics
Marie Diedesch
,...,
J rl.Lanne Wise
Mrs. Margaret Ware
Pharmacy
R. S. McCutcheon
Science
Leo Friedman
G. A. Williams
W
. S. Butts
B. Bollen
W. D. Wilkinson
to 'er Division
Herbert E. Childs
J. M. Swarthout
( . K.
Smith
K. R. Sw.vgard
E.
W. Wells
I
Phys' cal Education
Betty Lynd Thompson
J. V. Dixon
..•_Agricultural
Extenslort Serviee
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Vim. L. Teutsch
Agricul tura~ Expericlertt ~tat:Lon
O. H. JliIuth