SCD MINUTES of 28 March 2002
Convened in MAC Hall B-315 at 9 AM, Adjourned at @10:30 AM
Present: Lynn Walter (Chair), Andy Austin, Mark Everingham, Tony Galt (Secretary for the day), Kim Nielsen, and Harvey Kaye .
Excused: Craig Lockard
1. Celebrations:
Eunice Ritland has been admitted to the Masters in Social Science program at the University of Chicago with support.
Sara Miller has completed a video on women's history to be shown shortly.
2. Diane Borrero-Lowe visited and talked to us about the American Intercultural Center.
3. The chair called for volunteers to participate at no remuneration and outside of contract in next fall's SOAR program. No one stepped forward.
4. Those present discussed shape of general education. While there was general agreement that the program needs fixing, little consensus about how to do so emerged from this discussion.
5. Tony, as chair of the Search and Screen Committee for the temporary sociology position, reported that the committee had begun the process of narrowing down the list of candidates.
6. Mark reported as follows:
He has become chair of political science (starting in Fall 2002) and SCD's support for the course reassignment which will most likely affect Politics of Developing Areas and the Political History of Modern Latin America on a rotating basis.
The model OAS has been cancelled this year. He requested and was granted funds to take students to the Arrowhead Model U.N. program in mid-April instead.
He is chairing a strategic planning group on campus which will report to the system-wide Institute for Global Studies. A report redefining international/global studies at UWGB has been mandated by the end of this semester.