ETCS/OLS Academic Leadership Committee (All)
Meeting at 9:00 am - 10:40 in ET 206
August 1, 2006

Present: Jihad Albayarri, Bob Barrett, Mary Jane Casiano, Dan Gebhart, Kim McDonald, Sarah Merchant, Ken Modesitt, Carlos Pomalaza-Raez, Gerard Voland, Steve Walter 

Absent: Hal Broberg, Carol Dostal, David Erbach 

ALC minutes of April 11, 25 and May 6, 2006 were approved.  The May 6 minutes were updated to show that Penny will periodically contact the chairs about curriculum changes to CAPP. 

‘Round-the-table introductions were made by all present.   The new folks were asked to email a short biographical paragraph to Gerard by August 11 in preparation of the ETCS/OLS Fall Convocation. 

A new ALC Structure be implemented as follows: 1) the chairs will meet with the dean at the first meeting of the month, and 2) the chairs and administrators will meet the second meeting of the month.  The proposed meeting times will be the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month at 9:00 am (Gerard will check with Hal and Carol) before confirming the dates/times. 

AFR documents were presented by Bob Barrett.  The three documents (Annual Faculty Review (AFR) Guidelines, Annual Faculty Review form, and EZ-Annual Faculty Review form) came from the ETCS Assembly.  Other documents (Department Chair’s Feedback page, February 21, 1995 Guides and an updated annual Faculty Review Process guide) were also distributed by Bob.  There was discussion on these documents.

Next Steps:  1. These documents will be reviewed again by the chairs in September.

2. The documents will be made available to the chairs on a shared drive

3. Bob will send them electronically to the chairs.

4. How this effects faculty on partial retirement will also be discussed.

Announcements:

•  Gerard distributed the following documents for the chairs to review

1. Indiana Core Transfer Library (CTL) Approval Form (DRAFT)

2. IPFW Emergency Planning (DRAFT)

•  ETCS/OLS Fall Convocation on Tuesday, August 15 in ETCS Lobby - 8:30 am refreshments; 9:00 am formal meeting
•  Gerard would like periodic reports from the chairs on their work with the community and external funding.
•  Budget Sheets were distributed to the chairs by Dan.  Please contact him with any questions.  He announced that the testing is on hold for the OnePurdue project.
•  Steve announced that the Graduate School Open House is scheduled October 12 from 5:30 -7:30 pm and the Advanced Manufacturing Summit will be November 8th from 8:00 am - 3:30 pm.  Both events will be held in the Walb Student Union Ballroom where we could have booths and display/distribute materials. Gerard added that there will also be an Orthopaedic Conference in the fall where ETCS can have a presence.
•  Tech Talk Updates are due to Ken Modesitt by early September.
•  Ten new posters are being provided by John Mitchell and Jason Davis for the ETCS building.  Each chair is asked to create posters that will celebrate what we do in ETCS through the alumni, faculty, staff, industry partners, etc.)
  

Next meeting will be August 23 at 9:00 am in ET 206 - this will be for all administrators and chairs.  Topics to be discussed will be the Annual Faculty Review Process Guide and the Technology Days Draft Proposal distributed by Ken Modesitt. 

Respectfully submitted,

Mary Jane Casiano, Secretary