Faculty Council Minutes, August 25, 1998

Faculty Council President John Kolena called the first meeting of the 1998/99 school year to order at 3:46.

Agenda Items

Williamsburg Trip - Tom Clayton reporting

Nearly all of the juniors will travel to Jamestown and Williamsburg on the first Alt Day, September 9. At Jamestown the students will tour the recently discovered archaeological site of the actual settlement. At Williamsburg, in addition to the normal tour of buildings, the Williamsburg staff will offer special sessions for our students on topics including government, science, technology, medicine, military, women, arts, and music of the colonial period. Buses will leave NCSSM at 6:30 AM and return by PM. The Humanities Department will give up history class and one English class during this week and will only make one homework assignment for the week to compensate for the time spent on this trip. In addition, the last 2.5 hours of the trip on the bus will be quiet time in which the students can study or sleep. SL101 on Tuesday night before the trip will only last one hour. Arrangements have been made for students to miss athletic events on the day of the trip. While the trip is optional, some juniors have the impression that this is a required activity. Fewer than twenty juniors have not signed up and paid to make the trip.

2. SGA, Staff Council and New faculty

Roshan Baliga, SGA President, introduced Aaron Stoertz, the SGA Vice President and Joanna Tyson the SGA Parliamentarian. They took this opportunity to inform the faculty that the SGA and the student body are concerned that the PEC hours for this year have been cut back. They will get back to us with suggestions about what the faculty can do to help.

Newly-elected Staff Council Officers Vickie McNeil, Vice Chair; Sandra Jackson, Financial Secretary; Sheila Butts, Corresponding Secretary, and Danny Watson, Chair introduced themselves. The Staff Council will meet once a month and address concerns of the non-teaching NCSSM staff.

Ginger Wilson introduced Emily Gallagher who will teach English and History. Jo Ann Lutz introduced Matt Gallagher who will teach mathematics, and informed us that Agida Manizade will join the Math Department sometime this semester. Marilyn Link introduced Dr. Jonathan Keohane who will teach Physics, Misti Anderson who will teach Chemistry, and Nancy Allen who will help with professional development in Science and work out of the Spire Office.

3. Principal's Cup

John Goebel explained the concept of an award for participation in optional academic activities that will parallel the Director’s Cup. If the award is established, halls would receive points for participation in activities like mathematics contests. Departments are encouraged to discuss this concept and report back to John Goebel or Steve Warshaw within the next two weeks so that the award could be set up by the end of September if there is sufficient interest.

4. Committees

Representatives from committees that currently have vacancies reported to the body on the activities and responsibilities of their committee. Full-time faculty members are required to serve on a committee and should complete the Committee Request Form and place it in a Faculty Council ballot box by noon on Friday, August 28th. Committees with vacancies include SPW, which is charge with running all aspect of Special Projects week; the Hearing Board which hears cases of student misconduct; the Academic Technology Committee which makes recommendations concern academic hardware, software and training issues; the Scholarship Committee which reads folders, discusses and selects candidates for various scholarships; and the Faculty Welfare Committee which addresses issues brought to them by individual faculty members or the Faculty Council.

5. Email

Eileen McSherry explained that there are currently three email systems, which are operational on campus. Internal email can still be composed and read using All-in-One. Microsoft Exchange is nearly operational and will eventually replace All-in-One email. All-in-One will continue to work until everyone is satisfied that the new email via Exchange is working reliably. Internet email continues to work for both internal and external email. For a detailed discussion on how to forward email from All-in-One to Outlook and how to read both Internet and Exchange email using Outlook, see the attachment at the WWW address http://www.phy.duke.edu/~kolena/ncssmmail.html provided by John Kolena

Eileen reported that students are testing email and that email for all students should be available soon via Exchange. ITS will post information on how to send email to students.

Teachers can still telnet from remote computers and read Internet email as well as All-in-One mail, but will not be able to read mail in their Outlook Inbox for a while.

The meeting adjourned promptly at 5:02 PM.

Respectfully submitted,

John Goebel, Secretary