The College of Education Executive Committee met on Thursday, May 18, 1995, at 8:30 a.m. in the Conference Room of the Education Center with Dean Toth presiding. Present were: Drs. McGahee, Ducharme, Gunter, Uhlir, Wylie, Reed, Swank, Price, Merriman, Hertzog, Bauer, Morris, Ms. Roberts and Ms. Teel.

Dean Toth related several items which had been discussed at the Deans' Meeting on May 17:

1. Dr. Brown announced that the Ed.D. program had been approved.
2. The new registrar, Ms. Martha Reynolds, will assume her duties on July 1.
3. Drs. Hummel and Dodd were awarded tenure.
4. Tom Robinson's appointment was approved.
5. The M.Ed. degree in Art Education and the B.S. degree in African-American studies are still under review by the Board of Regents.
6. More sections of PSY 250 may need to be added for fall quarter.
7. Any more positions to be filled need to be advertised immediately.
8. Dr. Toth will have a meeting with Dr. Bailey in the near future to discuss the doctoral program.
9. Department heads should receive departmental budgets next week; at that time, faculty salaries may be given out.
10. Dr. Ray Cleere is the new president of Piedmont College, a private college in Demorest, Georgia.
11. Throw away the old travel request forms and start using the new two-part forms. Too many people are sending only one copy of the form to Dr. Brown.
12. There are 954 applications for admission accepted as of May 15; as many students apply and are accepted to many different schools, this should translate into a 5-6 percent increase in enrollment.
13. Dr. Toth handed out the latest version of the VSU Mission Statement; this document is still in the draft stage.
14. Regents' appropriation for scholarships to VSU for next year is $7700.
15. Lottery Trust Funds allocated to VSU are $350,000; the COE is asking for $250,000.

Dr. Toth announced that the $29,000 received from the Professional Standards Commission had been used to purchase a new file server for the College of Education. The file server will cost approximately $23,500; to upgrade the Netware (software) for the file server will cost an additional $3500. The Professional Standards Commission has provided an additional $25,000 for equipment and $4000 for faculty development to the College of Education.

Dr. Toth asked that department heads make it clear to their faculty that funds received for the Technology Training Center (ETTC) were completely separate from institutional funds. Funds from ETTC may not be used to purchase technology for faculty and for teaching labs. The College of Education receives two types of ETTC funds: (1) equipment ($160,000), and (2) operating funds ($90,000). These amounts include salaries for staff hired in the ETTC.

Dr. Toth referred to a letter from Dr. Brown to Dr. Gunter congratulating him for the fine job done by his faculty.

Dr. Toth will be out of town next Thursday and Friday attending meetings in Atlanta.

Two research positions for the College of Education have been advertised with a closing date of July 1, 1995. These positions are in support of the doctoral program and will be housed in the Department of Educational Leadership.

Dr. Toth handed out copies of two documents which are on the May 25 agenda of the Faculty Senate. The two documents are "Procedures for Appointments of Faculty" and "VSU's Five-Year Goals."

Dr. Toth reminded committee members that the new admission to teacher education policy passed by Executive Committee last week has a "double standard" for transfer students versus native VSU students. That is, credit summary sheets for transfer students do not show "F's" received in courses at a previous institution. As the new admission policy has a "no forgiveness" clause, Dr. Swank will not be able to determine if a transfer student has made "F's" in course taken at a previous institution. Also, it was restated that students are not to be "grandfathered" in under the new policy. Any student who applies for admission to teacher education after the beginning of Summer Quarter, 1995, must come in under the new rules.

Dr. Gunter moved approval of new admission requirements for the undergraduate Speech Language Pathology major. The new requirements call for a GPA of 3.0. All of the other criteria for admission to teacher education would remain the same. The motion was seconded by Dr. Bauer. The reason for the new criteria is that SLP majors must have a master's degree to practice in Georgia. The department is limited in how many SLP majors can be admitted to the graduate program because of ASHA accreditation guidelines. It seems unfair to have all of these students graduate from the bachelor's program who then cannot be admitted to the graduate program. It would be fairer to limit the undergraduate enrollment at a point where most of the graduates could go on and be admitted to the graduate program. Dr. Reed expressed concern about the impact this change would have on under-represented groups in the SLP major. Dr. Toth asked Dr. Gunter to look at ways to have more under-represented groups included in SLP. The motion passed unanimously.

Dr. Toth announced that the Board of Regents is sponsoring a two-week "Connecting Teachers and Technology" workshop in Athens. Although it is not known how many faculty members the College of Education will be allowed to send, Dr. Toth asked for nominations of faculty who might be interested. Department heads should check with these faculty members to see if they are interested in participating.

Guidelines for comprehensive examinations from Early Childhood, Music Education, and Physical Education were approved.

Announcements

There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 10:10 a.m.

Respectfully submitted,