I began our first meeting for 2007 for adoption of the agenda. Do I hear a motion? >> Second. Second. >> All in favor say I pose unanimous. >> Thank you. Prove whether our last meeting minutes, which was a December fourth, 2-SAT 2006. Do I hear a motion? So remove second. Second. >> Any discussion or revisions? >> All in favor? >> I pose for a next died and we will have remarks by our provost, Dan rich, in spite of the temperatures outside. >> Welcome to the spring semester. I have it on good authority, global warming or not, it will get warmer as we move along and deliberations and best wishes, couple updates. One thing that's been implemented happened since last. We met in December, is that there's been a reorganization of the provost's office and two important domains. And I expect that many, perhaps all of you've read about it and you daily. But just in case to let you know that the responsibilities associated with the two vice provost have been expanded? I went on my tree guesses become Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and International Programs. So that the the programs and the Office of Undergraduate Studies and the Center for International Studies will both be over. Shane directly report to to have it on along with other lots of other responsibilities and quite a few Task Force's. He's working out a little bit more about that in a moment. And and then count third goods portfolio counts over there has been expanded to become the Vice Provost for Research and Graduate Studies, something that we've been thinking about for a while, about the importance of having a better integration at the senior level of, of graduate offices, portfolio work, and connected with, with research. And I'm sure you'll be hearing more from a, from both of them on those important domains as we go ahead. But that's a bit of an update. We're also making some other changes, and one of which is, is that we're now initiating a search for a vice president for student life. Nice measure, student. We've had the enviable situation, unusual but enviable. Where are a good president? David Rose. L has been operating for some time as the vice president for student life. And we decided not to go ahead with a search and hope that we can attract extraordinarily go good pool of candidates to consider coming here to serve in that leadership position in the fall or soon thereafter. And have it on Right tree guess is chairing that search. Haven't on any comments for our colleagues. What are the things I like to do? First of all, I'm going to distribute copies of the javelin out because everybody has a clear idea of what we're looking for. We'll start reviewing applications March first, and we will continue to review applications onto the position is filled. The job announcement has all of the members of the committee. And this has got to be a very critical role as we think about developing Academic Affairs and International Programs and Student Life Initiative and the integration of these initiatives. So what are the things that I would like to ask us, chair of this committee is to think about folds that you would all off at this institution, all institutions throughout the country. Because this will be a nationwide search that might be able to fulfill the requirements that we stubbornly in this job announcements. I want you to serve as ambassador or universe of data when we try to go out and recruit the best and brightest to apply for this position, a vice president for student life. >> So I'll circulate these and if you have any questions, my email. >> So you can send me an email, send me nominations as well. And the answer to the question not dashed is let Hobbit on. No, the person snag the question as well. How will I know if the person's interested? And the answer is you, you, it would be nice if you know, but you needn't No. I in fact, I wouldn't even take no as a reasonable response. Just if you think someone would make a great candidate, even if they don't think show yet, yet kept past their name locked to Jav and onto the search committee should they might receive a letter saying you can nominated for this position and the materials that go with it and find out about the University of Delaware and the opportunities here. But really your help, particularly for senior searches at this level, is really very much needed and will be appreciate it and, and do share this with your colleagues that were out there. Other enough, this is all getting underway just now and we'll move with with reasonable alacrity. Because of the nature of this position, it doesn't necessarily follow the traditional academic year recruitment cycle. So there's still a quite reasonable prospect that this spring we might attract significant pool of candidates and identify the best pairing, best person to become the next vice president for student life. I do keep in mind, I think particularly among the dimensions, why emphasizes reinforce? >> I think, whoops, I didn't. >> Thank you. Once again, I leave them in the dark. No, let there be light of that. One of the critical factors for all of us here in this assembly as the important integration and mutual reinforcement of academic life and, and student likes. The two come together and were looking for individuals that can enrich that Have-Nots. The co-chair of a council that I mentioned to you before that we set up the shear on academic and student life that includes members of the University of Delaware faculty as well as our colleagues from the very Student Life offices. Oh, let's see. We just we just had about 1200 students returned to campus and many of them, most of them were in study abroad. They've all gotten back. And just to review some of the bragging points with you. It is still true that the University of Delaware ranks number one in the nation among public universities in the participation of our students and study abroad, it's now, I think 43%. They do it as a percentage of the graduating, graduating class, 43%. And we think that over time, about 50% is what we would expect to have happen. And we have something very nice GET announced again during this period between semesters. And that is that the university will receive the Andrew High School Award for Innovation in international education. That's from the Institute for international education, which is sort of the bonding. We pay attention to that that's afforded by the State Department and the World Bank and the United Nations. And that's going to be presented in March at the United Nations to, to President Rosales and others are colleagues. So we're, we're very proud of that. And it speaks well of the importance we attach to international experiences are within the context of the overall education, our students. Theirs up. Speaking of innovation, there's been tremendous growth at dramatic growth in the use of UD online. And overall, that's that's good. Another interesting fact is that much of that growth is a result of the enrollment of our resident students to take some portion of, of their academic programs online. And there are many reasons we can badger for that. Courses that are available at a time where which might otherwise conflict with scheduling for other requirements that needs to complete a requirement that in order to graduate. But the, but the growth has been so remarkable and traumatic that we also want to make sure that that usage of UD online remains congruent with our expectations with regard to the character of the education we provide and the and the way in which that should go forward. So I was teasing how about not about the tests and one of his task forces, he's cherry, is to review our IUD on live with a specific focus on on academic and scheduling issues. Not not other matters, but just simply how does this fit appropriately? And do we have the right guidelines for students? Do we have the right guidelines for scheduling decisions on, on UDL? And one and and that's going to be quite a thorough review and we'll give you a report on that review later on in the spring. So this is just something that's coming up and we'll take a look at and we likely will strength. And we already have guidelines and if you're not familiar with them. Encourage you to become familiar with them. So it's not that we lack those. Got it. It's a matter of revealing them periodically when you have this kind of a dramatic, dramatic growth. By the way, that that's an interesting experience because I can recall a time when many colleagues felt that the great issue was that, that students would decide not to calm as resident students, but actually that there would be a kind of substitution effect. And here what we see is a kind of combination and interest in students and supplementing with their doing their primary residential experience with online education undergraduate application. Speaking of students, we have again set a new record for the number of applications received. Last number, AS I saw from blue Hirsch were over 22,500. And we're expecting to be AD or very near to 23 thousand applications. The, the typical qualifications in the pool again, are pretty much stronger on every dimension that one would conventionally consider. Sat scores normalized for previous years, great point index, high school percentile. But obviously we look at many, many other factors. But on all though, so the quality's there. It's also the most diverse pool of students. And, and we have now arrived at over 20 thousand out-of-state applicants to the University of Delaware. And so we have become increasingly selective, particularly with regard to the out-of-state pool. When you recall that our we handle these pools somewhat separately and that Delaware he ints are evaluated based on our assessment of their likelihood to succeed. And if we believe that they have the ability to succeed than they're admitted, no limit. So wherever there are admitted. And then after we finish admitting all of the data variance, we fill out the freshmen class from, from out-of-state. And so we'll end up taking, enrolling maybe 2023 to 300 out-of-state students from that 20 thousand number of applicants. So that process is going on very well, as I've said to you in the past and a spring, I ask you to, when you see your colleagues in admissions behind, particularly if they seem somewhat stooped over and bleary guide. There was a case made by the President and the legal counsel at the University of Michigan not too many years ago. And for the supreme court that they had over 20 thousand applications and there was absolutely no way they can read them all. And so they had to use a standard template to make decisions. And, and it's interesting that we've never used a standard template to make decision at all. Those emissions counselors. You Save will have read every one of those those applications from all some 23 thousand applicants twice individually, full cover to cover, an addition to the subsequent reviews. And that's something we pride ourselves on. So if they seem a little bleary eyed, BP, thankful they're out there working on our behalf. Graduate programs where we're running pretty much as we did last year, that I'll probably need something on the order. Over 5 thousand applicants for for graduate programs, probably a little higher than that. Those run a little later. As you know, the your programs and sell and some and some grad programs except applicants pretty much until the fall start at particularly those that have applied degrees for practitioners and and, and so on. So that'll that'll continue. But those, uh, those numbers look luxury. Good. Ud in marked as you'll recall from our conversations last fall evening, September, on a, on a full scale evaluation of graduate education on campus. And I said we would do this all across the, the year and beyond, of course in more than one year to do it. And we were doing it not because we have to, not because we're solving, confronting, or trying to solve some problem, but because we want to and, and why would and do we want to? And it is because our institution is a major Graduate University. I say that to you and I said to another group that was assembled. There was a group in the College of Arts and Sciences that Tom Apple it assembled to review graduate programs and psychologists and well, the same thing I just said. Yes. So but I could not have said that two decades ago. I could have. I could have look forward till it. I could've said we aspire to let I could have said a lot of nice things. I could have said we have some programs that rank amounts, right? But I couldn't say the University of Delaware, major Graduate University, but we are a major Graduate University. We have over 3400 graduate students as a percentage of our total student population is greater than Penn State. We're ranked by the Carnegie Foundation as a doctoral extensive research university. That means, that meant that's, that's the category for less than 4% of all higher ed institutions in the United States. And what it means is the minimum criterias that you offer at least 50 doctorates in 15 different fields. 15 different fields. We offer over 200 doctorates year over 200 in, IN over 40 different, different fields. And we could go on and on. But by pretty much any indicator of the character of the place. We are a major graduate institution, but all of that has been something that's transpired in recent decades. And, and I can look around and I see some of the people that help to make that be the case today. And solid is a good time because we've had this rapid ramp up of our graduate programs to take stock not simply with regard to the strengths and weaknesses of a particular problem or whether we as a university are organized. As effectively as we can because we should be, as we will be to support graduate education. One element of that I started with was my comment that we've appointed Carol a. Thurgood as Vice Provost for Research and Graduate Studies to give further voice to that, to that enter products. And so I've been working with the deans and they've been working with the chairs. And I expect this will filter out and has to the departments and the faculty and all of us to how we might go about strengthening our programs over the next few years are the focus of attention. There are many, yet the mass the focus of attention on student success. And what I've asked is that all of these refuse establish that as the first and foremost criterion for graduate program success. Not the only, but the first and foremost basis and benchmark for, for, for success of the programs. And so I've asked and I ask you and I've asked all of the deeds to consider what else we can do to strengthen the success of our students, success in the programs they have here. And working with all of you and other faculty and with other students. Success in terms of completion success and the time to completion success in the preparation, they have to go out and succeed and what happens to them after they leave the university. All the indicators that you would ordinarily applied to problems that we would do this university, why didn't they take at the same time a hard look at detailed look of what we could do at the college level and what we can do at the university level to further strengthen our graduate education. Someone asked me last fall about the investment graduate education. And if you're interested, you can get a lot of details from Dr. Thurgood, who actually was a review them this morning. But we spend something I'm close to $30 million on a university tuition scholarships. There was not too many years ago in 2001, when the minimum stipend for a graduate student was $9 thousand for the academic year next year of the $14 thousand. And we've made a commitment that it'll be incremented at least at the same rate as faculty salaries and so on. And we could go on in terms of those investments and that'll be continuous. That's what one would expect of a university that affirms it stature as a major graduate, a university, what's important that is to recognize that the investments we make really are in those dimensions and in areas where they can have the results that we desire. That's what this review is partly about. I expect that as programs come up with proposals that will come up as has to write, graduate education is dispersed, decentralized should be controlled by the faculties in different areas around the discipline or interdisciplinary area that there won't be proposals made for strengthening programs. And as I've said to you before, that those proposals that require some support at various levels and at the very least, though, require some transition support. To get from where we are now to where we might want to be. Maybe more than that, but at least transitional support. So I put together a font with, with help from a from the inner Dell Foundation and others for graduate improvement and innovation grants. And those grants ALL began to become available for consideration this spring for Awards next year. We're going through now the process by which that will work. But in a sense, it's clear it'll come up from the programs and the departments to the dean's offices with recommendation to Dr. third got into myself, I'm making those awards. And so while we look forward to all of the Senate's participation in this process because the improvements that will be recommended by the units, and I'm I'm looking at Charles Mason here, are going to end up on that in that committee? Yes. They go through in many cases and we'll we'll need and requiring deep consideration and review. So there'll be even more work in the next couple of years, I believe. I think there has been already. Those are my comments. Any questions? >> Yeah. Yeah. >> I was thinking about going back to the beginning of your remarks about our study abroad program. >> Extensive, unsuccessful. >> They've banned. >> And I was remembering that probably everyone here knows this. >> I shouldn't reiterated that the University of Delaware was actually the very first actual Chinese started such a program. But it has not been carried out with it. There was a height of 20 or 25 years, which I think roughly coincided, as I've just realizing, with Reagan's presidency, is there I likelihood that this good, that this grant program could ebb and flow depending upon the taster personalities of the people in the administration? >> Or is there a institutional commitment to maintaining a strong study abroad program? That Ooh, that's a good question. >> I think the program that was initiated in 1923 and that moved along for a while. And then even when I picked up was the result of the initiative of a small number of individuals. >> Okay? >> And it, it, it never deeply imprinted into the character of the institution. And it wasn't part of, if you will, my phrase yeah, wasn't part of the signature university of delaware education. It was wonderful. It was something we took pride in, that we were the first, but it really wasn't singer and we didn't do a great deal for many decades to make sure that, that international programs and for study abroad more available broadly across the campus to students in virtually every area of study. And that we had provided the financial support that's necessary to enable the faculty, university of delaware faculty. We're very distinctive study abroad program where our faculty where you go with the students abroad and they're taking courses with you. So this is an extraordinary experience for them. But hopefully As much for you so that a globalized the canvas and that we would make a sufficient investment to make sure that access to that opportunity was not dependent upon income. So that's meant a lot of investment scholarships, we've now done that. We're not finished, right? We're not finished. But I think where we are so far along in terms the moment of the imprints very deep and it's going to be sustained. Any other questions? >> Thank you and thanks. >> Spring. >> Thank you, Dale. >> Next on our agenda or announcements. >> And there is one or dusk representative to the Faculty Senate, Casey patriarchal wishes to share with us an item of information for crazily. >> Ng-if Good afternoon the dough are undergraduate students senate as the legislative branch of the student government here at the University of Delaware, the student senate works in close conjunction with its affiliate Executive Organization, the Deller undergraduate student congress, which is also known as dusk. All leaders of registered student organizations, or RSA's, an elected executive. Members of the desk. Bored at ten monthly meetings during the fall and spring semesters. I'm making an announcement today as the desk representative for the Faculty Senate on Monday, November sixth, 2006, the direct action committee and are so devoted to exploring the possibility for attaining faculty domestic partner benefits brought a proposal before the Student Senate. This proposal requested that the student government function as a mouthpiece to help them deliver their concern about the lack of domestic partner benefits for the faculty. The Senate voted in favor of the proposal. Therefore, I would like to read to you the following statement that was composed by the direct action committee specifically for this purpose to be read before the administration and faculty. Quote, the student body of UD here, by acting through its representative body, wishes to bring to the attention of the university the lack of domestic partner benefits for faculty and staff at u dv. This constitutes discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation as makes no allowance for couples who were not legally allowed to be married or choose not to do so, but are no less committed to each other. In response to this inequality, we propose that Udi immediately grant all nonmedical benefits, including but not limited to tuition remission and faculty access to faculty staff, and a domestic partnership. We also propose IUD launch a formal investigation into the financial and administrative preconditions necessary to provide a lump-sum to cover the cost of health care outside the University Health Plan, which will be presented to the Board of Trustees, Faculty Senate, and Student Senate. We also propose that UD immediately begin lobbying the state legislature to revise its health plan to include domestic partnerships and put Thank you for listening to this announcement. I'm willing to hear questions and concerns have or I cannot promise any answers as I'm not a part of the group that compose this statement at any concerns or questions for case yes. Limit are kind of wondering if that was or that I could say to the little black thing for someone like me who wanted to issue right or three, I'll make sure you communicate that to the data and yeah, I think yeah. >> Next we will move on to the consent agenda. >> And as you recall, all these items by the announcements for challenge and resolutions further back in the agenda come already moved. And second, we have 14 items on the announcement for challenge. And so what I'd like to do now is yes, if there any questions, comments, they'd be pulled for our later discussion in this meeting under a business. So I knew these 14 points, should they be pulled, otherwise, it will be accepted. Hearing none, but they are accepted as presented. >> Moving on in the agenda to the resolutions. >> Both these resolutions deal with provisional programs, but in discussion for their placement on the agenda, even though they do not go to the board of trustees, it was felt they should be individualized, presented as resolutions for individual vote. >> There are two of them. >> The first one deals with the termination of a provisional program. This is an undergraduate degree that was came out of the College of Agriculture, Natural Resources involving food resource economics and n1 Food Sciences, specifically the Food Science program. And because of our lack of student numbers and re visiting after the provisional status, it was pretty much the consensus in agreement that this program does terminate. Any questions on this? If not, we'll take a vote. >> All those in favor, please raise your yellow. >> Thank you. >> Those that are opposed, abstentions. >> Thank you. Passes unanimously. The second resolution deals with an extension. This is a graduate program and it deals it is a master's degree in health promotion. This law, as I said, was a provisional had provisional status, was evaluate it. And then upon that evaluation, it was felt that this program should be well, an essential given an extension, and the parties felt that a three-year extension will be adequate to see the program develop, and then it merits review after three years. So essentially this resolution deals with an extension. And any questions on this? >> If not, could I see all those in favor of hole up your cards, please? >> Thank you. >> Those opposed stanchions. >> Nine. >> Thank you. >> It passes unanimously. And as you can see from our agenda, we have I know items under old business, no items under new business. Any introduction of new business from the Senate floor? >> If not, could I hear a motion to adjourn? >> Second. >> Very good. Thank you.
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