The clock says it's 330 and we should start. We have three memorial tributes. One for Judy McGuinness, read by quietest, it'll break, it'll already 014 Maurice cope grid by Wendy billion and one for Maryanne Miller, read by Pam bulk or so. Can we go on? That? >> Is Professor Greg here, excuse me, Ax and Ay, because Judy, the year to the day, I dream that you have flown to my home in Latin America. And you can see me as the child who used to attach a start here. And you said to me as it is silent because you hadn't met the character maybe respect to meet you in these faraway land. I keep in my mind the many years of confidence shared wounds, all robots in your car when I could hardly pay for my expenses. And many more years and hours of intense conversations we have when you became the translator of my poetry. I cannot count the postcard digesters, the small details that made the journey of our friendship so beautiful since we first met at magmas meeting so long ago that I do not recall when it really happen, when you die. It was really a complex exercise to start thinking of here with tenses of the past. She was, she did. And it is just as painful right now to place you in that direction. The past when you allow me to share not only thoughts on your voracious reading, but also you're cooking the cakes. So deep recipes, the delight of a good strong coffee in your kitchen. Well, when all this happened, the press and suddenly it became passed last November, I had to write to Martin. Suddenly that wireframe in England. I'm sorry. How compose the news of your departure? You have Show Martha for years. You have Show Martha for years with give books, financial support. Even says You knew about her story as colon and defender of women, right? Who was incarcerated at severely tortured in Chile. As soon as you knew her story, you became a champion of kind of sensibility to care. She and rap music or worse, in the screening area. And our way from London, you invited him to lectures and measure fecal bacteria is traveling have not been in vain. She once told me that you were the only person who treated her like every other intellectual, that you were so dedicated, asking about her body and her past. On one occasion I saw you cry for the abuses. I think America, as you once rate my pool and on a graph and the confidence in the Dominican Republic. And you then gave me a Japanese book of butterfly, saying to me, I think there are your best symbolism. It is time to say to them, Achilles tumor cases worsen preference over this partnership. The partner formula, which is suddenly literatures at the university or they don't work for more than 30 years. Harris corner, she arranged from author from any modern Spain to Latin America contemporary literature. She wrote reviews, articles, participating conference, and is totally separate, as active as one can imagine, it was never enough for care to the sheet would have another projecting pirated or chest there when the previous one has been accomplish should advise or the way that the age of 62 due to a pulmonary cancer it was as I remember is suddenly they when she departure. It's rather difficult to imagine that such a bright they to carry away from one of us, the colleagues when we entered the profession. Every one of us is whether in the company of his corners. I was very fortunate that they also fund the company of the great human being. Cooking murkiness, My friend, do not rest in peace because resting pieces dangerous and deceptive. At a time when much love and compassion is needed. In the word, be. Here at the university, you love in the holes you knew so well in the streets and they could fit there. Yes. Just be here in the middle of the campus, in the middle of following perfect lights, in the middle of the struggle for life in America. In the painting, the race into compassion, always with mass shooting. Mccain is mighty. Good afternoon. My name is Wendy, buying them from the Department of Art History. I'll be reading a memoriam for Dr. Murray's e. Cope that was composed by David Stone. I'm afraid could not be here today. Dr. Maurice eco, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Art History at the University of Delaware. Died peacefully from pancreatic cancer at his home in New Castle, Delaware on February 26th, 2007, at the age of 81, a veteran of World War Two serving in the Pacific on a mine sweeper. Coke later attended the University of Chicago where he received his MA and PhD, PhD degrees in art history. He taught at Valparaiso University, the University of Chicago, Pomona College, Ohio State University, and for the final 24 years of his career at the University of Delaware. He retired in 990s that he's articles appeared in various academic journals. And his well regarded book, the Venetian Chapel of the sacrament in the 16th century was published in 1979. He also published an affectionate essay in 1991 on the drawings of his colleague Fellow specialist in Italian Renaissance art and his longtime friend, the late Philip fell in birds of a feather and exhibition catalog for the Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois. Recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship for study in Italy in 1954 to 55 cope return to florins for 18 months in 196768, helping to recover works of art damage in the 1966 blood. He received the university's Excellence in Teaching Award in 1978. Mori is everyone affectionately called him, was born February fourth, 1926 in Detroit to Henry II cope. In my regime, M cope were both physicians working for the State of Michigan. His father, his grandfather, Henry F. Cope, professor of religious education at the University of Chicago, founded a religious retreat at little point sable, Michigan over 100 years ago. His great-grandfather was a Civil War surgeon for the Union Army. Muri lead a happy life, traveling extensively in Europe and enjoying a deep interest in art, classical music, LA, and especially opera. He was a passionate and discriminating collector. Prints, especially those of the Renaissance and Baroque periods, endlessly generous and making his collection accessible to students, not only to, there wasn't his own seminars, but also to other professors and their students more I taught generations of Delaware students to look closely at objects and appreciate their complex techniques, range of quality, and subtleties of iconography. He survived by two sons, Thomas and Nicholas, a daughter, Cynthia, for grandchildren, a sister, and two nieces. I'm parent Butler and reading him a real tribute to Marion Miller, professor emeritus from the School of Nursing. Maryanne Miller are in PhD pass to a March 31st, 2007. She was a nursing faculty member at the University of Delaware from 1977 to 2002. Dr. Well, I was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Began her nursing education there at Carlo college. She was asked to stay on and become a nursing instructor. She soon moved across the state to Philadelphia to ten to attend the University of Pennsylvania. She received a Master's degree in Maternal Child Health Nursing and taught undergraduate maternity nursing for many years. And I might add in 1973, persuaded me to abandon my pre-med aspirations and go into nursing. Well, the pen. She was the recipient of the coveted Lynn back award for teaching. In 1977, she moved to the University of Delaware and began teaching career that spanned 24 years. She taught primarily graduate courses for specialty within nursing of women and newborns. It's sometimes said that every maternal child specialist nurse in Delaware had Maryanne Miller as an instructor. Today was her funeral. And it seemed like we were all there. During this time, Dr. Miller received her doctorate from Temple University in health education. Dr. Miller was the author of textbooks, many articles published in professional nursing journals. And she was an orphan and invited speaker at professional programs. She was a member of numerous professional nursing associations and held regional and national offices in the Association for Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses, and the Nurses Association of the American College of obstetricians and gynecologists. She served the University of Delaware and the Faculty Senate on committee on undergraduate records and certification. And I'm numerous college and department committees. She was the acting chair of nursing in 20012002. Dr. middleware will be remembered as a teacher committed to excellence, and is a mentor committed to students. She was straightforward, ethical, accountable, reliable, realistic. And while she could always see all sides of an issue, she knew what was the right thing to do. We who knew her and loved her will remember her enthusiasms for teaching, for students, for cruises, for shopping, for St. John Fisher church in their capital campaign, for Avon hand cream, for email remembrances and for friendships. She will be honest. >> We please stand of we observe a few minutes open quotes in honor of do part a colleague's. >> Thank you very much and you won't. >> Good afternoon. I'm going to well, this is the last of 340 presentations of the type. And and I I I've always been a very reluctant participant in all 34 times to be that they started off foam, if I may think backwards, where Bill was the people in attendance for the vice precedence of essentially no one else. And so I suggested to faculty senate that immediately should not have these things because I, I talk to the vice president on a regular basis. I don't need to do it in such a formal manner. So they went off and studied it as fact will sanity of senators are likely to do and decided they would append it to the beginning of our Faculty Senate meeting. Therefore, I would have a somewhat respectable attendance at the events. So here we are, the University of Delaware, one of things have been happening, very good things have been happening to the University of Delaware and we Romney Andrew High School Award for Innovation in international education. Recall best-practice school. And, and that's, that's great. I mean, that means half other places want to improve what they're doing. They should look at us. That's what best practice, best practice means. And it was presented by IIE March 30 In New York City. And in particular, that was presented in the dining room of the United Nations Building following a very nice, very nice luncheon where my, my lunch and partner was Mrs. High School who've survived. So Andrew High School has departed. It was coupled to around without an IEEE conference about a 190 people. And that's a photograph of Lisa Griffiths RVs that Griffiths making a presentation about, about internationalization and advising other schools about how to do or how advised him how it was done. At the University of Delaware. She gave a terrific presentation. I'm I mean, I'm I'm always proud of the University of Delaware, but she gave us even more reason to be proud of, was a really, really good presentation. And I would have hated to follow her on the stage and someone did, and I think they hated it to Lisa. Lisa is so his, his really very, very good and, and everything International since a provost rearrange things to put her in charge has grown and grown quite nicely. The University of Delaware, the number that they cited was set up in a, in a somewhat short period of time, we've gone from having an 11% of our graduating seniors having had on International, a study abroad experience to presently 43%. And we have the program that should be over 50% in fairly short order. The biggest issue in the growth of that are, are additional scholarships, is additional scholarships at four. And we're looking for for some more of that. And I'm hoping that that will be successful. And still more students going to have a study abroad experience. We didn't win the award only for study abroad, although that alone deserves an award. But it was for the entire program. Look, put matters international. And that's what Lisa talked about. And for all the involvement of faculty from across the university and staff members as well. A word about the faculty name, faculty positions now number a 110, which is roughly a third of the full professors at a university. So it's enough now that it really can function as what we had hoped it would is a fourth rank at the University, assistant, associate, full and named Professor. So, so any faculty and down some back of those, they average out around three quarters of a million dollars for, for, for each of them have very reasonable goal is to have that become in excess of a million dollars and backup of each one of them, a million dollars generates something like 45 thousand Rs, which can help their research programs helped salary issues. So whatever, the grants and contracts have increased a lot in recent years from 40000000.260000000 times four. And that's been a very precious thing. Yeah. I don't near at lunchtime today. Actually, at lunchtime today, we went down and saw a new bus on campus, a non polluting. So we're not solar cell. What fuel cell? Fuel cell bus. And we had two of our three congressional representatives, or Mike Castle and Tom Harper. Their biden is probably in Iowa or perhaps New Hampshire or South Carolina were all so possibilities that were suggested. And they've been very helpful in enact growth. And when you see them, you should acknowledge it to the, the their activities, their, their help in getting the university and included in federally sponsored programs amounts to about 4% of the total budget of the University of Delaware. 4% of the total budget of the University of Delaware. So they've done very, very well. Boils faculty diversity. That's been a concern and one that certainly the administration has felt. And so this is sort of a busy chart. But the way you read it across the top line is since 1985, the faculty size has increased by 42, 7% since 95 by 22.1%. And in 2006 there were 1117 faculty members at but some snapshot was taken man of increased by their numbers or 18.79%.8 limit of increased much more rapid way at a 113% of 49%. And African-Americans have heavy, increased even more quickly at 276% and so on. You see the numbers had disappointing part is the right hand column. Still don't know where it is we want it to be. But in 2006, we hired 50 to 55 new faculty members, nine of whom were African Americans, three, Hispanic and Asian Americans. So, so we expect to see those numbers moving. The red hand in this one, the right hand, far right hand column, we expect to see those numbers be moving and moving to not bigger numbers. As, as time goes looking ahead, the current higher processes going well, this sort of paradigm and in, in hiring used to be, can we fill that position? And that's no longer the paradigm. Paradigm now is, can we judge talent because we are in fact hiring the people to whom we offer the job, the first choice. So the paradigm becomes how good are we at judging the tackled of new faculty members? And I like being in that position. I think that we're judging very, very well. In fact, there's some evidence of that in what used to be called, it started by Ronald Reagan called the precedential young investigators. And you had to be under 35 It was in science, mathematics, and engineering. Precedential young investigators who had to be under 35 in your career head to have a very high trajectory. And, and some, someone along the way said, what shouldn't have an age requirement on it. It should instead have a time since degree requirement on it because people aren't all the same age when they got their degrees. So they said okay, font. And it will be now called an Early Career Award. And it will be, it will be your first ten years after the degree. Again, Ohio trajectory, they're hard to get. But our faculty now, Dan riches in the audience. I think our number is a 107. Dan hundreds. Yeah, there's a 107 people. Now, that's just one precinct of the faculty that science, mathematics, and engineering that we're talking about. And that's very distinct, that is very, very distinguished. And it's interesting, we have a 107 early career awardees and we have a 110 unnamed faculty positions. So we're gonna have a place to put those people as, as time goes. Oh, well, perhaps I will tell you, the friends of the university, I have been very receptive to the idea of named faculty positions and have helped us with, with that quite a lot. And we have a pretty good spread of them by department or around, around the campus. So we're still looking for more of them and I hope we'll be successful in years ahead. The admissions profile at the University of Delaware, we went over 23 thousand applications for the first time. And that there's been a couple of articles in Wall Street Journal and New York Times that have given other people so number of, number of applications. And, and you can sort of get an idea of where the University of Delaware is. What is unusual. Our situation at the University of Delaware is that not all, but almost all of our applicants are from out of state, more than 20 thousand applicants from outside the state of Delaware. That's not for any reason. Other than Delaware small, there just aren't that many high school graduate sets the deal. We get more applications from out-of-state students than does any other public university. >> Michigan. >> His second, a distant second, actually. So, so it won't surprise you that we're putting together a really big classes last year. You know, it's kind of interesting because the better the students are, the more options they have. And, and we had gone along with increasing number of applications. It was in 1990, it was, it was so 1200 and some applications to the university. And we accept it 85% of the students who applied in 1990, we're now well under 50% of the students who are accepted. But we went along with the students getting better, students were getting better and our acceptance rate that their acceptance of us. The percentage of those students we accepted who actually enrolled kept going up. And that's counter intuitive because kids with more opportunities might be more likely to take those opportunities. And so you would expect that the students who enroll, the percentage to go down a little bit. And it didn't for years, but it did last year. So we have a little smaller freshman class and then we had an lawn and a little smaller undergraduate student body than we had in line this year. Part of the reason for the undergraduate that it being a little less than we had thought we had hoped we had wanted is the slightly smaller freshman class and had been plan we also have a higher graduation percentage in four years or even less than four years than we've had before. That sort of figures. You know, if you say, you know, dA, we should've thought that was coming because kids are getting better. It makes sense that they're going to graduate a little more quickly and be a little bit more serious as, as student. So, so anyhow, that's where we are and admissions. This was our first year without Early Decision admission. Harvard got an awful lot of publicity about that. The dean of Harvard College is a friend of mine. The morning that Harvard made our announcement, he sent a note to me and said, once again, harvard follows del wisely. We hadn't announced at several weeks before, actually has several months before Harvard to we have a record number of students of color in the shoots class. Very encouraging, but I mean, it is, it's not only a record, it shattered the previous record. And so we're hoping for more diversity in the student body. Kids from all 50 states. We found someone from South Dakota and 57 foreign countries and end up not quite half of them indicated on on your application that at the University of Delaware is her first choice. And we had the SAT scores have gotten a little polluted. This number, 1200 means verbal Plus math, not including the writing sample. Our facilities facilities. And we're going to build a new enrollment services building. And there's both a push and a pull to do that. The pole is that the admissions office in particular should be meeting our guests, visitors, applicants, families in, in, in a better in a better location, a better situation than they're currently able to do it. And there's nothing really wrong with where they are there in an office space in Hawaiian Hall. That's a little bit hard to find. And when you get there, you're in an office space as opposed to a nice reception area and so forth. This sort of things that would be more appealing to, to our visitors. We're going to mix with them financial aid and registrar's office. There's a lot of fun, a lot of ways that those, those, those three offices interact and share information and they can share. Ca clerical kinds of assistance and so forth. And it will be it will that all everybody I've named there is either being removed from Holly on call or is being temporarily has already temporarily and moved from polygon Hall and the current visitor centers not adequate for the number of visitors you probably saw when you were walking in here today, we have an awful lot of people who are visiting, visit our campus. We think construction will begin in May. And the architect is, here's Saint Gross. Think Croesus, also the architect of the new dormitories and the architect of the Center for the Arts. He's done good workforce in the past. And here's a visual look of it. It'll be on the corner of South college. And what's enabled that street? Winslow. Yeah. So so just beyond where the visitor center is now. And the does the face, your face facing south college will make a statement about the kind of architecture that so prominent its head at the University of Delaware, red brick with, with the Georgia. So, so that, that's what a book. The layered residence halls phase three, we've built, we've built three new dormitories on their campus. George Read Hall, it's 500 beds, Thomas McCain Hall, it's 250 beds. And Smith, What does Smith's name? James pith. Some likely story when he checked into a motel, I bet people. But anyhow, James Smith and, and they are the three signers of the Declaration of Independence. So that's 1000 beds, five hundred, two hundred fifty. Two hundred fifty added to the approximately 1400 fats that are in the towers. So we have 2400 students beds right in that location. And this building is going to be a 600 bit residence hall. And it will be of the same style as the three dorm setup already been built. And it will also have a fitness center and an artificial turf recreation field. It started there doing site work there now, and it's going to look like the upper right in, into building. The lower left picture locates it more clearly. George Reid is to the extreme right, and then McCain is next building moving towards the main campus and in Smith. And the new building will be the L-shaped affair facing it. And the grassy area between Smith and a new build name will be artificial turf. That choice is to have it be artificial turf or mud. Those are really the only two choices because it will be a playing field. And so, so, so we think artificial turf will serve the purposes of very well indeed as a handsome area. It will be an area of 3 thousand students all altogether in one location. And it has really interesting programming. Issues for the student life people, the Undergraduate Science Building. This is something that we ought to do and it's also very strategic. What we would like to do is remove the teaching labs in sciences, and particularly with the sciences, out of the place where the science faculty reside. And what that would enable us to do be, enable to, to renovate the teach, what are now teaching laboratories and have them be research laboratories and have them be with easy access by, by, by the faculty that will help the, the sponsored programs that will help the faculty members hits. It's just a good thing to do. And in the meantime, we'll have a very modern, Good place in which to teach science to, to undergraduates. Once again, the architect is air Saint Gross of Baltimore, Maryland. It will look like that. Now this I hesitate to say the following. What I've shown you is we're gonna build that dormitory that's under construction. We are going to build the enrollment services building. This project has on our wishlist and it's on the wish-list that I'll pass on to the next administration. My wish was spent. Perhaps it will make it onto their wish list as well. So it will look like that. It's diagonally across the street from, from chemical engineering, from Kohlberg Hall. It's directly across the street from Pearson hall. Across the side street from from Pearson hall. So you have a okayed it. If we build this process will be built. If we build this facility will be building on a parking lot, not unlike the Center for the Arts. And, and we will therefore need to build a parking deck. And we would probably do that and continue though the plan of putting park parking decks on the perimeter of the institution? If you think about the parking deck on out and wrote that's on the perimeter. If you think about the parking deck up at Turbo that's on the perimeter of the campus. And the parking deck and backup Perkins student-centered is also surely on the perimeter. So we'd put another one probably in back of Pearson Hall so that it would be on the perimeter and trying to minimize the traffic that's on campus. It has much as, as we're able to and also easy access and egress for people who park. So that's a wishlist projector, but we have a lot of the architecture down. We have enough of the architecture done to know I have a pretty good idea of what it will cost a lot is, is here's what it would be that, that, that will be a that's a that's a big project. That would be an expensive project to undertake, but it'll be a good one if it can be done. Brown lab renovations, we've been a little bit of time getting to this. I think in many ways Brown as the last building The green to be to be renovated or maybe the physics building is would would qualify, although a number of things have been done interior to that, build new, but this is a down to the walls renovation, completely new mechanical spaces and and and so forth. And a lot of new partitions of how spaces is located and so forth. We're doing it in two phases. In the first phase was was completed at the end of 2006 and the rest of the program will be completed at the end of 2007. That's a project to cost somewhere between $2530 million, probably about $28 million by the time that it's all done. There have been some surprises in that are always surprises when, when you, when you renovate an older facility, those surprises are in way of disappointments usually. And in fact, if you find out that things are going to cost more, but it's a, it's a it's a nice space. It's it's coming along and and and it's appropriate that to that to renovation be done. I will mention to you that Brown lab, if you you look at it from the air, look down a lot. It's in the form of a C. And it's in the form of a c in the open in the middle. That is, it was open and that now space has all been closed and it'll be make part and parcel of the chemistry facilities. And the the the south leg of the sea had been renovated a number of years ago, probably 9096, something like that, ten years ago. And so it's only the two legs of the sea that are being renovated, all floors and this new space covered in-between. There have been some administrative changes that campus in are going to be a few more on the way. We're searching for vice president for student life and oversight of campus by of career services and so forth. You can read the list of things that searches now on-going. And the initial list of applicants has been winnowed yet and are some interviews that are taking place. And it will be finalists here probably, probably before to all night unless something happens that we don't understand at this point. I'm going to say something to you all, but about student life. 5-years ago, our Vice President for Student Life, Rowan Smith retire. And it occurred to me that if if I wasn't paying a salary to a vice president for student life, I could spend it on other things. And, and so I said, Well, I'll try it and I'll I'll I'll try convening This group of people and talking about issues of importance to students and student life and so forth. And I've done it for five years and it's really been, it's really been fun. It really has. And, and, and I don't think we hurt student life at the University of Delaware. And in the process, I think the people enjoyed it and I enjoyed them. We have at University of Delaware, I can tell you, I I didn't really, you know, I knew the people, but I didn't really know their capabilities until until they reported to me. We have a very, very competent group of people maybe with all kinds of prizes about the student, in student life, in that sort of environment of the institution. And, and you can really count on they do things well, they do more things than our typical and they do them much better than its typical. So I think it's always, faculty often don't get to know people around. But the faculty at the University of Delaware are not the only people who are very competent in their jobs. The student life people certainly qualify as such, and so do people from a lot of other precincts at University of Delaware. And I hope you'll always remember that as you go about your dealings on, on campus. One of the things that I've seen happen sometimes on campus life and my long career is occasions when faculty members thought that they were perhaps a little higher on the food chain than, than our other people. But the institution, it's their locations on the food chain are pretty comparable for for everybody at the University of Delaware. And I would, I would I would have you mean that and I would also you know, we've done a lot of reductions in staffing at, at the University of du over and up free structs enough, enough, we've been able to keep the employee pretty constant. But within that employee, Kevin, we've added about 200 faculty positions. So the fact that we could reduce the position shows a certain measure of competence. The fact that we've been able to increase the faculty count by about 200 should engender your gratitude to all the people who have done that. >> And it's possible to grow the Faculty of Science at the institution. We filled a position, new vice president for finance. His name is Rob Spector and he has experience at Baruch College most recently before that, at Oregon State University and Montana State University. And he's home bore. He started in late February and he's on board and doing very, very well. He seems to be a very quick study and he really And it takes the place of Steve gribble who retired six years ago. And at which point David Powell said what I just said about the vice presidency for student life. And so David has been the treasure in addition to the Executive Vice President for the past six years. So the two of us were doing sort of double duty and trying to make some additional money available to do some of the things we wanted to do. And the most important in a leadership transition, or the most, well, I'm not sure, but most important and important part of the transition is, is the coming of Patrick Harker, currently the Dean of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. >> And that's, that's a great hire, I think. >> God, I mean, it's a great hire because of his current position, but I think all of you will think it's a great harm because of the person. He's a Quick Study, he's young, he's energetic, is 48 years of age. And, and I think that he will be a very, very good addition to, well, to the University of Delaware. I will tell you also that the search was so, was very confirming of, of our place in this institution's place in higher education. We had really good applicants with several sitting precedence. We have provost from, from very impressive institutions and I better not name them. We had to, let me tell you, when we had the dean of Harvard College was a, was a candidate in our search. It was a very, very confirming search. The kind of the quality of the people who answered our call. There were also some people who were but, but in, in, in the last group we had, we had very, very good people who do, don't put that dean of Harvard College in you daily, right? Don't you dare do that, right? >> Oh, that's it. >> That's my presentation. >> And and and end with a capital E for me. >> And any questions that I might be able to answer, please. David building sector dormitory space. When he said I said diminished a little bit with respect to this year and also around town, I notice a lot more housing for rent that in the past is going to be. And a lot of students even refer to live off campus, it would be hard to fill this dormitory space or we go to dramatically increase aren't running, we don't think it will be at all. Won't be at all. >> Part two. >> And we'll be back to where you if you look at undergraduate enrollment at the University of Dover, it is a straight line for, for about the last ten years. And this year it went down a bit for the two reasons that that I said it'll be backup up, it'll be back up by next fall. I'm pretty confident what has grown. The growth activity at University of Delaware has been a graduate student population. And the reason that is grown is that faculty who've been very successful getting grants and contracts. And that that's the case at every, every you you look at the size of the graduate program. Particularly in science and engineering at an American university. And you can estimate the size of their sponsored program account by the size of the graduate student population. So that has grown. A lot, is growing because grants and contracts have grown. Anybody else? Thank you all very much and thank you for what you do for the university. I, I, I, I, I think the idea of shared governance is a good one and I hope it lasts a very long time into the future. Thanks a lot. >> Thank you very much. But you're on your way with that. >> Why don't we begin today's meeting? First of all, I'd just like to thank someone. >> Doctor is l, of course that's, that's obvious. >> But also Karen Stein or parliamentarian couldn't be here today for a meeting. Jeff jordan graciously agreed to fill in and function in the role parliamentarian. >> So want to thank Jeff before we get underway. >> So we'll start with the adoption of the agenda Hera emotion. A second. Any comment on the agenda at this point? Now, all in favor, please say suppose Thank you. The agenda is adopted and the approval of the meeting minutes from our last meeting on March fifth. >> Because I hear a motion, please. >> Second Any adjustments to the agenda? Limited upside minutes. Thank you. If not, all those in favor, please say I posed. Thank you. The minutes are accepted. Provost Dan rich won't speak at this meeting, WHO speak at our next meeting in May. So with that, I'd like to ask, I've aren't Abraham live? >> Come forward and who maybe good. >> I don't expect a standing ovation at the end of this. You're welcome if you'd like. I just want to take a couple of minutes just to give you an update on the Discovery Learning document that we put together, the general education committee, that really refers to the Faculty Senate resolution that was passed in May of 03 that requires, that requires all undergraduate students entering the university in September of our five and later to take at least three credits, discovery base or experiential learning. That particular resolution that was passed alluded to a number of different opportunities that we have for students that relate to study, to discovery learning. What we've tried to do with respect to the General Education Committee is really give the faculty and departments and units a little broader definition of this, a little more. And we help them understand a little bit as to how this can be applied in a more generic way and more specific at the same time. With that in mind, we know we need to decide what discovery learning really is. >> And I will refer you to a document that is attached to the Senate agenda today. >> It's a six or seven page document that really broadens or this out really explains it all to you and which you can refer to in detail. I'm just going to highlight a couple of things in that document. I asked you to go to their document for more information. Obviously, the Jeanette committee, the genet office, the assessment office, all open to discussion on this and you will feedback. We're hoping it's close. What we really are talking about when we talk about discovery. Learning is really an opportunity for students to learn by doing, is to try and have them work in a context that at least is in some ways related to real life, to have them reflect on that. And it takes place primarily outside of the classroom. I know that they're going to be some questions about what does that mean? Can they do it inside the classroom? How do we design classroom experiences to do this? And I hope we answer some of those in the document. The I think the one thing that you will find in this document that is different to some of the things we've seen in the past coming out of, out of companies like General Education is we've really focused on learning outcomes. Or learning or learning objectives with respect to discovery learning, one of the questions we get is, well, what is it that students have to do? What are the non-negotiable items with respect to Discovery Learning. And I'll say to you that at least the two learning goals you're seeing in front of you now are the non-negotiable items. I think that general enough that everyone can apply them within their own contexts and hopefully they won't preclude a, a plethora of different experiences for students where they get an opportunity to experiences. They really refer basically two, to the two objectives that we want you to concentrate on. Our critical thinking skills as an effective response to an out of classroom experience. And the other piece that we seen in all the documentation that we reviewed outside of this institution was this idea about reflective and reflective learning and intentional learning. So it's important we focus on these two things. They are some other basic requirements of the Daily. One is that ideally needs to be supervised. Another is that it needs to be some product that the students actually organic produce. That they, that they have clear expectations of what it is that's expected of them through the discovery learning experience. And that it is of sufficient depth and breadth that it requires at least it relates to the three credits that they need to earn for discovery learning. I'm not gonna say much more. What are the kinds of experiences I see? We've sort of expanded out that initial list colors from senior thesis all the way down to courses that meet the daily learning goals and requirements. And those I'll, I'll come back to in terms of what the role is of the faculty senate in this process, I do make a special note. We do make a special note of study abroad and service learning, as those two experiences will automatically count as discovery learning experiences. I think you will see some changes, at least in the study abroad program, to actually reflect those learning goals that we alluded to up front. So it's not just a matter of studied abroad, but you're gonna find that coming out of the study abroad office and international programs, you will find that a separate set of requirements for students that aren't going to be hopefully too onerous. But we're really come back to some of the ideas around learning objectives related to Discovery. Obviously, the Faculty Senate has a large role in this, as we need somebody to actually look at some of these things. Courses, again, efforts, of course, it'll be generated out of departments, out of units. It will go through the Faculty Senate approval process. It'll be linked to their approval process, will be something like multicultural or, or first-year experience will be a link in the modern design when you're putting through new courses, it'll link to the Discovery Learning document that you can refer to. There will be an independent review of those courses and already on the books again, hopefully it won't be too onerous. But there has to be some control or some feedback given to courses that are being proposed. In the sense they are going to be opportunities for individualized experiences. I think you look at things like independent studies and we will have a process in place when independent study will be approved at the departmental level, really for discovery learning. And those kinds of individual experience would not come through. The faculty said, Martha's office will be doing a lot of the coordination of integrating this into the system. Assessment obviously is a piece of all of what we do. And they will be the assessment of discovery learning experiences. There'll be both a reflective journal, Journal Learning Portfolio type approach that you can take within departments. And also there will be a small but fairly simple form that we're working with with the Assessment Office for the unit site, for the unit experience. So with that, I don't want to spend too much time on this. I really want to refer you to the document. I wanted to bring it to your attention. I know they will be some questions as we go forward. I'm happy to take some now. Hopefully I'll be able to help. Questions again, this will be, this will be disseminated to the assistant deans. >> I think the chairs will get it and the document will be placed on the website of the senate together with the website for general education. >> And please feel free if you have questions once you read the document detail, I'd be happy to try and help. >> Okay. No questions. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Moving on to announcements. And I just have one and it's a pleasure to do this. >> Now. Move out front truck. >> Mason, please come now here, Chuck, this is award is given every year. It sorted by it is for someone goes above and beyond the call of duty. It's a Faculty Senate commendations and I'll just read parts of it. University of Delaware Faculty Senate wishes to acknowledge the extraordinary leadership and service provided to the Senate by Dr. Charles II. >> Amazing. >> It goes on to what Chuck and how he served the Faculty Senate. And I don't know if I'm long-winded enough to list them all. So I'll just I mentioned a few and the elected senator Executive Committee Vice President. And we're not just talking one year, but the several years of service here. Graduate studies coordinating committee, undergraduate studies, cocaine, P and T, vegetarian space priorities are now serving as chair of the graduate studies committee. So I just say on behalf of the faculty said I'd like to thank Jack and all the service over the years on our behalf. >> John, thank you very much. >> And now to business. >> Okay. For the consent agenda today we have 21 items. Ten are from the Undergraduate Studies Committee at 11 or from the Graduate Studies Committee. >> I think most of us know how this works. >> They come on moved in second. It so now, if there are any that anyone wishes to be pulled and move to new business for discussion and separate vote. >> And now is the tie lines by the Arthur find spreads to the BA degree. >> Okay. >> Not as trivial as the other 20. >> So that's a new business and deal with at the end of the meeting. Any others? If not, they are accepted. Thank you. And we'll talk about item nine under new business resolution. And again, we'll resolutions are six in number. They all deal with the addition of new majors. >> Thank you ever. >> Okay. >> First bullae and as always, go through each of these and vote on it separately. >> Again, they come moved and second it. So well, just take them one at a time. >> And the first one deals with the BS majoring Quantitative Biology. >> And a discussion on this item before we vote. If not, all those in favor, please raise your placard lang tag. >> Thank you very much. >> That was opposed and sustaining self.name slink. Thank you. Item number two, resolution number two rather deals with a BS major in psychology. Any comments, questions, discussion on this resolution. >> Up hearing? >> None. >> All those in favor, please raise your placard. Moon. >> Thank you very much. Opposed. >> Forgot Ron's billion now abstention. Unanimous approval. >> Thank you. >> Resolution number three. >> This one deals with the BS major and cognitive science department linguistics comment discussion. >> All those in favor, please raise your card. >> Thank you. To post stage abstentions nine again. Unanimous. >> Item number four. >> This is the honors major and cognitive science remarks. >> All those in favor, please raise your card again. >> Thank you. Posed one substantia none is 100 mm. Item number five, resolution number five. This deals with a new major in mathematics education. Remarks, discussion none. All those in favor, please hold your yellow card. >> Thank you. >> Post done stanchions? None unanimous. Thank you. And the last resolution, number six is a new major and Black American Studies discussion. None. All those in favor, please raise your cards. Opposed abstentions. Unanimous. Thank you. That's accepted as well. Moving on and to our new business item deals with item number nine, Atlas. Pull from our consent agenda for discussion with bachelor. Candace deals with the request to revise the arts and sciences breadth requirements for the BA degree. And wants to start, if this would be a question you would you wish to further? >> It is all items only afferents are naughty of that. >> What is particularly any would you wish to request the guards department to reduce the total breadth requirement by one force each of the four sections. So the scientists would go down to three. Science is each of the, each of the ABCD areas would be reduced to three huge, so that students would have more opportunity to explore reminders and to get other coursework involved are committing. Heard it first last spring, I believe, and we were initially opposed. We ask that the Helots assessed all of the courses that were on each of the breadth requirements and make sure that the course has met the criteria that they had to initially, it does. So they're doing an assessment now. I believe it's a three-year plan and they're looking at all the courses, but we have approved the reduction with the assessment piece in place. The basic argument, the requirements are just too time-consuming presently for students. It's not time-consuming. It's exploring other miners and the other educational opportunities, it's limiting. >> Is there going to be a requirement that students pursue minors and other educational opportunities or or is the proposal just to reduce each category by one course? >> The proposal was to reduce each category by one. Wasn't with a mandate that they pick up a minor self-correct DNAPL might crack. So the proposal is just to free up some time for students to use, however they fail to use a free credits that can we take it for yet another redshift itself, say note the CCW regression, right? Same number of credits to graduate. You are giving them more opportunity. >> But maybe that just doesn't, I mean, unless it's a real problem for students to fulfill the curb requirements. >> It sounds to me like weakening the requirements. And I I don't quite see the the upside. I'm surprised because you come from the College of Arts and Science, correct. Well past budgetary and there was a lot of debate and there was a lot and I thought, well, it's mainly on no, no, why are we doing this side of the debate? There was debate alleyway through yeah, it was a three-year permission. >> Now is the way I understood it and I shouldn't write. >> Yes. >> The discussion started about five years ago in a committee at a retreat. It's right now virtually impossible for students to double major and still meet all these requirements and do discovery learning just like so. It was hotly debated at the college. How many of you know the College of Arts and Sciences, it's not artists, Arts and Sciences. Discuss, discuss this for about a year and a half. We hold several fora across the college. A great deal of discussion, certainly not in a uniform mode on this. Many disagree, but the preponderance of the faculty senate in college support this in order to allow so it doesn't prohibit any students taking the same number that they do now, the various group apartments, but it gives them the option so that they can minor, double-major, do discovery learning down the road. Hopefully capstone, which simply is impossible. >> The requests for assessing the courses that are currently listed in the breadth requirement was a purpose of over twice to the some of the choices, the various categories 20 years ago that that they're still meeting what they say they're meeting for each of the facts requirement. And we also asked to have that criteria available for public knowledge so that students are aware on their syllabus. This course means that the a requirement, because it wasn't. >> So we did ask that the college, by the way, has formed, is forming, I should say, a committee of 12 to look at various departments as undergraduate studies committees, charged as Tony Sarah fins organizing that as a subcommittee of our Educational Affairs Committee of our college faculty said, just get an explanation of how the assessment of whether the ports that are already there meet the breadth requirements has anything to do with giving these students quite a few number of free electrons that they didn't have before. >> What is, what is it that, what does the assessment doing that in some way is off-setting. >> It seems like there's a concession here. >> Where did this provisionally accepted at farms, we approve that the forces that are listed are doing what they're doing. >> But these forces have been in place for a long time, wisely assessment coming now. >> And what does that have to deal with? >> The fact that we're ESL students? >> Think less of them. >> I won't be able to go together at all. >> Well, to begin with, it's reducing it by 12 credits, which does open that it makes it available for students to be able to double major. >> But why is a provisional upon this assessment? If the assessment is just looking to see if the class is doing what they're supposed to be doing. >> The assessment is to look to see that they're meeting the requirements of each breath area. So whichever their breadth area is that they have to meet that. >> There are courses that are listed that are we're not sure if they meet. >> And we asked for the assessment as a part of the reduction. >> So we could do the assessment without the reduction and solve the same out of making sure the proportions are doing wonderfully going. >> It seems like there's two separate issues here. One is the arts and science breadth requirements, doing the breadth exposure that we want them. >> So that's one issue. And then the other issue is, should we allow students to have 12 free elective credits to do whatever the wildlife, yeah. >> One thing I think one thing that motivated linking these two things is the concern on, on some parts that are watering down the curriculum by allowing, is seeing NOW come below the number of courses to count, but requiring few of them. So again, this, I think lends some, at least, you know, credibility to the process. >> If we're ever going to minimize the number of courses that they have to take. We want to make really sure these courses are going to do what they've been doing. >> It again, this u, right, this should be happening on a routine basis anyway, but especially now, it seems to be absolutely essential. >> And it seemed at least, I think to the Undergraduate Studies Committee that it made no sense to approve this out that stipulation because otherwise we really do run the risk of watering down with forces. >> Because man, there's a million courses they can take and they just have to take fewer of them. And acceptable for one other question I wanted to add to this is, if we're going to put some sort of provisional approval on this, why not do an assessment of how students are going to use these paul credits per year. Why not see whether or not there really are students taking more double major or minor? >> Or are they taking morphine? >> Electives that really don't seem to make any sort of curricular sentence. That seems to me like something that we could look back on three years of working or it's not working, but that hasn't been suggested. >> Well, see, I think would be easy to see how that could be built into the assessment part. And that's a really good idea. >> But again, keep in mind, and the point is, is that the curriculum has been changing over the past few years. So now we are requiring discovery learning. We're requiring no first-year experience. We're going to require capstones problem. >> All these years spent. >> How can we do this stuff? We only got a certain number of credits to work with. >> And I think this is one way of addressing Yeah. >> So I mean, the general education requirements are still going to be pretty extensive. It's just they're being redistributed up, having different weights that are observed retention. By the way, she said it wasn't mandated to us by undergraduate studies, but that, that, that he had affairs goals have Yusef and many of the proposals that undergraduate sees. >> It has three to six credits free electives that set. So if a student wants to explore anything outside of their major, their limited Thank you. I kind of dismissed it, but as the earlier discussion was going on in the College of Arts and Sciences, I don't remember a lot of discussion of sort of alternative ways to help students double, major or minor. And I noticed that a lot of students are kind of solving the, the time problem for themselves by doing online courses. But maybe not the best way to do the course. >> But I would say I do an online course and great Western philosophers, and it's better Great Western philosophers online that no great Western philosophers at all. >> Which is kind of how the new, you know, the, the, the move to simply cut out a course. >> Sounds Man. >> I'm wondering if it might be better before we agree to just chop off a quarter of the requirements to at least discuss other ways of helping students to meet the time constraints. >> So I have talked to someone about this in the past and I don't remember who it was, but I cannot see that as anything but an attempt to water down the Bachelor of Arts degree in being a very strong believer in the breadth requirements to the Bachelor of Arts degree to try to educate people to deal with unexpected things later on instead of really training them to deal with problems. Certain specialty, I think that's the big difference to the Bachelor of Arts degree offers as opposed to say, divide supervised degree or whatever. And I out is maybe a losing proposition, but I intend to vote against this. >> As I started this discussion, to repeat what I said at the beginning of the reason I want to I want to pull this way so we can have this conversation. >> I think I think we were all agree there's a big change and it's worth talking about. >> Having said that now that I'm sure that this is the one I thought it was. >> I might actually like seeing a paper of it. >> If you think about it in terms of sort of comparison with other institutions, the kinds of, of, of comparable programs that exist. >> And other institutions that I know about usually divide things up not into 4-bit into three. >> Usually it's sort of a certain number in humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. >> The typical thing, which I think it is where I used to be, that's what it was. >> It was four. >> And each of those three areas ended up to total of a dozen classes, 36 credits. >> So what we're cutting back to, it's actually live what everybody else injure you. And that's the reason I'm comfortable with it. >> Actually, after I thought about is that world, worldly cutting back to sort of the level everybody else does. >> Bullets have higher standards after all kinds I to me it's reasonable. That's right. Yes. >> I'd like to speak for and also because it seems to me more and more students majoring or adding multiple titers. And we seem to be offering a lot of miners in college. >> And I think that's a good thing, but it's a challenge, trying to fit it in their curriculum. >> And how that, how can you take this mini majors? You find that there is a pretty thoughtful rationale for it in the attachment. If you if you would click to the attachment, scroll down on the rationale. >> I think he didn't open for those with yeah. >> Yeah, it slows my computer science know. >> So this is known as validated. So I think my abilities Harold and emphasis as you could have is have my well wacko writer read it, but my hair. >> So I made you already read again. >> Easier best judgment as far as There you go. >> You got it. >> I mean, it's pretty well worded. >> That's my pocket can be equal to the time that this might appreciate her rash sections are actually very grand current number. I'll just let you read this. >> You can see it further remarks just to reinforce learning. >> And we know it's one fact that larger number of more applicants who are stronger come to the university, haven't intentioned double majoring or having interests that will result in multiple minors. And that was part of the discussion I can say that upheld this even five years ago when that was less true than it is today. And it will be more true in the future if the pattern is that students will be looking to choose among very fine universities, those with, which provide them with actually after you do a more rigorous program, slightly less rigorous program of study, but one that's different from the traditional distributor distribution. >> So emotion, Nikola, question, we'll push second guy, can't do that. We're going to call it just do it and that's why we should proceed. Well, if there's no more discussion just on the basic itself, if you call a question timber Oh, I didn't mean to make it more complicated on second thought, I think I know where disguise. >> Okay. Thank Jeff. >> That's why is here any further discussion? >> Yeah, sure. >> Okay. If not, why don't we vote that all those in favor? Could you please put your think always leave count probably like thank you of all those opposed. Thank you. Abstentions passes. Thank you. And that takes care of that. I am. And so all that's remaining is introduction of new business floor. Anyone wish to introduce new item for our next meeting? >> If not Hermitian, hopefully there's something that's less skewed as President Roosevelt's address reminded me of this question. >> Is there any thinking about doing some kind of accommodation for present result service in the context of his retirement. >> And if if not if that's something that we wanted to, there was an idea to you, there are plants, Yeah. >> Ok. >> So set it of course, has done what was rather extraordinary. >> You are recognizing that Roosevelt was retiring, presented him with accommodation recognition service, which I know was often worry was based not on substance achievements during his term, but without knowing that his term was coming to an end. >> But yesterday, Mark Blanche to recognize service institution and some of those plans would incorporate patient care. >> Very good. Die here unless you're doing so. Thank you.
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