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Elected Faculty Council Minutes (01/12/04)§ The EFC convened in 114 Anderson at 10:30, Monday, January 12, 2004. In attendance were: Gerard Schreuder, Doug Sprugel, Linda Chalker-Scott, Darlene Zabowski, Peter Schiess, and Frank Greulich. The following items of business were addressed as follows: Equipment Fund Allocation The Council reviewed the response of the Chair to Dean Bare with regard to equipment requests solicited in November, 2003 (see attachments). The Council was in agreement with the Chair's response except for one cautionary note. Professor Schreuder has experienced difficulty in obtaining a functional slide projector for his courses. (Not all University classrooms come equipped with slide projectors.) After some discussion it is the considered opinion of the EFC that the College should work to ensure that there is at least one functional slide projector available for checkout in each of the major College buildings. Whether such projectors will have to be purchased or are available (albeit perhaps in need of repair) within the College should be determined and acted upon as an equipment need of high priority. Other sources of slide projectors for College-location checkout might be possible, as for example their permanent provision to the College by University Media Services as "floating" (easily transported) projectors. Communication between the EFC and Dean Bare The Council appreciates and strongly endorses Dean Bare's continuing efforts to encourage frequent communication between the Dean's Office and the Council. Past meetings that included both formal and informal venues were found to be most valuable, each in their own right. The current Council would like to continue these contacts and exchanges of information and perspective. The chair was directed to express the interest of the EFC to the Dean and to identify suitable occasions for such meetings. It was pointed out that the brevity of EFC meetings might restrict our formal contact time with the Dean. The Council's workload this quarter will be the determining factor. It is hoped however that at least one of the two monthly meetings of the EFC might include time with the Dean. The value of informal lunch-time meetings with the Dean was remarked upon by several Council members. The range of topics covered in this informal setting has been observed to be quite different from , but of comparable value to, those covered during more formal meetings. It was suggested that monthly, or at least quarterly, meetings of an informal nature would be desirable. EFC Bylaw Development Work was initiated on emending the current draft of the EFC bylaws. The chair will incorporate all comments made to date. Additional comments will be sent to the chair by other Council members so that they can be included in a revised copy. This revised copy will be distributed to the Council at the next meeting for continuing review. The chair requested that Council members review not only what is written in the current version of the bylaws but also consider what perhaps has been overlooked and should in fact be included. Miscellaneous Topics The Council declines to consider at this time any issues that might conceivably fall within the purview of the elected PMT Committee. The Council also expressed some reservation with respect to the following quote taken from the "CFR Committees 2003" document: It is necessary to examine the exact charge given to each of the standing committees to ensure that each is accurate and appropriate given our new organizational structure. I ask the College Planning Committee to undertake this task early in winter 2004. The EFC expresses its opinion that some of its activities are University dictated and should be recognized as such in any review of its charge from the College Planning Committee. § Reviewed by e-mail to attending members of the EFC. Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 09:02:38 -0800 (PST) From: Francis Greulich <greulich@u.washington.edu> To: B. Bruce Bare <bare@u.washington.edu> Subject: Re: Equipment Fund Allocation Decisions Dean, I've looked over the list and your decisions - no obvious problems from my perspective. Frank On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, B. Bruce Bare wrote: > > > Frank, > > I neglected to seek your input in reviewing the faculty/staff equipment > requests solicited in mid-November. We met Friday to review these and > reached the following decisions. I have not yet sent this URL out. If you > get a chance can you review and give me some feedback. Thank you. > > http://faculty.washington.edu/bare/cfrequipalloc.html > > -------------- > B. Bruce Bare > Dean and Rachel A. Woods Professor
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