The meeting was held in 6061 Forbes Tower, the Physical Therapy Conference Room.

Attending: Sue Whitney, Chairperson; Jean Blachere; David M. Crossman; Barbara Fredette, Kerry Holzworth; Tom Metzger, Billy T. Njobvu; and Tony Silvestre.

Minutes:

The minutes of our last meeting will be sent out for review and voted on in May.

Provost's Committee on Teaching.

Dr. Whitney reported that the recently established committee on teaching is forming subcommittees. Dr. Whitney will serve on the subcommittee dealing with innovations in teaching. That subcommittee will oversee the establishment and distribution of innovative teaching grants among other things. A second subcommittee will focus on CIDDE.

Dr. Whitney suggested that feedback from our Committee about CIDDE would be most useful at this time. She led a discussion about CIDDE based in part on their 1997-1998 Annual Report. A number of comments about CIDDE were made. They include the following:

The report strongly suggests that CIDDE is technology centered.

Faculty development in its traditional sense is not a major topic of the report or the description of CIDDE goals and objectives.

The goals and objectives described in the report seem to describe activities of Center staff and not goals and objectives in the traditional sense.

The relationship between the Center's goals and objectives and the University's goals and objectives are not clear.

Objectives are not measurable and therefore difficult to evaluate.

Only one of the 27 unit goals refer to faculty development and faculty development is not mentioned till page 6 of the report. This suggests that faculty development in the traditional sense is not a priority of CIDDE.

The activities described in the report are impressive and suggest that CIDDE is well managed and is a very valuable resource for providing faculty with technological assistance.

Part Time Faculty

Dr. Whitney raised the issue of part time faculty. The Committee decided that the issue merits further discussion. That discussion will take place at our next meeting.

The meeting adjourned at 1:30 p.m.
Respectfully submitted by Dr. Silvestre