Those attending: Drs. Deborah Aaron, Estry Ang, Elizabeth Baranger, Ms. Fran Czak, Dr. Thomas Metzger, Dr. Tony Silvestri, Dr. Evelyn O. Talbott, and Ms. Sara M. Linder.

SUMMARY OF MEETING:

Old business:

1. Lunch was served in honor of Dr. Tom Metzger who will remain a member but is stepping down as chair due to his new duties on the Faculty Senate. Dr. Talbott made opening remarks concerning Tom Metzger's tenure and she promised to try to do her best job as the new chairman.

2. The election of a committee member as representative to the University Planning and Budget Committee was discussed.

This committee will be reviewing the Planning and Budgeting system University-Wide

It will also recommend changes to the current system.

This is supposed to be done every five years.

Dr. Estry Ang was nominated and accepted to be the representative.

3. Additional Items under old business::

ACIE Planning and Benchmarking Committee Minutes were distributed and a discussion ensued concerning their Teaching Excellence Awards

SEPC is not directly involved in this committee, although the Chair serves as a reviewer

They award about $200,000 in funding for research proposals to faculty

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The introductory letter and accompanying survey for the part-time faculty was discussed and final edits were made.

Fran volunteered to request labels and completion of the paperwork., etc.

Typos on the letter and the survey were pointed out for correction.

Dr. Talbott will handle, copying and mailing of the survey. She will set up a data entry instrument and request the help of members of the committee for analysis.

4. New business discussed included:

SEPC membership roster needs to be updated.

Members in attendance did so then.

The poor attendance of some of our members was noted. We would ask that members identify replacements during the school year if they are unable to serve out their terms.

Future meetings will be held on the second Tuesday of each month. Therefore, the next meeting is December 11, 2001 at 12 pm in 650 WPU. If possible, lunch will again be served.

A member of the Committee brought to our attention a problem that he requests this committee consider.

A graduate student that wishes to remain anonymous brought him a copy of a consent form that is required by the VA Hospital, University of Pittsburgh, IRB, and the Human Engineering Research Laboratories.

The form contains a clause/study policy that states that noncompliance in research policies and procedures of the University could result in the delay or disapproval of graduation. Such a delay is also applicable for data inaccuracy.

The student raised the concern that several students have been left with no supervision or inadequate supervision. They have, therefore, turned in inaccurate data and have been penalized. .

Questions were raised as to why the policy was created and about its possible applications.

Evelyn Talbott said that she would look into the standard IRB policies of the University and enquire as to the origins of this policy with the appropriate school.

Tony Silvestre noted that Jack Daniel, the Interim Dean of Students, gave an excellent speech about his agenda of student activities. We will be sending copies to everyone after permission is received.

Meeting adjourned at 1:10 PM