Faculty Meeting Minutes
Friday February 2, 2007 10:30 a.m.
CP Conference Room

Attendance: O. Baiocchi, A. Fry, L. Wear, A. Urbanec, G. Mobus,  M. Muppa, D. Zimmerman, C. Rials, Z. Chavez, D. McLane, E. Hong, S. Chung, I. Bichindaritz

1.  Approval of Minutes

Changes made to the minutes from 1-5-2007
•	Change Chris Martin to Kris Martin – Per Dan Zimmerman
•	Change scandisk to Secure ID – Per Chris Rials
•	Search Committees entered twice – Dan Zimmerman

2.	Updates- Orlando Baiocchi

Staff 
•	Wendy Guthrie resigned
•	Lorna Hernandez on maternity leave until June 2007
•	Beth Jeffrey – New advisor
•	Second position - OPEN

New funding for courses
•	Projects approved by the dean or director – Six projects, four have no impact
•	Information Science: Steve Hanks, Ankur Teredesai

Menaka Muppa offered to teach TINST 312

Review Process
•	Committee to do full review, not director.  
•	Director under Vice Chancellor academic year basis.
•	Faculty voted that director’s review not go into tenure file. 
•	Tenure and promotional criteria → mentorship needs to be well defined
(Moved,   I. Bichindaritz, second D. McLane, approved)

Entering CSS students are required to have Java 1, Java 2, Statistics, Calculus, and Physics
•	CES philosophy – Get admitted as soon as possible, no luxury of being picky. 
•	Admissions must be the same for both UWT freshman and CC transfer students.
•	Admit both groups equally?
•	Adopt CES policy * no minimum requirements, no class requirements.
•	Larry Wear – Jim Coolsen CES admission criteria getting student into major ASAP
•	Some programs are very tough, need to maintain 2.0 (CES 2.5) to graduate.

3.  Undergraduate Curriculum Committee- Sam Chung
•	Changing course title from TCSS 452 Human-Computer Interface to TINST 452 Human-Computer Interface
•	Enrollment: Since only one of 400-level TINST courses can be used for CSS elective, we may expect low enrollment. 
•	Competition: Since there are other existing courses such as TINST 401, 475, and TINST 490, this course must compete with other courses. 
•	Student Population: TINST courses have less CSS students, predominately non-CSS students 
•	CSS-oriented HCI course is still needed.
 
•	The syllabus of TINST 490 Information Assurance was approved: Motioned:  E. Hong, I. Bichindaritz, D. McLane  Second:  I. Bichindaritz  Against:  L. Wear, Sam Chung http://faculty.washington.edu/chungsa

4.  New Business

A.	Eliminate 343 as a pre-requisite for 422- Larry Wear
(Moved: L. Wear, Second: D. Zimmerman, approved), 

B.	Remove physics pre-requisites for 371– Give community colleges a two year notice.

(Mo, L. Wear, Second: S. Chung, approved)

C.	Grad Program Review 
•	Due date March 1, 2007
•	Moshe submitted his syllabi.
•	Ed Hong submitted 143 syllabus.
•	Need 142 syllabus.
•	Check mailman list.

D.	Advising and EARS Training- Chris Rials	
•	Assigned advising – Using SecurIDs to access student records (Electronic Record System)
•	Pre-CSS, not finished pre-requisite courses
•	Add codes required to register for classes
•	Degree codes: Pre-00, BA-11, BS-15
•	Letter going out to all students to inform them about the new advising system, and DARS reports.
•	Students need to see an advisor before they can register for classes.
•	Faculty advising ends March 2, 2007
•	Retention issues – If student is falling behind, notify advisor.

CODE OF CONDUCT 
•	Students get caught, needs to be noted on their record.
•	Faculty reports incident to Student Affairs. 
•	Plagiarism – check Student Affairs policy.

E.	490/590 courses I need descriptions ASAP – Chris Rials
•	Need a four or five line course description.
•	10 credits 490 restriction – No more than 10 credits.

F.	Faculty Fellows Program – Sam Chung
•	03-16-07- Practice meeting 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
•	04-21-07- Microsoft, My “Computer Science Unplugged”   

G.	UWT Tech Seminar Committee –Sam Chung
•	Brown bag meetings 
•	Informal Presentation

H.	TCSS 391- Sam Chung
•	Proposal Pending

I.	Visiting Scholar from Belgium (Dr. Martine De Cock) – Orlando Baiocchi
•	Attracted by Information Science Position
•	Wants to come as a visiting scholar
•	Was visiting scholar at Stanford and Berkeley
(Moved, S, Chung, second E Hong, approved)

OTHER

Faculty to vote on Lou Ann Lyon-Banks teaching -Spring quarter, class TINST 312. 
•	Feedback discussed
•	Menaka – Changed course.
•	18th for next meeting, look into complaints first
•	Form senior faculty committee to look at numbers
•	Menaka to teach 312 if needed.
•	Calendar instead of annual reports or reviews
•	Faculty reviews

Faculty Vote – Faculty to vote on Andrew Fry teaching TINST 207
(Moved: G. Mobus. Second: D. Mclane, approved)