Academic Cabinet
November 21, 2007
#6

Present: Beryl Brubaker, Marie Morris, Ken L. Nafziger, Ervin Stutzman

1. Prayer by Marie
Report on Committee on Academic Integrity: The following persons have agreed to serve: Vi Dutcher, Kim Brenneman, Don Clymer, Mary Ann Shisler, and three students appointed by SGA (Steve Stauffer, Anny Smucker, and Sarah Roth when she returns from CC).
2. Policies: The Scholarship/Practice Policy will be recommended to President’s Cabinet with a revision proposed by Graduate Council to clarify outside pay for scholarship. The Intellectual Property Policy will be sent to the Faculty Senate for counsel regarding who owns course materials, including Blackboard materials. A recommendation to limit sabbaticals to six per year will be sent to President’s Cabinet with a draft revised policy.
3. MBA leadership: With the retiring of Allon Lefever, Beryl asked for counsel on whom to appoint as director of the MBA program and received the thinking of the cabinet.
4. Compensation for Faculty Senate leadership: The Senate leadership is again asking for load time for the President and Secretary. Cabinet agreed to advise the Senate that this would seem more plausible if the President had a term of 3 years where he/she could be more able to play an administrative role. Also, we will again plead for our attendance at Senate meetings so that we can work together on issues. The Senate could go into executive session when it is inappropriate to have us present.
5. Calendar: With the continuing concern about student safety in traveling on Wednesday before Thanksgiving, the continuing call for attention to family needs at Thanksgiving and Easter, and the observation that most other area colleges do not hold classes on the day before Thanksgiving, the cabinet agreed to make a recommendation to President’s Cabinet to dismiss classes on the day before Thanksgiving and the Monday after Easter and to consider ways to make up for these lost days, including using the Monday of exam weeks for classes, beginning fall semester on Tuesday, and beginning at 8:00 on the first day of spring semester.
6. Undergraduate searches: The cabinet reviewed Marie’s recommendations for faculty searches and agreed to forward them to P. Cabinet.
7. Future agenda:

• revising the faculty development policy
• revising the faculty promotion criteria

Respectfully submitted,
Beryl H. Brubaker

C: Loren Swartzendruber