Academic Vice President's Advisory Council

Summary of October 19, 2000, Meeting

1. The operating procedures of the new Academic Vice President's Advisory Council were reviewed.� The Academic Vice President stressed his intention that the AVPAC become a sounding board that would give him advice and provide direction on university-wide academic issues.

2. The Academic Vice President will ask the faculty members of the AVPAC to form a subcommittee to plan Faculty Day in spring 2000.

3. The discussion centered around the issues that the AVPAC should work on for the current academic year.� The focus should be on a relatively small number of issues that could be delegated to AVPAC subcommittees that would work on these issues between meetings and report back to the full Council at the monthly meeting.� Among the suggestions were:

-Students course evaluation process in the larger context of faculty development

-Consistency in academic integrity policies across schools

-Diversity

-Academic support for AHANA students

-Student concerns about faculty involvement with students given increasing expectations for faculty research

-Intellectual property issues

-Promoting interdisciplinary contact among faculty

-Retirement process

-University statutes

-Faculty involvement in programs of Academic Development Center

-Distance learning

-What it means to be a Catholic and Jesuit University

4. The AVPAC expressed a desire to have dinner with the President to explore a variety of issues, including his understanding of Boston College as a Jesuit and Catholic university.� (Dinner with the President has been scheduled for December 14, at 6:00 p.m. in the Boston Room, Lower Campus Dining Hall.)

5. The AVPAC expressed the preference to invite alternates to attend all meetings, not simply the meetings where the elected member could not attend.

6. Since the elected and appointed membership is supposed to serve staggered two-year terms, the AVP Office will designate the terms of current members (see attached).

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Next meeting is November 16, 2000, at 8:30 a.m. in Hovey House.� We will narrow the list of possible agenda items and review the charge for the committee to the review course evaluation process, including the larger context of this process.

Terms of 2000-01 Elected or Appointed AVPAC Members

CSOM member��������������������������������� 2-year

SON member������������������������������������ 1-year

A&S

����� Humanities����������������������������������� 2-year

����� Sciences�������������������������������������� 1-year

����� Social Sciences���������������������������� 2-year

GSSW����������������������������������������������� 1-year

Law��������������������������������������������������� 2-year

LSOE������������������������������������������������ 1-year

CAS�������������������������������������������������� 2-year

Appointed faculty member #1������������� 1-year

Appointed faculty member #2������������� 2-year

Appointed dean #1 (Munro)��������������� 1-year

Appointed dean #2 (Quinn)���������������� 2-year

Appointed dean #3 (Smyer)��������������� 1-year