This will be a business item at next week's meeting. Funding for the summer session 2001 and ideas for increasing enrollments were discussed. Council will soon begin planning summer course offerings. All tenured and tenure-line faculty members are reminded to return the summer employment form to the Department Office by October 12. Council reviewed the Department caucusing procedures and determined that the procedures were ready to post online.
Further information regarding the caucusing procedure is forthcoming.
Council looked over the Department's retreat report and identified priorities that are currently being handled, as well as those that remain to be addressed. Council will review work being done on retreat assignments periodically and prepare a progress report for the Department at the end of the spring semester. Business items will include the Department's hate crime statement, assignment of retreat issues, summer session, and course evaluation forms. The course proposal for ENG 354, U.S. Literary Publishing in Theory and Practice, which was part of the proposal for a Sequence in Publishing and the Nonprofit Literary Arts approved by the Department last spring, will also be an item of business.