Mroz suggested humanities, social sciences, and fine arts move to a University College. Joyce felt the Sciences and Arts dean would object to this. George added that these departments have their own majors and graduate students as well. Snyder pointed out that many institutions have a University College and make it work. Typically, the division has few or no faculty members.
Individuals get time assigned t that entity and raises are through the home department.
We view a firewall between deans instead of a mesh between them. Joyce asked if we have infrastructure to insure a budget and a commitment from President Tompkins. If we only had service departments Bowen felt Mroz' idea would be good, however, these are not simply service departments. Bowen went on to explain that a college is needed to provide balance as no one 'owns' general education. Transferring FTEFs to the college is only of interest if it lets individual departments describe their role.