Someone noted that the rules governing the committee are being violated. These rules include violations of time limits for individual speakers, interruptions of speakers by other people on the committee, and not listening to the speaker. The dean talked about encouraging non-speakers to contribute more to the committee. There was some discussion on the listserv problems.
Some members are unable to get e-mail.
Sometimes the listserv will only give responses to selected members instead of the entire group. Then we discussed the career concerns of students taking up the liberal arts. At least that is how some members of the group presented a further definition of liberal arts. Someone said that our previous statement on liberal arts was very good and would be sufficient for the purposes of the mission statement. Someone talked about the need for higher order thinking in liberal arts courses in college.