PACIFIC LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY

Tacoma, WA 98447

Minutes of Meeting of the Faculty Assembly

Friday, April 4,2003

Leraas Lecture Hall, Rieke Science Center

1. Call to order - Michele Crayton called us to order at 4:05

· Signed attendance was: 64 faculty

2. Opening Prayer. Was lead by Dennis Sepper

3. Approval of Minutes The minutes of March were approved.

4. Announcements

President Anderson

¨ This is an exciting week with the first Wang Center Symposium

¨ We will have a video phone connection with a speaker in China.

¨ Dr. Foege, an alum, will chair the Medical panel.

¨ We have had 550 registration to this afternoon

¨ Rodney Swenson reported that we had 8 finalists for Fullbrights. And 4 have already been approved and accepted.

¨ PLU placed second in a national debate tournament among 292 schools. This was the fifth national placement this year.

¨ Enrollment: Retention is up over last year to over 95%

Freshmen applications are up 5% over last year

Graduate admissions look good.

¨ Budget: Working hard to maintain balance, there will be no Cost of Living increases.

¨ The La Crosse team beat UW 9 to 7.

Questions to the President: None

5. Reports

J. Petersen - Faculty Affairs and EPC Joint Committee

¨ 3 meetings so far

¨ 22 areas were identified for research for economizing and were assigned to EPC, FAC< EPC+FAC, and administrative committees.

¨ Will be reporting to the May faculty meeting.

6. New Business

Ed Inch

¨ responded to the announcement of the debate team’s success with the comment that that success depended on the broad PLU education that prepares the team to compete with only 20 minutes notice of the topic and positions

International Education Committee Motion was moved and seconded.

¨ Ed Inch presented the history of international education at PLU and the evolution towards the Wang Center.

¨ What is needed is further faculty roles in forming international education at PLU.

Mike Crayton: This motion is recommended by both the Faculty Executive Committee and the Educational Policies Committee

Robert. Stivers: How many committees do we need on international education: Teagle, Global Studies, Wang, IEC?

Ed Inch: Global Studies has an internal focus, IEC has an off campus focus. The proposed ad hoc committee is an effort to be integrative toward a global long range strategy for PLU.

Angie Alexander, Doug Lamoreaux and John Moritsugu worked on a coherent structure for international education.

Call the question.

Librarians noted that they were not represented.

C. Bergman: Asked to remove them and suggested that they could be associated with the professional schools.

Moved a friendly amendment that the librarians be associated with the professional schools for the purpose of membership in this ad hoc committee.

G. Myers: What is the amendment?

D. Huelsbeck: There would be a total of 2 faculty from 2 different professional schools or the library.

G. Myers: That does not represent substitutability. Why not add another line (member) for the library?

P. Menzel: may be a moot point since the librarians have not dealt with this area.

P. Nordquist: We need motions and an amendment. The discussion is irrelevant without an amendment.

K. Cooper: Moved to add the words “the library” on the professional schools line in the motion. Seconded

The reason: This was 1 seat out of 2 instead 1 out of 1 (for the humanities line.)

D. Harney: The distribution is a function of schools and students. She would rather add another 1 to the committee.

Vote: Show of hands, Did not pass. Called the question: Passed unanimously

Governance Committee

Mark Jensen – submitted the committee’s nominations for faculty committees.

These were read and additional candidates were suggested

Motion to close nominations: Vote: All in favor save one no vote.

Adjourned at 4:45

Respectfully Submitted

Faculty Secretary Note: This will be my last set of minutes as I will be away during the next meeting of the faculty and on sabbatical next year. I thank you for the opportunity to serve faculty by recording our deliberations. Attending more carefully to what was said and heard was enlightening. Recording our attendance was disappointing.

Eli Berniker

Faculty Secretary