Faculty Governance Committee on Instruction

Charge (Faculty Handbook, II.D.3)

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Sub-Committees

• University Library Committee
• Committee on Academic Computing
• Honors Council
• Graduate Council
• Committee on International Education
• Board of Review on Academic Responsibility
• Committee on Admissions and Financial Aid
• Composition Council
• Committee on Assessment
• Residential College Advisory Board

Pending Business

• In the September 2004 faculty meeting VP for Enrollment Management Kurt Thiede presented a new sholarship/financial aid plan with a merit merit component funded from the existing financial aid budget. After discussion of the presentation and the report by the Committee on Instruction and its sub-committee, the Committee on Admissions and Financial Aid, the following motion was passed: "The Faculty requests additional time to consider the important educational implications of the proposed changes in the merit system before they take effect. We request recommendations for Faculty action on this matter from COI at the November faculty meeting. CAFA and its parent committee COI will generate recommendations regarding the future of Merit scholarships to be considered by the Board of Trustees and will report on this to the faculty in the fall of 2005." For the full discussion see the Minutes of the meeting.

  The proposed Scholarship Plan is available on E-Res. (The password is "meri t.") The response of CAFA and CoI is available in the agenda of the September 2004 faculty meeting.

  The original pilot merit aid plan is available in the agenda for the special faculty meeting on Merit Aid, October 2002. Discussion of this plan is contained in the minutes of the special meeting and the November 2002 meeting. The faculty endorsed this experimental plan. See the minutes of the November 2002 faculty meeting.

• In the February 2003 Faculty Meeting, Professor Exner presented a motion to eliminate athletic practices between 8AM and 4PM (with some exceptions). The full text of the motion is in the agenda for the December 2002 faculty meeting. After discussion during the February 2003 meeting, the motion was referred back to COI for further study, including data gathering.
• "COI charges the Composition Council, or a separate and overlapping sub-committee convened by the Council, with determining if it is possible and desirable to engage in a formal process by which improvement in student writing at Bucknell can be assessed." (Letter from COI chair Ann Tlusty to Tom Solomon, Composition Council, April 23, 2003.)
• "COI charges the [Composition] Council to form a sub-committee made up of faculty for the purpose of assessing faculty opinion of current Writing Program procedures, administration, and criteria, and if deemed necessary, recommending procedural changes to the Program." (Letter from COI chair Ann Tlusty to Tom Solomon, Composition Council, February 10, 2004.)

Committee Membership