PRESENT: Lyn Aubrecht, Carol Brown, Lori Brown for Rhonda Zingraff, Clyde Frazier, Ellen Graden, Eloise Grathwohl, Carol Hazard, Jean Jackson, Sue Kearney, Carol Kercheval, Vivian Kraines, Rosalind Reichard, Bob Reid, Louise Reiss, Nona Short, Susan Squires, Sue Todd, Tony Vaglio, Bob Vance for Ann Burlein, Paul Winterhoff, Ann York for Tom Pencek. Guests were Carolyn Happer, Jerod Kratzer, and Beth Mulvaney.

The minutes of the October 20 meeting were approved as distributed.

A brief discussion was held on the new initiatives and the increase in tuition for 2001-02. Faculty members were encouraged to talk with students about their concerns and to direct them to people on campus who can help them find ways to cover the costs of continuing at Meredith. There were several suggestions offered of ways to make personal contact with continuing students.

The first order of business was consideration of a contract major in Art History for Erin Bradley. Appendix I. A suggestion was made that Erin might want to take LEG 401 "Legal Research" instead of LED 400 "Legal Survey". A motion was made, seconded and passed to accept the contract major for first reading. Council members indicated that they would like to see examples of the requirements for Art History majors at other schools. Those will be presented at the second reading.

OLD BUSINESS

A motion was made and seconded to approve the changes of the drop/add and withdrawal dates for graduate students to match the undergraduate dates. The motion passed unanimously.

The Graduate Committee presented the rewrite of the admission requirements for the MBA program. Appendix II. A motion was made and seconded to approve the changes as rewritten. The motion passed unanimously.

NEW BUSINESS

The Graduate Committee sent a proposal to change the title for EDU 640 from "Independent Study" to "Research Project in Education". Appendix III. After some discussion and motion was made, seconded and passed to accept the proposal for first reading. A motion was made and seconded to waive the second reading for this proposal. The motion to waive was passed. A motion was made and seconded to pass the proposal. The motion was approved unanimously.

The Curriculum Committee presented a proposal for changes in the Business Administration/Finance Concentration major. Appendix IV. The proposal was for the following changes in requirements: make ACC 434 a required course; move ECO 311 from the required courses to the elective courses; add ACC 333 and BUS 466 to the list of electives. A motion was made, seconded and passed to accept this proposal for first reading.

A second proposal from the Curriculum Committee was to change ACC 438 from four to three hours credit. Appendix V. A motion was made, seconded and passed to accept this proposal for first reading.

There were two proposals from the Teacher Education Committee. Appendix VI. The first proposal was to increase the number of hours of social study courses required for middle school certification in social studies from 21 to 27 hours. The courses involved in the increase in hours would be sic hours of western civilization and HIS 214 and dropping the three-hour geography requirement. Further the proposal adds ECO 210 to the list of electives in economics and eliminates POL 210 as an politics elective choice. A motion was made, seconded and passed to accept this proposal for first reading.

The second proposal from the Teacher Education Committee involved the mathematics requirements in general education for students earning middle school licensure. They would choose from MAT 144, 141 or any calculus course. Now they can choose MAT 120, 144 or 211. A motion was made, seconded and passed to accept this proposal for first reading.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

The Council decided to hold a meeting in December on Friday, December 8. It will be a luncheon meeting. Time and place will be announced later.

The meeting was adjourned after the announcements.

Respectfully submitted,