HFC-Minutes
Wednesday, October 14, 1998
Present: Michael Arnush, Sue Bender, Phil Boshoff, Steve Hoffman,
Allison
Kupfer, Emily Levy, Chris McGrath, Jon Ramsey, Amelia Rauser, Anita
Steigerwald.
The Meeting began at 9:00 am, President's Conference Room
The Council approved the previous minutes.
1. Michael submitted funding request forms to be used for requesting
funds
for HF related activities. These should be available online
at
hfc/funding.html. Sue agreed to prepare a narrative of guidelines
to
accompany this page.
2. Free standing 1-credit courses. Our original proposal,
which was
approved by Curriculum Committee last year, was for 1-credit add-ons;
although it included the free-standing option we deferred implementation
until 1999/2000. Our plan this year is to bring three generic proposals
to
Curriculum Committee if HFC agrees - (100, 200 and 300 level) 1
credit
courses. [As it turns out, since CC had already approved these proposals
Michael will ask to meet with CC to request guidelines for 1-cr.
free-standing courses.]
3. Reports on recent meetings
- HF assessment. Meeting with Michael Arnush, Fran Hoffman, Ann
Henderson,
Tabitha Orthwein, Joe Stankovich, Amelia Clarke. Fran Hoffman has
been
helping us to structure data for assessment of the Honors Forum.
We also
discussed the admission process with Tabitha for Class of 2003.
It is our
plan to start the reading process early December, focusing again
on all the
9's and 10's. Tabitha should let us know shortly whether the student
members of the Council may participate in reading the files.
- Math/Science Merit Scholars; meeting attended by Michael. Michael
provided the Merit Scholars Committee with information about the
recent
progress of the HF.
4. Reports on recent events:
-Iris Chang, "The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World
War II"
held a discussion session with Honors Forum students. Michael,
Amelia and
Steve reported that her question and answer section with the forum
was very
successful; Steve noted that we faculty should try to limit our
questions
in order to provide students the opportunity to participate fully
and that
in the
future we should have a faculty moderator to help faciltate discussion
among students
and the speaker.
- Career Planning (hosted by an HF student - Roz Rolls - with 4 in
attendance)
- Prospective Candidates (Anita and Phil); request that HF be more
fully
involved in future programs
- Committee Chairs (to meet with Michael for dinner next Tuesday,
10/20);
Logo Submissions
5. Form and flyers: announcement re: Spring '99 courses circulated
by Jon;
Jon also to circulate an "advisor's folder" form
- Other forms to be prepared by spring semester:
- overseas study
- self-assessment
- declaration of HF capstone project
The meeting adjourned at 10:00 am. Next meeting scheduled for Wednesday,
October 28, 9 am, PCR.