Present:  Michael Arnush, Phil Boshoff, Katie Cella, Fran Hoffmann, Emily
Levy, Chris McGrath, Rory McVeigh, Jon Ramsey, Amelia Rauser, Anita
Steigerwald.

The Meeting began at 9:00 am, Faculty/Staff Club.

The Minutes were read, corrected and approved by the Council.

1.  Curriculum Committee:

     Curriculum Committee has made the following decisions:
 AM232H, ED200+HF200, EN105H - approved

 Problem Solving in Mathematics (12 courses) =1 Course
 Will be offered at all three levels, (Students in one
 Group) students can take this course as Honors or Non-Honors.
 
 FS203 - will not be offered for the Fall; Paty Rubio will consider
resubmitting in September '99.

 BI190 - denied

Policy on 4+1 courses
 Concerns were voiced over possible unforeseen problems with the 4+1 courses -
- the difference between a regular 4th hour and an honors 4th hour. Honors
component will come in the written work.
- another hour of faculty time
- what will happen to reconfiguration

Michael has proposed a joint meeting with Curriculum Committee, Dean's
Office, CEPP's Expectations & Standards SubCommittee, Registrar's Office &
Honors Council to discuss the policy on 4+1 courses & enrollment caps. Phil
also suggests that we contact Linda Simon about recommendations for
enrollment caps for courses.

Fall '99 courses Approved by Curriculum Committee:

Discussion on the list of courses approved for Fall' 99.
- Six courses with 1-credit add-ons.  We have received permission from the
Dean of the Faculty to reimburse the faculty teaching 1-credit add-on for
the coming semester.  The same amount we gave last year, $500.00, as long
as reconfigurations does not occur.

- EC104 (Baum) FL263A (Anzalone, SO101 (McVeigh) will not be offered has
Honors this coming Fall.

- We have a total of 19 courses for Fall '99; once again the lion's share
of courses are in the Humanities. The areas we need to explore are the
Arts, Psychology and Business.

2.   Induction of New Honors Forum members.
  - February 24. Delightful success. Thanks to Emily and Katie for their
contributions to the evening's event.

3. Independent Study Presentations:
 We are set for these presentations from Andrew Cencini and Kerim Odekon.
First presentation March 11, 6:45 - 8:00 pm at the Faculty/Staff Club.
 - Andrew's project entitled "Compiler Design for the VPC Platform"
 - Kerim's project entitled "Suburbia in the Next Millenium".
       Completed final projects presentations are scheduled for April 21.

4. Academic Festival - Chris McGrath
 - Chris reported that all the rooms are reserved for displays.
 - deadline for entries is March 11.

5.  Advising: Overseas study
 - We have thirty sophomores in the program who will be selecting their
courses for the fall of their junior year, which brings us to the first
time that HF students will be going overseas. They need to know what their
options are:
 - Independent Study
 - Identify a course with honors component

Jon Ramsey will be working on registration and overseas materials to
distribute to students and faculty.

Future policy issues:
  Michael will be working on an operating code, Jon on the mission
statement, Fran on the relationship between Honors and non-Honors courses
and Emily on typical Honors courses.

6.  Budgetary Issues:
 
    Summer Workshop: costs at approx. $400
    The Compensation for faculty teaching HF courses in the Fall will
 amount to $3,000.00
 - Furniture
 - 1999/2000 Speakers
 Discussion on what kind of events the Council would like to
 Schedule for next year and to encourage the Student Committees
 to propose what kind of events they want the HF to sponsor.
 - guidelines for monies to sponsor the events.

Michael also mentioned that he maybe on sabbatical for Spring'00 and Phil
has graciously volunteered to fill in as Chair for that semester.

7.  300-level courses for Spring '00 and 2000/2001
    - Discussion on 300-level courses and the issue of capstones:
      - Having honors 300-level experiences
      - Capstone issue
      - Honors project at the 300-level, how is it different from
      a regular project
      - who will assess final projects for Honor-level credits.
 
 Michael requested that we continue this discussion at the next meeting
after the break.
Respectfully submitted,
Amelia Clarke