HFC Minutes  -- January 25, 1999

Present: 

Michael Arnush ,  Phil Boshoff,  Fran Hoffman, Rory McVeigh, Jon Ramsey, Amelia Rauser,  Anita Steigerwald.

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The meeting began at 9:00 am, Purchasing Conference Room in Dana.

1. Fall '99 courses

• Michael Arnush handed out a list of anticipated honors forum proposals for Fall 1999 semester.

  • Course proposals for the Fall will be distributed to Council members this Friday for review.

  • The deadline to submit proposals to Curriculum Committee is January 27.

2. Fall '98 programmatic assessment; revision of assessment forms:

• Michael Arnush to arrange a meeting with Fran Hoffman and the nine faculty members who taught HF courses Fall'98 to discuss how the courses went and what changes we need to make for future courses.

• Student activity assessment:

  • Shows that student need more choice of courses

  • The Council needs to re-think the amount of activities offered each semester (e.g., perhaps fewer lectures, better timing of events, etc.)

  • Monthly meetings to be handled by  the students

  • Too many of the courses required pre-requisite

  • Students need greater involvement in decision-making

• The HF needs to select a student to serve on the Council

  • discussion of criteria; Fran Hoffman suggested that we have the students register votes for the nominated students (Andrew Cencini, Francesca Cichello and Katie Cella)

3. Upcoming Events:

• January 28 - Dinner and Presentation with Tom Lewis/Larry Hott

  • "Divided Highways: The Interstates and the Transformation of American Life.

• February 11 - Dinner and Lecture Classics Professor Charles Segal

• February 22 - Induction Dinner scheduled for February 24

  • Invitations to apply mailed out January 22 to Class of 2002 Dean's List.

• March 10 - Tentative Greenhouse dedication

• April 28/29 - Academic Festival

  • Michael to announce it at the next faculty and academic staff meetings.

Social events: bagel brunches, field trips, informal gatherings; student committees may have other plans in the works

4. Logo:

• The College Relations office should have the logo ready in a few weeks.

5. Admissions: Class of '03

• Reading of files

• April 15-16 ACD & evening event ( Dinner at the Surrey)

6. Advising Students: re continuing membership in the Forum

• 70 students

• 1 transfer

• 2001 30 students

• 2002 40 students

• 25% of the class of 2001 did not meet the required GPA

• 38%  of the class of 2002 did not meet the required GPA

• The Council to advise students re: limited co-curricular participation and academic profile; the mechanism for advising was discussed and established (fac/staff on the comm. will meet individually with those struggling academically, otherwise individually or in groups)

The Council will meet weekly thru February.
The meeting adjourned at 10:00; next meeting will be Monday, February 1 at the Staff/Faculty Lounge.