Attendance: Beverly Swan, Bob Weygand, Soledade Surrette, Celest Martin, Ann Morrissey, Abu Bakr, Judy Beckman, Bill Rosen, Faye Boudreaux-Bartels, Steve Grubman-Black. Guests: Linda Barrett and Paul DePace
Announcements: Provost Swan announced that President Carothers was unable to attend the meeting because the legislature had invited URI student athletes to the state house that afternoon and he was expected to attend that meeting instead of the JSPC meeting. She said that she would chair the meeting in his absence.
Faculty Senate Chairperson Beckman reported on the Senate's discussion of the recommendations of the Investigative Ad Hoc Committee on Academic Reorganization on April 29. She explained that the Senate had voted against following-up on the Ad Hoc Committee's recommendations.
Chairperson Beckman indicated that the current Executive Committee believed that there was still some interest in looking at centers and partnerships to create interdisciplinary "bridges" between faculty members in different colleges.
Chairperson Beckman also reported on the major activities of the 2003-04 Faculty Senate, which included approval of courses for the revised general education program and support for the efforts of the Ad Hoc Committee on Admissions to the Providence Campus.
Chairperson Beckman announced that this was her last JSPC meeting. She explained that she and Professor Grubman-Black were not running for re-election. She said that Vice Chairperson Boudreaux-Bartels, and Professors Rice, Rosen, and Martin were candidates for officers of the 2004-05 Senate.
Minutes: The minutes of the March 18, 2004 meeting were approved as distributed and the minutes of the April 1, 2004 meeting were approved as corrected.
Capital Projects: Paul DePace brought the committee up to date on CIP projects. He also asked for further suggestions for future projects that may not have been identified thus far and agreed to come back to the JSPC in August to report on progress of the projects.
FY '06 Budget priorities: The Executive Committee outlined for the committee those areas, which they agreed should be reflected in the '06 budget. These included:
- Undergraduate Academics, Scholarships, and Retention Issues
- Graduate Education and Research
- PeopleSoft
- Physical Plant
- Library Funding
Communication of '05 Allocation: The committee discussed the appropriate time to schedule a review of the '05 budget prior to its allocation. It was agreed that the meeting should be scheduled for late June or early July before it is resubmitted to the Board of Governors for final approval.
SEDA update: Mr. DePace and Ms. Morrissey reported that the committee had developed space allocation policy and guidelines, which they would bring to the JSPC for review.
Provost Swan asked Ms. Grubman to forward the appropriate form for the establishment of policies in accordance with Appendix G of the UNIVERSITY MANUAL to Mr. DePace as the policy proceeds through the approval channels.
JSPC meeting schedule: Ms. Morrissey said that she would schedule two JSPC meetings for the summer and discussion ensued as to the appropriate timing for the meetings and the items to be included on the agenda.
Ms. Morrissey reported that she would schedule orientation meetings for the new members of the Executive Committee prior to the first summer meeting.
Next meeting: The date and time of the next meeting was not determined because of the projected turnover of the Executive Committee and the necessity of reviewing summer schedules.
The meeting adjourned at 3:40 pm