Present: Bala, Barnes, Benson, Berkebile, Billiot (E) and (F), Blount (G), Buck, Cammarata, Chopin, Cook, Halcomb, Hickman, Larkin, Lehman, Loter, Maurstad, McKee, Morvant, Mott, Moury, Naehr, Silliman, Smith-Engle, Thompson, Tissot, Vessey, Waldbeser.

Absent: Anders, Blount (K), Cabrera, Fox, Knull, Louchouarn, Marinez, McDonald, Reid, Tunnell

I.) Announcements

• Next PALS Faculty meeting is Wednesday, August 21, 8-9 AM, ST-201
• Grades Due Monday at 12 Noon to Penny
• Commencement tonight
• PALS end-of-semester party tomorrow @ Boiling Pot
• Penny leaving 7/15
• Evaluations MUST be done by 5/31
• How is your Webpage doing? If you don’t have a webpage up by the Fall semester, Grady will create one for you!
• Any interest in PALS polo shirts? About 24 people expressed interest.
• Summer employment paperwork, insurance? Check with Aurturo and make sure your summer pay is going to be distributed properly. Ditto on insurance premiums.
• No news on Potty Chair? (Diana is sitting on it)
• Keep sending TA candidates to Dave.

II) Program Review Reports: Scholarly Activity Webpage (Grady) Grady will be announcing a Scholarly Activities Webpage which each of us wioll need to visit and fill out.

ESCI implementation. Jennifer discussed a handout describing implementation plan for the recommendations from the ESCI Program review.

III) Discussion of moving evaluation period from academic year to calendar year. Loter motioned and Morvant seconded to move our PALS evaluation period to a calendar year basis. This means that our August GOALS AND OBJECTIVES document will only cover the period from June 1, 2002 to December 31, 2002. At the end of the Fall 2002 semester, each of us will need to create a new 2003 GOALS AND OBJECTIVES to cover the coming calendar year. The evaluation period for Summer and Fall 2002 will be during the Spring 2003 semester.

IV) Faculty Senate Report (Sandra). Morvant reported on the status of the Faculty Development Leave policy.

V) Cross-discipline DIS studies (Mark) Mark will draft a policy memo concerning non-Program persons being involved in DISs.

VI) Quality of Life Council Grady reported on this new initiative from the Provost an solicited input. Here are the examples Grady provided:

"It’s the little things…the itty-bitty things…it’s the little things in life that…"
Changing passwords every 90 days
GroupWise
Long distance repayment hassles
Funds diverted to Athletics
More on self-governance: Proactive Scholars versus Reactive Teachers

Here are some additions offered during the meeting:

- Lack of computer services

- pigeons

- dry magic markers in classrooms

- no support services in the evenings or after 3 on Fridays

- adversarial situation on reimbursements in general and travel in particular

- classrooms not opened on time