From Elizabeth.Bradley@Colorado.EDU Sat Sep 3 20:50:56 2011 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on research.cs.colorado.edu X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 20:50:56 -0600 From: Liz Bradley To: Anne.Sheehan@Colorado.EDU, Martha.Hanna@Colorado.EDU, e.scott.adler@Colorado.EDU, helen.norton@Colorado.EDU, dduncan@Colorado.EDU, Bob.Sievers@Colorado.EDU, Stephen.Jones@Colorado.EDU, isaac.reed@Colorado.EDU, lizb@research.cs.colorado.edu, David.Clough@Colorado.EDU, tsnow@casa.Colorado.edu, Michael.Bohn@Colorado.EDU, Cecelia.Barry@Colorado.EDU, Julie.Manning@Colorado.EDU, Joseph.Jupille@Colorado.EDU, niklas.maccarter@Colorado.EDU, brian.lockridge@Colorado.EDU Subject: minutes for August 2011 BFA IAC meeting Dear All: I send out follow-up notes after every BFA IAC meeting. While these messages can get long, we've found them to be extremely useful. I also post these on the committee webpage as well, so you can always find them there. Please read through the following material and let me know soon if I've missed or mangled anything. Please pay particular attention if you see your name -- especially in ALL CAPS -- as that means a question or 'to do' item for you. Liz -------------- We began our 2011-2012 business with introductions all around and welcoming of new members Nik MacCarter (CUSG athletics director) and Isaac Reed (replacing Jenn Bair). Mike Bohn was trapped in a teleconference and could not join us. Scott Adler and Anne Sheehan also had conflicts. Several short items followed: - Discussion of the class absence policy note that goes out on Buff Mail from Sierra at the beginning of every semester. We decided against writing a syllabus blurb for Mike Grant to include in his "suggested syllabus material" because we felt that those materials have ballooned so far as to be ineffective. We thought it might be better if that material went straight from Mike (Grant) to the student body every semester, rather than getting replicated on every instructor's syllabus. Liz will suggest that to Mike. - Liz outlined the committee's philosophy & mission and defined the various TLAs (three-letter acronyms) that play roles therein. Bob educated us about the BFA actually *not* being the "faculty senate." - We discussed the agenda for the year. Suggested additions to the items outlined on the day's printed agenda included: - a presentation from Mike Bohn about the Guiding Principles [September] and briefings from some combination of {Julie, Ceal, Dave} about various NCAA meetings [presidents, etc.; pre-briefing in September and follow-up in October] - pre-emptive damage control/communication/education with faculty around issues of national interest [ongoing] - foreign trips by MBB/WBB [September] - NCAA certification, for which we were due very soon, is temporarily on hold. - The transfer appeals committee is now safely housed in Deb Coffin's office. - The scholarship appeals committee will require some work from us over the fall semester. - The BAB has been reconstituted, meeting a couple of times a year and reporting directly to Phil. Several IAC members and past BAB members are on it. Dave & Liz sit on it ex officio. - There is a football game on FRIDAY 4 November. We need to get this on the BFA's radar screen and ensure that the recommendations that we worked out last year are leveraged insofar as possible to smooth the process. Liz will discuss this to Jerry Peterson, the BFA chair. [MARTHA, can you mention it at ExComm on 9/12 as well?] - Following up on a suggestion by Joe Rosse, the BFA is organizing a PAC-12 summit meeting of faculty leaders, to be held at CU on 10/15. We wholeheartedly support this; Liz will send that message to Jerry and the BFA executive committee. We also discussed several other ways in which the BFA could foster other-than-athletic interchange in the PAC-12: faculty exchanges, post-grad fellowships, a library consortium. Liz will mention these in her message to Jerry. - We spent a while brainstorming ways to create/enhance connections between faculty and athletics. Suggestions included: - Give out comp tickets (there wasn't universal approval for this) - Broaden the guest coach program, and target faculty other than the known allies. Maybe do this in pairs, having an IAC member invite a colleague. (Rationale: faculty are often more receptive to communication/invitations from other faculty.) - Invite more faculty to academic/awards breakfasts - maybe each 4.0 student-athlete gets to invite one? - Ask each student-athlete to invite a faculty member to a game - and introduce that person publically. - Display posters on faculty work in the club seat area. (Melinda Picket-May, the BFA outreach committee chair, is working on this as well. And Athletics is extremely receptive - both to the posters and to the next item...) - Feature spotlights on faculty and their work on scoreboard monitors during games. - Invite faculty for tours of Dal Ward and/or the new VB/BB facility, emphasizing the academic side (e.g., meeting advisors) and featuring lunch. - Ask Embree to hold a lunch with a group of faculty. Maybe Cabral too? - Continue the brown-bag series that Dave has initiated, where a faculty member talks about his/her research/creative work over lunch with athletics staff. Liz will discuss all of these with Mike Bohn and see about which ones might be implementable and when. - Finally, we discussed COIA's endorsement of the Knight Commission Recommendations. I will send out a separate message about that discussion so that this item doesn't get lost. We were in consensus about some of the recommendations but many IAC members found the others problematic - mainly (I think) because the reasoning was far too simplistic and the language was confusing. Best, Liz