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Related Link: http://www.indiana.edu/~bfc/UFC/index.htmlAt the IU University Faculty Council (UFC) meeting Sept. 10 at IUPUI, the council split up into standing committees to discuss individual agendas for the year. The committees and what they will be working on are:
Academic Handbook: revisions in the current round of changes are expected to be completed by the end of the first semester; Affirmative Action: reviewing proposed revisions of sexual harassment policy; Budgetary Affairs: examining role in the overall budgeting process for IU and will be involved with Strategic Directions funding; Educational Policies: examining university-wide associate degree program and "grade forgiveness" policies; Faculty Affairs: reviewing and making recommendations regarding IU's use and regulation of tenure-ineligible faculty; Fringe Benefits: examining possible revisions to the Family Leave Policy for faculty; Library: helping the new dean facilitate meetings with the faculty; Long-Range Planning: looking at the Strategic Directions Charter from long-range planning analyses and collecting information from each campus about its individual long-range planning process; Research and Development Policy: primary focus will be the Advanced Research and Technology Institute (ARTI); Student Affairs: completing approval of proposed revisions of the Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities and Conduct; Style and Rules: considering proposed restructuring of UFC committees; University Structure: examining procedures for resolving university structure issues and faculty participation in the process.
Related Link: http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/heri/heri.htmlProfessors who look out from the lecture podium and perceive a collective glassy look may not be just imagining it, according to a survey of freshmen conducted by the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). A news release from the school said that 33.9 percent of the students reported being frequently bored in class. The survey included responses from freshment at 600 institutions nationwide. Time allotted to homework among high school seniors has also declined, according to the survey. The percentage of high school seniors devoting six hours or more to study declined from 43.7 percent in 1987 to 35 percent in 1995.