October 13, 2017

Minutes from the meeting of the Macaulay College Council

October 13, 2017
Classroom 3N 3-4pm

(No quorum present–open discussion meeting only)

Dean’s Report:

Dean Pearl provided updates and began a discussion on the next election for a renewed College Council.  Until we have more Macaulay Faculty, how do we maintain faculty governance, given the inevitable dropping off of faculty seconded from the campuses who were never identified as Macaulay cluster hire faculty.

Suggestions were made for the Future structure of the College Council:

  • Hold elections every year; in order to be eligible, faculty must be teaching a Macaulay seminar in the current and prior year.
  • In order to change by-laws, a proposal must be approved by a quorum of the College Council, then agreed to by consortial college presidents, and then the CUNY Trustees.

Suggestions were offered for improving turnout at College Council meetings:

  • Google hangout
  • New elections
  • Circulate qualifications for being part of the College Council
  • Change qualifications for being part of the council
  • Include faculty who teach upper level courses; not just the seminars
  • Give members more of an active, creative role
  • At consortial colleges, tie new hires to teaching Macaulay seminars; remind presidents of their Macaulay cluster hire faculty.

Curriculum Committee:  New course proposals–All approved

    • Spring 2018: War and the Arc of Human Experience – Glenn Albright and Glenn Petersen
    • Cross-campus seminar 4: Eric Gioia
    • What is Life?: David Jeruzalmi
    • Humanitarian Intervention: Raj Menon
    • Shakespeare and Musical Adaptations: Steven Monte
    • Bullshit [Nonsense] – Kelly O’Donnell
    • Medical Ethics: Elizabeth Reis
    • Springboard, part 1 and 2: Lizzie Reis and Lisa Brundage
    • Unsolved Problems in Astrophysics: Emily Rice
    • Media Marketing: Robert Small
    • Purpose, Practice, and Politics of Science: Harold Varmus

Proposal: Approve the four city seminars as Macaulay courses through the Grad Center.  AA staff will work on this.
The Curriculum Committee will circulate the RFP to the other committee members and get information to other faculty.

There being no new business, the College Council meeting was adjourned.

Attendees:

Joseph Ugoretz
Mary Pearl
Su Ng
Darren Staloff
Nathan Lents
Zoe Sheehan Saldana
Roni Natov
Alex Reichl
Steve Monte
David Rosenberg
Tom Koutavas
Richard Blot
Owen Gutfreund
Elizabeth Reis