Computer Science Faculty Meeting (02/03/2006)

Minutes

CS faculty in attendance: Aggarwal, Burmester, de Medeiros, Duan, Gaitros, Gopalan, Hawkes, Kumar, Lacher, Langley, Leach, Liu, Myers, Srinivasan, Tyson, van Engelen, Whalley, Wang and Yuan. Also in attendance: Tim Moerland (Chair of Biology) and Mike Smith (CS graduate student).

The Chair, Dr. David Whalley, called the meeting to order at 11:15 AM and introduced Dr. Tim Moerland, Chair of Biology. Drs. Whalley and Moerland presented a proposed inter-disciplinary curriculum in Computational Biology. A similar presentation was made to the Biology faculty on Thursday, Feb. 2^nd (and was approved unanimously). Overall, the proposal was well-received by the CS faculty as well. A couple of issues came up that need to be addressed prior to passing the proposed curriculum up to the appropriate university committee:

1) We need to make sure that the number of hours at the 3000-4000 level satisfies the university requirements.

2) It should be explicitly stated that the COP 4530 course will satisfy the Computer Skills requirement.

The proposal was put to a vote (assuming that these two issues are handled) and was passed unanimously (23 faculty in favor, including 4 proxy votes from Baker, Baldauf, Ford and Schwartz). Dr. Moerland then left the meeting.

Next there was a presentation on a proposal to have “Sponsored TAs”. After considerable discussion about advantages and concerns of the proposal, it was put to a vote and passed (with one dissenting vote).

The meeting was adjourned at 12:20 PM.

Submitted by Stephen P. Leach, Associate Chair.