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AAC Minutes Listed
January 28, 1998
Members present: Professors L. Stanhope (Chair), S. Gmelch, S.
Greenberg, S. Leavitt, B. MacDonald, F. Milillo, J. Schmee; Student S. Carrier.
Ex Officio: L. Cool, Dean of Faculty
D. Hannay, Acting Dean of Engineering
B. Lewis, Assoc. Dean, Undergrad. Educ.
C. Sorum, Dean of Arts & Sciences
Guest: J. Douglass Klein
1. The minutes of Jan. 21, 1998 were approved.
2. The charge to the ad hoc Subcouncil on Tenure Line Allocation was
revised and approved unanimously.
Members will be:
Felmon Davis – Division I
Eshragh Motahar – Division II
Charles Scaife – Division III
Paul Gremillion – Division IV
Linda Stanhope – Chair of AAC
Christie Sorum – Dean of Arts & Sciences, ex officio
3. Jim McCord has agreed to serve as temporary replacement for Harry
Marten on the Committee on Academic Standing.
4. Doug Klein reported on the activities of the Subcouncil on Academic
Computing and to request that it become a standing Subcouncil. After considerable debate,
the AAC agreed to create a standing subcouncil. A proposal will be brought to the AAC next
term.
5. A straw ballot on the calendar was discussed. It was moved and passed
that the ballot be sent to the faculty.
Faculty Promoted
At their recent meeting, the Board of Trustees also declared tenurable
and promoted to associate professor Mary Carroll, chemistry; Brenda Johnson, mathematics;
and Scott Scullion, classics.
Choirs to Join for Pinkham Work
Over 200 voices, organ and brass will fill Memorial Chapel March 1 at 3 p.m. for a performance of Daniel Pinkham's The Christmas Cantata.
Conducted by the composer, and performed in honor of his 75th birthday, the program will feature the Union College Choir, Albany Pro Musica, the Battenkill
Chorale, and the Burnt Hills Oratorio Society.
Pinkham's catalog includes four symphonies, cantatas, oratorios and
theater works. His teachers have included Aaron Copeland and Samuel Barber. He has held
fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, Ford Foundation and American Academy of Arts
and Sciences.
He will deliver a free lecture on Tuesday, Feb. 24, at 12:30 p.m. in
Arts 215 titled “Words to Music.”
George Schiller Knows Union
The sign on George Schiller's desk last week read: “Only 68 departments to go.”
Schiller, a 25-year employee of the College, recently joined the Human
Resources office, his seventh job on campus.
On Oct. 9, 1972, just after crews from The Way We Were left
campus, Schiller arrived at Security to tell his first supervisor, “I may be here
only a year or two.”
Today, he says, “I think I hold the record for jobs held.”
During his Union career, he has been involved in paying, feeding, issuing parking
stickers, selling books and registering students, to name a few.
Here, for those keeping track, is the Union career of George Schiller:
Security Office, 1972 to 1975; Finance Payroll, 1975 to 1983; Finance Accounting, 1983 to
1985; College Bookstore, 1985 to 1987; Graduate and Continuing Studies, 1987 to 1990;
Dining Services, 1990 to 1998; Human Resources, present.
“It's been fun to get to experience so many different aspects
of campus from the academic to the financial to student services,” he said.
Eric Noll, acting director of Human Resources, says, “It's a
great advantage to our office for George to know all the people at the College. Best of
all, he knows how Union works.”
And how does Union work?
“Just a minute,” quips Noll. “I'll transfer you to
George.”