Posted on May 25, 2001

May 14, 2001

1. The minutes of the May 7, 2001 AAC meeting were approved.
2. The AAC approved the following course and catalogue changes recommended by the Subcouncil on Courses and Programs:
   1. Courses granted permanent approval: PHY _ Science Research Miniterm in Sicily PSC 54 _ Politics of the Arab-Israeli Conflict ANT 101 _ Irish Society and Culture MLT 53 – Japanese Language and Culture MLT 52 – Japanese Sociolinguistics
   2. Approved the revisions of the American Studies Program.
   3. Approved the Mini-Term Abroad 130, Scotland for one time only.
   4. Approved dropping ESC 16 from the list of the Computer Science major requirements.
   5. Approved discontinuing the CIS major.
3. The AAC continued a discussion of Civil Engineering. The committee was joined by FEC members Tom Werner and Steve Leavitt to discuss the formation and charge of an AAC subcouncil to examine the proposed changes in Civil Engineering.

The committee will consist of one student, one administrator, one CE faculty and three other faculty.

The committee members will be selected in consultation with the FEC.

Posted on May 25, 2001

May 31 through June 17
Nott Memorial
“Full Fathom Five Artists” senior exhibition featuring works
by Arika Bjorkedal, Brevator Creech, Miriam Hinden,
Megan Mumford, Katherine Porter, Lindsay Kay Rieck, Aaron
Seliger, William H. Servant, Anna M. Sherwood, Tina Tacorian
and Cally Mary Woodard.
Opening reception is Saturday, June 16 from 3:30 to 5 p.m.

Through June 1 Social Science Faculty Lounge Art Gallery
“The Photographer's Eye: People, Culture and the Environment,”
an exhibition of works by three members of Social Sciences division _ Shelton
Schmidt (black and white portraits), George Gmelch (black and white portraits of
Irish Travelers) and Deb Ludke (color works of nature and objects). Gallery hours
are weekdays 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. For more information, call ext. 6072.

Posted on May 25, 2001

Events

Friday, May 25, 7:30 p.m.
Social Sciences 016 Theater
Images of Women in Horror Films series features Alien
Union Scholars present a horror film series with discussion led
by Gail Donaldson, psychology; Charles Batson, modern
languages; and Alex Chase `02.

Friday, May 25, through Monday, May 28, 8 and 10 p.m.
Reamer Auditorium
Film committee presents Snatch.

Thursday, May 31, through Sunday, June 3
Various campus locations
2001 ReUnion.

Friday, June 1, through Monday, June 4, 8 and 10 p.m.
Reamer Auditorium
Film committee presents The Wedding Planner.

Tuesday, May 29, 4;30 to 6:30 p.m.
Arts Atrium Gallery
Opening reception for senior art exhibitions: “Digital
Saturation” by Miriam Hinden, and “Greater than the
Whole” by Lindsay Kay Rieck. Shows run through Saturday, June 2.

Posted on May 25, 2001

ReUnion 2001 starts next Thursday, May 31, and runs through Sunday, June 3.

Events are to include a golf tournament, talks on baseball (by George Gmelch) and biography (by Brenda Wineapple), and tours of everything from Schaffer Library to the F.W. Olin Center.

For details, visit the Web site: http://www.union.edu/events/reunion/

Posted on May 25, 2001

A sub-committee of the Academic Affairs Council charged with reviewing the proposed elimination of civil engineering will report its findings by September 15.

The committee will be “small enough to get the job done in the time frame,” said AAC member Barbara Danowski at a general faculty meeting on Tuesday.

The committee will be composed of one faculty member from CE, three faculty from other departments; one administrator and one student, she said. The members have not been named.

Responding to some faculty who suggested that alumni be represented on the committee, Danowski said she thought it was important to limit the size of the committee in order to meet the deadline, and that AAC members thought it would set a bad precedent to have non-academics reviewing issues of academic resources.

President Roger Hull described the proposal to phase out CE as a “resource-based issue.”

But given limited resources, the desire to improve the program meant that there would have to be changes, he added.

“Why civil engineering and not another engineering program or a part of the liberal arts curriculum?” the president asked. “Because civil engineering is more highly structured and therefore less easily integrated into the rest of the engineering programs, because the remaining parts of the engineering division fit more logically together, and because we are primarily a liberal arts institution (we have 1,700 students in the liberal arts and 300 in engineering).

“But engineering is _ and will remain _ a distinguishing feature of Union,” he said.