Approval of minutes. The minutes for the meeting of January 22, 2003, were approved as amended.

Remarks by the Secretary. Professor Kingsland reported that she and Professor Khan are putting together a summary of the Council's views about teaching evaluations. They will try to have them ready for the April 30 meeting when the outside consultant is invited to the Council meeting.

Open Discussion. Professor Lattman distributed a sheet from the Harvard fundraising newspaper that contained a financial statement of the faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard. It lists sources of income and sources of expenses. He asked whether such financial statements were available at Hopkins. Dean Busch-Vishniac commented that the Whiting School has a graphic representation of this information that she believes appears in the annual report and is presented at the faculty retreats. The Provost said there are a couple of ways in which that information is made public. The Faculty Budget Advisory committee was designed to get this kind of information in front of the faculty. Their minutes are now public record and are published on the web. All the information that is shared with the Trustees goes before the Faculty Budget Advisory committee. Every school is represented on the Faculty Budget Advisory committee, including two representatives from Arts and Sciences. They are encouraged to take the information and share it with their divisions. He reminded the Council that budgets are not always transparent documents. Provost Knapp encouraged the Deans to talk to the representatives on the Faculty Budget Advisory committee and work on a process to distribute the information. Dean Weiss suggested that the Deans could issue an Annual Report. Professor Lattman commented that people are reassured when they can see hard numbers. When times are hard and things are mysterious it makes things worse.

The promotion of Dr. Karl Glazebrook to Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy effective July 1, 2003 was approved.

Professor Lattman, Chair of the Appointments and Promotions subcommittee reported that the following appointments were approved: 1) Robert Kraichnan as Homewood Professor in Mechanical Engineering for three years beginning 5/1/03; 2) Efraim Inbar as Visiting Professor in Political Science for 1/1/04 - 6/30/04; 3) Dr. Marcus Moseley as Visiting Professor in English for 7/1/03-6/30/04; 4) Dr. Heng Zhou as Visiting Professor in Mechanical Engineering for 5/22/03 - 6/7/03; 5) Dr. Vasilios Peros as Lecturer in Mathematical Sciences for 7/1/03 - 6/30/04; 6) Dr. Charles Morton as Lecturer in Mathematical Science for 7/1/03 - 6/30/04.

Professor Naiman, Associate Chair and Council Liaison on the Board of Review standing committee reported that the following appointment was approved: Dr. Dennis Nagle as Research Engineer in the Center for Multi-Functional Appliques for 5/1/03 - 4/30/04.

The Council held an election of two one-year members and one one-year member to serve in place of Professor Daniel Naiman while on leave. Professors Stuart Leslie, Gerald Masson and Michael Williams were elected to serve on Council for the one-year period July 1, 2003 through June 30, 2004.

Remarks by the Chair. The SARS epidemic has presented a new problem for the Center in Nanjing, China. There has been extensive discussion with the leadership of the School of Advanced International Studies, and a team across the University has been put together including experts in infectious disease from the School of Medicine. So far there are no cases of SARS in Nanjing or the province where the center is located, but a decision has been made to curtail the program about six weeks early. As of this week the center will be evacuated. The Provost commented that it is a challenge being an international university. There are tremendous legal/ethical issues in terms of Hopkins responsibility to faculty, staff and students who are out there in the field. Singapore is another concern because there is a medical center there and a conservatory is being set up. Singapore has become an area of serious concern for the SARS epidemic. A lot of time is being spent working with people in public health, in medicine and with government officials to keep faculty and students across the University informed. When asked about the major concern with the Nanjing Center, the Provost explained that if someone were to get sick they would be quarantined, unable to leave the country and would have to be cared for in a Chinese hospital. The quality of care there varies tremendously. There is also the question of what might happen in terms of social disruption, and the problem that the medical risk cannot be calculated. Currently there are no cases of SARS reported in Nanjing, but that does not necessarily mean that there are no cases.

Provost Knapp reported that they are in the second round of interviews for Dean Busch-Vishniac's successor. An external review committee has finished a draft of its report. As a result of the APL/Whiting task force that met, ways of implementing some of the recommendations the task force developed is about to be discussed by the University administration.

Two other ongoing searches are for the successor to Estelle Fishbein, General Counsel and Audrey Smith, Vice-President for Human Resources.

The meeting adjourned at 5:00 p.m.

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