President Brody welcomed Victor Corces, new five-year Council member, and Frances Ferguson and Kathleen Stebe, new one-year members. He welcomed back returning Council members.

Dean Falk introduced Gabrielle Spiegel who has returned to Hopkins to be Acting Dean of Faculty and Chair of the History Department in the School of Arts and Sciences.

Approval of minutes. The minutes for the meetings May 11, May 18 and June 1, 2005 were approved as amended.

Remarks by the Secretary. Professor Rugh called Council's attention to a letter on the table about lunches with non-tenured tenure track faculty members. He asked if anyone had any changes. He reported that there is a dinner meeting scheduled for next Tuesday, September 20. Council committed to reviewing the new procedures under the new tenure policy. One topic of discussion might be a preliminary discussion of that. A second item might be advising or the issue of double counting. He asked if anyone had any particular thoughts about the discussion at the dinner committee. Dr. Feldman raised the issue of the composition of Council - election and length of term. Dean Falk said that this topic was discussed at the last Chairs meeting in the spring. There is a definite feeling that there is a problem with the composition of Council. The Deans are discussing a proposal for a process. In the next few weeks the Deans would like to propose a way to move forward. Dean Douglas said that the WSE chairs will talk about double counting at their meeting tomorrow and at some point will come to Council with a proposal. He also suggested discussing the Board of Review at the dinner meeting. Professor Rugh said that he will prepare a little bit of material that frames some issues for the Tuesday evening meeting.

Remarks by the Chair. President Brody reported that Stephen Dunham has been appointed as General Counsel. He is viewed as the top higher education general counsel in the country. President Brody said he thought that faculty as well as trustees will relate well to him. The President also reported that the University had named its first Chief Investment Officer, Kathryn J. Crecelius. In the past a treasurer managed the endowment part-time and much of the endowment management was farmed out to outside firms. They will be building up an internal staff, probably a half a dozen people. Bob Sirota has stepped down as head of the Peabody and there is a search underway. Mike Klag has taken over for Al Sommer as the Dean of the Bloomberg School of Public Health. The search for the Dean of the Krieger School is ongoing.

President Brody left the meeting at 3:51 p.m. and Dean Jones assumed the chair.

The appointment of Professor Neil Hertz as Professor Emeritus in the Humanities Center effective July 1, 2005 was approved.

Council turned to general discussion of Academic Council procedural matters regarding a) cases not requiring referee letters, b) process for reviewing how the Appointment and Promotion Procedures are working, c ) Council membership: composition and term length.

Council approved Whiting School Graduate Committee (WSGC) new members: Denis Wirtz, Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Louis Whitcomb Professor of Mechanical Engineering were approved to serve on the WSGC through 2008. Burton W. Andrews, a Ph.D. candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering was approved so serve on the WSGC for 2005-2006.

The Council approved KSAS and WSE Curriculum Committees new members. The following faculty members were approved to serve a two-year term (through 2007) on the Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee - Professor Robert Leheny from Physics and Astronomy and Mark Van Doren from Biology. The following students were approved as members of the Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee - Arash Massoudi, Vijay Phulwani and Nidhi Shah.

The following faculty members were approved to serve a two-year term (through 2007) on the WSE Curriculum Committee - Howard Katz from Materials Science and Engineering and Rene Vidal from Biomedical Engineering. The following students were approved to serve a one-year term on the WSE Curriculum Committee - Sumit Bose, Ram Chivukula, Kartik Trehan and Mary Wu.

The Council approved Board of Review new members: Professor Veena Das, Anthropology, Professor John Goutsias, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Professor Dick Henry, Physics and Astronomy and Professor Jim Spicer, Materials Science and Engineering were approved as new Board of Review members. Professor Das will continue to serve as the Council liaison on the Board of Review.

The Academic Council subcommittee assignments were approved with one correction; Professor Naiman will be chair of the Academic Affairs subcommittee. When Professor Ball asked about the Planning Committee, it was explained that the name was changed from Agenda committee so as not to confuse it with the Agenda committee that meets prior to Council meetings to assure that the Council meeting runs smoothly.

The Departmental Review committee assignments were approved as assigned.

Dean Falk reported for Professor Das on an appointment approved by the Board of Review over summer: David Golimowski promotion to Principal Research Scientist in CAS in Physics and Astronomy.

Remarks by the Deans. Dean Jones reported on significant hires in the Whiting School of Engineering: Catherine Norman in DOGEE, German Drazer and Dilip Asthagiri in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, James Guest in Civil Engineering and Hana el Samad in Electrical and Computer Engineering. There have been a few losses. The most recent and saddest was the passing of Chuck Revelle.

Dean Falk reported the losses of Kenneth Johnson, Director of the Mind Brain Institute and Jose Monleon, Professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. In a twelve month period the Krieger School has sadly lost four really distinguished faculty members to cancer.

The meeting adjourned at 4:35 p.m.

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