Approval of minutes. The minutes for the meeting of January 24 and February 7, 2007 were approved as amended.

Remarks by the Secretary. Professor Das brought up the dinner meeting of February 13 with four program directors, which was cancelled due to bad weather and suggested rescheduling it for March 20. The diversity discussion would take place at the dinner meeting in April. She reminded Council that the lunches with the junior faculty begin next Wednesday, February 28. She also reminded Council of the Faculty Assembly meeting on Tuesday, March 6 and asked that Council members encourage faculty members to attend. Professor Das raised the issue of the restructuring of Academic Council. Council agreed to have Professor Das contact Professor Bagger and invite him to a Council meeting.

The appointment of Dr. Douglas Mao as full Professor in the Department of English effective July 1, 2007 was approved.

The promotion of Dr. Jennifer Elisseeff to tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Biomolecular Engineering effective July 1, 2007 was approved.

The appointment of Dr. Wilson J. Rugh, II as Edward J. Shaefer Professor Emeritus in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering effective July 1, 2007 was approved.

Kristina V. Krasnov was approved to replace Andrew Watkins as the School of Medicine Student Representative on the Graduate Board through June 30, 2007.

Tyler Krus was approved to serve as a student member on the 2006-2007 Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee. He replaces Paige Cantlin for Spring 2007.

It was reported that the following appointments were approved by the Appointments and Promotions subcommittee: 1) Dr. Andrew Daniel as Assistant Professor in English effective 7/1/07. 2) Dr. Min Suh Son as Assistant Professor in History of Science & Technology for 3 year period 7/1/07 - 6/30/10. 3) Dr. Juan Obarrio as Visiting Assistant Professor in Anthropology for 3 year period 7/1/07 - 6/30/10. 4) Ms. Margaret Denithorne as part-time Lecturer in The Writing Seminars (Theatre Arts & Studies program) for 1/1/07- 5/31/07. 5)Dr. Stephen Shore as Assistant Professor in the Economics Department effective 7/1/07. 6) Dr. Scott Sibley as Visiting Assistant Professor in Materials Science and Engineering for 2/7/07 - 9/30/07. 7) Dr. Mahta Khosravi as J.J. Sylvester Assistant Professor in the Mathematics Department for 3 year period 7/1/07 - 6/30/10. 8) Dr. Sean Patrick Holleran as Lecturer in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering for 8/1/07 - 7/31/08.

Open discussion. Council discussed Hopkins One. Dean Falk suggested sending him or Dean Jones constructive comments so that members of the Hopkins One team can be made aware of the issues and adapt the system to Hopkins needs.

A Council member said that he had been having increasing difficulties with visas for his graduate students and post docs. It is very difficult to send foreign graduate students to foreign conferences. He said he thought this was a University issue as well as a government grant issue. Another Council member suggested exploring the possibility of extending visas by making appointment letters for more than one year when the funding is there for several years. Dean Falk said that work is being done in this area. The green card rules have been tightened and he suggested talking to Dean Lattman about this issue. It was suggested that incoming graduate students have stipends commensurate with the projected expenditures. Several hundred dollars can make a big difference to graduate students. A Council member asked if there had been any change about foreign students' ability to work in national laboratory facilities. Dean Falk said that he knows that government affairs people are working, but he does not know about that specific issue.

Remarks by the Dean. Dean Douglas reported on the status of undergraduate admissions. 14,800 people applied to Johns Hopkins. That is a 6% growth from last year. The diversity numbers are good. The highest number of applicants come from New York, the second highest from California.

The meeting adjourned at 4:34 p.m.

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