MINUTES FROM  
YSU ACADEMIC DEANS' COUNCIL  
APRIL 16,1991 - ARTS & SCIENCES  
Present:  Cicarelli, Gillis, Hotchkiss, Kohut, Loch, Mapley, McEwing, Ruggles, Sutton, Sweetkind, Yiannaki, 
and Yozwiak 
Prior Minutes: The minutes of the February 12th meeting were approved. 
Strategic Planning: The Strategic Planning Committee has been meeting every Wednesday to review the 
issues raised by the Exposure Draft. There will be an open meeting on May 15 to discuss their draft. Board 
of Trustee members will be present at this meeting. A copy of the draft will be circulated one week prior 
to the meeting. Dean Sweetkind expressed the hope that there would still be an opportunity for the input 
of new ideas, not just for reaction to the ideas expressed in the draft. 
Degree Audit: The degree audit program is moving ahead, both in terms of programming by Computer 
Center staff, and requirement building by staff from CAST, Education and A&S. The testing of 
requirements will begin next week. 
Transfer Module: As noted on the attached draft, there have been two suggested changes to the module  
Math and Science have been separated, with Math being a 4 q.h. requirement; Social Science has been 
changed to 12-16 q.h. Dr. Yiannaki discussed a number of record keeping issues which will have to be 
resolved prior to implementing the module (see attachment - Note: these items were discussed at the April 
17th meeting of the Ohio A&S deans. There is significant differences of opinions on the issues, even among 
individuals most closely associated with the TM). 
Change in Engineering Gen. Ed.: It was noted that the recent change in humanities and sociar studies 
requirements for the BE (8/16 to 12/12) does not follow the University requirements noted on page 44 of 
the YSU Bulletin. When the Senate approved this change, were senators aware of this inconsistency? 
Graduate Proposals: Responses of sister institutions to YSU's Ed.D. proposal are starting to come in, and 
most should be received this week. It is hoped that we will soon be given permission to prepare the full 
proposal. The MS in Nursing proposal has been circulated in Program Development Proposal (PDP) form. 
The full proposal is being developed. At the last Board meeting, the PDP for an MS in Computer Science 
was approved to go forward. The School of Ed is seeking approval for a new certification area - Early 
Childhood Special Education Validation. 
Report from Dr. Yiannaki: EARLY has been going on for two weeks and feedback from students and 
parents has been pOSitive. Approximately 630 students are expected to participate in EARLY. 
Admissions applications are slightly ahead of last year. Most schools in the state expect modest 
gains this year. 
Spring, 1991 FTE is approximately 300 ahead of last Spring, and Head Count is approximately 100 
higher. We anticipate continued growth this Fall due to both retention and admission increases. 
The Transient Student Project will be done again this year to hopefully increase Summer transient 
student enrollment. 
Deans should review the list of students in their school who have not completed English 551 within 
90 q.h. In addition to appropriately dealing with offenders, by noting the errors on the list, the deans can 
assist in the modification of the program which generates the list. 
The Academic calendar approved and distributed on February 18th has been modified. Due to 
scheduling problems caused by the dates for release of Federal financial aid funds, a Late & Final 
registration will be held on January 2nd, 1992, and a Change of Registration will be held on December 30th, 
1991. It was noted that this is a change due to particular problems in this year's calendar, not a change in 
the general guidelines of not having registration activity between Christmas and New Years. 
A tentative Summer Calendar was distributed 
It was suggested that a sheet be attached to curriculum proposal fonns to explain guidelines for 
subsidy level assignment and to allow departments to indicate why a given level should be assigned to the 
proposed course. There was no objection from the Deans to this suggestion. 
The WSemester Conversion
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committee is meeting at least weekly. They plan to meet with each 
academic division and with students. They hope to conclude their study by May so that they can present 
their report to the Senate in June. As always, input on this issue seems to be evenly split between 
arguments in favor of semesters and those in favor of quarters. The biggest concern seems to be the effort 
required for the conversion. 
The possibility of having classes begin at 7:00 AM was discussed. Adding an additional hour to the 
day would allow for 5 or 6 large lecture classes (i.e., over 100 students in each class). This could result in 
lower limited-service expenditure. No formal action was taken. 
Budgets: The 1991-1992 budgets have been established, however, limited-service dollars have not yet been 
calculated. Limited-service allotments will be assigned by Workload Hours, based on past usage. There will 
be no overload money. Academic Challenge funds, with the exception of continuing personnel lines, have 
been eliminated. 
Restricted Graduate Workshops: There was a lengthy discussion regarding the appropriateness of granting 
graduate credit for restricted graduate workshops. No action was taken. 
Social Work Accreditation: A consultant from the Commission on Social Work Accreditation made a site 
visit to YSU today. Her exit report included both praise and suggestions. 
Honors Convocation: Ways to distinguish more meaningful awards from those of lesser stature, and methods 
to shorten the ceremony were discussed. It was decided to only have students receiving University Honors 
and Class Honors cross the stage. Other students would be asked to stand when their names were read. 
Rather than receiving their awards on stage, they would receive their awards after the ceremony. 
Implementation will be discussed at the next Dean's Luncheon. 
Phi Kappa Phi: The request to include with the Deans' Scholarship announcements information on the PKP 
Scholarship for first year students in was denied. 
The meeting was adjourned at 3:45 PM 
Respectfully Submitted: 
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Gordon Mapley r tJf 
Approved May 21, 1991