• oCurriculum Committee Chair Whittinghill noted that an existing course going for a shorter term would not have to come through Curriculum Committee.
• 7. Professional Concerns Committee – Caroline Gibson: Dr. Gibson was excused, so PCC Vice Chair Li Lu gave the following report:
• The committee re-discussed the Faculty Evaluation Form, which had been approved last year in Senate, but was rejected by the President. They will be sending the form up again, without change.
• Another issue was an old, unpassed Action Item from 2014/2015 requesting that
• Another issue was an old, unpassed Action Item from 2014/2015 requesting that Biology/Chemistry/Psychology teaching loads be based on contact hours rather than credit hours. The reason is that a 3-hour course in these lab courses requires 4 hours of lecture and 2 hours of lab. A 4-hour course also requires more than just 4 contact hours. Instructors of these courses believe that the number of credit hours does not reflect how much they work. This issue was discussed in 2015, but the Action Item got lost, so the committee is sending it back up again.
• Also, PCC discussed whether Area Coordinators should get paid. They determined that they needed more information from Coordinators in all departments. They will design a study to collect information on which areas have Coordinators and how each gets paid.
• oMoffett agreed that this item had been approved in Senate but had stalled out in the Provost's office. Lu explained that she was presenting this as a point of information. A senator asked how many contact hours this would add up to. Lu responded that it would add up to 14 contact hours for those who teach classes with labs.
• oAnother Senator in the Math Department explained that the main issue is that a situation could arise where a faculty member is assigned three courses with lab components – that would be 9 hours of lecture and 9 hours of lab – which would be highly unfair to that faculty member. These faculty believe that lab instruction is the primary side of instruction because lab skills are what a student needs to be a good scientist. These labs deserve equivalent time. The Senator explained that they would not be able to staff their courses if they went with 12-contact-hour loads. That's why they suggested 14. As enrollment grows, it will be easier to build in an additional lab into an existing course, rather than add an entire course.
• oA Senator in the Music department noted in that department, students have ensembles which meet 5 days a week for 3 hours a day, but the instructor is only getting credit for a one hour class. The math Senator responded that there may certainly be other departments where workload could be recalculated.
• oMoffett pointed out that there are places in the Faculty Handbook where information like this should be added. He noted that this issue is not up for a vote, as it has already been passed in Senate; it is just being forwarded to the Administration.

10 minutes were added to the discussion.

• oA PCC committee member stated that at their meeting, a memo asking about this issue had been sent to the Provost; he responded that his understanding is that no Coordinators are getting paid. Another committee member affirmed.
• oAnother committee member said that they are putting a questionnaire together to find out what specifically the duties of the coordinator are. There is a set of tasks that are administrative in that