October 1, 2024 Minutes

Council of Department Chairs

In attendance: Curtis Bennett, Krzysztof Slowinski, Kelly Young, Jesse Dillon, Lijuan Li, Lora Stevens, Will Murray, Prashanth Jaikumar, Jim Kisiel, Christine Whitcraft, Babette Benken (via Zoom), Jeanine Pociask, Christina Hall, Margaret Karteron, Lindsay Aymar, Tatiana Avila

  1. Approve agenda (10:00am) - Approved
  2. Approve minutes from September 17 – Approved as amended
  3. Announcements
    1. ASM
      1. Significant base budget cut – from 2% to 3.8%
      2. Resource allocation submitted to Academic Affairs
    2. Operations
      1. Ballots have gone out with 56 responses
        1. RTP committee will be complete by end of week – will convene in time for the college review (end of October through Spring)
      2. Dean's review committee
        1. Staff have received the request to nominate
        2. 6 faculty members – 1 lecturer and 5 tenure
      3. RSCA – applications going out this week
        1. Deadline is first week of November
      4. Sabbatical leave reports due today (October 1)
        1. Send to Sabbatical@csulb.edu - no Interfolio link
      5. Scholarship review for Spring cycle beginning – more updates throughout October
    3. Communications
      1. No updates
    4. Dean
      1. Budget updates
        1. Last week meeting with President on Stateside summer – more info in future meetings
        2. Chairs have been invited to a separate meeting with President and Provost
        3. Our new base is on top of current increased enrollment
        4. Summer '25 will not change
        5. 18 of the CSUs have done this already
  4. Associate Deans
    1. Academic Programs
      1. Updates on Degrees
        1. Graduation rates are higher in CNSM than other colleges
        2. CNSM is #1 producer of baccalaureate degrees in the CSU (for science and math degrees)
        3. Same for Master's
      2. Curriculum proposals are due Friday (10/4)
    2. Research
      1. CNSM had 8 SuRE proposals go out
        1. Make sure faculty are taking their buy out – include in faculty proposals
        2. Chairs need to keep track of who is taking buyout (match on a grant is after buy out)
      2. CNSM is piloting Post-Award meetings
      3. 5 major research grants were submitted in CSULB, all COE
      4. Poster boards are out of the hallway – stored in between HSCI 100/102
      5. Junk piled by Micro will be removed
        1. Possibly making that once a semester (with a 2-week junk drop-off period)
    3. Graduate Programs
      1. No updates
  5. Faculty Affairs concerns
    1. Hiring timelines concerns – please get them to the Dean ASAP
  6. USU construction planning
    1. Any events that would need the USU – get your requests in for other venues in ASAP as dates will fill up (the Pointe is preferred)
      1. Request put in for the Pointe for next year's research symposium
      2. No scholarship reception next year due to lack of USU– will host a late lunch for donors instead
      3. Departments need to have individual scholarship receptions (outside USU obviously)
  7. Common Course numbering
    1. Talk of aligning our course numbering with community colleges
    2. CID descriptions are not up to date – faculty are being asked to sit on these committees
  8. Open Discussion
    1. College council currently working on RTP policy document
      1. University document is making early tenure promotion conditions clearer – departments should be thinking about what that makes for them
  9. Adjournment – 11:35am

Upcoming Dates

  • October 7: Student research awards applications are due at 5:00pm

Meeting minutes were APPROVED Tuesday, October 22, 2024.

Note: The minutes above reflect discussion on the date of the CDC meeting about policies, not actual policy. Faculty and staff should wait for official communication on each subject before acting.