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THE GEORGE WASHINGTON TINTVERSITY Washingon, DC \- MINUTES OF THE REGUI.AR FACULTY SENATE MEETTNG HELD ONJAhIUARY 14,20,I IN THE STATE ROOM Prcsenu President lfu"pp and RegistarAmundsoq Deans Bamatt, f)elling, and Feueq Ptofessots BamhiU Biles, Castlebery, Cotdes, Cotry, Costanza, Dickson, Galston, Garcia, Garis, Harington, Helgert, Flotez, Johnsoq Klaren, Ku, Lilxcomb, McAleavey, Pagel, Parsons, Rehrnan, Shesser, Sirnon, Wilrn61a, Wirtz, andyezet Absent Ptovost knnan and Patliarnentarian Charnovitzl Deans Brown, Burke, Goldman, and Guthde; Intedm Deans Alman and Maggs; Ptofessors Boyce and Kessmann CALL TO ORDER Thr: mee.'ng was called to order by President Knapp at 2:15 p.m. Prcsident trfu.pp advised ttre Senate that Padiarnentadan Chamovitz was absent due to a professional commit e:nt. At his reques! Prcfessor Susan Karamanian, Associate Dean for Intemational and Cot Patativ€ Legal Studies, agreed to senre as Ac*i.g Padiamentadan for the mee '{g. APPROYT.L OF THE MINUTES The minutes of the meering of December 10r 2010 were apptoved as d.istributed. INTRODI]CTION OF RESOLUTIONS No rcsolutions were intrcduced. !EPqRT ON THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION AND HUII,IAN DEVELOPMENT Dean Michael J. Feuer ptesented the Report in Powetpoint format (fhe Report is enclosed.) Dean Feuet thanked the Senate for the oppotunity to rctrmrt on the School He related that he came to GW in September, 2010, following seventeen years at the National Academy of Sciences. Befole ioining the Academy to *o.k on a newly-established board on psychologir:d and educational testing, he seryed on the staff of the now defunct Office of Technolog;y Assessmeat At the National Academy, he sered as Executive Directot of one of the six divisions of the nationd Research Council, dealing with issues in the behavioral and social Eciences, and education. Dean Feuet said he was most appreciative of the warm welcome he received upon arnving at the Uaivesity. He said his Report would outline sevetal of the progmms io tne Graduate School of Education and Human Developmeng summadze some of the Schoolts Faculty Senate Minutes, January 14, 20ll Page2 recent accomplishrneotsr fumish statistical infotmation about the School, and lay out his thoughts on a few of the main challenges fa.iog the School Dean Feuer related that shottty befote he ardved, the School had completed a rcorganization in which the School's three departments werc expanded to five. Each of the five departments -- Qeu$sling and Human Derrelopment, Cutticulum and Pedagogy' Educational kaderchip, Human and Oryanizational I-eaming, Specid Education and Disability Studies, arc functioning quite well now. Dean Feuet said that this configuation and definition of GSEHD's Depattments reflect a modern view of the curent context of education and education research today. Education is rcally about human capital development and the futute sf rcashing and leaming from pte-kindetgarten thrcugh Post- graduate levets. That is partty reflected in the way in which these Departments visualize d6, their role, the kinds of students they ate wotking and the curricula the GSEHD offerc. Dean Feuer noted that the School is in the process of thinking about s6sarnlining its constitution and bylaws genetally, particutnt with rcspect to issues of faculty appointment, promotion and tenure cdteda. Dean Feuer said the School was vety fotnrnate to have the voluntaqy assistance of the Senate Padiamentarian, Steve Chatnovitz, in the eady &afting ptocess. GSEHD offem programs both on and off-campus. Dean Feuet said he had fot the first time that moming visited the Loudoun ce'nprls and had a wonderfrrl visit with the vaded group of GSEHD faculty who teach there. Progtams ate dso offered in Ale:randria, fulington, Hampton Roads, Singaporc and Hong Kong. The School curently ofrets a wide range of degrees and certificates which are detailed in the Repot Thete are curtently 11500 students emolled of whom 175 witl gmduate in Mayr 2011. GSEHD is one of the two GW Schools that is consistently tanked, and has temained in the top 35 of compatable schools .''re. fot some It is accredited by the National Council for the Accreditation of Teachet Education (NCATE), the Council for Accteditation of Couaseling and Related Educational Progtams (CACREP), the Council for Rehabilitation Education (CORE)' and the Boatd of Education of the Disttict of Columbia. In terms of the School's compliance with Faculty Code rcquirements concetning the number of full-tirne rcgular, active-status faculty membets, 47 of 76 ate tenuted of tenure- tmck This petcentage means the School does not meet the Code tequirement that 75oh of regular, active-status facrrlty be tenured ot on the tenule ttack While it is e:qrccted that by F*rz[Ur 65oh of hculty will be tenured or on the tenurc uaclq Dean Feuer said this issue is one that he wilt make one of his highest priodties in plaoning future tecnritmenq since the School's effots to meet its goal to become a wodd-class teseatch and teaching School of Education and Human Development makes it necessary that active effotts be made to fix this mtio in the ditection of tenured and tenure-line positions. Several seatches ate now underway in the Schoo! and Dean Feuet said that as soon as he teceives authodzation fot a few of these new lines to be classified as tenure-track positions, he exlrccted that vadous very distinguished colleagues in the field would be happy to contact hirn 16 recommend theit best gtaduates to be considercd for positions at GW. Dean Feuer repoted that the School has rccently come into possession of atchival and historical matedals that will ptovide unique teseatch oppornrnities. The first is a latge shate of the corespondence, files, papets, presentations, books and speeches of one of the nation's most distinguished educatorc and lawyers, Bill Taylor, who unfotunate$ passed Faculty Senate Minutes, January 14,20n Page 3 away this past swnmer. Dean Feuer said that Taylor had been a dear friend, and that he had met with the famity who agteed to pmvide these matedals to the School so that a tesearch base for people interested in the future of the diversity agenda, civil rights, and education would have access fot scholatship and teachin& The School atso succeeded in gainiog acicess to the full historical archives of the Nationd Education Association, which is a trove of infotmation about the history of the labot movement as it related to education. In tetms of federal and local education policy coatexe, GSEHD is getting closet and morc rcoanected to the Department of Education, the National Scieace Foundation, and state and local education agendas. The School aspires to take a mote visible and vocal role in national education policy debates. These are not fadin$ they are ggtting more complicate4 and Dean Feuet said he thought GSEHD is in a good position to contdbute specid knowledge and o<pertise on a wide raage of issues, particulady with reslrcct to the standands movement in secondaty education, the gowth of intercst in cross-national compadso:rs, aod education rcfotm. While in his formet position, Dean Feuer said he had petsuaded the District of Columbia to mount an independent evaluation of the D.C. Schools through the Academy, and that neport should be availabte within the next month. Therc is veqy substantid intercst in this study, and GSEHD hopes to play a cental de in the next phase of ttis initiative. Dean Feuer rcpoted that the School made a formal 4nnouncement the day before, tnaq n coopetation with the pdvate otganizatioa, K12, the GWU Online Hlgh School (GWUOHS) was lauached in Loudoun County. He said that despite inhercnt tisls and uncetainties connected to the ventune, he thought it would be part of the grovring move to enable young people to rcceive their high school educadons through other than taditionat btick and mortar schools. This will also ptovide GSEHD with a chance to provide \- intellectual and substantive ovemight to the curiculum and pedagog;y associated with the initiative and also to plan and carry out important research. Dean Feueds Report outlines a number of the School's parnerchips with schools and school sJrstems in and aurnd the atea. One example is the School Without \tralls next door to GSEHD on G Stteeg i,niots and senio$ at a\[at[s, can take classes at GW and also complete an Associates degtee on their way to applying fot adrnission to a fouraear institution. Teachem and shrdents ane also wotking in Anacostia and in Pdnce George's and Montgome{y counties as well as in other locations. These kinds of on-the-g"""rrd experiences arc very much pat of what the School visualizes as the futue of education and research, as well as practice. The School also collaborates internally with othet units of the Univetsity. Some new wotk is contemplated with Columbian College in the arca of Education in the Arts. White this proiect is in the eady ptanning stages, the School is very fornrnate to have one of the Trustees of the University who is a very distinguished and superb actor, K..qy fashingtonl take an interest in this and work closely with the plann6rs. Other partnerships inctuae faculty wotking on Special Education and brain science in cooperation with faculty members in the Medical School Biology departmenq and other science units. GSEHD is part of the Univercity-wide initiative on autism, wifi a gmnt application pendiog in the multi-million dollar rarge. Dean Feuer said he was also lookiog fo-twatd 1o new collaborations with colleagues in the Business School on issues rclated to education" human capital tecbnological developmen! and the intemational scene. Faculty Senate Minutes, Janu.ry 1,4r20tl Page4 GSEHD has established a Ventue Fund to make it possible fot faculty, particulatly younger faculty, who are burdened with a pretty significant 16a6hing load to obtain resorrces to develop new research initiatives. TU. f.rrd is not large, but the thought is that given a cteative apptoach, small arnormts of funding can go a long way. Dean Feuet's report includes a gtaph with data about GSEHD's extemal funding from sponsored research. The furding baseline moved up between 1995 and 2fi)8 and then regressed slrghtly. Despite this, the loog-term trend is moving in the dght direction and the School has plans fot seeking funding from maior foundations as well as the fedetd govefnment A challenge facrng the School is the issue of entollments which are dropping in some arezrs for teasons that are not clear. The School is exarnining demand factots, marketing, economic trends and its competitive position to tefine and fine-tune its enrollment sttategy and poiections. In conclusion, Dean Feuer obsered that the School's facilities on G Street ate cmmped and in need of improvement. He thanked the Faculty Senate fot adopting a Resolution seveml yearc ago indicating that the physical plant of GSEHD should be high on the list of ptanned enhancements, and promised to make himself available for discussions on this issue. Professor Parsons asked Dean Feuer about outstanding activities in the School that it might build on, and which prcgrems wete working really well Dean Feuer said he had some tesewations about singling out paticulat ptogmms, but he thought that GSEHD's 1 Special Education piogram, in particular how it is connect'ag with the new'bmin sciencer' stands to be one of the tnrly signature activities of the School Therc is some supetb wotk golng on in this atea, and has been for some t'rne. It is an example of teseatch hat has significant policy implications: one of the great virtues of the Amedcan educational system is that the U.S. has made a significant cotntnitment to educate people with a wide mnge of disabilities and disadvantages, whethet these arc behaviotal emotional, biochemical or adse from othet causes. llowevet, this cornrnitrnent comes at a high pdce. A second arca in which su1rcrb work is being done is that of intemational education GSEHD's faculty are publishing in the top iournals and ate getting wide tecognition for thefu contdbutions. Compadng educational systems is hard wotk and tequires a certain kind of willingness to exarnine othet parts of society to the extent that school systems are a rcflection of it Thirdty, Dean Feuer said that GSEHD's ssunssling piogram is alteady consideted one of the best in the county and in his view, its wotk is of direct relevance to present-day problems, fot example, to the recent tragic events in Tucson, Arizona where an apparently deeply disturbed young man killed and iniued severd 1rcople. The idea that this might have been prevented by more effective sgigsning and tehabilitation is something in which the counseling program has considetable expertise. In addition, the ptogram in forcnsic rchabilitation is both ctoss-cutting and ctoss-disciplinary. Faculty Senate Minutes, January 14, 20ll Page 5 Pnrfessot Barnhill said he was fascinated by the idea of the Online Htgh School as it seemed to be one that might have teal reyenue-generating potentid moving fotward- He asked if itwas a substitute for the Genetal Education Diploma (GED), and Dean Feuer said it was not, Pnofessot Batnhill also asked if it was multi-lioguat and since it was online if the Program rvas ot Potentially could be offeted in multiple countdes. Dean Feuer tesponded that the oniginal sense was that the pimary market would be sering internationd students, although it would be otiented pdmadly to students whether they hele ot in other "t countdes and ate most likeV to be among the highet-achieving, college-going, to1> performing snrdenB. The pogam is also suiable for elite athletes who spend so much of their time in pmctice and athletic competitions. Although the progmm will offer a lot of intemctiviSr, Online Htgh School students must be capable of sustaineq fafuly indepeadent work The Online Hrgh School is acnmlly viewed as pretty high-end electtonic prepschool The otganization with which GW is pattnedng alrcady has online progmms lnZ*Zg states. In most of those places, it is viewed as part of the public system, sort of an altetnative to chartet schools. G\[ps Online High School will be a bit diffetenq as it is viewed as a pdvate school T.his venture o<emplifies one of the great virnres of the Amedcan education iystem - its ptopensrty for innsvati6n and cteative e<pedmentation, conducted under appoptiate oversight Vith its online high school partner, GSEHD witl develop ne* reseatch initiatives ilr connection with this ptogtam, as well as ensudng that independent evaluation is in place. Ptofessot Hotez said he had heatd no mention of medical education during the rcpott, and encoumged Dean Feuet to get in touch with the new medical educator on campns, Ptofessor AIor Stagnato-Gteen, to look at collabotative opportunities in this arca. Dean Feuer said he was happy to report that he had met with him-two days ago to begin a dialogue and convetsation about what Education can leatn from the wodd of MedicinJand vice vetsa. This is but a first step in what protnises to be the beginning of a productive and innovative telationship. GENERAL BUSINESS I. NOMINATION FOR ELECTION TO SENATE STAhIDING COMMITT:EES Ptofessot Castlebery moved the nornination of Ptofessor Arthur E. Wilmarth, Jr., as Chair of the Ptofessional Ethics aad Academic Freedom Committee for the sping ,.d"rt r, 2011. The nominationwas apptoved. U. REPORT OFTHE E)(ECUTTVE COMMITTEE Professot Castleberry presented the Report of the Executive Committee, which is enclosed. III. N.{TERIM REPORTS OF SENATE STAI.IDING COMMITTEES Intedm Reports wete teceived from Cornrnittee on Admissions Policy, Student Financial Aid, and Entollment Management and the Cornrnittee on Research. T[e Reports arc enclosed- Faculty Senate Minutes,Jan ra{y 14,20tl Page 6 rV. CHAIRS REMARKS Ptesident Knapp noted that the past Tuesday, the Univemity announced the appointrrent of Dt Ferid Murad to the faculty of the School of Medicine and Health Sciences. He was intoduced to faculty, students, and staff at an everrt held in the Jack Morton Auditodum. For those who rnissed the announcement, he will be ioining the faculty in Apdt He is a Nobel Lauleate and a prominent tesearcher in the medical sciences who also has a strong cornrnitrnent 1s lsashing, about which he spoke tathet eloquently when he was introduced. The work fot which he was awatded the Nobel Pdze had to do with the role of nitdc oxide as a signaling molecule in the catdiovasculat system' but his other research intercsts range well beyond that Dr. Murad mentioned thtee fields he wants to focus on in the futue; these include glioblastoma, neutal stem cells and international wotk on global infectious diseases. The lattet mises some intetesting possibilities of intersections between his work and that of other faculty membets intelested in global hedth at GW. Ptesident Knapp also noted that a Toqm Hall meeting oryanized by the Council on Divercity and Inclusion was held the ptevious Wednesday in the Gmnd Balkoom of the Marsin Center. The pqpose of the eveng which was well attended, was to give people an opportunity to ask questions ot to raise issues they thought should be rcflected in the ricommendations of the Council which is developing a teport ovet the corrse of this acadernic yeat Among other rringsr the Council on Divesity and Inclusion is to have an advisory rcle in dation to the new Vice Ptovost fot Diversity and Inclusion, a position fot which there is a national seatch curently underway. The Town Hall is part of an intedm process in which over time the Univetsity hopes to develop a sense of best ptactices at othet institutions and identifr best ptactices at GW which can be shared more broadly in the University cornr"unity. Ultimately th. aim is to make GV the best place to wotk in the District of Columbia fot its faculty and staff and to ensue that it rcflects the divercity of the nation as it shifts tathet dramatically in the coming decades. President Ko.pp also teported that a brcaldast was held the day befote in the Manrin Center Ballroom to honor GW alumnus Vincent Gtay, the sixth Mayor of the Disttict of Columbia. The event attmcted a capacity ctowd which included members of the Univemity 66rnmrrnily as well as people from the D.C. Metrc atea. Ptesident Knapp said that Mayot Gmy spoke eloquently about his orpedeace as a GV student fle was bom in Northeast Washington, attended public schools, and came to GW in 1959, at a time of still veqy extfeme segregation, to the erftent that no African Amedcans wete dlowed on the vasity basketball team. They were also not permiffed to ioin fraternities. Nevertheless, Mayot Gtay percisted in his effort to ioin a fratemity, was accepted by the l*g"ly Jewish Tau Epsilon Phi Chapter, and later became its Prcsident In reslxrnse to the o<clusion of African Amedcans from eligibility to play on the vatsity basketbdl team, Mayot Gmy and some of his African American and Jewish friends fotmed an intramual basketball league which played their garnes in the Tin Tabemacle on the Univercity Yatd. By all accounB' it was actual$ a better team than the vamity team at the time. Anothet basketball-related eveot occured last week at the GW game agaiost La Salle when another alumnus and local mdio personality, Mark Plotkin, aranged an oppotunity fot a rcunion of Mayot Gray and sevetal of nir formet intamuml basketball tearnrnates, which Mayot Gmy chatactedzed as the most memotable event of his life. At his inauguration as Mayot, neady 20 of his fuatemity brotherc wete in attendance and they werc introduced. During his inaugual speech, Mayor Gray spoke about the impotance of the University and his awaieness of its gfowing Faculty Senate Minutes, January 14, 201;l Page 7 acadernic distinction in the decades since he left. His s1rcech rcflected a keen sense of GW's development ovet the years, as well as its civic engagement with the rosssading D.C. community. \-. President Knapp concluded his rcmatks by saying that the following Monday, he and a numbet of memberc of the Univetsity comrntraity would participate in a day of setvice on the holidav honoring Dt Martin Luther King, Jr. The da/s activities wilt include painting, tefurbishing, and cleaning Ballou Senior Hlgh School in Ward 8. BRIEF STATEMENTS (AND OUESTIONS) Ptofessot Simon commented on the issue of selecting pimaay cate providerc under the new UHC Health Plans. As many know, most genetal internists in Washington D.C. do not accept any insu1211s.. Callem to the Medical Faculty Associates (MFA) ieques''rg a pdmary cate doctot will find that these physicians are rot accepting-ner patients. Flowevet, if any membet of the GW faculty or staffwishes to select a MFA physic-ian as a Pfur.l, carc provide4 this can be done by salling 20L741-2222. Identify yo.rrsif as a GW faculty ot staff membet and the call centet shoutd arrang€ an appointment with a pimary care physician. While evety effot will be made to provide care in a timely m4n.er, routinl physical svarninalisns may have to wait for a mo-nth or two. If anyone has a problem, Ptofessor Simon said he could be contacted by e-mail at [email protected]. PrcfessotYezet asked about a recent Hatchetatticlewhich mentioned the possibility that GIIDs sffsllmsnl cap might be increased- Prcsident Knapp rcsponded that this --ot actually gtes, out of his attendance at a iobs summit hi-and-othet local University Presidents attended with local business leaders iust beforc Mayor Gmfs inauguration. The \- Pu{pose of the summit was to discuss the significant unemplo5rment tate - 50% -- in WashinSon D.C. Prcsident Knapp said he was asked if the Onivercity has a cap on the numbet of employees, and he confirmed that there was. This is separate from the cap on student enrollrnent GW is well below the cap on employees, in to the enrolltnent cap, where it is almost at the maximum. The question about the" ocoatp"" ostn employees raises the interesting issue of why neighbothoods are io testdctive about the plans of univercities whea everyone is intetested in encouraging economic gtowth in the City. A fotmer GW colle4gue, Steven Fullet, is ptesently conducti.g an economi6 ;trrpact study for the Consottium of Univetsities which will detail the neieffect of educational institutions on the Ciqfs economy. While GW has no plans to change its 20-yearplan and has not adrrocated or rcquested any altetation of ig Ptesident Knapp said he thought that if there was ever a question about whethet G\[ ot othet D.C. univemities should grow beyond their curent boundades and lirni6 and become latger institutions as part of ovemll plan for tfre economic development of the City, this would be worth t"td"g a look" rart . ADJOURNMENT Thete berng no further business beforc the Senate, the meetiogwas adiourned at 3:2lp.m. Efrza"fietfl A- Amnm[son ElizabethA Amuadson Secrctary TI-IE CEORC E WASFI I NCTON UN I VERS I TY GRADUATE SCHOOL OT EDUCATION IiUMAN Ai\i D DEVELOPMENT GSEHD Highlights Faculty Senate January 14,2011 Michael J. Feuer Dean ffiffiffiHS * Today w Program highlights m Recent accomplishments a Statistics r Trends and Challenges ffiffiffihfim .&* va - II ) ( ( Organization Five Academic Departments r Counseling and Human Development r Curriculum and Pedagogy r Educational Leadership r Human and Organizational Learning r Special Education and Disability Studies Foggy Bottorn Alexandria Loudon Hampton Roads Singapore Hong Kong ffi'sHHS