Art Dept. Minutes & Memos, 1985-87, 1985-1997

Art Dept. Minutes & Memos, 1985-87

Art Department Minutes and Memos, 1985-1987

March 6, 1985

- Teaching schedule for 1985-86

- Art department five-year personnel planning

- January term 1986: grades and credit options

- Advanced Placement: department response

- Catalog revisions and clarifications

- May Bowle announcements

- May Bowle scholarships

- Internship program guidelines

March 13, 1985

- memo about advanced placements

March 29, 1985

- memo regarding the option of credit courses for January term

April 15, 1985

- Proposals for experimental courses for the 1986 January term

- Faculty teaching load

- May Bowle fundraiser



1985-1986:

August 29, 1985 * first full school year of being a joint department

- Departmental job assignments

- Art education majors

- Declining number of students choosing the art major

September 24, 1985

- Survey of space needs

- Office supplies budget has been cut

- Core curriculum

- Review of the joint art curriculum

October 22, 1985

- Met with members of the Core Curriculum Council to discuss the implication of the new joint requirements

November 25, 1985

- Curriculum review

- Faculty get-together

January 16, 1986

- Curriculum review

- Little communication between faculty members

February 24, 1986

- Catalog revisions

- Review of curriculum

- Fall 1986 schedule

- Gallery director position

March 10, 1986

- memo about cancellation of meeting on March 13

April 8, 1986

- Problems with the fall class schedule

- Gallery director position

- Life drawing session

- Possible elimination of the staff support for the Art department

May 12, 1986

- Gallery director position has been eliminated

- Declining support for the art department both from reduced funding and from shrinking number of art majors

- What to do with the Art History major

- Lack of upper division courses for the Art major



1986-1987:

September 24, 1986

Individualized traditional major

- Art History major problems

- 300 level courses in Art major

- Purchase of new drawing tables

October 22, 1986

- Gallery issues with the faculty

- Establishing a gallery schedule

November 3, 1986

- memo about curriculum study

January 21, 1987

- Periodical called Stained Glass

- Interior design department joining art department

- Requiring two credits for each of the Sophomore and Senior Seminars

- Implications of the establishment of the Core on art curriculum

March 20, 1987

- Fine Arts requirements of the Core Curriculum

- Honors program

- Involvement of Art dept. in Core Curriculum

- Sophomore Visual Communications Seminar

April 23, 1987

- January term proposals

- Involvement in Core Curriculum

- Senior and Sophomore Seminar

May 11, 1987

- Discussion of the two one credit seminars

- Brother Alan will remain as Chairperson



1987-1988:

September 23, 1987

- Budget

- Department Facilitator

- Job Assignments

- Sophomore Honors Course

- Core Curriculum

- North Central Association re-accreditation

- Library holdings

October 20, 1987

- Core curriculum requirements and proposals

November 5, 1987

- 1988-89 budget

- Flagging courses

- Career exploration session

November 15, 1987

- Minutes of the Sophomore Topics Sub-Committee

December 11, 1987

- Consulting on Core Curriculum with Margo Hoff discussion