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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CONTINUING EDUCATION COMMITTEE

Date: April 6, 1983
To: Faculty Senate
From: Continuing Education Committee

Membership of committee

Ex officio: Keats Sparrow, representing Vice Chancellor for Academic
Affairs“
James LeRoy Smith, Vice Chairman of the Faculty
Woody Lambeth, Counseling Center
Herman Phelps, Director of Continuing Education

Wes Crawley, chair
Robert Tacker

Betty Levey, vice chair
Therese Lawler, secretary
Edith Webber sata
James Eudailey, studént

Committee meetings-(dates and members absent)

August 23, 1982 Webber

October 13 None

December 8 Levey, Tacker

February 16, 1983 Lambeth, Lawler

April 6 Levey, Tacker, Lambeth, Eudailey

Date of reports to the Faculty Senate during the year
None

Specific instructions, if any, given to the committee by the Faculty
Senate, other than those found in the committee's Constitutional
charge.

None

A brief statement of committee organization, subcommittees, research
activities, etc.

Wes Crawley, chair

Betty Levey, vice chair

Threese Lawler, secretary

List of committee accomplishments including recommendations made to
agencies other than the Faculty Senate

Faculty stipend and tuition rates were discussed. Tuition rates were
increased to $45 per semester hour for undergraduate credit and to
$50 per semester hour for graduate credit. Faculty stipends were
increased by 20% beginning fall, 1983.

Evaluation procedures were considered. No action was proposed.

 
A campus-wide survey was conducted to determine if departments

and schools were interested in offering degree programs during
evening hours. Twenty-six units responded to the survey. Seven of
the 26 reporting units indicate interest in investigating the
possibility of offering sufficient. courses for a major during evening
hours. Twenty-one of the reporting units .indicate an interest in
offering more courses during evening hours, even though they may not
be able to offer sufficient courses for a major.

The committee proposed that a newsletter be published by the Division
of Continuing Education. A plan has been developed and the
newsletter will be published once each semester.

VIII. Citation of Senate resolutions that originated with the committee.
None

IX. Proposals and/or business to be carried over to next year.

The Continuing Education Committee suggests that Dr. James L. Smith

present the results of the survey on degree programs during evening

hours to the Faculty Senate and to the Chancellor and Vice Chancellor

for Academic Affairs. It was further suggested that a task force be
appointed to conduct a feasibility study, including a needs

assessment, to determine what degree programs.are needed during a
evening hours and suggest strategies for implementing the findings.

X. Evaluation of the committee
A. Structure: good
B. Duties: clear
C. Functions: good:
D. Personnel: good

XI. Suggestions for improving the effectiveness of, the committee.

The student member of the committee should be designated early in the
fall semester. The student member for 1982-83 was designated on March
31, 1983, with only one meeting remaining on our schedule.