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MINUTES OF THE STAFF MEETINGPsychology DepartmentNovember 6, 1972The Psychology Department held its November meeting in EP 104 at 4 o'clock,November 6, 1972PRESENT: Grossnickle, Hayes, Higgins, Corwin, Tacker, Roberts, Mitchell, Childers,Long, Stapleton, Castellow, Graham, Martoccia, Moore, Means, Lao.to the fact that Dr. Mitchell had to be present at a University Committee,Grossnickle presided.minutes of the last meeting were approved as distributed.following items of business were discussed:Dr. Grossnickle announced that Mr. Wilbert Ball of Guidance and Counseling hadasked that he be permitted to attend a staff meeting in order to familiarizethe staff with the activities of the Counseling Department. It was the con-sensus of the staff members he should be invited to attend a forthcomingmeeting.Dr. Grossnickle reminded the staff of the importance of maintaining officehours and stated that the Faculty Manual required that at least five hours perweek be scheduled when students could be sure to find the staff member in hisoffice.Dr. Grossnickle announced that the Department had no funds for refreshments tobe served at the monthly colloquia sponsored by Dr. Means. Suggestions wereasked for as to how this activity could be financed. Dr. Moore moved that eachstaff member donate 50? the first month of the academic year and 25? per monththereafter to Psi Chi for the purpose of establishing such a fund. Motionpassed with no dissenting vote.Dr. Grossnickle put on the floor for discussion the revision of syllabi. Itwas thought that professors involved in teaching specific courses in their areamight want to look at the syllabus on file in the Departmental Office for thatparticular course and determine if they felt it was current or if it should berevised. After a full discussion it was decided to refer the matter to theDepartmental Curriculum Committee for recommendation.Dr. Tacker announced that last year the Southern Association revised its guide-lines for off-campus graduate courses deleting the stipulation that no morethan one-third of the required hours could be taken off campus and also deletingthe statement that correspondence courses were not acceptable for credit on agraduate degree. No requirement for length of residence would be in effect.Dr. Tacker asked the staff their wishes as to how he should vote when the issuecomes up to the Graduate Council. The staff instructed Dr. Tacker to opposethis revision.Dr. Grossnic kle announced that the professors ask one of the office secretariesto do any copying they desired to have done on the copying machines rather thantry to use them themselves.The staff was urged to be sure and check student classification on the IBM cardsbefore admitting a student to their class. There have been several instancesrecently when a student was permitted in a class in which he should not have

& been registered and this has come to the attention of the Administration at atime when it was too late to do anything about it without penalty to the student.8. The staff was urged to remind any students they have taking the readingscourses in the Department to leave the course card in the Departmental Office,along with the signed slip showing who will be responsible for directing thereadings.9. Dr. Means announced that Dr. Martoccia was the speaker for the Novembercolloquium to be held Monday, November 13 at 3:30 in Home Econ. 205.Dr. Means also put on the floor for discussion the possibility of each staffmember being willing to purchase a psychology journal and contributing it tothe Psi Chi Library. In this way he felt that Psi Chi would then have a veryworthwhile library for graduate students as well as the undergraduate. Dr.Moore moved that this be done and the motion passed without a dissenting vote.10. Dr. Means spoke about the fact that the University had only one typist formanuscript typing and he had tried several times during this quarter to get amanuscript typed and was always told the typist was typing a book for aprofessor and would be unable to do his typing. Finally he did get one manu-script typed when Dr. Howell instructed the typist to stop typing on the bookat the next chapter break but he did feel that that was not the purpose of amanuscript typist for the University. It was the feeling of the group that anyprofessor having a book typed should bear the expense of that typing and notee be able to tie up the University typist for long periods of time to the extentthat no one else would be able to get typing done. Dr. Lao was asked to placethis on the Chancellor's Advisory Council agenda for action.11. Dr. Lao announced that the minutes of the Chancellor's Advisory Council wouldbe placed on the staff bulletin board so that interested professors could beaware of the actions of that Council.12. Dr. Grossnickle announced that in order for a professor to give a student anexam early it required permission of the Provost. Also, to change the timefor an exam requires Departmental Chairman's permission as well as DeanCapwell and Dr. Williams.13. Dr. Mitchell reported on the Committee he and Dr. Corwin attended-~-TeacherEducation Committee. The certification of school psychologist was on theagenda and they were expected to be present. After discussion it was decidedthat they did not know if this was the proper committee for this to be con-sidered and this would be determined and it would be scheduled at another time.14. It was announced that the course bank passed the Faculty Senate and that thereis a deadline of December 1 for undergraduate courses to be put in this bank.The Curriculum Committee of the Psychology Departments recommends thatPsychology 290: Comparative Psychology and Psychology 314: Motivation andPerception be placed in the bank. Motion made and passed with one dissentingvote that this be done.eS During the discussion it was brought out that if this was not done and thecourse was not taught during the year it would be dropped from the curriculumand this was not felt to be desirable.

15.For the graduate courses, pending final instructions by the Graduate Council,the Committee recommends that the following courses be put in the bank:Psychology 307G: Psychology of Language, Psychology 326G: Group Testing,Psychology 360G: Instrumentation for Behavioral Research, Psychology 403:Seminar in School Psychology, Psychology 444: Theories of Adolescence,Psychology 465: Advanced Developmental Psychology, Psychology 472:Psychology of Cognitive Processes. Motion made and passed unanimously thatthese courses be placed in the bank at the appropriate time.Dr. Tacker moved that the Departmental Curriculum Committee be asked to lookinto the problem of courses that presently have small demands to determinewhy this is so. Dr. Mitchell asked that staff members furnish the CurriculumCommittee with recommendations for specific courses to be studied.Dr. Mitchell announced that a member of the Southern Association Self StudyCommittee had visited with him and had also met with several other staffmembers and he felt that there had been a significant exchange of information.The meeting adjourned at 5 o'clock.J Wave r Esnossonivch S' William F. Grossnickle, Ph.D.Presiding Officer