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6069 DOCUMENTS OF THE GENERAL FACULTY FIFTH REGULAR MEETING OF THE FACULTY COUNCIL FOR 2007-2008 The University of Texas at Austin Main Building, Room 212 Monday, January 28, 2008 2:15 p.m. ORDER OF BUSINESS I. REPORT OF THE SECRETARY (D 6041-6054)—Sue Alexander Greninger. II. APPROVAL OF MINUTES. A. Minutes of the Regular Faculty Council meeting of November 12, 2007 (D 6005-6040). B. Minutes of the Regular Faculty Council meeting of December 10, 2007 (D 6055-6068). III. COMMUNICATION WITH THE PRESIDENT—William Powers Jr. A. Comments by the President. B. Questions to the President. IV. REPORT OF THE CHAIR—Doug C. Burger. V. UNFINISHED BUSINESS. A. Discussion of questions from the Faculty Council concerning the Report of the Intercollegiate Athletics Councils for Men and for Women from November 12, 2007—David Fowler (committee chair, professor, civil, architectural, and environmental engineering) and Mary Steinhardt (committee chair, professor, kinesiology and health education). B. Proposal to Disband the Committee on Student Affairs (D 5810)—Karrol A. Kitt (associate professor, human ecology and committee chair). C. Motion to Change the Core Curriculum Course Lists for the 2008-2010 Undergraduate Catalog (D 5872-5878)—Paul B. Woodruff (dean, undergraduate studies). VI. REPORTS OF THE GENERAL FACULTY, COLLEGES, SCHOOLS, AND COMMITTEES—None. VIII. NEW BUSINESS. A. Resolution Endorsing the Goals and Principles of the COIA Proposals on Reforms in Intercollegiate Athletics (D 6001-6004)—David M. Hillis (professor, integrative biology and Faculty Council Executive Committee, chair elect). *Unanimously endorsed by the FCEC. IX. ANNOUNCEMENTS AND COMMENTS. A. Next Faculty Council meeting will be held on Monday, February 18 at 2:15 in Main 212. B. General Faculty Standing Committees’ online nominations begin today, January 28 and runs through February 15. C. General Faculty college nomination phase for election to the Faculty Council begins February 25. D. The Joint Meeting of the Texas A&M Faculty Senate and the UT Austin Faculty Council will be on March 17 at College Station from 11a.m. to 4 p.m. and will include a luncheon. UT will provide bus transportation. E. Call for applications and nominations for Faculty Ombudsperson due to Faculty Council office no later than February 11, 2008. X. QUESTIONS TO THE CHAIR. XI. ADJOURNMENT. Sue Alexander Greninger, Secretary The General Faculty and the Faculty Council Distributed through the Faculty Council web site on January 23, 2008. Copies are available on request from the Office of the General Faculty, WMB 2.102, F9500. Questions from Tom Palaima, professor, classics. 1. The APR, AFCA and standard 6-year NCAA graduation rates all have different criteria. Please explain which criteria you think are best measures of the educational experience of scholarship student athletes in big-time sports (football, men's and women's basketball, and baseball). In specific comment on the use of 4-year (NCAA grad rates), 5 1/2-year (AFCA) and 6-year windows (NCAA) and the focus on single years (rather than 3-year clusters) AND the change from 25-50-75 to 40-60-80 degree progress standards in terms of viability as a measure of academic achievement. 2. Academic achievement takes time to attend class, read, study, think, do assignments and prepare for tests. Explain what weekly limits there are for sports according to the NCAA. If giving them "full-time jobs" as athletes causes problems with academic success, why not cut back on the hours of training and participation demanded. 3. How many football players on average attend the voluntary unsupervised summer practices? Are such unsupervised practices held by other sports at UT? Do you think such practices affect in any way student-athlete academic progress? 4. Please explain the nature of the many hours (according to John Maher's reports over 100 on average) that student athletes receive in tutoring? Of what does the tutoring consist?