CLP Committee Minutes
August 18, 2008, Hipp Hall 205

Committee Members Present: Michael Svec (chair), Karni Bhati, Karen Buchmueller, David Gross, Harlan Patton, Scott Derrick, Lesley Quast

Members Absent: Nancy Shell, Vaugh Crowe-Tipton, Desirae Clodfeller (student), Quentin James (student).

CLP Office – Note new location: Office of Assistant Academic Dean Lesley Quast, Admin. 204, 294.2269.

Review of the purpose of CLP

• The CLP committee is defined in the Faculty Constitution (Article V, Section 5m) as “This committee shall supervise the Cultural Life Program. It shall develop policy for the administration of the program and select events to be included in the program.”
• The Cultural Life Program is designed to supplement the educational experience offered to Furman students. The program includes a broad selection of cultural events throughout the year. Our purpose is to approve quality proposals and maintain the rigor and integrity of the program.  Most of our effort will go toward approval of events although as a committee we can change guidelines to help the program run efficiently.
• Reviewed Guidelines for proposals. The updated guidelines on the web at http://www.furman.edu/CLP/guidelines.html .  The chair will typically take care of ensuring the dates, times, room reservations and other technical details. The committee should focus on the merits of the proposal and evaluate how consistent it is with the goals and purposes of the program.

Routine procedures and deadlines (details at http://www.furman.edu/clp/index.htm)

• Voting: Committee membership, as defined in the Constitution, consists of six faculty, two students, two administrative appointments. The chair Michael Svec has chosen to vote only as a tie-breaker or to make a quorum. Quorum is 6.
• The chair will collect all of the proposals for the week. On Wednesday evening there will be an email listing the proposals for consideration. Please notify the chair of your votes by Thursday at 5:00 pm. I will notify the proposal authors and the committee of the results on Friday. In a routine week you will receive the proposals via email and two communications from the chair.
• Late proposals will be consider when submitted and need a 2/3 majority vote to consider, then an additional vote for approval.
• The chair will record the results of the votes and who voted but not record how each individual member voted. If you vote “no” please provide a couple of sentences explaining your vote and try to ground the comments in the guidelines.
• Update First Class conference is set up. All the proposals will be placed there as well as in your email. If you want to discuss a proposal, you can do that on the conference.  You might visit the conference before submitting your votes.

Lessons learned from previous years

Consideration of current proposals
Approved last spring for this semester

• “Raptors of South Carolina” on September 19 in North Village J by Sarah Fletcher, approved on May 1, 2008.

Approved over summer for this semester

• “A Whimsical Discourse on Science” on September 4 in McAlister  by Tony Arrington, Convocation.
• “Be there or be rare: Furman in the World 1826-2008” on August 24 in McAlistter by Courtney Tollison.

Pending

• “Copenhagen” by Theatre Department
• “Glass Menagerie” by Theatre Department
• “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead” by Theatre Department
• “Spirituality for the 21st Century: Practice of Encountering others” on Sept 28.

All four proposals were approved by a vote of 6-0.

Tasks for the upcoming year

• Prepare a brief operating procedure policy statement at the request of the Policy Committee.
• Discuss modification of the guidelines to define faculty sponsor accountability.

Next meeting will be Thursday August 28 at 3:30 in the Education Department conference room located on the first floor of Hipp Hall, room 101A.

Meeting adjourned at 3:50.