College of Visual & Performing Arts
Faculty Assembly
Friday, September 2, 2005 - 2 p.m.
Rutledge Auditorium   

MINUTES

III.  Introduction of New Faculty / Promotion & Tenure Acknowledgements – Interim Dean Don Rogers

A.  Introduction of new faculty
 - Ms. Jennifer Belk, Art and Design (Interior Design)
 - Mr. David Brown, Art and Design (Illustration)
 - Ms. Connie Hale, Music (Education)
 - Dr. Andrew Vorder Bruegge, Theatre and Dance (Chair)

B.  Announcement of promotions and tenure 
 - Shaun Cassidy, Art and Design - Tenure
 - L.H. Dickert, Music - Promotion and Tenure
 - Anna Sartin, Theatre and Dance - Promotion
 - Mary Beth Young, Theatre and Dance - Promotion

V.  Department/Unit Reports

A.  Department of Music – Don Rogers
 - Conservatory of Music is packed - holding one class in the lobby of the Recital Hall
 - part-time instructors all seem to be in place
 - Numerous performances to be held this year
    - http://www.winthrop.edu/music/up_pf.html

B.   Department of Theatre and Dance – Andrew Vorder Bruegge
 - Auditions are complete for the Fall Productions for Theatre and Dance
 - Over 80 dance students auditioned and over 80 students for 3 productions
 - In February 2006, the SC Dance Festival will be held at Winthrop University
    - Over 600 will attend from the state and region
    - This will include guest artists and performances
 - Actors Theatre of Charlotte
    - approached Winthrop about initiating an internship program with Winthrop Theatre and Dance students
    - This program will allow Winthrop T&D students to perform alongside professional actors/actresses
    - Actors Theatre will be on campus next week to audition
    - Not many T&D programs offer their students the opportunity to be involved in professional quality work such as the
       productions found at Actors Theatre

C.  Arts in Basic Curriculum Project – Christine Fisher
 - Winthrop University is the location of the ABC Project, a South Carolina Leader in Arts Education
 - 36 schools in 5 school districts are designated ABC sites
 - Received an extension on the ABC outreach grant until February
 - Final language of the SC k-12 PE bill

D.  Office of Student Services – Kimberly Wright
 - Summer Orientations went well
 - Thank you to those who attended/participated in the CVPA Freshman Assembly
 - Graduation Reception - Friday, December 16 - Lewandowski Student Gallery
 - Dean's Tea - Thurs. April 20, 2006 - 4:30 p.m.

E.  Office of Community Arts – Caroline Rust Ward - handout

F.  Mentor/Protégé Program – Jeannie Woods
  - Junior Faculty who have passed pre-tenure review are not required to participate but can if they would like
  - First year faculty are meeting Sept. 9
  - 4 meetings this Fall
  - 2 meetings in the Spring

G.  Winthrop University Galleries – Tom Stanley (Under Program)

VII.  New Business

A.  Elections - Phil Moody
 - University-Wide Teacher Education Committee - 2 vacancies
      - two year term (replacing Terri Winchell) - ends after Spring 2007 - Lorrie Crochet, Music
      - three year term (replacing Danelle Smith) - ends after Spring 2008 - Laura Gardner, Art and Design
 - CVPA Personnel Committee - 1 vacancy
      - two year term (replacing Alf Ward) - ends after Spring 2007 - Sandra Neels, Theatre and Dance

B.  Handouts of information for new year 
 - 2005-06 CVPA full-time Faculty/Staff list

A.  Spotlight on Winthrop Galleries:  Programs of the 2005-06 gallery exhibitions (Tom Stanley) 
 - New gallery space - Windows with a View - Rutledge Building display cabinets
    - Fall 2005-Spring 2006 - Barbara Schreiber, Paul Matheny, Caroline Rust, Bill McRight
 - Main Galleries in Rutledge
    - One Big Self Prisioners of Louisiana / Lives of Our Time
         - Gallery Opening Reception Fri., Sept. 16 - 6:30 p.m. - Rutledge Gallery
    - Institutional Imperative: Faculty/Staff Exhibition
    - Art & Design Faculty Exhibition (Jennifer Marie Wallace, Gerry Derksen, and Brian Davis)
    - South by South Africa / Crafting Cultural Understanding
         - Two Worlds Outside:  Nukain Mabusa and Joshua Samuel
          - Fernando Porras: Recent Paintings
          - Beautiful Things: A Showcase of South African Craft
     - M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition
    - 18th Annual Juried Exhibiton
 - Lewandowski Student Gallery - McLaurin Hall
    - September 2005 - Photography from Mark Hamilton’s Classes
 - Winthrop Galleries website - http://www.winthrop.edu/vpa/Galleries/default.htm

B.  Professional Development presentation:  Sabbaticals & residential creative achievements – presentations by faculty who recently were on sabbatical about the process and the experience (Seymour Simmons, Jeannie Woods, and Ron Parks) 
 - Ron Parks - 3-week composing residency at the Copeland House in upstate New York
 - Seymour Simmons - one year sabbatical to Paris, France
 - Jeannie Woods - summer trip to China to direct a play at the Shanghai Theatre Academy

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All faculty members of the College of Visual and Performing Arts who hold membership in the Faculty Conference shall be members of the Faculty Assembly.  Membership in the Faculty Conference is extended to every person who holds rank as instructor, assistant professor, associate professor, or professor at Winthrop University, with the following exceptions: lecturers, adjunct faculty, and visiting faculty are not members of Faculty Conference. The eligibility of an individual who does not hold membership in the Faculty Conference shall be determined by the Faculty Assembly.