I.  Welcome - Dean Svedlow
    -Homecoming Weekend
     -The Chairs of the Department of Art & Design and Department of
         Music and their self-study committees were commended by Dean
         Svedlow for their work preparing for NASAD and NASM
         accreditation visits coming up this semester.
     -Master Class, a production by the New Stage Ensemble Theatre
         Company, opens tonight

II.  New Business - Theatre & Dance Curriculum - Jeannie Woods
       -Approved by VPA Faculty Assembly

III.  Department Reports
       -Winthrop Galleries - Tom Stanley, Director
               -150 Years exhibit currently on-going
               -Sunday, Feb. 24th performance at 3 p.m. by Jennifer Marie Wallace in
                 Rutledge Gallery
               -New front doors will be added to gallery in the next week

         -Introduction of Kimberly R. Wright, VPA Student Services Coordinator

         -Theatre & Dance, Annie-Laurie Wheat, Chair
               -Palmetto Drama Association on campus this weekend - 370 high school
                students

IV.  Minutes from previous meeting (1/11/02) approved

V.  Discussion of General Education
      -Opening by Dean Svedlow
        -Facilitated by Seymour Simmons, Art & Design
        -Guests - Marilyn Sarow (Mass Communication), Doug Eckberg (Sociology),
           and Michael Kennedy (History)

IV.  Adjournment 

Discussion continued following the adjournment of the VPA Faculty Assembly meeting.  

Present were: Jerry Walden, Don Rogers, Annie-Laurie Wheat, Kathy Kinsey, Phil Moody, Paul Martyka, Seymour Simmons, Anna Sartin, Diane McGhee, Bruce Thompson, Phil Thompson, J.L. McDaniel, David Long, Jim Connell, L. H. Dickert, and Mike Lavine.

Major points raised during the discussion on Gen Ed were:

 - Will VPA be expected to provide resources for these Gen Ed classes?

- Faculty might feel more comfortable if replacements for full-time professors teaching Gen Ed are not adjuncts but faculty lines.

- How long term a commitment can be made to this in regards to faculty?

-Gen Ed 101 will be housed in the English Department.  Anyone can teach this course as long as they are approved by the English Department.

 - For VPA education students, schedules can be very tight with major classes and education classes.  Will the scheduling of the Gen Ed classes be flexible enough for them to fit the classes in their schedules?

 - Some accrediting agencies limit the number of hours students are required to take.  In these cases, if Gen Ed courses are increased, major hours will have to be cut.

 - One proposal requires students to take 6 hours above 299 outside the major.  

Discussion ended at 3:50 p.m.