Members present:

Professors Lumumba-Kasonga and Reis, Meaghan McCune, Susan Sloan and Karen Green.

Professor Lumumba-Kasonga chaired the meeting in the absence of Professor Munoz.

First order of business:  Professor Reis moved to approve the minutes as distributed by Meghan McCune.  Seconded by Susan Sloan.  The motion was passed unanimously.

Susan  distributed a copy of the powerpoint slides that will be presented at the faculty meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 12th.  These slides included information she presented at the Open Meeting of Oct. 21st.  A slide will be included as per the request of faculty secretary, Niamh OíLeary, to have percentages in addition to the raw numbers.  This brings the total of slides to five. (5)

Professor Reis suggested Susanís last slide also employ percentages in anticipation of the question from the floor of the faculty.

Meghan McCune shared that she would repeat her presentation from the Open Meeting and also provide information about her next steps in this process.  Second semester she will conduct a student survey to include all upper class students as respondents.  This instrument will ask how studentsí rate the whole admission process. (most effective, etc.)

A lively discussion ensued concerning admission tours; the pros and cons.

The meeting was adjourned at 1:12 pm.

Next AFA meeting is Thursday, Nov. 14 @ 12:30 pm in Macmillan 317.  It was suggested at the Oct. 31st meeting that we look at the Faculty Manualís charge of the AFA committee as one of the agenda items.

Respectfully submitted by Karen R. Green
Secretary pro tem