PAAC

Faculty Staff Sub Committee

Annual Report

The committee has met 5 times since October 2005. Two items compose each agenda: faculty staff receptions and the PAAC website.

 Three faculty staff receptions have been held and one more is scheduled for this academic year. Approximately 10 faculty/staff members have participated in each session in addition to the Director of Athletics, the Director of CPIA, the NCAA representative, the chair of PAAC and the members of the PAAC Faculty Staff Relations sub committee.

Topics center around three major areas: clarification of misperceptions re expected treatment of athletes (standard is no different than other students), need for different types of academic support for athletes (i.e. tutors from CPIA assigned to specific large lecture classes), and availability of Athletics department to assist with questions/answers/concerns at any time.

 PAAC website has been approved by PAAC executive committee. The site will be ‘owned’ by Debra Merritt in President Austin’s office and the webmasters will be from PAAC and the Department of Athletics. The site is currently being developed with goal of beta testing by the end of this semester with official launching the first week of classes in Fall 2006.

 Respectfully submitted,

 E. Carol Polifroni, Chair

Dolan Evanovich

Linda Klein

Charles Skip Lowe

4/5/06