Senate Document 98-01
Agenda Committee
For Information Sept. 4, 1998

TO:                        Faculty Senate
FROM:                 Agenda Committee
SUBJECT:            Convocation

PURDUE UNIVERSITY CALUMET

MINUTES OF THE FACULTY AND STAFF CONVOCATION OF
AUGUST 24,1998

1. Call to Order  Professor S. Lerner, chair of the Purdue University Calumet Senate, called the meeting to order.

2. Chancellor’s Report Chancellor Yackel welcomed those present.  He noted physical changes to the campus, including the opening of the Classroom Office building and the closing of the Anderson building.

Chancellor Yackel said that student numbers and program registrations are very similar to a year ago.  He said that the Executive MBA program, which will be inaugurated this fall, received more applicants than could be accommodated.

Chancellor Yackel said that the academic reorganization has led to the faculty’s establishment of a new faculty governance structure embodied in the Purdue University Calumet Senate.  He said that the revised curricular approval process has the greatest academic impact.  He said that the University Forum which has been established to provide the chancellor with recommendations on matters of university policy and procedures will have a wider range of considerations and membership than the old Council of Faculty Delegates’ Resources and Planning standing committee.

Chancellor Yackel said that the Board of Trustees will be asked, at its September meeting, to approve a total interior demolition of the Anderson.  He said that if approval is received, the university will bid out the renovation phase in January or February of 1999.  He said no bids were received on the SFLC projects of expanding dining space and installing elevators, but subsequent newspaper articles have led to interest by contractors.  He said the Challenger/Conference Center bids were substantially higher than projected by the architects.  He said that the Challenger Center will be housed temporarily in the PER building so that the program can remain in the Challenger Foundation queue.

III. Introduction of New Faculty and Staff  Chancellor Yackel introduced the new faculty and staff.

IV. APSAC Report  Ms. J. Golub-Reynolds, chair of  Purdue Calumet’s Administrative and Professional Staff Advisory Committee, reviewed the charge to the committee and some of its activities during the previous year.  She introduced the present members: K. Puhalik, B. Derylo, E. Wignall, D. Thinnes (secretary), K. Trajkovski, and S. Gyure with T. Ryan serving as facilitator.  She said that issues presently under discussion include overloads, performance appraisal and associated hardware, the developing system telecommuting policy, and grants for support of professional staff activities.  She said Purdue Calumet’s APSAC will again hold its book drive for the Woodland Child Center.

V.  Report of the Senate Chair.  Professor Lerner reviewed the history of the Purdue University Calumet Council of Faculty Delegates. He said that in 1997-98, its last year, the body had developed a new constitution and bylaws, an ad hoc curriculum committee, and new promotion and tenure policies and procedures.  He said that the new Purdue University Calumet Senate Agenda Committee; whose members include himself and Professors Stankowski (Nominations and Academic Support Services ), Sil (Educational Policy), Colon (Faculty Affairs), and Barrow (Student Affairs); met and selected Professor Winer as Sergeant at Arms, Professor Dakich as Parliamentarian, and Professor Wermuth as Secretary.  He said the following items will be under consideration by the Senate during 1998-99: a promotion and tenure policy and procedure document, a faculty grievance document in accord with Executive Memorandum C-19, consideration of and action on a +/- grading system, consideration of and action on a new policy on incomplete grades, policy and procedures for outstanding faculty awards, and curricular oversight.  He said that the Senate, in accordance with the bylaws, will meet at least eight times during the academic year and on the first Friday of each month.  He encouraged those present to participate in faculty governance as fully as possible.

VI. Memorial Resolutions  Professor Lerner introduced Professor M. Zahraee who presented a memorial resolution in honor of  Professor Emeritus Albert L. Kaye of the Department of Manufacturing Engineering Technology and Supervision.  A moment of silence was observed by those present for the departed colleague.

MEMORIAL RESOLUTION
FOR
ALBERT L. KAYE, Sc.D.

Professor Emeritus of Metallurgical Engineering Technology

Professor Albert L. Kaye died on December 1, 1997.  Retired from Purdue University Calumet since 1976, Al Kaye was 88 years old at his death.

Al was a native of New York, and attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1927 to 1934, earning a Bachelor of Science, a Master of Science, and a Doctor of Science in electro-chemistry.  Following two years as a research fellow at M.I.T., he joined Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation in Chicago as a metallurgist.  He left Carnegie-Illinois as manager of the Metallurgical Division of the Alloy Bureau in 1945, and became vice president and general manager of Beckman Supply in Hammond, a post he held until his retirement in 1966. 

Upon retirement from Beckman Supply, Al Kaye was named associate professor of metallurgical engineering technology at Purdue University Calumet.  In his eleven years as a faculty member at Purdue Calumet, Al worked diligently to modernize the metallurgy curriculum, “abandoning,” as he noted, “blacksmith metallurgy in favor of a quantitative physical metallurgy approach based on the fundamentals of chemistry, physics, and structure...”

When he retired from the faculty in 1976, Professor Kaye was named  a Special Assistant to the Chancellor, with specific assignments in the areas of developing the Chancellor’s Advisory Council and enriching communication with business and industrial leaders in northwest Indiana.  He served in this voluntary capacity for two years before bringing his service to the University to a close in 1978.

During his career as a professional engineer, Al Kaye was honored by the American Men of Science, Who’s Who in Engineering, and Who’s Who in the Midwest.  He was a member of the American Society for Testing and Materials, the American Society for the Advancement of Science, the American Society for Metals, the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, and the Society of the Sigma Xi.  He was a member and past president of the Rotary Club of Hammond.  He served as vice president in charge of Civic Affairs for the Hammond Chamber of Commerce, chairman of the Chamber’s Urban Renewal Council, as a commissioner on the Hammond Redevelopment Commission, as president and director of the Credit Bureau, and as a member of the Mayor’s Citizens’ Advisory Committee.  He served as president of the Hammond School Board, of which he was a member for many years, and he served his alma mater as an area educational counselor.

Al Kaye met his future wife, Helen, on a blind date while both were attending school in Boston.  Their marriage flourished for 67 years.  Al and Helen had three children, Louise (David) Stone of Williamsport, PA;  Richard (Betty) Kaye of Hazelcrest, IL; and Robert Kaye of Groton, CT.  Their family included six grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren at the time of Al’s death.

Al Kaye was a gentle and enriching colleague.  His calm demeanor and persistent enthusiasm were the hallmarks of his years at Purdue University Calumet.  He believed intensely in the process of making education available to all who would avail themselves of it, and he did not fail in his lifetime to work diligently to achieve that goal.

Al Kaye’s careers were diverse and several, and he gave fully of himself to each.  His years at Purdue University Calumet were productive, spirited, and engaging.  As described by Lance Trusty, in Purdue University Calumet:  The First Fifty Years:

    Among the more memorable faculty was M.I.T. graduate A.L. ‘Al’ Kaye,
    who, after a career in a family-owned corporation, joined the Department
    of Metallurgical Technology at Purdue Calumet.   Kaye modernized the
    program, cadged lab equipment from industry, developed a variety of new
    courses, served as a special assistant to the chancellor, and retired in
    1976.  [page 48]

Memorable indeed was our colleague, Al Kaye.  He contributed a great deal to what we are today, and in the nearly 25 years since he left the University we have built well on what he offered and what he believed.

William L. Robinson
Professor of Communication
Head, Department of Communication and Creative Arts

VII. Other New Business  There was no other new business.

VIII.  Adjournment  Professor Lerner, determining there was no further business before the convocation, declared the meeting adjourned after motions and seconds to that effect.