 etc.  The
> college should hear about this proposal in May.
> 
> Howard Hughes Grant Proposal:  This grant is with reference to a possible
> neuroscience major.  Should hear in April/May.
> 
> Odyssey Professorships:  5 are now fully funded.  A call for applications
> will be issued in a week or so; this means that these 5 professorships can
> begin this coming summer.  The hope is for 2 or 3 more professorships by
> next Fall, and 12 in total by Spring of 2009.  Over the longer term the goal
> is 28 or so such positions.
> 
> Rwandan students:  Apparently, our four students on campus from Rwanda are
> doing well.  The Rwandan government and a donor are looking to send even
> more students to several colleges in the US, including Hendrix.  A team,
> including our own Peter Gess, will travel to Rwanda in mid-April to select
> these additional students, 50 or so in all with 4 coming to Hendrix.  All 50
> students will attend an intensive ESL program at UALR in the summer.
> 
> Study Abroad in Brussels, Belgium:  Drs. Gess and Barth are in the VERY
> EARLY stages of exploring internship and study opportunities in a number of
> settings in Brussels, including, I believe, the offices of the European
> Union, perhaps NATO, the ESC of the UN, etc.  The expectation is that these
> opportunities will be revenue-driven, with perhaps some Odyssey support.
> 
> 4.  Curricular proposals:  More are coming your way soon!  You'll get them
> in your Faculty meeting packet, and since I believe there's nothing
> controversial about any of them I'll let sleeping dogs lie here.  The Dance
> minor and the COPH BA/MPH proposals you saw last November and they return
> for action next week pretty much unchanged, I believe.  In the discussion of
> the curricular proposals, CC Chair Peggy Morrison alerted us to the very
> significant curricular and resource strains that the Dept. of Education is
> placing on our Education Department by its almost constant creation of new
> and additional requirements and standards.
> 
> 5.  The 2009-10 academic calendar, will come up for discussion next week
> too.  Should not be any big surprises there (I think).  Up for action will
> be guidelines for Off-Campus Courses and Programs and for the awarding of
> Honorary Degrees (little to no change on either).  All the action items
> referred to in this e-mail have been recommended positively by the COAP.
> 
> 6. Intellectual Property:  Draft language for the Faculty Handbook is being
> reviewed by Scott Schallhorn, our General Counsel.  No doubt Scott will be
> 