Mr. Gary Martin, Music, read a memorial for Mr. Edward William Kammerer, associate professor of music. Mr. Kammerer died in Eugene on November 12, 1993, after 23 years of service to the University of Oregon.

The memorial to Mr. Kammerer is a part of these minutes and can be found on pages 3-4.

OLD BUSINESS ACTION ON 1 ~ REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE CURRICULUM

¥ President Brand recognized Mr. Davison Soper, president of the University Senate, who described the senate's discussion of the 1994-95 Report of the Committee on the Curriculum to the University of Oregon Faculty, noting that the senate had made significant changes in the committee's recommendations for the Department of English.

Mr. Micheal Dyer, chair of the University Committee on the Curriculum, said the committee, when recommending changes, had aimed toward credit neutrality and had insisted that departments requesting credit increases justify them pedagogically. He expressed concern that some units seem to have listed many more courses than can be taught regularly, and he described the committee's intention to continue to monitor this issue. He reported that the committee was particularly pleased with the clarity and thoroughness of the materials submitted by biology, East Asian languages and literature, mathematics, and Romance languages, and with the new multicultural courses in the curriculum report.

Before presenting the curricular changes recommended in the curriculum report, Mr. Dyer moved the adoption of the following recommendations from the University Committee on the Curriculum:

The committee further recommends that the credit range for Experimental Course: ITopicl (410/5101 is changed from 1-3R to 1-4R in the following instructional units: Department of Political Science. Department of Theater Arts. Women's Studies Program. Department of Military Science. permanently numbered courses be offered at least every other year to avoid false advertising and ensure that required courses are readily available to students. departments specify which courses are offered alternate years in the UO Bulletin and all advising documents.

departments consult the Office of Academic Advising and Student Services before advertising changes in major or minor undergraduate requirements--to make sure the departments aren't violating university legislation on majors and minors (e.g.. upper division requirements for the minor).

*the Office of the Registrar send each department. in January. a report listing permanently numbered courses that have not been offered in the past four years. Departmental responses should include corrections. explanations. and plans to drop untaught courses in 1 995 -96.

departments take responsibility for anticipating and removing potential obstacles to degree completion that are caused bv curricular changes. Departments need to give sound academic advice both in student consultations and in written materials.

departments be cognizant of Oregon State System of Higher Education common course numbering for selected lower division courses. The committee asks the English. geography. and sociology departments to evaluate the relationship between recent course number changes and relevant OSSHE common course numbers.

*in 4xx/Sxx courses. faculty members continue to evaluate graduate students at a higher standard of performance. give increased assignments. or both.

¥ The University Assembly adopted the motion by voice vote with no audible dissent.

Before moving to consideration of the curriculum report, President Brand thanked the members of the Committee on the Curriculum for "their fine and hard work."

Mr. Dyer presented the curriculum report as changed by the First Supplement to the 1994-95 Preliminary Report. As President Brand asked for approval of the curriculum report for each department, he noted changes proposed in the supplementary report. A few members of the Assembly volunteered comments or requested minor corrections:

After being assured that ES 419/519 Native American Contemporary Literature and Voices differs from ENG 486/586 because the Ethnic Studies course includes more social sciences and focuses on cultures generally, Mr. Richard Stein, head of the Department of English, suggested that the title was misleading and recommended that the Ethnic Studies Committee be asked to change the course title and description of ES 419/519.

*Ms. Sharon Sherman, director of the Folklore Program, recommended that the subject code for folklore be changed from FKLR to FLR and that credits for the two English department core courses in the folklore certificate program (p. 93) be adjusted to four credits each.

*Mr. Frank Anderson, head of the Department of Mathematics, asked that MATH 440/540 Matrix Algebra be re-instated because it is still taught during the Summer Session. His request was adopted without dissent.

*Mr. Michael Hibbard, head of the Department of Planning, Public Policy and Management, said there were some omissions in the PPPM section of the curriculum report. He and Mr. Dyer agreed to discuss the reasons for those omissions.

Ms. lanet Descumer, Department of Dance, asked that the "Majors and minors only" | restrictions on new courses listed on page 73 of the curriculum report be dropped. Her request was adopted without dissent.

*Mr. Richard Stein, head of the Department of English, pointed out that, in the supplementary report on page three which refers back to page 92 of the curriculum report, the description of the circumstances and method under which the Department of English is suspending its minor is incorrect.

Mr. Micheal Dyer introduced a discussion of the University Senate amendments that would change the credits of some English courses from three to four, noting there was no precedent for increasing credits without additional contact hours. He said the committee agreed that this change requested by the Department of English is a good idea but there were questions about implementation.

Mr. Stein, head of the Department of English, explained that the changes were sound pedagogically because they would require students to take more responsibility for their own education. He said the students would do more reading, writing, and consulting with instructors, who would be able to handle this increase in conferences because enrollment caps on those courses would be lowered.

University Senate President Soper described the discussion of this issue in the senate, which had voted unanimously, aside from abstentions, to approve the English department's recommendations.

The University Assembly approved the curriculum report as amended by voice vote with no audible dissent.

President Brand reminded the members of the University Assembly that corrections must be reported in writing to the chair of the Curriculum Committee by February 16, 1994, in order to be included in the final report.

ADJOURNMENT

The business of the meeting having concluded, the meeting adjourned at 4:05 p.m.

Nancie Fadeley Acting Secretary

Edward William Kammerer April 22, 1939-November 12, 1993

Edward William Kammerer was born on April 22, 1939, in Corvallis, Oregon, to Theodore Kammerer and Susie Merchant Kammerer. He was one of four children: three girls and one boy. Ed went through the public school system in Corvallis, graduating from Corvallis High School in 1957. After graduation, he enrolled at Oregon State University and later transferred to the University of Oregon, where he enrolled as a music major.

On July 8, 1960, Ed married Karen Kincade, and four children were born into their family: Stephen, David, Betsy, and Jennifer. Years later, after a divorce, Ed married Alice Burke, an active flutist and teacher here in Eugene. Their wedding took place on June 27, 1992.

In 1961, Ed served in the United States Army by performing with the United States |

Military Academy Band at West Point. After completing military service, he returned to the University of Oregon, where he completed a bachelor of music degree, and a master of music degree in French horn performance, as well as a performer's certificate on that instrument. He later pursued further graduate studies at North Texas State University.

In his early professional years, Ed was employed by the Bethel School District and the Bend (Oregon) School District. In 1970, he was invited to join the faculty of the School of Music here at the University of Oregon. His primary duty was to teach French horn, although his diverse talents soon led him to many other activities.

One is pulled in several directions when trying to describe the excellence of Ed Kammerer's work. He was a University of Oregon professor of French horn for more than 20 years. He also played an active, leading role in jazz at this institution, and he was widely respected as a jazz pianist and jazz teacher. He directed the University Brass Choir. He played in the Faculty Brass Quintet and the Faculty Woodwind Quintet. He was one of our principal teachers of music theory. He served as coordinator of undergraduate studies and as acting associate dean of the school. Outside of the School of Music he performed with the Eugene Symphony Orchestra, the Oregon Bach Festival Orchestra, the Cascade Music Festival Orchestra in Bend, the Peter Britt Music Festival in Jacksonville, and in many other forums. His activities in jazz are equally diverse and impressive. On May 3, 1983, Governor Victor Atiyeh appointed Ed Kammerer as Musician Laureate for the State of Oregon. But I would err if I didn't mention two other areas of significant accomplishment.

Ed was very sophisticated in the use of computers. His specialty was in using the microcomputer and MIDI network with synthesizers and MIDI-controlled effects devices. In recitals, for example, he would program the computer with a variety of musical gestures and then program it to respond to sounds he played on the French horn. On stage he would activate the computer, begin the performance of a piece he had composed, and the computer would respond to his sound by selecting and playing back various gestures he had programmed with it. This accompaniment by computer--or, perhaps more accurately, this interaction between French horn and computer--made for an exciting musical experience, and it attracted sufficient attention to elicit an invitation for Ed to perform at the American Horn Society's national convention. That performance in turn caused him to be invited to perform at a subsequent International Horn Society convention in Manchester, England.

Ed was also very talented as an administrator. As undergraduate coordinator he met and advised hundreds of students and prospective students. He met them and their families easily, and he represented the university in many forums.

Ed Kammerer was diagnosed as having leukemia earlier this year and passed away on Friday, November 12, 1993, here in Eugene. He is survived by his wife, Alice; his sisters: Susan, Lorene, and Teddy; his four children: Stephen, David, Betsy, and Jennifer; and three grandchildren: Kristina, Joseph, and Jonathon. We will sorely miss this friend and colleague, who was taken from us so unexpectedly.

Mr. President, I request that this memorial be made a part of the official and permanent minutes of this meeting and that copies of this memorial be sent to the immediate family by the Secretary of the Faculty.

Gary Martin Associate Dean School of Music.

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