UA-R-GC-1914-01-01-1983-05_Page-034

Wednesday 1J : 00 a. m. Present: MINUTES THE AMERICAN UNIVERSlTY II, CAIRO BOARD OF. TRUSTEES ~EETING NEW :VORK. MAY ] 983 ACADEMIC ~ RESEARCH cor·j r·~]nEE May 25, ]983 AUC NY Off i ce Mr. Brown3 Dr. Pedersen, Mr. Reed, Mrs. Sage, Dr. Simpson, Dr. Winder Mrs. Bartlett, Ms. Blakemore The Agenda was approved. The minutes of the last meeting were approved, and the Committee asked that it be noted that they would appreciate receiving each meeting's minutes in advance of the following meeting of the Committee. Faculty Recruiting We are taking two steps with regard to recruiting Engineering faculty. First~ we are requesting Board approval of a one-year contract with Oklahoma State University wherein AUC would reimburSE OSU for thE academic year salary and benefits of Dr. Hamed Kamal £ldin~ a Professor of Industrial Engineering and Nanagement at OSU who has spent the present academic year at AUC on half­time sabbatical appointment as a consultant to the Engineering program, teaching part-time. During ]983-84, Dr. Eldin will teach full-time at AUC and cont inue in his advisory capacity to the Engineering program. So far3 OSU has declined to entfr into a longer-term faculty exchange agreement with AUC, the obstacle being the overhead thai OSU requires AUC to pay. Second, we have been carrying on discussions with Professor M. ":. Il­Wakil, Professor of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering at the University of "'isconsin-f>:adison.!l about the possibility of his taking early retirement from Wisconsin and joining AUC's Engineering faculty. If Dr. fl-Wakil were to agree to this, it would be a major accomplishment for the Engineering program, as he is very highly regarded in his field. Our opening for an Egyptologist has been filled by Dr. Kent Weeks. " .. ho will t~ach Egyptology at AUC from September ]983 through the end of academic yEer ]984-85, and direct the University of Cal ifornia Education Abl"Odd Program. The Department is now interested in establishing a major in Egyptolo9Y~ and staffing it ~'>'ith one American dnd one Egyptian Egyptologist