The first meeting will have a very important item on the agenda, which is to vote on major revisions to our curriculum. For the past year, Dan Reichart and a team of faculty have been putting together a plan that will help in the recruiting and retention of majors, improve the order and relevance of some courses (particularly math methods), and improve the content of some of our introductory courses for majors. They will be presenting documents describing this plan to the faculty next week, and I urge everyone to read these. We will dedicate much of the first faculty meeting to discussion. College deadlines require that we submit these changes in September if we are to make them next year. If we cannot finish this business in one meeting, we will have to hold an extra meeting before the deadline, so please come prepared to discuss on the 30th.