a. Recommendation from the Committee on Graduate Studies (Charles Mason, Chair) with the concurrence of the Coordinating Committee on Education (Alan Fox, Chair) and the Executive Committee (Dallas Hoover, Chair) for an extension to the provisional status of the MS Program in Health Promotion (attachment)

WHEREAS, during its provisional period, the MS program in Health Promotion has been administratively maintained under the Office of the Dean in the College of Health Sciences, and

WHEREAS, the Dean has recently offered a plan to have this program housed in the Department of Health, Nutrition, and Exercise Sciences under new direction, the Graduate Studies Committee believes two years is needed for this program to operate under the new administrative structure and a third year is needed to accomplish necessary permanent status program reviews, and

WHEREAS, the extension period will give the program administrator and faculty an opportunity to address the concerns raised in the 2006 program reviews, be it therefore

RESOLVED, that the Faculty Senate recommends that a three year extension of provisional status of the MS Program in Health Promotion be granted beginning September 1, 2007, and be it further

RESOLVED, that this program be reviewed for permanent status at an appropriate time to be place before the Senate for its recommendation to the Board of Trustees in the spring of 2010.