REGULAR MEETING OF THE UNIVERSITY FACULTY SENATE

 

 

DECEMBER 4, 2006 – 104 GORE HALL

 

 

 

 

November 21, 2006

 

 

TO:                  Senators and Executives

 

FROM:            Jinfa Cai, Vice President   Jinfa Cai

                        University Faculty Senate

 

SUBJECT:       Regular Faculty Senate Meeting December 4, 2006

 

            In accordance with Section IV, paragraph 6 of the Constitution, the regular meeting of the University Faculty Senate will be held on Monday, December 4, 2006 at 4:00 p.m. in room 104 Gore Hall. 

 

I certify that hard copies of the approval page for each undergraduate and graduate studies academic item on the agenda are filed in the Faculty Senate Office with the appropriate signatures of approval up through the Chair of the Faculty Senate Coordinating Committee on Education.  The Agenda will be as follows:

 

AGENDA

 

 

I.                   Adoption of the Agenda

 

II.                Approval of the Minutes: November 6, 2006

 

III.             Remarks: Provost Dan Rich

                                                                             

IV.              Announcements: Senate President Dallas Hoover

 

V.                 Consent Agenda

 

1.      Announcements for Challenge: 

 

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 the revision to the MS in Wildlife Ecology (attachment)

 

b.                  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 the proposed Name Change to the MS in “Entomology and Applied Ecology” to MS in “Entomology” as well as the revision to the Major and Elimination of the Concentrations (attachment)

 

c.                   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 the proposed Name Change to the PhD in “Entomology and Applied Ecology” to PhD in “Entomology and Wildlife Ecology” (attachment)

 

d.                  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) to establish Two New Concentrations for the PhD in “Entomology and Wildlife Ecology”: One in Entomology and One in Wildlife Ecology (attachment)

 

e.                   Recommendation from the Committee on Undergraduate Studies (Amy Johnson, Chair) with the concurrence of the Coordinating Committee on Education (Alan Fox, Chair) and the Executive Committee (Dallas Hoover, Chair) for the revision to the minor in Wildlife Conservation (attachment)

 

f.                    Recommendation from the Committee on Undergraduate Studies (Amy Johnson, Chair) with the concurrence of the Coordinating Committee on Education (Alan Fox, Chair) and the Executive Committee (Dallas Hoover, Chair) for the revision to the Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering – BME (attachment)

 

g.                   Recommendation from the Committee on Undergraduate Studies (Amy Johnson, Chair) with the concurrence of the Coordinating Committee on Education (Alan Fox, Chair) and the Executive Committee (Dallas Hoover, Chair) for the addition of a Biomedical Engineering minor and deleting the Biomedical Engineering Concentration within Mechanical Engineering (attachment)  (attachment)  (attachment)  (attachment) (attachment) (attachment)

 

1.      Resolutions:

 

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 Permanent approval of the MS in Hospitality and Information Management- (attachment 1) (attachment 2) (attachment 3) (attachment 4)

WHEREAS,     the Hospitality Information Management Program was provisionally approved on April 9, 2001, and

WHEREAS,     at the end of the provisional period an external review team recommended that the Hospitality Information Management program be given permanent status, and

WHEREAS,     student interest in the program has been demonstrated by the actual enrollment as compared to the projected enrollment, be it therefore

RESOLVED,   that the Faculty Senate recommends that the Hospitality Information Management program be granted permanent status.

b.                        Request for an extension to the provisional status of the MS Program in Health Services Administration (attachment) (attachment) (attachment) (attachment) (attachment)

 

 

WHEREAS,     both the Chair of the School of Nursing and the Dean of the Health Sciences College recommended an extension of this program for one year, and

 

WHEREAS,     the Graduate Studies Committee believes two years is needed for further development of this program and a third year is needed to accomplish updated reviews by the appropriate faculty senate committees, and

 

WHEREAS,     the extension period will give the program director and faculty an opportunity to address the concerns raised in the Permanent Status Program Review report, be it therefore

 

RESOLVED,   that the Faculty Senate recommends that a three year extension of provisional status of the MS Program in Health Services Administration be granted. 

 

 

     VI      Regular Agenda

 

1.      Old Business:  None

 

2.      New Business: None 

 

VII.              Introduction of New Business

Such items as may come before the Senate.  (No motion introduced under new business, except a motion to refer to committee, shall be acted upon until the next meeting of the Senate.)

 

  

 

/khs