REGULAR
MEETING OF THE UNIVERSITY FACULTY SENATE
TO: Senators and Executives
FROM: Jinfa Cai, Vice President
University Faculty Senate
SUBJECT: Regular
Faculty Senate Meeting
In
accordance with Section IV, paragraph 6 of the Constitution, the regular
meeting of the University Faculty Senate will be held on
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:
I.
Adoption of the Agenda
II.
Approval of
the Minutes: December
4, 2006
III. Remarks: Provost Dan Rich
IV.
Announcements: Senate President Dallas
V. Consent Agenda
A. Announcements for Challenge:
1. 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 request to disestablish a policy history concentration in the Department of History (attachment)
2. 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 request to revise the major in Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology (attachment)
3. 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 request to revise the major in Anthropology Education in the Department of Anthropology (attachment)
4. 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 request to change the name of the department from the Department of Fine Arts and Visual Communications back to the Department of Art (attachment)
5. 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 request to revise the minor in Medical Humanities in the Department of Philosophy (attachment)
6. 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 request to tie the Praxis I exam to students’ junior level clinical course and add a notice about the need to take the Praxis II exam before their student teaching for Music Education - General/Choral Concentration: Voice in the Department of Music (attachment)
7. 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 request to tie the Praxis I exam to students’ junior level clinical course and add a notice about the need to take the Praxis II exam before their student teaching for Music Education - Instrumental Concentration: Principal Instrument in the Department of Music (attachment)
8. 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 request to tie the Praxis I exam to students’ junior level clinical course and add a notice about the need to take the Praxis II exam before their student teaching for Music Education - General/Choral Concentration: Piano in the Department of Music (attachment)
9. 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 request to revise the major in Early Childhood Education in the Department of Individual and Family Studies (attachment)
10. 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 request to revise Honors: Early Childhood Education in the Department of Individual and Family Studies (attachment)
11. 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 request to revise the major in Leadership in the School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy (attachment)
12. 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 request to revise the major in Elementary Teacher Education: Middle School English concentration in the School of Education (attachment)
13. 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 request to change the minimum grade requirement for BISC 106 (Elementary Human Physiology) from a D to a C- for Applied Nutrition (APN) majors in the Department of Health, Nutrition, and Exercise Sciences (attachment)
14. 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 request to change the minor in Figure Skating Coaching in the Department of Health, Nutrition, and Exercise Sciences (attachment) (attachment)
B. Resolutions:
1. 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 request to disestablish the major in Food Business Management and Technology in Department of Food & Resource Economics (attachment)
WHEREAS, the provisional major has not attracted students as anticipated, and
WHEREAS, the major has had only two students in four years (one still current), be it therefore
RESOLVED, that the Faculty Senate recommends that the major in Food Business Management and Technology be disestablished
2. 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 request to grant a three year extension to the provisional status of the MS in Health Promotion (attachment) (attachment resolution)
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.
VI Regular Agenda
A. Old Business: None
B. New Business: None
VI.
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.)
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