REGULAR MEETING OF THE UNIVERSITY FACULTY SENATE
TO: Senators and Executives
FROM: Joann Browning, Vice President Joann Browning
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
6, 2004
III. Remarks: Provost Dan Rich – Preview of the Report on Academic Progress
IV. Announcements: Senate President Charles Boncelet
V. Consent Agenda
A. Announcements for Challenge:
1. Recommendation from the Committee on Undergraduate Studies (Jeff Jordan, Chair) with the concurrence of the Coordinating Committee on Education (Avron Abraham, Chair) and the Executive Committee (Charles Boncelet, Chair) for revision to the concentration in Engineering Technology - Applied Electronics and Controls concentration (attachment)
2. Recommendation from the Committee on Undergraduate Studies (Jeff Jordan, Chair) with the concurrence of the Coordinating Committee on Education (Avron Abraham, Chair) and the Executive Committee (Charles Boncelet, Chair) for revision to the major in Engineering Technology (attachment)
3. Recommendation from the Committee on Undergraduate Studies (Jeff Jordan, Chair) with the concurrence of the Coordinating Committee on Education (Avron Abraham, Chair) and the Executive Committee (Charles Boncelet, Chair) for revision to the concentration in Engineering Technology – Construction Technology Management (attachment)
4. Recommendation from the Committee on Undergraduate Studies (Jeff Jordan, Chair) with the concurrence of the Coordinating Committee on Education (Avron Abraham, Chair) and the Executive Committee (Charles Boncelet, Chair) for revision to the Elementary Teacher Education (ETE) major
4.1 Program Revision form (attachment)
4.2 Letters of Support (attachment)
4.3 Sample Schedules (attachment)
4.4 Draft of text for catalog (attachment)
5. Recommendation from the Committee on Undergraduate Studies (Jeff Jordan, Chair) with the concurrence of the Coordinating Committee on Education (Avron Abraham, Chair) and the Executive Committee (Charles Boncelet, Chair) for the revision of the Minor in Educational Studies (attachment)
6. Recommendation from the Committee on Undergraduate Studies (Jeff Jordan, Chair) with the concurrence of the Coordinating Committee on Education (Avron Abraham, Chair) and the Executive Committee (Charles Boncelet, Chair) for revision of the Bachelor of Science Physics Major – Chemical Physics Concentration (attachment)
7. Recommendation from the Committee on Undergraduate Studies (Jeff Jordan, Chair) with the concurrence of the Coordinating Committee on Education (Avron Abraham, Chair) and the Executive Committee (Charles Boncelet, Chair) for revision of Honors Bachelor of Science – Physics – All concentrations (attachment) (attachment)
8. Recommendation from the Committee on Undergraduate Studies (Jeff Jordan, Chair) with the concurrence of the Coordinating Committee on Education (Avron Abraham, Chair) and the Executive Committee (Charles Boncelet, Chair) for revision of Honors Bachelor of Arts – Physics (attachment)
9. Recommendation from the Committee on Undergraduate Studies (Jeff Jordan, Chair) with the concurrence of the Coordinating Committee on Education (Avron Abraham, Chair) and the Executive Committee (Charles Boncelet, Chair) for revision of Honors Bachelor of Arts – Physics Education (attachment)
10. Recommendation from the Committee on Undergraduate Studies (Jeff Jordan, Chair) with the concurrence of the Coordinating Committee on Education (Avron Abraham, Chair) and the Executive Committee (Charles Boncelet, Chair) for revision of Bachelor of Arts – Physics Education (attachment)
11. Recommendation from the Committee on Undergraduate Studies (Jeff Jordan, Chair) with the concurrence of the Coordinating Committee on Education (Avron Abraham, Chair) and the Executive Committee (Charles Boncelet, Chair) for revision of Bachelor of Music – Music Education (attachment)
12. Recommendation from the Committee on Undergraduate Studies (Jeff Jordan, Chair) with the concurrence of the Coordinating Committee on Education (Avron Abraham, Chair) and the Executive Committee (Charles Boncelet, Chair) for revision of the B.A. in Sociology – New concentration in Emergency and Environmental Management (attachment)
13. Recommendation from the Committee on Undergraduate Studies (Jeff Jordan, Chair) with the concurrence of the Coordinating Committee on Education (Avron Abraham, Chair) and the Executive Committee (Charles Boncelet, Chair) for revision of BA in Arts, add credits: All concentrations: Ceramics, Painting, Photography, Printing, and Sculpture (attachment)
14. Recommendation from the Committee on Undergraduate Studies (Jeff Jordan, Chair) with the concurrence of the Coordinating Committee on Education (Avron Abraham, Chair) and the Executive Committee (Charles Boncelet, Chair) for revision of BA in Arts, add courses: All concentrations: Ceramics, Painting, Photography, Printing, and Sculpture (attachment)
15. Recommendation from the Committee on Undergraduate Studies (Jeff Jordan, Chair) with the concurrence of the Coordinating Committee on Education (Avron Abraham, Chair) and the Executive Committee (Charles Boncelet, Chair) for revision of BFA, add credits: All concentrations: Ceramics, Painting, Photography, Printing, and Sculpture (attachment)
16. Recommendation from the Committee on Undergraduate Studies (Jeff Jordan, Chair) with the concurrence of the Coordinating Committee on Education (Avron Abraham, Chair) and the Executive Committee (Charles Boncelet, Chair) for revision of BFA in Arts, add courses: All concentrations: Ceramics, Painting, Photography, Printing, and Sculpture (attachment)
17. Recommendation from the Committee on Graduate Studies (Charles Mason, Chair) with the concurrence of the Coordinating Committee on Education (Avron Abraham, Chair) and the Executive Committee (Charles Boncelet, Chair) for name change of an existing concentration in the M.A. in Urban Affairs and Public Policy (attachment) (attachment) (attachment)
B. Resolutions:
1. Recommendation from the Coordinating Committee on Education (Avron Abraham, Chair) with the concurrence of the Executive Committee (Charles Boncelet, Chair) to change the name of the College of Health and Nursing Sciences to College of Health Sciences (attachment)
Whereas, the “College of Health Sciences” is the most common title for groupings of related health programs within universities similar in stature to the University of Delaware, and
Whereas, recruitment of professional faculty and educational leaders, other than nurses, is often hindered by the term Nursing in the college title, and current academic professionals, other than nurses, who are members of a “College of Health Sciences” frequently question our name, and
Whereas, many University of Delaware faculty and professionals do not easily remember the name of the College and often refer to the merged College of Health and Nursing Sciences as the College of Nursing, be it therefore
Resolved, that the Faculty Senate
recommends that the title, College of Health and Nursing Sciences, be changed
to
2. Recommendation from the Coordinating Committee on Education (Avron Abraham, Chair) with the concurrence of the Executive Committee (Charles Boncelet, Chair) to change the Department of Nursing to the School of Nursing (attachment)
Whereas, nursing is a professional degree, and
Whereas, across the Nation, the term “Department” is used most frequently by nursing programs with teaching and service missions. The term “Department” does not indicate a tripartite mission that includes a focus on scholarship. Since 1995, the mission of scholarship has increased significantly and will assist the future development of a doctoral program in nursing sciences, and
Whereas, recruitment of nursing faculty and nursing leaders is hindered by the term “Department.” Current academic nurse leaders are most often members of “Schools of Nursing” or “Colleges of Nursing”. With the extreme shortage of nursing faculty, the name of the institution should attract strong faculty, and
Whereas, during a recent two-year national search for a chairperson, potential applicants indicated the level of “department” was not of sufficient interest and prestige and showed a lack of importance within the University system, and
Whereas, institutions of like size and similar programs have the title “College” or “School”, and
Whereas, no change in administrative or faculty lines is required in the title “School of Nursing”, be it therefore
Resolved, that the Faculty Senate recommends that the Department of Nursing change its name to “School of Nursing” in the College of Health Sciences
3. Recommendation from the Coordinating Committee on Education (Avron Abraham, Chair) with the concurrence of the Executive Committee (Charles Boncelet, Chair) for the reorganization of programs in the College of Human Services, Education and Public Policy (attachment)
Whereas, faculty
in the School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy and the Department of Consumer
Studies have voted to approve a plan to move the undergraduate major and minor
in Leadership from the Department of Consumer Studies to the School of Urban
Affairs and Public Policy, and
Whereas, faculty in the Department of
Consumer Studies have voted to approve the change in the name of the department
to the Department of Fashion and Apparel Studies, and
Whereas, the
proposal for this reorganization of programs in the College of Human Services,
Education and Public Policy is acceptable to the Dean of the College of Human
Services, Education and Public Policy and to the Provost, be it therefore
Resolved, that the Faculty Senate
recommends the proposed reorganization of programs in the College of Human
Services, Education and Public Policy, to be effective as of July 1, 2005.
4. Recommendation from the Committee on Undergraduate Studies (Jeff Jordan, Chair) with the concurrence of the Coordinating Committee on Education (Avron Abraham, Chair) and the Executive Committee (Charles Boncelet, Chair) to establish a new Honors Bachelors of Science: Resource Economics (attachment 1) (attachment 2)
Whereas, the establishment of the Honors Bachelors of Science: Resource Economics degree would benefit student in the Department of Food and Resource Economics and
Whereas, the establishment of this degree has been endorsed by the Honors Program and
Whereas, establishment of such a degree does not require the addition of any new courses or library resources, be it therefore
Resolved, that the Faculty Senate recommends that this degree be established in the Department of Food and Resource Economics
5. Recommendation from the Committee on Undergraduate Studies (Jeff Jordan, Chair) with the concurrence of the Coordinating Committee on Education (Avron Abraham, Chair) and the Executive Committee (Charles Boncelet, Chair) to establish a new Honors Bachelors of Science: Food and Agribusiness Management (attachment 1) (attachment 2)
Whereas, the establishment of the Honors Bachelors of Science in Food and Agribusiness Management degree would benefit students in the Department of Food and Resource Economics and
Whereas, the establishment of this degree has been endorsed by the Honors Program and
Whereas, establishment of such a major does not require the addition of any new courses or library resources, be it therefore
Resolved, that the Faculty Senate recommends that this degree be established in the Department of Food and Resource Economics
6. Recommendation from the Executive Committee (Charles Boncelet, Chair) for the creation of an award called the "Faculty Senate Exemplary Service Award"
Whereas, the success of the University of
Delaware Faculty Senate greatly depends on service commitments from the
faculty, and
Whereas,
certain faculty members serving on
committees provide an extensive amount of high quality dedicated service to the
Faculty Senate while giving of themselves personally in an inordinate manner,
and
Whereas, there is no specific faculty award, which serves the purpose of recognizing exemplary service directly to the Faculty Senate, be it therefore
Resolved,
that an award called the
"Faculty Senate Exemplary Service Award" be established to recognize
those faculty members who have contributed an extraordinary amount of service
for a period of at least 3
years to the Faculty Senate, and be it further
Resolved, that the Faculty Senate Executive Committee administer the award
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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