Members Excused: Mohsen Badiey, Carol Denson, Thomas Evans, Cliff Neil, April Oettinger, T. Frasier Russell, Carolyn Thoroughgood, John Weiss
I. ADOPTION OF THE AGENDA
The agenda was adopted.
II. APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES
The minutes of the November 6, 2000 meeting of the Senate were approved with the following corrections: The remark A Graduate students are now eligible for the 120 day loan period for library materials@ is amended to ADoctoral students are now eligible for the 120 day loan period for library materials;@ and the list of excused and absent senators which was omitted is now included.
III. REMARKS BY PROVOST SCHIAVELLI
Provost Schiavelli made
no remarks.
IV. ANNOUNCEMENTS
President Judith Van Name reminded the Senators
that material submitted to the Faculty Senate Undergraduate and Graduate
Studies Committees must have the signature of the College Dean or the Dean=s
authorized representative. If the required signatures are lacking, materials
will be returned to the submitting unit. As an item of information, the
Department of Physical Therapy made changes to the admission requirements
for the Master of Physical Therapy program. These changes involve: 1) A
reduction in the volunteer or paid clinical experience in physical therapy
from 200 hours to 100 hours; 2) changing the anatomy course requirement
from a required human anatomy course with a laboratory to a recommended
human anatomy course with a laboratory; and 3) changing the physiology
course requirement from a 4 credit physiology course with a laboratory
to a 3 credit human or mammalian physiology course.
V. CONSENT AGENDA
A. Announcements for Challenge. The following announcements for challenge were adopted by consent.
1. Recommendation from the Graduate Committee on Education with the concurrence of the Coordinating Committee on Education and the Executive Committee, for programmatic changes to the existing major in Applied Math and Math Masters (dropping the requirement for MATH 807 for the Master's Degree only and replacing this requirement with any 800 level mathematics course; and adding a fifth candidacy exam in Numerical and Functional Analysis) and wording revisions to their Graduate Brochure.
2. Recommendation from the Undergraduate Committee on Education with the concurrence of the Coordinating Committee on Education and the Executive Committee for revision to an existing major in Mathematics Education (deleting MATH 389 and Math 381; adding the requirement that students take one of Math 302, Math 389, or Math 508).
B. Resolutions. The following resolution, recommended by the Undergraduate Committee on Education with the concurrence of the Coordinating Committee on Education and the Executive Committee, for permanent status for the Environmental Engineering major and Degree (B.En.E) was approved by consent.
WHEREAS the Bachelor of Environmental Engineering degree was established with provisional status effective 9/1/95 and now needs approval for permanent status; and
WHEREAS this program is serving and has graduated students with job placement success; and
WHEREAS it received a very favorable review from the recent Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) evaluation of the College of Engineering, be it therefore
RESOLVED that the Bachelor of Environmental Engineering degree be granted permanent status.
VI. AGENDA
A. Old Business.
There was no old business.
B. New Business.
There was no new business.
VII. INTRODUCTION OF NEW BUSINESS
President Van Name asked if there were items of
new business, reminding the Senate that such proposed items could not be
acted upon until the next meeting. Hearing no other proposed new business,
the meeting was adjourned.
Respectfully submitted
Karen F. Stein, Secretary
University Faculty Senate