April 20, 2011

WHEREAS, the enrollment in the MS/DI certificate subplan of the Master's Degree in Human Nutrition Program has only attracted 3 students since its inception, and

WHEREAS, no students have shown interest in the program's subplan without being offered a funded teaching assistantship to go along with the combined option, and

WHEREAS, those 3 students who were offered funding were not able to complete the program without adding additional semesters to the plan, nor were they able to carry out their TA responsibilities satisfactorily with the additional workload this imposed upon them by the teaching assistantship, and

WHEREAS,  the combined Master's Degree in Human Nutrition/Dietetic Internship Certificate subplan has been evaluated by the nutrition faculty of the Behavioral Health and Human Nutrition Department (formerly Nutrition Program in the Department of Health Nutrition and Exercise Sciences) as not being acceptable when adding a funded teaching assistantship on top of it, and


WHEREAS,     no graduate students have accepted admission into this subplan option without an offer of funding in the past 3 years, be it therefore



RESOLVED,   that the University Faculty Senate affirms the proposed disestablishment of the combined MS in Human Nutrition/DI Certificate subplan option from the Master's Degree in Human Nutrition Program.