REGULAR MEETING OF THE UNIVERSITY FACULTY SENATE

March 1, 2010 – 104 Gore Hall

February 22, 2010

TO: Senators and Executives

FROM: Charles E. Mason, Vice President

University Faculty Senate

SUBJECT: Regular Faculty Senate Meeting March 1, 2010

In accordance with Section IV, paragraph 6 of the Constitution, the regular meeting of the University Faculty Senate will be held on Monday, March 1, 2010 at 4:00 p.m. in 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: February 8, 2010

III. Remarks: Provost Tom Apple

IV. Announcements: Senate President Cihan Cobanoglu

V. Consent Agenda

Announcements for Challenge:

Undergraduate Studies

a. Recommendation from the Faculty Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies (Beth Morling, Chair) with the concurrence of the Coordinating Committee on Education (John Madsen, Chair) and the Executive Committee (Cihan Cobanoglu, Chair) for the request to revise the minor in Music – Jazz Studies (attachment)

b. Recommendation from the Faculty Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies (Beth Morling, Chair) with the concurrence of the Coordinating Committee on Education (John Madsen, Chair) and the Executive Committee (Cihan Cobanoglu, Chair) for the request to revise the minor in Astronomy (attachment)

c. Recommendation from the Faculty Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies (Beth Morling, Chair) with the concurrence of the Coordinating Committee on Education (John Madsen, Chair) and the Executive Committee (Cihan Cobanoglu, Chair) for the request to revise the minor: BA in Japanese (attachment)

d. Recommendation from the Faculty Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies (Beth Morling, Chair) with the concurrence of the Coordinating Committee on Education (John Madsen, Chair) and the Executive Committee (Cihan Cobanoglu, Chair) for the request to add an Honors BS degree in Neuroscience (attachment)

e. Recommendation from the Faculty Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies (Beth Morling, Chair) with the concurrence of the Coordinating Committee on Education (John Madsen, Chair) and the Executive Committee (Cihan Cobanoglu, Chair) for the request to revise the Elementary Teacher Education Major (attachment)

Graduate Studies

f. Recommendation from the Faculty Senate Committee on Graduate Studies (Robert Opila, Chair) with the concurrence of the Coordinating Committee on Education (John Madsen, Chair) and the Executive Committee (Cihan Cobanoglu, Chair) for the request to revise degree requirements for the MALS Program (attachment)

g. Recommendation from the Faculty Senate Committee on Graduate Studies (Robert Opila, Chair) with the concurrence of the Coordinating Committee on Education (John Madsen, Chair) and the Executive Committee (Cihan Cobanoglu, Chair) for the request to revise the concentration in the Master of Music Program (attachment)

h. Recommendation from the Faculty Senate Committee on Graduate Studies (Robert Opila, Chair) with the concurrence of the Coordinating Committee on Education (John Madsen, Chair) and the Executive Committee (Cihan Cobanoglu, Chair) for the request to revise the degree requirements for the Political Science and International Relations Program (attachment)

i. Recommendation from the Faculty Senate Committee on Graduate Studies (Robert Opila, Chair) with the concurrence of the Coordinating Committee on Education (John Madsen, Chair) and the Executive Committee (Cihan Cobanoglu, Chair) for the request to revise degree requirements for the MS in Mathematics (attachment)

j. Recommendation from the Faculty Senate Committee on Graduate Studies (Robert Opila, Chair) with the concurrence of the Coordinating Committee on Education (John Madsen, Chair) and the Executive Committee (Cihan Cobanoglu, Chair) for the request to revise the MS in Applied Mathematics, (attachment)

k. Recommendation from the Faculty Senate Committee on Graduate Studies (Robert Opila, Chair) with the concurrence of the Coordinating Committee on Education (John Madsen, Chair) and the Executive Committee (Cihan Cobanoglu, Chair) for the request to revise the PHD in Mathematics (attachment)

l. Recommendation from the Faculty Senate Committee on Graduate Studies (Robert Opila, Chair) with the concurrence of the Coordinating Committee on Education (John Madsen, Chair) and the Executive Committee (Cihan Cobanoglu, Chair) for the request to revise the PHD in Applied Mathematics (attachment)

m. Recommendation from the Faculty Senate Committee on Graduate Studies (Robert Opila, Chair) with the concurrence of the Coordinating Committee on Education (John Madsen, Chair) and the Executive Committee (Cihan Cobanoglu, Chair) for the request to revise the MS in Biological Sciences: Molecular Biology and Genetics Concentrations (attachment)

n. Recommendation from the Faculty Senate Committee on Graduate Studies (Robert Opila, Chair) with the concurrence of the Coordinating Committee on Education (John Madsen, Chair) and the Executive Committee (Cihan Cobanoglu, Chair) for the request to revise the PhD in Biological Sciences: Molecular Biology and Genetics Concentrations (attachment)

o. Recommendation from the Faculty Senate Committee on Graduate Studies (Robert Opila, Chair) with the concurrence of the Coordinating Committee on Education (John Madsen, Chair) and the Executive Committee (Cihan Cobanoglu, Chair) for the request to add a new Certificate in Parent Family (attachment)

p. Recommendation from the Faculty Senate Committee on Graduate Studies (Robert Opila, Chair) with the concurrence of the Coordinating Committee on Education (John Madsen, Chair) and the Executive Committee (Cihan Cobanoglu, Chair) for the request to add a new Certificate in Early Language Literacy (attachment)

q. Recommendation from the Faculty Senate Committee on Graduate Studies (Robert Opila, Chair) with the concurrence of the Coordinating Committee on Education (John Madsen, Chair) and the Executive Committee (Cihan Cobanoglu, Chair) for the request to add a new Certificate in Leadership in Early Childhood and Human Services (attachment)

VI. Regular Agenda

1. Resolutions:

a. Recommendation from the Faculty Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies (Beth Morling, Chair) with the concurrence of the Coordinating Committee on Education (John Madsen, Chair) and the Executive Committee (Cihan Cobanoglu, Chair) for the request to make the Black American Studies Program a Department (attachment)

WHEREAS, the Black American Studies Program has existed in the College of Arts and Sciences since 1971

WHEREAS, the Black American Studies Program now numbers 18 core and joint faculty,

WHEREAS, Black American Studies now offers a B.A. degree,

WHEREAS, nine out of ten of the University's peer institutions that offer a B.A. in Black American Studies are organized as Departments,

WHEREAS, the numbers of Minors and Majors in Black American Studies have steadily grown since their creation in 1971 and 2007, respectively,

WHEREAS, Black American Studies enhances the University mission of creating diversity in education and scholarship, and serving the greater Delaware communities

WHEREAS, creation of a Department of Black American Studies will require no new resources,

WHEREAS, the faculty and administration of the College of Arts and Sciences have approved the proposal for a Department of Black American Studies, be it therefore

~~WHEREAS, there will be an Open Hearing on the Proposed Department, be it therefore~~ (Friendly Amendment on the Senate Floor. Apparently this was a cut and paste error coming from the Arts and Sciences Senate. The University Faculty Senate did not recommend an Open Hearing.)

RESOLVED, that the Faculty Senate recommends the existing Black American Studies Program become a department to be called "Department of Black American Studies."

WHEREAS, the Women’s Studies Program was founded in 1974,

WHEREAS, the Women’s Studies Program now numbers 6 in-house and 39 core faculty,

WHEREAS, the Women Studies Program now offers a major and two minor degrees (in Women’s Studies and in Sexuality and Gender Studies),

WHEREAS, most of the University's peer institutions that offer a B.A. in Women’s Studies are organized as Departments,

WHEREAS, the numbers of Minors and Majors in Women’s Studies have grown steadily since their creation in 1978/79 and 1993/94, respectively, to a total of 203,

WHEREAS, the Women’s Studies Program enhances the University mission to create diversity in education and scholarship, and to serve the greater Delaware communities,

WHEREAS, the creation of a Department of Women’s Studies will require no new resources,

WHEREAS, the faculty and administration of the College of Arts and Sciences are in support of the proposal for a Department of Women’s Studies, be it therefore

~~WHEREAS, there will be an Open Hearing on the Proposed Department, be it therefore (~~Friendly Amendment on the Senate Floor. Apparently this was a cut and paste error coming from the Arts and Sciences Senate. The University Faculty Senate did not recommend an Open Hearing.)

RESOLVED, that the existing Women’s Studies Program become the Department of Women’s Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences

c. Recommendation from the Faculty Senate Committee on Graduate Studies (Robert Opila, Chair) with the concurrence of the Committee on Undergraduate Studies (Beth Morling, Chair) and the Coordinating Committee on Education (John Madsen, Chair) and the Executive Committee (Cihan Cobanoglu, Chair) for the request to create a new 4+1 Program in Mechanical Engineering (attachment)

WHEREAS, the proposed 4+1 Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering/Master of Engineering Mechanical program offers an alternate route for qualified students to pursue a Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering and

WHEREAS, a number of schools have begun to offer similar five year
accelerated Bachelor's and Master's degree programs in Engineering, and

WHEREAS, the existing graduate programs in Mechanical Engineering
already provide all the courses and administrative framework for such
a degree, and

WHEREAS, the proposed program contributes to two milestones on the
University's "path to prominence": to become a premier research and graduate university; to achieve excellence in professional education; be it therefore

RESOLVED, that the Faculty Senate recommends approval of the
establishment of a new 4+1 Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering/Master of Engineering Mechanical program in Mechanical Engineering leading to the concurrent awarding of the Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering/Master of Engineering Mechanical (BME/MEM) after the equivalent of 5 years full-time study

Unfinished Business: None

New Business: None

VIII. 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