REGULAR MEETING OF THE UNIVERSITY FACULTY SENATE
TO: Senators and Executives
FROM: Charles E. Mason, 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 Monday, December 7, 2009 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:
I. Adoption
of the Agenda
II. Approval of the Minutes: November 2, 2009
III. Remarks: Provost Tom Apple
IV. Announcements: Senate President Cihan Cobanoglu
Maureen Querey – Manager, Office of Equity and Inclusion
II.
Item for
Information: Breadth Requirement
Memo (attachment)
VI. Consent Agenda
a. 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 Non Thesis option to the MS in Bioresources Engineering (attachment)
VII.
Regular
Agenda:
1. Unfinished Business: None
2. New Business: None
3.
Resolutions:
a. Recommendation from the Faculty Senate Committee on Graduate Studies (Robert Opila, Chair) and 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 a 4+1 program in Civil and Environmental Engineering (attachment)
Whereas, the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering has
offered successful programs leading toward the Bachelor of Civil Engineering degree and the Bachelor of Environmental Engineering degree, providing graduates with the skills needed to enter the profession at an entry level, and
Whereas, the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering has offered a separate and successful Master of Civil Engineering degree, providing students with more advanced training in their chosen field of specialty, and
Whereas, industry is demanding more advanced training and education of our engineering students and there is a need to provide alternative, cost-effective, and accelerated programs for obtaining the Masters degree in Civil Engineering, and
Whereas, a 4+1 Bachelors/Masters program will provide students with the advanced skills needed in a shorter amount of time, be it therefore
Resolved, that the Faculty Senate recommends that a new 4+1 program be established provisionally for five years that will allow students to complete the Bachelor of Civil/Environmental Engineering and the Master of Civil Engineering degrees concurrently.