SENATE FACULTY MEETING AGENDA (DRAFT)
FRIDAY Oct 5, 2007 3:00 - 5:00 pm Egan Library 211
Call in # 1-800-893-8850 PIN 3325714
Eluminate Session for Doc Viewing during meeting
(https://uascentral.uas.alaska.edu/online/portfolio/FACULTY_SENATE?term=Fall-2007&behavior=UAS&session=96637&
1. Approval of minutes of last meeting (Sept minutes)
2. Approval of today’s agenda (additions, deletions, re-ordering?)
3. Presidents Report-Faculty Alliance, Graduate Committee, ACCFT and AAUP contract talk progress (Health Care negotiations- separation of 3 unions),
Old Business
ACTION ITEM:
4. Proposed changes to Faculty Handbook regarding articulation of Curricular Changes with integrated (web-linked) forms (A,B,C) for FS approval. (These revisions were begun by Tomlinsen CC Chair 2006-2007, and further polished by Shepherd, Stell, Connor, & Dumesnil). The Ad Hoc Curriculum Clarification Committee suggests these ~FINAL 2007 changes to the faculty handbook; (Lynn Shepherd and Cathy Connor) These need to be enacted ASAP to guide curricular change paths and the faculty & Deans attempting to follow them (Attachments: 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8, 4.9)
SECOND READING:
5. Allied Health Program Changes (Marianne Stillner)-response of NS Faculty to Nursing and Radiology Tech program proposals regarding Chem 103/104, Physics 102. (Dumesnil, Dean interaction over faculty workloads/salary sources needed)
Attachment 5.1 (AAS Health Sciences Policy Change Proposal)
Attachment 5.2 (AAS Health Sciences Policy Change Proposal)
Attachment 5.3 (Certificate of Pre-Nursing Policy Change Proposal)
Attachment 5.4 (AAS Health Sciences Policy Change Proposal)
New Business
Proposals for Program Changes/New Programs
6. English BA Program Changes (Cowan/Kane)
First Reading Attachments - Changes to English Major
Attachments: 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6
7. Outdoor Studies Program Changes (Wagoner/Kane)
Attachment 7.1
8. Changes to History Program (Walz/Noon)
Attachment 8.1a, Attachment 8.1b
9. M.Ed. Mathematics New Program (Fredenberg/Wicks-Ortega)
Attachments: 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5
10. Faculty Senate and Other Committees Matrix-Faculty Service and Welfare
(please help me fill in the blanks!) Attachment 10.1
11. AD Hoc Sustainability Committee and FS Sponsorship for 2008 Spring Forum (Pyare/Wolk)
12. 5 pm Adjourn. Next Meeting Friday Nov 2, 2007