Tuesday, 15 January 2008
2:00 p.m., EB 162
Meeting 2008-05

Roll call

Approval of the December 2007 minutes

Individual reports

1.  Chancellor DePaolo

2.  President of the Senate Spaulding

• Departmental Name Verifications for Elections.  (More information from Elections Officer in Word)

Old business

1.  Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice submits the following revised motion, as amended by Steering Committee with additions (underscored) and deletions (struck through):

• [Motion 08-02-06]  In an effort to expand faculty participation in the Commencement Ceremonies at Trask Coliseum as a celebration of student and faculty achievement, to make it a more meaningful event for all participants, and,

Whereas, we believe the current Commencement without the conferral of either an honorary degree and or speaker limits the celebration as an intellectual milestone, and,

Whereas, we believe that Commencement ceremonies are opportunities to honor students’ achievement as well as faculty involvement in that achievement, and,

Whereas, we believe that Commencement is a celebration of our collective intellectual accomplishment,

We resolve the following:

1. the Trask Commencement Ceremony should restore the conferral of honorary degrees when appropriate, and invite a suitable speaker the degree recipient to give a brief graduation speech
2. that reading students' names individually be celebrated at the Departmental ceremonies where they will be greeted by the professors who guided their educational pursuits
3. that reading students' names be discontinued at the Trask Commencement Ceremony

With faculty senate endorsement of this resolution, we intend to take this conversation to the appropriate bodies for continued consideration, especially Student Government Association.

Committee reports

1. University Curriculum Committee submits the following motion:

• [Motion 08-05-25] That the Senate approve the following recommendations:
  • Approve THR 165 Script Analysis for providing Computer Competency.  (More information from THR in Word)
  • Approve THR 487 Senior Seminar: Design and Technology as Oral Communication Intensive.  (More information from THR in Word)
  • Approve THR 355 Directing I as Oral Communication Intensive.  (More information from THR in Word)
  • Approve Program Change in Theatre – Total number of hours for graduation – (Major: from 48 hours to 43 hours; Minor from 18 hours to 19 hours).  (More information from THR in Word)
  • Approve Intent to Plan – B.S. in Oceanography  (Proposal from Department of Geography & Geology).  (More information from GGY in Word)
  • Approve – Change prefix of all classes from CRJ (Criminal Justice) to CRM (Criminology).  (More information from CRJ in Word)
  • Approve – Change in number of hours required for the CRJ major from 42 to 39 credit hours.  (More information from CRJ in Word)
  • Approve – Dropping  CRJ 110 (CRM 110): Issues in Criminal Justice as Oral Communication Intensive.  (More information from CRJ in Word)
  • Approve – Designation of CRJ 495 (CRM 495): Senior Seminar as Oral Communication Intensive.  (More information from CRJ in Word)
  • Approve - Increasing number of hours for the B.A. in Math to accommodate the Applied Learning requirement (would require 1-3 additional hours in Option 1 – from 45 to 46-48).  (More information from MAT in Word:  Link 1, Link 2, Link 3)
  • Approve PAR 225: Women and Religion for Basic Studies – Humanities/Philosophy and Religion.  (More information from PAR in Word)

2.  Academic Standards Committee submits the following motion:

• [Motion 08-05-26] That the Senate approve the proposed posthumous degree policy.  (More information from ASC in PDF )

3. The Honor Code Task Force offers the following motion:

• [Motion 08-05-27] Whereas, concerns about the adequacy and efficacy of the UNCW Honor Code have been expressed by members of the UNCW academic community; and

  Whereas, Provost Hosier, in consultation with Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Leonard, Faculty Senate President Spaulding, SGA president Thorpe, and GSA president Mason, has appointed a student-faculty Honor Code Task Force to examine our current policies on academic honesty, to consult widely with the academic community, and to propose any recommendations to the academic community; and

  Whereas, the Honor Code Task Force has met and produced a preliminary report; and

  Whereas, the Honor Code Task Force believes that any establishment, consideration, or revision of an honor code must be broadly participatory, involving all affected campus constituencies; and

  Whereas, the Honor Code Task Force is seeking a mandate for its mission from all of those constituencies; therefore,

  Be it resolved, that the Faculty Senate expresses its support for the mission of the Honor Code Task Force, with the understanding that the Task Force will report to the Faculty Senate in the course of its deliberations and will submit any recommendations and proposals to the Faculty Senate for approval.

New business

Announcements

Adjournment