Tuesday, 20 March 2007
2:00 p.m., EB 162
Meeting 2007-07

Roll call

Approval of the February minutes

Individual reports

1. Chancellor DePaolo
2. President of the Senate Spaulding
   

   1.  Ad Hoc Committee on AA reorganization, Andy Jackson, Chair.

   Prior to Senate meeting on 3/20 all faculty should have received a message from this committee explaining its purposes and soliciting input on AA reorganization.

   2.  Applied Learning:
   The existing structures for curriculum development are not adequate to ensure shared governance in the new circumstances of a  significant curricular initiative from CAS dean.
   Short term: Does the Senate wish to have the UCC report with recommendation on whether CAS should adopt applied learning as a college-wide value?
   Long term: Should the College and Schools have elected curriculum committees?

   3.  Ken Gurganus for Steering Committee reports on the status of investigation into policies and practices regarding rights/duties of Assoc. Deans/Academic Directors.
   The ad hoc committee re motion 07-06-25 plans to meet next on March 28 at 4 P.M. in the CTE conference room.  Committee discussion to date has resulted in a working draft which includes added and deleted material since the last Senate meeting.  The Committee anticipates having a final draft ready well before the April Senate meeting.

   4.  Elections to Autonomous Committees.  Gene Tagliarini is Elections Officer.

5.  Information from University College on “Synergy: UNCW’s Common 
Reading Experience”

Fall 2007 Selection Announcement - The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Kite Runner, a riveting bestselling novel, tells the memorable story of a complex father son relationship and the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father’s servant. The wealthy Amir narrates the story and grapples with issues of class difference, love, loyalty, betrayal, and redemption. All within an eye-opening account of a country's political turmoil--in this case, Afghanistan.

Program Goals and Overview:
Synergy, the common reading program of the University of North Carolina Wilmington, supports the university mission of integration of teaching, research, and service, stimulation of intellectual curiosity, imagination, critical thinking, and thoughtful expression.  Furthermore, the program supports goal one of the Strategic Plan: Create the most powerful learning experience possible for our students. It is intentionally designed to reinforce the expectations of the university environment through scholarly engagement. Synergy unites the efforts of entities on the campus and in the surrounding community to bring about a combined positive effect greater than that which these elements could achieve working separately.

6.  Information from Division of Student Affairs:
In response to on-going concern from faculty that incoming students need to have a more academic orientation as they enter UNCW, Student Affairs is bringing back a (redesigned) Convocation for fall 2007.  The preliminary program and Convocation will be focused exclusively on academic expectations.  We will be using the original “Statement on Academic Expectations” developed several years ago as a starting point.  Intent is to have a faculty member speak at Convocation.  The deans are supportive of this idea.

Committee reports:

1.  Basic Studies Committee 

• Met three times in February and is meeting weekly on Fridays at 1:00.
• Created (courtesy of Anne Pemberton) a web site for minutes and other materials.
• Discussed the charge of the committee and reviewed the Core Curriculum approved by the Senate.
• Read and discussed elements of the new (2007) AAC&U publication College Learning for the Global Century, and other recent publications unavailable to the Basic Studies task Force.
• Attended (two members) AAC&U conference on General Education and Assessment.
• Examined the General Education requirements of a variety of other universities.
• Is investigating the various methods by which alignment between the Core Curriculum and new Basic Studies courses might be achieved. 

2.  The Academic Standards Committee offers the following motions  

     [MOTION 07-07-27]  DECLARATION OF MAJOR – page 75 of
     the 2006-2007 Undergraduate Catalogue

Undergraduate students admitted as freshmen may must declare and be accepted into a major field of study after completing a minimum of 24 semester hours at UNCW. They must declare a major before or during the semester that they complete 45 semester hours of credit.  Students will not be allowed to preregister or register for the following semester until a major or a pre-major has been declared.  Additional advising may be required prior to registration for continuing students who have completed 30 hours or more and have not declared a major or a pre-major.

ADMISSION TO DEGREE PROGRAMS – page 114 of the 2006-2007 Undergraduate Catalogue

Admission to the College of Arts and Sciences
University College Sstudents wishing to declare a major within the College of Arts and Sciences will request to have their records transferred to the appropriate department no earlier than the end of the second semester of the freshman year  after earning 24 credits at UNCW but before or during the semester that they complete 45 semester hours of credit.  See departmental requirements for any prerequisites to declaring a major.

Admission to the Professional Schools
University College Sstudents wishing to declare a major within a professional school will request to have their records transferred to the appropriate school no earlier than the end of the second semester of the freshman year after earning 24 credits at UNCW but before or during the semester that they complete 45 semester hours of credit.  These students will then be assigned to that school for pre-professional advising.

[MOTION 07-07-28]
Explanatory Note: The Academic Standards Committee offers a motion concerning re-enrollment of former UNCW students. It establishes an academic review of formerly ineligible students, which currently does not happen. Also, the Registrar’s Office will be handling Re-Enrollments starting Summer 2007. This motion affects the working in two sections of the catalogue.

ADMISSIONS-FORMER STUDENT (Re-enrolling) – page 35, Undergraduate Catalogue 2006-2007
Former UNCW All students who left in good academic standing must apply for re-enrollment before May 1 for fall semester and December 1 for spring semester.  Former UNCW students who had been declared academically ineligible to return to the university must complete the Re-enrollment Review Process prior to these deadlines as described below.

Re-enrollment Review
Former UNCW students who had been declared academically ineligible to return to the university must make their case in writing in their Re-enrollment Application. The Re-enrollment Review forms must be obtained from the Registrar’s Office and submitted by March 1 for fall semester and October 1 for spring semester. The Registrar will forward all documentation for review to the Re-enrollment Review Committee, selected by the deans. The results of the review will be passed on to the Registrar’s Office with a determination of the acceptance, or rejection, of the applicants depending upon their potential for academic success. Students who are allowed to re-enroll may be required to meet with their dean to discuss their academic plans.

RETENTION, DISMISSAL AND READMISSION, pg 82-83. , Undergraduate Catalogue 2006-2007
Students who do not meet the minimum grade point requirement for retention at the conclusion of the spring semester will be declared academically ineligible.  The student will be allowed to make up deficiencies during this university's summer sessions immediately following the spring semester in which the ineligibility was declared.   If such deficiencies are not removed after the completion of the summer sessions, the student will not be permitted to enroll for two consecutive regular semesters (fall and spring). be suspended from the university and must sit out the following fall and spring semesters.  A suspended student may apply for re-enrollment for the following fall semester.  Readmission is contingent upon the availability of space.  the results of the Re-enrollment Review, Suspended  Academically ineligible students may enroll in any summer session.  Re-enrollment forms are available in the Admissions Registrar’s Office.   To ensure enrollment consideration, students should submit the forms to the Admissions Office by May 1 for the fall semester or December 1 for the spring semester.  If a student is allowed to re-enroll, he/she must see an academic advisor before registering for classes. See also ADMISSIONS-FORMER STUDENT (Re-enrolling).

Old Business
The Department of Geography and Geology offers the following motion [Motion 07-06-26]

That the Dean of Students’ Office require the Wellness Center to provide written verification of the time and date of student visits to the Wellness Center, upon request by the individual students.

Announcements

Adjournment