| Tuesday, 16 January 2001 |
2:30 p.m. |
Volume 101: Number 5 |
President Lynne Snowden called the meeting to order at 2:30.
Absent: Adams (Dean, Nursing), Ainsley (Earth Sci), Barker (Lib), Byington (Fac. Welfare), Cami-Vela (FLL), Clark (Dean, Business), Elikai (Acct.), Errante (Admissions), Friarson (IT Cmte.), Halkides (Chm), Hayes (Cur. Sts.), Hines (St.AffairsCmte.), Hunt (M&M), Kiddle (Research Cmte.), King (Music), Lawson (Acct.), Lecci (Psych.), Leutze (Chancellor), Moore (A&T), Olsen (Com), Roscher (Accountancy), Sigler (Econ.), Sizemore (Evaluation), Smith (Earth Sci), Stowell (Nur), Weber (Com), White (Chemistry), White (CW), Wilson (P&R).
The December minutes were approved.
1. Provost Cavanaugh
1. Plans to use the SACS self-study to begin discussions this spring on the Strategic Plan for Academic Affairs, which must be submitted to the Office of the President in 2002. Among his concerns are (a) which program areas should be the focus of new growth? and (b) what kind of interdisciplinary agreements and cooperative programs can be formed?
2. Intends to form focus group sessions involving faculty and community people who serve on UNCW boards, to develop better understanding, e.g. of the educational process at UNCW among community representatives, of what graduates will need in the work world among faculty.
3. Will be gathering people from several areas to create an informational and coordination center for the area of service-learning.
4. In response to questions, reported that there are no changes concerning who will be in the new classroom building, scheduled to open July 1, and that chairs may schedule with the assumption that it will be open for fall classes; noted that while the upcoming state deficit will affect the university system in some way, it is difficult to know how, until the Governor submits his budget.
2. President of the Senate Snowden
1. Intends to help arrange faculty forums to contribute to the important process of long-range planning.
2. Gave an update on pending issues involving committees, including (a) the Writing Across the Curriculum Committee has been meeting and will soon make a proposal to the Senate; (b) the ad hoc RPT Committee has been chosen, with Professors Gray, H. Hayes, Sigler, Berkley, Blundo, Bongiorno, Galizio, Griffin, and Waxman as members, Dean Clark and President Snowden ex-officio, Professors Jackson, Spackman and Lowery as Resource Consultants; (c) one or more Senate committees will make update reports to the Senate in the coming months (exceptions: UCC and ACS, which report regularly).
3. The issues of Research Faculty Status and Student Withdrawal Policy have been referred to the ASC for review and recommendations.
4. Noted among Faculty Senate successes over the past year: obtaining a Senate office and 1/2 time secretarial assistance; electronic dissemination of agendas and minutes; submission of the application for a Phi Betta Kappa chapter; and extension of the role of the Faculty Senate in curriculum matters.
3. SACS Director Spackman
1. Department reports were submitted on Dec 15, but the work goes on, including 30 university wide self-study teams. The immediate timetable is for these teams to write their reports this spring, the final Self-Study Report to be available on line in the early fall for campus-wide review, forums, input and revision, and the SACS visit in February, 2002, which will include interviews of chairs, selected faculty and administrators.
2. There will be two further items for departmental reports, concerning (a) changes made in the eight month period from Dec 15 to next fall and (b) a progress report on recommendations. Departments will need to make plans, timetables for progress, and reports on these within the next 1/2 year.
3. Noted that the Academic Affairs Report will include direction to departments to (a) develop policies to obtain data on their graduates' scores on graduate proficiency/placement tests; (b) define policies for the evaluation of their curriculum; and (c) develop policies re: job and graduate school placement rates and graduate placement test scores for their graduates.
4. Requested four Senate committees to submit their reports on "must" statements: Advancement, Building and Grounds, UCC, and Research.
5. In response to questions, Associate Vice-Chancellor Carter said that the Registrar's Office will provide departments with graduation rates for majors; Director Spackman said that while the timetable for the additional departmental reports have not yet been set, since there is still much to be done this spring, the university is in good shape, and that follow-up Progress Reports will involve departmental replies to Self-Study Steering Committee memos inquiring about items which the departments indicated need correction.
Committee Reports:
That the duties and procedures of the the University Curriculum Committee be updated to conform with those mandated by Senate motion 01-3-4:
- That Section V.C.1.o.i. of the Faculty Senate Bylaws, stating the University Curriculum Committee's duties, be changed from the following:
- Duties. To review all curricular matters concerning basic educational policies, such as the basic studies program, total number of hours required for graduation, maximum and minimum number of hours required for majors and minors (program concentrations), any curricular conflicts between schools and/or colleges, and other general curricular policies which have total university impact. Proposed policy changes shall be submitted to the Senate at least one month prior to Senate consideration.
to the following:
- Duties. To review all proposals for the following: the establishment, dissolution, division, or consolidation of academic departments or other degree-granting entities; the establishment, dissolution, or revision of academic degrees, including majors, minors, and certificate programs; policies for maximum and minimum hours required for majors, minors, and certificates; total number of hours required for graduation; basic studies requirements; university-wide competency requirements; course prefixes; any curricular conflicts between schools and/or colleges; and other general curricular policies which have total university impact. The committee shall submit all such proposals, along with the committee's recommendations, to the Senate for consideration.
- And that all schools and colleges submit such proposals to the University Curriculum Committee for its review. Where possible, all proposals submitted to the committee should have the approval of the school/college, but the school/college may submit proposals to the committee before the school/college review is completed when doing so is necessary to meet a deadline, such as for the publication of the following year's catalog.
Old Business
New Business
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The meeting was adjourned at 3:15 p.m.