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Tuesday, 7 December 2004   See Agenda   Meeting 2005-03

Roll call

Absent: Chen (History), Clark (Cameron School), Honchell (Curricular Studies), Howell (Economics & Finance), Hurdle (Social Work), Kyzer (HAHS), Roer (Graduate School), Toth (Sociology & Criminal Justice), Turner (Nursing)

Approval of minutes

November minutes were approved.

Election of a president-elect

Mark Spaulding, History, was elected president for the 2005-2006 academic year.

Individual reports

1. Chancellor Rosemary DePaolo reported, including the following:
• She thanked the Senate for awarding honorary degrees to Julia and Hugh Morton. She was impressed by the level of discussion during those deliberations.
• She announced that the Senate president will henceforth be a member of the university's extended cabinet (applause).
• The company hired to oversee the Physical Master Planning process is raising all the right issues and communicating well. She hopes the Senate will devote a meeting to a presentation on that process and to a discussion of the issues, which are critical to our future. Moreover, she urges the Senate to consider other large and important issues.
   
2. President Daniel Noland reported as follows:
   • There is great variation among departments in their efforts to support and mentor junior faculty. We need to reflect on the extent to which we are a community.

Committee reports

1. Bill Bolduc and Bill Atwill reported for the Athletics Council, including the following:
   • The Council meets several times each semester. Its duties include compliance, Title IX monitoring, a comprehensive review of each athletics program, and reviewing faculty reports on athletes' academic progress.
   • We are lucky in that athletics at UNCW has had the right emphases and a proactive Athletics Department.
   • The Council is considering the degree to which it complies with guidelines of the Coalition on Intercollegiate Athletics, and in particular what relationship the Council should have to the Faculty Senate—for example, whether it should become a standing committee of the Senate. The Senate urged the Council to bring forth a proposal for Senate consideration.
       
2. The following motion by the Steering Committee carried after amendment [deletions from the original motion]:

   That the RTP Process document, as revised by the Senate last year, be further revised with the addition of the following new section allowing for the external review of RTP candidates (in accordance with motion 2005-03-06) to be inserted immediately following the "Timetable" section [Motion 2005-04-07: allow external review of RTP candidates; carried]:

RTP process

Timetable

...

External reviews of candidates for tenure and/or promotion

Departments have the option whether or not to require external reviews of candidates for tenure and/or promotion. Assessments of candidates, solicited by the department from reviewers who are external to UNCW, can be a valuable aid to the department's senior faculty and others as they make their recommendations. External reviews may be especially useful in cases where candidates have teaching and research interests that are atypical within the department. In its deliberations the senior faculty shall consider such reviews as one among many forms of documentation providing information on the candidacy. In cases where external reviews are not required, the absence of such reviews shall not be considered a detriment in any way to the candidacy.

Each department shall establish a formal policy on external reviews, approved by the department and the appropriate dean, stating (1) whether the department shall seek external reviews in all cases for tenure and promotion to associate professor and (2) whether it shall seek external reviews in all cases for promotion to professor. Departments that do not require external reviews in all such cases shall establish a procedure whereby (1) the department's senior faculty may, by majority vote, request external reviews in individual cases and (2) the candidate may request departmental solicitation of external reviews.

The department policy shall also establish explicit and consistent guidelines for the solicitation and use of external reviews that include the following:

• the number of reviews to be sought (which shall be no fewer than two nor more than five)
• the criteria by which reviewers are to be selected, including whether any are to be chosen from a list of potential reviewers provided by the candidate
• the information and guidelines to be provided to the reviewers
• the role of external reviews in the overall decision process
• for departments not requiring external reviews for all candidates for tenure and promotion, the process by which, in specific cases, either the senior faculty or the candidate may request external reviews in a timely manner consistent with evaluation deadlines

External reviews, where used, shall be solicited by the department. The anonymity of reviewers is essential in assuring candid reviews, and reviewers shall be asked to submit a cover letter identifying themselves, their affiliation, and any personal or professional connection to the candidate. Reviews are to be submitted as attachments to the cover letter and should contain no information identifying the reviewers. Senior faculty and others making decisions on the candidacy shall have access to both the reviewers' identities and evaluations, but only the content of the reviews shall be made available to the candidate.

Letters of support solicited by or provided by a candidate are not encouraged. Such letters may be included in the candidate's supplemental documents, but they shall not be considered equivalent to external reviews solicited by the department.

[The last paragraph was deleted to allow departments to determine the extent to which they consider letters solicited by candidates. Two other motions were defeated:

• to delete the phase "by majority vote" in "the department's senior faculty may, by majority vote, request external reviews in individual cases"
• to delete the phrase in parentheses in "the number of reviews to be sought (which shall be no fewer than two nor more than five)"]

3. The following motion by the University Curriculum Committee carried after amendment [additions, deletions from the original motion]:

That the following curricular changes be approved [Motion 2005-04-08: approve curricular changes; carried]:

1. Create an interdisciplinary Forensic Science minor in the College of Arts and Sciences:

Coordinator: Dr. A. Midori Albert

The College of Arts and Sciences offers an interdisciplinary minor in Forensic Science. The minor affords students the opportunity to gain foundation-level exposure to the various sciences from which forensic applications are derived. Students will acquire broad-based knowledge and skills in a combination of areas such as biology, chemistry, anthropology, criminal justice, sociology, environmental science and law. The minor is designed to prepare students for future graduate education and or on the job training in specialized fields within forensic science; examples include but are not limited to search and recovery of human remains, human identification, crime scene investigation, evidence collection and or laboratory analyses.

Requirements for a Minor in Forensic Science: A minor in Forensic Science requires 21 hours, distributed as one 3 hour core course, and 18 hours of electives including at least one course in each of two groups--Group 1 (A) Biology or (B) Chemistry, and Group 2 Social-Behavioral Sciences.

Core: ANT 211

Group 1: Option (A) Biology, or Option (B) Chemistry

Option (A) Biology: BIO 240-241, BIO 335-BIOL 335, BIO 488
Option (B) Chemistry: CHM 380, CHM 417

Group 2: Social and Behavioral Sciences

ANT 207-ANTL 207, ANT 326-ANTL 326, ANT 426, CRJ 220, CRJ 380, CRJ 495 Criminalistics or Law of Evidence, EVS/BLA 362, SOC 355

Some 400 level courses focusing on forensic science, such as directed independent study, seminars, or honors work, may substitute for courses in Group 2 if approved by the coordinator. Students must have at least a “C” (2.00) average in all courses counted for the minor. Many courses listed above have prerequisites and or co-requisites, which do not count for the minor but may satisfy basic study requirements or other major requirements.

2. Create a new course, UNI 105:

   UNI 105 Learning Community Integrative Seminar. (2) A seminar course designed to help first-year students develop critical thinking skills in relation to the common themes presented by the discipline-based course(s) in a Learning Community. Students will participate in guided discussions, enrichment activities, and practice applying college-level study skills to the material presented by the Learning Community.

3. Delete the E-Business option in the B.S. in Business Administration, Cameron School of Business.
4. Revise the B.A. degree in Economics in the Cameron School of Business.
5. Create an Information Technology Minor in the College of Arts and Sciences:

   Requirements for a Minor in Information Technology: A minor in information technology requires completion of 18 hours, including 12 hours of core courses and 6 hours of electives. At least 3 elective hours must be at the 300 level or above.

   Core Courses: CSC 110; CSC 112 or CSC 121 or equivalent; LIB 103; and any 3-credit 200 or higher level CSC course.

   Electives: Any 200 or higher level CSC course (not used to fulfill the core course requirement); ART/FST 220; ART/FST 320; CHM 425; COM 260; CRW 314; CRW 319; EDN 303; EDN 416; ENG 204; ENG 314; ENG 319; FST 201; FST 395; FST 497; GGY 224; GGY 422; GGY 424; MIS 311; MIS 315; MIS 316; MIS 317; MUS 110; PAR 110; PAR 218; SOC 303.

   Students must earn at least a “C” (2.00) average in among courses counted for a minor in information technology. This minor is not available for students majoring in computer science.

6. Designate MUS 114, Choral Music Literature, as a course meeting the Basic Studies requirement in the Fine Arts.
7. Designate MIS 105, Basic Computer Applications for Business, as a course meeting the Basic Studies requirement in Mathematical Sciences as an elective.
8. Designate PLS 203, Religion and Politics in the United States, as a course meeting the Basic Studies requirement in the Social and Behavioral Sciences.
9. Designate CLR 305, Clinical Research Seminar, as a course meeting the Oral Competency requirement.
10. Designate CLR 450/L, Data Management, as a course meeting the Computer Competency requirement.

[Discussion took place about the meaning of "integrative" in b. above. A motion to delete that word from the title of UNI 105 was defeated.]

New business: none

Adjournment

Minutes by Richard Veit, Senate secretary