April 25, 2025
UNDERGRADUATE COUNCIL
AGENDA
April 25, 2025
2:30 p.m.
Upchurch Conference Room, BELL 3162
1. Approval of Minutes for the March 21, 2025, meeting.
The minutes can be viewed at: https://ugrdcouncil.uark.edu/minutes/index.php.
2. Consent Agenda:
- Course Change Proposals (PDF Report)
3. Old Business:
- Follow-up discussion on Council website archiving
4. New Business:
Program Change Proposals (PDF Report)
- Proposed undergraduate program change for the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural,
Food, and Life Sciences, Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness – AGBSBS-PRLW
– Agricultural Business: Pre-Law Concentration
(4a_agbsbs-prlw_report_04252025).
5. Additional Items/Announcements
- K-12 Gifted Endorsement – Revising a Non-Certificate/Non-Degree Endorsement Licensure
- This proposal is not a change to the endorsement, but merely alignment to the newest
competencies for the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
- This proposal is not a change to the endorsement, but merely alignment to the newest
competencies for the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
- Educational Examiner Endorsement – Revising a Non-Certificate/Non-Degree Endorsement
Licensure
- This proposal is for changes required to align with recommendations for the Educational
Examiner. The educational examiner endorsement is a 27 credit-hour program for students
who have a current license or who are enrolled in a program toward a special education
teaching license and have enrolled or are enrolled in a graduate degree program and
wish to develop the competencies necessary for education examiners. The University
of Arkansas College of Education and Health Professions provides the coursework needed
for successful teacher candidates to submit a request for the educational examiner
endorsement from the Arkansas Department of Education. This program of study requires
field experience. To meet this requirement, the student must identify a school-based
mentor who is a school psychologist or educational examiner and is willing to provide
observation, access to assessments, and written feedback on fidelity of their implementation
of testing procedures across courses. Additionally, as of spring 2025, educational
examiner endorsement students will be expected to complete a practicum and an education
research methods course (e.g., ESRM 50103).
- This proposal is for changes required to align with recommendations for the Educational
Examiner. The educational examiner endorsement is a 27 credit-hour program for students
who have a current license or who are enrolled in a program toward a special education
teaching license and have enrolled or are enrolled in a graduate degree program and
wish to develop the competencies necessary for education examiners. The University
of Arkansas College of Education and Health Professions provides the coursework needed
for successful teacher candidates to submit a request for the educational examiner
endorsement from the Arkansas Department of Education. This program of study requires
field experience. To meet this requirement, the student must identify a school-based
mentor who is a school psychologist or educational examiner and is willing to provide
observation, access to assessments, and written feedback on fidelity of their implementation
of testing procedures across courses. Additionally, as of spring 2025, educational
examiner endorsement students will be expected to complete a practicum and an education
research methods course (e.g., ESRM 50103).
- Celebrating the service and contributions of the Council members who are retiring!
Next Meeting: August 22, 2025 (agenda deadline is August 8, 2025)