May 17, 2013

UpChurch Conference Room — Bell Engineering

MEMBERS PRESENT:

Voting: Norm Dennis, Andrew Dowdle, Gary Ferrier, Andrew Horowitz, Patricia Koski, Janet Penner-Williams, Lona Robertson, and Manuel Rossetti

Non-Voting: Karen Turner and Bill Warnock

MEMBERS ABSENT:

Voting: Kim Bradford, Chuck Adams, Bob Brady, Cathy Chick, Dawn Farver, Judy Ganson, Carol Gattis, Ethel Goodstein, Kristen Higgins, Emily Honarmand, Ches Jones, Anne O’Leary-Kelly, Tim Killian, Janine Parry and Chuck Rotolo

Non-Voting: Lisa Kulczak

GUESTS: None


Pat Koski called the meeting to order at 2:36 PM. Chair, Chuck Adams was not able to attend the meeting.
  1. The minutes for the April 26, 2013 meeting were approved without corrections.
  2. Course Change Proposals:
    1. Undergraduate and School of Law course change proposals (Tables A & Table B) were approved without opposition and will be forwarded for the September 2013 Faculty Senate meeting.
    2. There was no Graduate or Dual course change proposals submitted.
  3. Old Business:
    • None
  4. New Business:
    1. Proposed undergraduate program change for the Fay Jones School of Architecture, Department of Interior Design – IDES-M – Minor in Interior Design (Table One, Attachment 1A) was tabled because there was no program representative present to introduce the proposal. The program change will be placed on the June UCPC meeting agenda as a tabled item.
    2. Proposed undergraduate program change for the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Arts and Sciences Dean - IRELBA – BA, International Relations (Table Two, Attachment 2A) was presented by Andrew Doodle. A course specific to the needs of international studies majors, INST 2013 Intro to International Studies, will add three additional credit hours to the major requirements, and will be offset by removing three hours of electives from the degree program. All other edits different from the 2012-2013 catalog copy are changes previously approved by ARSC, UCPC and Faculty Senate. The program change was approved and will be forwarded for consideration at the September Faculty Senate meeting.
    3. Proposed undergraduate program change for the College of Education and Health Professions, Eleanor Mann School of Nursing - NURSBS – BS, Nursing (Table Three, Attachment 3A) was presented by Janet Penner-Williams. The Life Span Development, HESC 1403, course will be deleted as a required pre-requisite for admission to the generic BSN program. The program will still require nine hours of social science. Since the School of Nursing had not alerted the Bumpers College of Agriculture, Food and Life Sciences that they were eliminating the course from the required listing for Nursing, the proposal was approved with the proviso that an email confirmation that the Bumpers College of Agriculture, Food and Life Sciences had been notified would be supplied. Janet Penner-Williams was to forward the email to Bill Warnock for inclusion in the program proposal Attachments. Once this had been accomplished the proposal would be forwarded for consideration at the September Faculty Senate meeting.
  5. Other Business:
    • Lona Robertson was elected chair for the 2013-14 academic year.

Meeting was adjourned at 2:58 PM.