February 28, 2014

UpChurch Conference Room — Bell Engineering

MEMBERS PRESENT:

Voting: Bob Brady, Mark Boyer, Judy Ganson, Tim Killian, Patricia Koski, Terry Martin, Yvette Murphy-Erby and John Rupe

Non-Voting: Kim Bradford, Karen Turner and Bill Warnock

MEMBERS ABSENT:

Voting: Rhonda Adams, Andrew Dowdle, Gary Ferrier, Carol Gattis, Kenda Grover, Andrew Horowitz, Julius Morehead, Anne O’Leary-Kelly, Janet Penner-Williams, Lona Robertson, Charles Rosenkrans and Manuel Rossetti

Non-Voting: Lisa Kulczak

GUESTS: Carl Circo, Ro DiBrezzo, Javier Reyes and Laurent Sacharoff


Terry Martin substituting for Chair Lona Robertson called the meeting to order at 2:30 PM.
  1. The minutes for the January 24, 2014 meeting were approved with no revisions.
  2. Course Change Proposals:
    1. Undergraduate course change proposals (Table A) were approved without opposition with the exception of all five RHAB courses which were tabled. The approved courses will be forwarded for the March 2014 Faculty Senate meeting. One University Core course, AAST 2023 – (Table B), was tabled until the area, Humanities or Social Science, was determined. The response from the History Department was that it was to be added to the Social Science core listing.
    2. There were no Graduate and/or Dual course change proposals.
  3. Old Business:

    There was no old business.

  4. New Business:
    1. Proposed undergraduate program change for the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences, Department of Agriculture Dean – AFLS-M – Minor, Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences (Table One, Attachment 1A and Attachment 1A-1) was presented by Tim Killian. The proposal requested to delete the minor. The proposal was unanimously approved and will be forwarded for consideration at the March 2014 Faculty Senate meeting.
    2. Proposed undergraduate program change for the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences, Department of Poultry Sciences – POSCBS – BSA, Poultry Science (Table One, Attachment 1B) was presented by Tim Killian. Students who complete a standardized test administered through the Future Farmers of America (FFA) Office as part of a joint program between that office and the Center for Excellence in Poultry Science and earning a score of 80 or higher will be awarded credit (CR) for POSC 1012, Avian Biology. Following a short discussion the proposal was unanimously approved and will be forwarded for consideration at the March 2014 Faculty Senate meeting.
    3. Proposed undergraduate program change for the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences, School of Human Environmental Sciences - HDFSBS-CDEV – BSHES, Human Development and Family Sciences - Child Development Concentration (Table One, Attachment 1C, Attachment 1C-1 and Attachment 1C-2) was presented by Tim Killian. The proposal requested that: 1) the requirement of COMM 1313 be replaced with the requirement to choose a 3-hour course from the list of Intensive Communication courses that is maintained by the DBCAFLS. 2) HESC 4753 Family Financial Management will be changed from a Concentration Requirement to a Concentration Elective. 3) HESC 4433 Dynamic Family Interaction will become Inactive. 4) HESC 4473 Multicultural Families will be added. 5) HESC 4413 Infancy: Brain, Learning, and Social Cognition will be added. 6) HESC 4233 Childhood Obesity: Context and Preventions will be added to the list of Concentration Electives. 7) The General Electives requirement will be adjusted from 22-28 hours to 19-25 hours. No change was needed for the total degree hours and the Department of Communications had been alerted to the change. The proposal was unanimously approved and will be forwarded for consideration at the March 2014 Faculty Senate meeting.
    4. Proposed undergraduate program change for the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences, School of Human Environmental Sciences - FHNHBS-DIET-GFNU – BSHES, Foods, Human Nutrition and Hospitality - Dietetics, and General Foods and Nutrition Concentrations (Table One, Attachments 1D and Attachment 1D-1) was presented by Tim Killian. Food, Human Nutrition and Hospitality will change their name to Human Nutrition and Hospitality Innovation. This change will better reflect what the program focuses on and is in direct alignment with Nutrition and Hospitality terms and industry channels. The name change is a result of the Human Nutrition/Dietetics and Hospitality Board of Advisors recommendations. The DIET concentration is being changed to NUTR to reflect the updated name change. The GFNU concentration will retain its current concentration code under the new HNHIBS program. Both concentrations have changes to course ids to reflect the new NUTR and HOSP course codes being implemented. The proposal was unanimously approved and will be forwarded for consideration at the March 2014 Faculty Senate meeting.
    5. Proposed undergraduate program change for the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences, School of Human Environmental Sciences - FHNHBS-HRMN – BSHES, Foods, Human Nutrition and Hospitality – Hospitality and Restaurant Management Concentration (Table One, Attachment 1E and Attachment 1E-1) was presented by Tim Killian. Food, Human Nutrition and Hospitality (FHNHBS) will change their name to Human Nutrition and Hospitality Innovation (HNHIBS). The HRMN concentration is being changed to HOSP to reflect the updated name change. Change in program policy by requiring all hospitality students to maintain a “C” or higher in all hospitality core courses. Math requirements have changed to include the additional of MATH 2053 (Finite Math) raising the math requirements from 3 -4 hours to 6 -7 hours. The HESC Core has now been combined with the Hospitality Core. In this area changes were made in: the area of “Additional Requirements” has an addition of: ACCT 2013 as an optional class for AGEC 2142/2141L (AG Financial Records). ISYS 1123 was added as an optional class to AGME 2903 (AG & HES Application of Microcomputers) and BLAW 2013 Business Law was added because WCOB 1012 was removed from the check sheet. This changes the requirements of the Additional Requirements area from 3 hours to 15 hours; as other courses were dropped from the HOSP core and added to the area of Additional Requirements. The area of Additional Professional & Business Coursework had the additional of FDSC, SCMT, OMGT, & HOSP courses as acceptable coursework in this section. Total course hours changed from 6 hours to 9 hours. The changes have resulted in a change from the electives section from 21-27 hours to 17-24 total elective hours. Following a short discussion the proposal was unanimously approved and will be forwarded for consideration at the March 2014 Faculty Senate meeting.
    6. Proposed graduate program change for the School of Law, School of Law Dean - CRLWGC – Graduate Certificate in Criminal Law (Table Two, Attachment 2A and Attachment 2A-1) was presented by Carl Circo and Laurent Sacharoff. The practice of law continues to become more and more specialized, and employment opportunities in both a criminal law practice for lawyers and criminal law policy often depend on advanced credentials and training. The addition of the new certificate is designed to provide essential training and skills to law students who wish to engage in the practice of criminal law, or to students with a general background in law or legal studies who wish to pursue careers in criminal law policy. Many law schools with whom the School of Law must compete for students offer certificate programs to enhance and enrich their criminal law curricula. The proposal was unanimously approved and will be forwarded for consideration at the March 2014 Faculty Senate meeting.
    7. There were no graduate program change proposals considered that would need to be forwarded to the Graduate Council.
  5. Other Business:
    1. Discussion for UNIV 1001 course being used as an elective for degree credit was presented by Dr. Ro DiBrezzo. Following a short discussion, a motion “To allow UNIV 1001, University Perspectives, to be used for degree credit” was unanimously approved and will be forwarded for the April Faculty Senate meeting.
    2. Discussion of changes in the policy for on-line degree credit hours for students pursuing an on-campus (Face to Face) undergraduate degree was presented by Kim Bradford and Javier Reyes. (Attachment 3A). After a lengthy discussion the committee requested that Global Campus investigate how ADHE counts transfer courses as part of the percentage calculation and report back to the committee in March. Also, each college representative is to take the proposal back to their respective colleges for additional comment. The proposal is to be reconsidered at the March UCPC meeting.

Meeting was adjourned at 3:37PM.