March 15, 2024
UNDERGRADUATE COUNCIL
MINUTES
March 15, 2024
2:30 p.m.
Upchurch Conference Room, BELL 3162
MEMBERS PRESENT:
Voting: Alan Ellstrand, Chris Liner, Kevin Hall, Megan Hull, Lona Robertson, Garry McDonald,
and Laurie Apple
Non-Voting: Gina Daugherty, Lisa Kulczak, and Suzanne Kenner
MEMBERS ABSENT:
Voting: Adriana Gonzalez, Ethel Goodstein, Casey Harris, Rodney Thomas II, Paul Calleja,
Rhett Hutchins, Manuel Rossetti, and Samantha Robinson
Non-Voting: Tiffany Murphy, Suzanne Kucharczyk, and Amanda Corbell
GUESTS: Steven Rosales
Chair Alan Ellstrand called the meeting to order at 2:33 p.m.
1. The minutes for the February 23, 2024, meeting were approved.
2. Course Change Proposals:
All course change proposals were approved without opposition. The approved courses are listed on the CIM Course Report created by CourseLeaf and will be forwarded for consideration to the Faculty Senate, meeting scheduled for April 10, 2024.
3. Old Business:
None
4. New Business:
The following program change proposals were approved on the CIM Program Report. The program change proposals will be forwarded for consideration to the Faculty Senate, meeting scheduled for April 10, 2024.
a. Proposed undergraduate program change for the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Latin American and Latino Studies – LALS-M – Latin American and Latino Studies Minor presented by Steven Rosales.
Adding approval for LALS-M as an online/web based delivery.
Several SPAN and HIST courses that are part of this minor are already approved for online delivery. So, this program only needed the development of one to two additional courses to be available online.
Online delivery will open this minor up to be available to more students and gives more variety of options for the already existing IDSTBA (4a_lals-m_report_03152024).
Next Meeting: April 19, 2024 (agenda deadline is April 5, 2024).
Meeting adjourned at 2:36 p.m.