UCAP Meeting of 04/24/2003 2002-2003 agenda status: approved Agenda:
Meeting of Thursday, April 24, 2003 10:15 a.m., Board Room, Administration Building 1. Approval of Agenda (10:15) 2. Approval of Minutes of the April 10, 2003 meeting (10:20)........................(Attachment) 3. Comments from the Chairperson (10:25) 4. Comments from the Assistant Provost (10:30) 5. Elections for 2003-04 (10:40) 1) Chairperson; 2) Vice Chair; 3) 2nd Rep to Academic Council;
(bring materials from previous meeting) 7. Admission Moratorium Requests for 1) Ancient Studies; 2) Art & Art History; 3) Women’s Studies; 4) Latin; 5) Religious Studies (11:10).................................(Attachments) 8. Proposal to Establish the School of Construction Management (11:30) and Built Environment (bring materials from previous meeting - hard copy only -- not on web) 9. Academic Integrity (11:50) Please phone or E-Mail Robin Pline (353-5380; pline@msu.edu) if you cannot be present and send a substitute in your place. Attachment: April 10, 2003 Draft Minutes Moratorium materials from College of Arts and Letters minutes status: not approved UCAP Minutes for meeting held on 04/24/2003 UNIVERSITY COMMITTEE ON ACADEMIC POLICY Minutes April 24, 2003 Members Present: Michelle Beaujean, Henry Beckmeyer, Bridget Behe, Colleen Card, Betty Cheng, George Cornell, Steve Dilley, James Gallagher, Folu Ogundimu, Georgia Padonu, Rodney Phillips, Sharon Senk, Maija Zile Others Present: Assistant Provost June Youatt, Dean Wendy Wilkins of the College of Arts and Letters, Drs. Jeffrey Grabill, Douglas Noverr, James Porter from the Department of American Thought and Language, Associate Dean Thomas Coon and Specialist Paul Streng of Agriculture & Natural Resources 1. A motion to approve the agenda was made by Georgia Padonu, seconded by Colleen Card, and approved unanimously. 2. A motion to approve the minutes from the last meeting was made by George Cornell, seconded by Georgia Padonu, and approved unanimously. 3. Comments from the Chairperson: Bridget Behe acknowledged the UCAP members who were leaving the committee at the end of the spring 2003 semester, including George Cornell, Rodney Phillips, Gary Stollak and Winston Wilkinson, and thanked them for their service. 4. Comments from the Assistant Provost: None. 5. Nominations were made and votes were taken for UCAP officers for 2003-2004, with the following results. Chair Bridget Behe Co Vice Chairs Betty Cheng & Patricia Mullan 2nd Rep. to Academic Council Steve Dilley Rep. to Military Education Advisory Committee Georgia Padonu 6. ATL Mission and Departmental Name Change: Dean Wendy Wilkins of the College of Arts and Letters and Drs. Jeffrey Grabill, James Porter, and Douglas Noverr from the Department of American Thought and Language joined UCAP members to discuss a proposed name and mission change for the ATL Department. Questions were raised and discussion ensued about the following topics: Rationale for taking on a new mission; Meaning of the word rhetoric in the proposed title;
How the Department chair evaluates teaching of faculty; Resources needed to carry out the new mission; Impact on the number of undergraduate majors and graduate students.
How faculty were consulted; Effects of the moratoria on faculty;
Rationale for change from its present administrative structure;
Anticipate growth in number of students and faculty; Potential effects on the Department of Agricultural Engineering.
A motion to approve moratoria on accepting new majors into undergraduate programs in Ancient Studies, Latin, and Women’s Studies was made by George Cornell, seconded by Steve Dilley, and approved unanimously. However, concerns were raised about placing moratoria on majors in Art History and Religious Studies. By this point several members of UCAP had left and we no longer had a quorum, so we could not take action on either the remaining requests for moratoria or on the proposal about the Construction Management proposal. Several committee members expressed concerns that we had not gotten any information from faculty about either the Arts & Letters moratoria or the changes to the Construction Management program. Bridget Behe indicated that we needed to make decisions about these issues, and asked about the possibility of either voting on them via email or meeting face-to-face again in May. She promised to email all UCAP members to find out which option they preferred. The meeting was adjourned at 12:20. Minutes submitted by Sharon Senk 4.24.03UCAPMINUTES.doc |
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