4.3 B Faculty Senate Minutes, December 2, 2005

Title

Subject(s)

Faculty

Governance

Description

I. Call to Order
II. Introduction of guests
III. Acknowledge electronic approval of minutes
IV. President's report
V. Committee reports
VI. Old business
VII. New business
VIII. Other
Meeting adjourned

Highlights:
-Guests: Professor Jay Paul, Professor Ron Mollick, SGA
Representative Jason Scheel
-Mollick discussed the 11/12/05 meeting of the Faculty Senate of Virginia
-The Institutional Performance Standard (SCHEV)
-Textbook costs
-Reducing CNU's standard teaching load
-Faculty Development Grants budget
-Faculty Senate budget
-Classroom Design Working Group
-Council of University Chairs met and passed 4 proposals.
-Men's lacrosse to become CNU's 22nd sport
-Charter for the Faculty Council on Liberal Learning and Academic Life
-Promotion of Susan St. Onge to rank of Distinguished
Professor
-ENGL223 (or its crosslisted equivalent) as a pre-rcorequisite for all 300or400level courses in an
Area of Inquiry (AoI) which does not otherwise have a specific course
-Meeting with Math Department which has no senators
-Vote on UCC recommendations
-Assignments of recently approved AoI courses
-University Handbok statement on professional ethics
-requirements for "graduation with distinction"
-prohibiting untenured faculty members from serving as
chairs of certain committees was discussed
-update from the SGA
-Meeting adjourned
preor
corequisite
-Getting started week scheduling
-Advisory Committee on Academic Advising recommendations on improving academic advising
-Sabbaticals
-preparing CNU students for graduate schools
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