4.3 B Faculty Senate Minutes, April 17, 2009

4.3 B Faculty Senate Minutes, April 17, 2009

Faculty

Governance

Highlights:
-Guests: Dr. Roberta Rosenberg, Director, Center for Service Learning and Social Entrepreneurship; Dr. Carolyn Ericson, chair, Department of Community Engagement and Social Work; Dr. Marion Manson, chair, Sociology, and Anthropology; Louis Seyler, social worker in community;
Prof. Carol Mathews, Field Coordinator, Department of Community Engagement and Social Work; Dr. Jana Adamitis, Dr. Michael Lewis (arrives at 5:19), Dr. Christopher Kennedy (arrives at 5:19) and Dr. Brian Puaca, 2009-2010 senators
-Recommendation to retain social work major from Dr. Rosenberg
-combining ULLC100/Engl123
-2009-2010election
-faculty do not think that Reading Day is valuable, but
students do
-report on the election process, which was done in surveymonkey instead of in meetings
-Handbook Change 9-2 - regarding student behavior in the faculty handbook
-increase in tuition
-Ferguson losing money
-percent of minority students has increased significantly
-CNU has raised less money this year than
last year, but the number of donors is up slightly
-new position of lecturers
-new honors program
-recommendations concerning ULLC100/Engl123
-curricular modifications
-increased class sizes
-social work program
-process of eliminating a major within a program
-Walking without graduating
-Jazz concentration elimination
-Faculty Development Grants
-summary of what had happened with social work up to this point
-discussion of social work major

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April 17, 2009

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