May 2, 2018

Faculty Senate Minutes
May  2, 2018 (Tentative)
Chair, Kevin Hall
Secretary, Linda Jones
Attendance (A-absent; otherwise, present)

Faculty Senate Officers and Senators

OFFICERS  Kevin Hall
 Kathleen Lehman		  Fran Hagstrom
 Tom Jensen		  Robert Brady  Linda Jones  A-John Pijanowski
COLLEGE OR SCHOOL          
School of Architecture  A-Frank Jacobus        
School of Law  A-Uche Ewelukwa Ofodile        
Library  Stephanie Pierce        
Walton College  Rajiv Sabherwal  John Delery  Vern Richardson  Jennifer Kish-Gephart  
College of Engineering  Paneer Selvam   A-Manuel Rossetti   Justin Chimka  Kevin Hall  
Bumpers College  Ioannis E. Tzanetakis  Kate Shoulders   Bruce Ahrendsen  Navam Hettiarachchy  A-Don Edgar
College of EDHP  Chris Goering  A-Kaitlin Gallagher  Kristin Higgins  Stephanie Lusk  Lisa Bowers 
Fulbright College  Anna Zajicek 
 Hope Christiansen 
 Myria Allen 
 A-William Quinn		  James Gigantino
 A-Fred Spiegel 
 A-Ravi Barabote
 Calvin White 		  Weston Wilkerson 
 Shauna Morimoto
 Dennis Brewer 
 A-Denise Beike 		  A-Suresh Kumar Thallapuranam 
 A-Stephen Caldwell
 James Lampinen		  A-Matt McIntosh 
 Kathy Comfort 
 Michael Landman 
At-Large Members  Cheryl Murphy
 Luti Salisbury
 Tom Jensen		  Kelly Hammond
 A-Deborah Korth
 Karen Sebold 		  David Gay
 A-Michelle Gray		  Norm Dennis
 Neil Allison		  Timothy Kral
 Don Johnson
Non-Voting Senators in Administration        
A-Joe Steinmetz 
A-Kathy Van Laningham
Kim Needy
Lynda Coon		  Jim Coleman 
 Don Judges
 A-Matthew Waller
 A-Melissa Harwood Rom 		  Ro DiBrezzo
 A-Charles Robinson 
 A-Michael Miller
 A-Julie Cromer		  
 Lona Robertson
 A-John English
 John Fagg		  Terry Martin
 A-Peter MacKeith
 A-Stacey Leeds		  Suzanne McCray
 A-Todd Shields
 A-Carolyn Henderson Allen 

I.  Call to Order:  Chair, Kevin Hall

Called

II. Roll Call

Called

III. Approval of Agenda

Approved

IV. Approval of Minutes of April 11, 2018

Approved

V.  Report - Part A

Provost, Jim Coleman

    • Vice Provost for Research and Innovation is moving forward
    • Vice Provost for Planning is now open for applicants
    • Thank you to the Faculty Senate EC and the Senate as a whole, thank you.

VI.  Announcements

VII. Old Business

A.  General Education/Common Core – David Joliffe, Laurence Hare, Jeannine Durdik

Document for Review

Various comments from the floor

    • Thank you to the committee that served and to all that have provided feedback.
    • Approval of new courses will need to indicate the learning indicators.
    • We have to have this core in some form; must have it for accreditation.
    • Individual student accountability/advisor accountability - supported via a matrix of courses coordinated with learning indicators.
    • Two years to implement the program - fall 2020.
    • Will examine what courses meet the core over the next two years.
    • Assessment needs to be a part of this.
    • Faculty buy in is crucial!  Need some reassurances about tracking the learning outcomes; how will this be tracked?

    • The committee welcomes feedback on how to proceed over the course of the next two years.

Motion to send it back to committee with a request to return to the Senate with an implementation plan.

Nos - 21

Yes - 12

Motion failed

Motion to accept the outcome system as presented in the document above.

Nos - 10

Yes - 26

Motion passed

B.  Teaching Council revision to Academic Policy 1405.15 – Jim Gigantino

Recommendations

 Motion to send back to committee for reconsideration to ensure it is in align with newly adopted Board policy.

Motion passed

C.  Committee on Committees – Inactive committees – Tahar Messadi

Recommendations

 Motion to eliminate two committees (Classrooms, Technology, and Academic Design; Continuing Education)

Computing Activities Committee - has five sub-committees.  There are faculty reps on each one.

Argument to keep the Classrooms, Technology committee - an Academic committee eliminated for an administrative committee, not favorable.

Motion to eliminate both committees passed.

D.  Non-Tenure Track Revision to Academic Policy 1405.12 - John Delery

Document 1 / Document 2

Motion to submit this document to the APT committee for review and return to the Faculty Senate in the new academic year.

Yes - 18

No - 15

Motion passed.

VIII. New Business

Consent Agenda:  The following items are referred by the University Course and Programs Committee and/or the Graduate Council for review and action by the Faculty Senate at its meeting scheduled May 2, 2018:

1.   Course Change proposals – including undergraduate and graduate classes approved by the University Course and Programs Committee on April 20, 2018, and the Graduate Council on April 19, 2018:  (pdf report). 

2.   Undergraduate Program Change Proposals approved by the University Course and Programs Committee on April 20, 2018:  (pdf_report).

a.   Proposed undergraduate program change for the Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food, and Life Sciences, Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness – AGBS-M – Agricultural Business Minor (2a_agbs-m­_report05022018.pdf, 2a_agbs-m_distoffer_ltrofnotif_05022018.docx, 2a_agbs-m_syllabi.pdf).

b.   Proposed undergraduate program change for the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, Department of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures – AMFREN – Additional Major-French (2b_amfren_report05022018.pdf), 2b_amfren_addmaj_ltrofnotif05022018.docx.).

c.   Proposed undergraduate program change for the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, Department of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures – AMSPAN – Additional Major-Spanish (2c_amspan_report05022018, 2c_amspan_ltrofnotif05022018.docx). 

d.   Proposed undergraduate program change for the Walton College of Business, Department of Supply Chain Management – SCMTBS – Supply Chain Management, Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (2d_scmtbs_report05022018.pdf, 2d_scmtbs_distoffer_ltrofnotif05022018.docx, 2d_scmtbs_syllabi05022018.pdf).

e.   Proposed undergraduate program change for the Walton College of Business, Department of Supply Chain Management –SCMT-M – Supply Chain Management Minor for Non-Business Students (2e_scmt-m_report05022018.pdf, 2e_scmt-m_distoffer_ltrofnotif05022018.docx, 2e_scmt-m_syllabi05022018.pdf).

f.    Proposed undergraduate program change for the Walton College of Business, Department of Supply chain Management – WSCM-M – Supply Chain Management Minor for Business Majors (2f_wscm-m_report05022018.pdf, 2f_wscm-m_distoffer_ltrofnotif05022018.docx, 2f_wscm-m_syllabi05022018.pdf).

3.   Graduate Program Change Proposals approved by the University Course and Programs Committee on April 20, 2018 and the Graduate Council on April 19, 2018:

a.   Proposed graduate program change for the Department of Health, Human Performance and Recreation – KINSMS-ADMS – Kinesiology: Adapted Movement Science Concentration (3a_kinsms-adms_report05022018.pdf).

b.  Proposed graduate program change for the Eleanor Mann School of Nursing – NURSDP-CNST – Nursing: Adult-Geriatric Clinical Nurse Specialist Concentration (3b_nursdp-cnst_report05022018, 3b_nursdp-cnst_deletion_ltrofnotif05022018).

4.  Additional items/Announcements:

a.   Establishment of the Department of Occupational Therapy as a new administrative unit in the College of Education and Health Professions (4a_otd_new_admin_unit_ltrofnotif, 4a_otd_new_admin_unit_correspondence.pdf).

b.   Revised Math IB test credit - MATH 1284C, MATH 2554 5 HL MATH 1284C, MATH 2554H 6,7 HL This change standardizes the "Up to 8 hours possible (To be determined by the Math Department)" as currently listed.  http://catalog.uark.edu/undergraduatecatalog/academicregulations/advancedstandingprograms/#internationalbaccalaureatetext

Consent Agenda Passed Fully and Completely!

IX. Report - Part B

Senate Chair, Kevin Hall

  • Recognized the Executive Committee
  • Lots of great work this semester!  Thank you all!
  • Recognized Jim Gigantino's work with the Teaching Council
  • John Delery's work, excellent
  • Introduced the New Chair - Kathleen Lehman!
  • Have a great summer!!

X. Adjourn

Meeting adjourned at 5:18.