Oakland University Senate

September 19, 1968

Agenda

To: Members of the University Senate

From: Donald D. O'Dowd, for the Steering Committee

Re: Agenda for Meeting of September 19, 1968

The next meeting of the University Senate will be held on Thursday, September 19, at 3:30 p.m., in Room 310 of the Kresge Library.

A. New Business

1. Recommendation from the Steering Committee

The Steering Committee offers a slate of nominees for the Standing Committees of the Senate.

a. The Senate appoints the following nominees to fill vacancies in the Standing Committees of the Senate and approves certain changes in membership of the committees as suggested by the Steering Committee:

(1) Academic Policy: Lowy (as chairman) for Burke, who will be on leave; Attwood for Juth, who has graduated; Witt for Shank, who has resigned from the committee; and Rosemont for Lowy, who is to become chairman.

(2) Athletics: Hildum for Langer, who has left the University; Reddan for Tipler, who will be on leave.

(3) Graduate Study: O'Dowd (as ex officio member) for Howes, who is on leave.

(4) Long-Range Planning; Black for Attwood, who has moved to the Academic Policy Committee.

(5) Research: Cameron for Pino; Pino (as ex officio member) for Howes, who is on leave.

(6) Student Publications: Yennior for Richter, who has graduated.

2. In response to the Chancellor's request for nominees for the Student Conduct Committee, the Steering Committee recommended the appointment of Messrs. Torch and Vann to replace Shank and DeMent, both of whom resigned from the committee.

3. Report of Steering Committee Activities

a. During the spring semester the Steering Committee took several actions related to changes in the curriculum.

(1) The Steering Committee authorized the School of Engineering to modify its language requirement by adding the linguistic option approved earlier for the College of Arts and Sciences.

(2) The Steering Committee referred to the Academic Policy Committee for review an action of the Committee on Instruction of the College of Arts and Sciences approving Philosophy 370 (Systems of Logic) as acceptable in satisfaction of the distribution requirement in mathematics as an equivalent for UC 085 (Mathematics). This change received the support of the Academic Policy Committee and was entered in the 1968-69 Catalog.

(3) The Steering Committee concurred in a judgment that the academic Policy Committee should be regarded as the successor to the former Academic Affairs Committee. In this role the APC has approved a change in the Engineering curriculum increasing required Engineering courses to a maximum of 48 credits. This change is within the maximum limits specified by the Senate in legislation adopted on April 22, 1965.

b. An ad hoc Student Nomination Committee, chaired by Miss Cynthia Attwood, has been formed and will bear the responsibility of recommending to the Senate two students to serve on the Student Publications Committee, and two others for membership on the Athletics Committee. Members of the Nomination Committee include Messrs. David Black, Larry Laidler, Kenneth Meldrum and David Yennior; and Miss Anna Both Gray.

c. Procedures for appealing judgments of the Academic Standing and Honors Committee have been adopted by the Steering Committee. The document was originally prepared by the Steering Committee, reviewed and revised by Mr. James Hewlett, the University Attorney, and then accepted by the Committee as its policy in June, 1968. A copy of the adopted Procedures for Appeal is attached.

d. Mr. William F. Sturner, Assistant Provost, has been appointed by the Steering Committee to perform certain administrative and executive duties associated with the activities and concerns of the Committee, including the preparation of the agenda and the minutes of the Steering Committee meetings and the agenda of the Senate, the monitoring of compliance with Senate legislation, and the general coordination of communications between the Steering Committee and the Senate.

e. The Steering Committee has established the following dates for the regular meetings of the Senate for the academic year 1968-69 as per the announcement contained in the Senate Agenda for the meeting of January 16, 1968. All meetings are scheduled for Thursday, at 3:30 p.m., in Room 310 of the Kresge Library:

September 19  
October 3
November 7
December 5
January 16
February 6
March 6
April 3
April 24
May 8

DDO'D:ljm
enclosure
cc: Administrative-Professional Staff
Faculty
Student Body Electorate, c/o Dean of Students