Oakland University Senate
4th Meeting
Monday, December 11, 1972
3: 15 p.m.
128-130 Oakland Center
AGENDA
Submitted by Frederick W. Obear, for the Steering Committee
A. New Business (First readings, not eligible for final vote.)
1. Motion for the Graduate Council (Mr. G. Philip Johnson).
THAT THE UNIVERSITY SENATE AUTHORIZE THE INITIATION OF THE MASTER OF SCIENCE PROGRAM IN MANAGEMENT PROPOSED BY THE SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT AND APPROVED BY THE GRADUATE COUNCIL.
Comment: The School of Economics and Management submitted its proposal for this program to the Office of Graduate Study in January, 1972. Since then it has undergone extensive review by that office, external examiners, and the Graduate Council.
The program was approved by the Council on November 27, 1972.
The program is a promising one, for it is designed to address the many problems in traditional management and business education. It seems to all reviewers�both external and internal--that the proposal constitutes a very auspicious beginning toward the solution of these problems. Indeed, it offers substantial evidence that the program would be a significant and needed departure from standard programs and thus of the kind we have been trying to develop here. It further offers evidence that sufficient clientele and resources exist to assure the program's success.
There is attached to this agenda a general description of the program. A much more detailed description, the formal proposal with which the Graduate Council has been working, can be obtained from the Office of Graduate Study or the School of Economics and management.
2. Motion from the Academic Policy Committee (Mr. Witt).
a) THAT A PROGRAM LEADING TO THE BACHELOR OF SCIENCE DEGREE IN COMMUNITY AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT BE ESTABLISHED.
b) THAT CANDIDATES FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE WITH A MAJOR IN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT OR HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT MUST SATISFY THE FOLLOWING DEGREE REQUIREMENTS:
i. HAVE COMPLETED AT LEAST 124 CREDITS.
ii. HAVE COMPLETED AT LEAST 32 OF THESE CREDITS AT OAKLAND UNIVERSITY, OF WHICH AT LEAST 16 CREDITS MUST BE IN HIS OR HER ELECTED MAJOR.
iii. HAVE TAKEN THE LAST 8 CREDIT HOURS NEEDED TO COMPLETE BACCALAUREATE REQUIREMENTS IN RESIDENCE AT OAKLAND UNIVERSITY.
iv. HAVE A CUMULATIVE GRADE POINT AVERAGE IN COURSES TAKEN AT OAKLAND UNIVERSITY OF AT LEAST 2.0.
v. HAVE DEMONSTRATED WRITING PROFICIENCY BY MEETING THE UNIVERSITY STANDARD IN ENGLISH COMPOSITION (0-8 CREDITS).
vi. HAVE COMPLETED THE GENERAL EDUCATION DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT OF AT LEAST 24 CREDITS WITH CREDIT IN AT LEAST FOUR OF THE FIVE DESIGNATED FIELD GROUPS. THE FIELD GROUPS ARE: AREA STUDIES, ARTS, LETTERS, NATURAL SCIENCES, AND SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS.
vii. HAVE COMPLETED THE COMMUNITY AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT CORE PROGRAM, WHICH CONSISTS OF CD 101 (4), HRD 101 (4), HRD 201 (4), CD 151 (4), HI 261 (4), CD 251 (4), AND CS 201 (8) OR CD/HRD 390 (4) AND EIGHT CREDITS IN SOCIAL SCIENCES FOR A TOTAL OF 36-40 CREDITS.
viii.(1)HAVE COMPLETED 24-28 CREDITS IN AN AREA OF EMPHASIS IN AN AREA OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT OR HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT.
ix. HAVE COMPLETED 28-36 CREDITS IN ELECTIVE COURSES.
Comment: An attached prospectus is provided to senators and academic departments.
3. Motion from the Academic Policy Committee (Mr. Witt).
PREAMBLE: The following motion, which is considered to include this preamble as an expression of explanation and intent, is designed to provide for the orderly development of the Organized Faculty (and hence the School) of Community and Human Development accepted in principle by the University Senate and the Board of Trustees in the spring of 1971.
The motion calls for the establishment of a University Center for Community and Human Development and a Teaching Faculty of the Center. The Teaching Faculty is granted several of the powers of an organized faculty of a school. It is anticipated that in due course, the Organized Faculty and School of Community and Human Development will develop from the University Center and its Teaching Faculty.(2)
Therefore, be it
MOVED: THAT THE UNIVERSITY SENATE AUTHORIZE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR COMMUNITY AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT WITH THE FOLLOWING POWERS:
1. The Center shall have a Teaching Faculty.
a. The Center Faculty shall have authority to initiate regular appointments, within the Rules of Tenure with appropriate titles, with the concurrence of the Provost and the University Tenure and Appointment Policy Committee.(3)
b. The Center Faculty shall have authority to review and make recommendations concerning reappointments and promotions of such regularly appointed faculty, submitting its recommendations at all levels directly to the Provost, and through him to the University Tenure and Appointment Policy Committee according to established procedure.
c. The Center Faculty shall have authority to initiate appointments to adjunct and visiting ranks with appropriate titles, with the concurrence of the Provost, according to established procedures.
d. The Center Faculty may also be drawn from existing University faculties.(4)
2. The Center Faculty is empowered to:
a. Present to the University Senate candidates for the B.S. degree in Community and Human Development.
b. Recommend students for University Honors and approve students for Departmental Honors.
c. Develop programs of instruction leading to the B.S. degree in Community and Human Development within the guidelines provided by the University Senate and subject to prior review and approval by the Academic Policy Committee.
d. Offer courses in the name of the Center Faculty, subject to prior review and approval by the Academic Policy Committee.
3. The Center and the Center Faculty shall have a Director. The Director shall :
a. Be appointed by the Provost.
b. Serve as Chief Academic and Administrative Officer for the Center and the Center Faculty.
c. Chair the Center Council.
4. The Center shall have a Council which shall:
a. Advise the Director on all educational and administrative matters within the Center's authority.
b. Have authority to appoint and charge ad hoc committees for the proper discharge of the Center's responsibilities.(5)
5. The membership of the Council shall comprise, in addition to the Director:
a. Three members from the Organized Faculties designated by the Provost.
b. Other members as the Center Faculty may designate.
6. Within two years of September, 1973, there shall be a programmatic review by the Academic Policy Committee and review of appointment policy and procedure by the University tenure and Appointment Policy Committee.
7. With the concurrence of the Provost, the Teaching Faculty of the University Center for Community and Human Development may then apply to the University Senate for status as an Organized Faculty (of the School of Community and Human Development) within Oakland University.
Office of the Provost/er
12/1/72
(1)Total of 64 credits for professional major which includes the CHD Core Program and an area of emphasis.
(2)The attention of the Senate is called to Article III, vi of the Constitution of Oakland University which reads: "By action of the University Senate, other academic units ie., other than the organized faculties] of the University may be granted such powers of Organized faculties as are deemed appropriate." The motion incorporates formally certain of the informal ''sense of the Senate" features of the action which established the Department of Learning Skills last spring (see Minutes, University Senate, April 20, 1972, page 3).
(3) Since the University Tenure and Appointment Policy Committee is not a Standing Committee of the Senate, references to that committee in this motion should be regarded as an invitation to the University Tenure and Appointment Policy Committee to accept this added responsibility. Upon establishment of the Center, the Provost will appoint an ad hoc Professional Committee of at least three tenured members of the University faculty, charged to develop the professional criteria on the basis of which appointments, reappointments, and promotions will be made. These criteria will be subject to the approval of the University Tenure and Appointment Policy Committee.
(4) Members of the existing faculties may be involved in the Center in three ways:
a) On a dual appointment basis, with the Center as either a primary or a secondary "department'' according to established procedures. Such appointment would be by invitation of the Provost upon recommendation of the Director. Disposition of teaching effort would be reflected i n budgets.
b) As an Associate member of the Center Faculty�Senior Associate (if tenured). Associate (if not tenured). Such Associates would be full members of the Center Faculty. They would bo invited to join the Center by invitation of the Provost upon recommendation of the Director. Such invitations would be for a stipulated length of time and for a stipulated amount of teaching, these matters being agreed upon in written form by the concerned dean, director and chairman. Disposition of teaching effort would be reflected in budgets.
c) Other faculty who teach courses in the Center on an irregular basis. Such faculty are not regarded as members of the Center Faculty.
(5) Upon establishment of the Center, an ad hoc curriculum committee will be appointed by the Director and the Council to serve in lieu of a committee on instruction.