Oakland University Senate
Thursday, September 23, 1982
3:10 p.m. 128, 129, 130
Oakland Center
AGENDA
Respectfully submitted by Keith R. Kleckner for the Steering Committee.
A. Old Business:
1. Motion from the Steering Committee to establish a new standing committee (Mr. Christina).
MOVED that the Senate abolish its standing committees on Admissions and on Financial Aid and establish in their place a Committee on Admissions and Financial Aid:
Charge: To consider and evaluate standards and requirements for admission to undergraduate programs of the University, to recommend to the Senate revisions of such standards and requirements, to advise the Director of Admissions on recruiting policies and such other matters as he wishes to bring before it, to consider and evaluate policies and procedures relative to the operation of the financial aid system and to advise the Director of Financial Aid on these matters, and to function as an appeals board which will hear disputes between the Office of Financial Aid and applicants for and recipients of financial aid and render advisory opinions thereon.
Membership: Five faculty; four students; one representative of the Alumni Association; the Director of Admissions and the Director of Financial Aid, both ex officio and non-voting; the Vice President for Student Affairs (or his/her designee); the Dean for Student Services and the Controller, all of whom are ex officio and voting.
First Reading: Debatable, amendable, but not eligible for final vote at this meeting.
Comment: Last spring, at the time the Senate approved faculty appointments to most standing committees, the Steering Committee indicated that it wished to propose this fall a merger of the Committee on Admissions and the Committee on Financial Aid into a single, unified committee. This motion would accomplish that merger. The charge is an amalgamation of the charges of the two existing committees. The membership proposed is also an amalgamation of the memberships of the existing committees. If this motion is approved, all ex officio members of the existing committees will become ex officio members of the new committee, and the Steering Committee will introduce Motion 2 below, which would appoint all continuing faculty members of the existing committees to the new committee.
2. Motion from the Steering Committee to appoint members to a new standing committee (Mr. Christina).
MOVED that the following individuals be appointed to the Committee on Admissions and Financial Aid, with term as specified:
Barbara Hamilton, 2 years
Mildred Merz, 1 year
Billy Jo Minor, 1 year
Virinder Moudgil, 2 years
W. Patrick Strauss, 1 year (Chair)
Procedural Motion: Debatable, amendable, and eligible for final vote at this meeting.
Comment: This list is the combined continuing-member rosters for the existing Committee on Admissions and Committee on Financial Aid, each individual having one remainder year of his/her current term. Designation of two of these individuals to hold two-year terms on the new committee was established by lot and provides for staggered terms of service on the new committee.
B. New Business:
1. Motion from the Steering Committee to establish a new Senate standing committee (Mr. Dawson).
MOVED that the Senate establish a standing committee to be called the Committee on General Education.
Charge: To recommend to the Senate general policies and requirements for undergraduate general education and to administer programs of general education in accordance with Senate authorizations.
Membership: Eleven faculty members chosen as follows: one each from the schools of Performing Arts, Human and Educational Services, Economics and Management, Engineering and Nursing; one from the Center for Health Sciences; one from each of the following areas of the College of Arts and Sciences: Humanities Mathematics/Science, Language/Literature, and Social Sciences; and the Vice President for University Affairs and Provost (or his/her designee), ex-officio and non-voting.
First Reading: Debatable, amendable, but not eligible for final vote at this meeting.
Comment: This motion is intended to implement Senate legislation of June 3, 1982. In establishing this committee it is the intent of the Senate that:
1) General education programs developed by the Committee should constitute no less than 36 credits of each baccalaureate program requirement.
2) Courses offered by the Department of Rhetoric to satisfy the writing proficiency requirement should be incorporated into the 36-credit threshold.
3) The Committee define areas via groups of course set distributional requirements over these area and approve and maintain pools of courses that may be used to satisfy the requirements. (It is likely that the initial pools will resemble, but not be restricted to, the current ones of the College of Arts and Sciences.) Inclusion of courses from the professional schools is to encouraged.
4) Only courses approved for the pools may be used to satisfy general-education requirements and no course in a pool would be exclude from eligibility merely because it is required within a major program.
5) The Committee will invite and consider approval of additional courses from the Schools and the College for the pools, will monitor the program and recommend to the College or appropriate Schools the offering or development of specific courses needed to strengthen the program, will consider and approve the exclusion of certain courses in the pools from students of particular programs at the request of the sponsors of those programs, and will consider and approve exceptions to the general-education requirements for specific programs. The Steering Committee will solicit faculty interest in serving on the Committee on General Education prior to proposing a membership roster to the Senate.
2. Motion from the Steering Committee to fill a vacancy on the leaching and Learning Committee (Mr. Akers) .
MOVED that Paul Bator be appointed to fill the unexpired term of Harvey Burdick on the Teaching and Learning Committee.
Procedural Motion: Debatable, amendable, and eligible for final vote at this meeting.
Comment: Professor Burdick is on sabbatical leave during 1982-83.
C. Good and Welfare:
Private resolutions for the good of the order.
D. Information Items:
The Steering Committee requests that those chairs of Senate committees of last year who have not yet submitted year-end reports do so promptly.
E. President's Remarks: