Oakland University Senate
Thursday, 12 March 1987
3:10 p.m.
Rooms 128, 129, 130 Oakland Center
AGENDA
Respectfully submitted by Keith R. Kleckner for the Steering Committee.
A.. Old Business
None
B. New Business
1. Motion from the Graduate Council to increase credit requirements in the M.A. in Counseling Program (Mr. Dahlgren):
MOVED that credit requirements for the M.A. in Counseling program be increased from 36 to 48 semester hours.
First Reading: Debatable, amendable, but not eligible for final vote at this meeting.
Comment: This proposal has evolved out of the program review process conducted by the Graduate Council and concluded in May 1984. One of the recommendations made at that time was that the Counseling faculty seek accreditation of this program through the Council for the Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP). CACREP accreditation standards require a 48 credit program that can be completed in two years of full time study. They also require course work in specific areas. A reduction in the number of Counseling students from 85 to 65 is planned, with the effect of keeping credit-delivery obligations constant within the sponsoring unit.
2 . Motion from the Steering Committee regarding Senate representation of the Eye Research Institute (Ms. Wilson):
MOVED that the Senate repeal its legislation of 6 December 1979 linking faculty of the Institute of Biological Sciences with those of the Center for Health Sciences for purposes of Senate voting and representation by establishing separate rights of representation for the Eye Research Institute. The Director of the Eye Research Institute shall be seated ex officio and voting. Faculty holding primary appointments in the Eye Research Institute shall be entitled to minimum representation of one elected seat and such additional seats as may be warranted by the Senate's apportionment procedures.
First Reading: Debatable, amendable, but not eligible for final vote at this meeting.
Comment: School status has recently made the faculty of Health Sciences an organized faculty with a constitutional right to undiluted Senate representation. A practical consequence of this change is to disenfranchise faculty with primary appointment in the Eye Research Institute. Assuming this outcome to be undesirable, the Senate may correct it most easily by repealing its 1979 legislation and giving ERI minimal designated Senate representation, as specified above. With the election of a new Senate about to commence, this seems an opportune time to rectify this glitch in the makeup of our body.
3. Motion from the Steering Committee to fill a vacancy on the Academic Policy and Planning Committee (Ms. Bingham)
MOVED that Philip Singer be confirmed as appointed to replace Sharon Bostick on the Academic Policy and Planning Committee for the Winter 1987 semester.
Procedural Motion: Debatable, amendable, and eligible for final vote at this meeting.
C. Good and Welfare
Private Resolutions
D. Information Items
1. The formation of the ad hoc Committee on Presidential Review is complete. Members designated by the organized faculties are Professors Barnard, Botsas, Cass, Hovanesian, Krompart, Meyer, and Singer. Professor Barnard has consented to chair the group. The Board of Trustees has been notified that the Committee is ready to meet with them.
2. The Board of Trustees will consider at its next meeting the appointment of Johnson, Johnson and Roy of Ann Arbor to update the University's master campus plan. This same land planning firm prepared the existing plan in 1972. The initial studies now would be directed toward the rapidly changing environment external to the campus and what these changes suggest for our planning efforts. When sufficient data have been assembled, the Campus Development and Environment Committee of the Senate will be asked to provide its wisdom to the process.