OAKLAND UNIVERSITY SENATE

Fourth Meeting
Thursday, 11 November 1993
3:10 p.m.
Oakland Room, Oakland Center

AGENDA

Respectfully submitted by Gary D. Russi for the Steering Committee.

A. Information Items (Mr. Russi)
    1.   Enrollment update
    2.   2 + 2 programs
    3.  Equal Opportunity Policy

B.  Old Business

1.   Motion from the Senate Planning Review Committee concerning proposed merger of the School of Health Sciences with the School of Nursing (Mr. Chipman; Mr. Callewaert).    Item B.2. from the agenda of 23 September 1993:

MOVED that the Senate recommend to the President and the Board of Trustees the consolidation of the School of Nursing and the School of Health Sciences into a single school which shall also have administrative responsibility for the Meadow Brook Health Enhancement Institute, to be implemented as soon as possible.

The sponsoring committee will move that the original motion be amended by addition of the following language (Mr. Chipman):

In order that this consolidation best provide for the further development of the academic programs of the units to be merged, their faculty and staff, and the entire university, the Senate also recommends to the President and the Board that:

a. As soon as possible, an open, national search be conducted for a dean for the new school, with an interim dean to be appointed following thorough faculty consultation and to serve until the successful conclusion of that search,
b . A name be proposed by the faculty involved to reflect the primary mission of the new school with such name and a faculty constitution to be approved through normal governance procedures,
c.  The administrative structure of the new school be based upon a departmental model with department chairs reporting directly to the dean, and
d.  That a one year's delay in the accreditation review of Nursing scheduled for next year be sought with a site visit requested for the following year.

The SPRC further recommends that the consolidation motion should then be approved as amended.

Second reading: Debatable, amendable, and eligible for final vote at this meeting.

Comment: Attention of senators is called to the committee and subcommittee reports attached to this dossier. Additional files and pertinent material are available for reading in the Office of Academic Affairs, deans' offices, and Kresge Library reserve desk.

C.   New Business
        None

D.  Good and Welfare
        Private Resolutions