Oakland University Senate
Sixth meeting

March 14,  2002
Oakland Center, Gold Rooms B & C
3:10 p.m.

Agenda

Respectfully submitted by Virinder Moudgil for the Steering Committee.

A.   Information items.

B.    Roll Call
        Approval of  minutes the of the February 14, 2002 meeting.

C.   Old Business.

1.   Motion from the Steering Committee to recommend approval of a Bachelor of Science program in Financial Information Systems ((Mr. Gardner, Ms. Eberwein)

MOVED that the Senate recommend to the President and the Board approval of a program leading to a Bachelor of Science in Financial Information Systems

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

Comment: The proposal, related documents and responses from the various Senate committees are available here.

2.  Motion from the Steering Committee to recommend approval of a Bachelor of Science Program Wellness, Health Promotion and Injury Prevention (Mr. Olson, Mr. Mann)

MOVED that the Senate recommend to the President and the Board approval of a program leading to a Bachelor of Science in Wellness, Health Promotion and Injury Prevention

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

Comment: The proposal, related documents and responses from the various Senate committees are available here.

D. New Business

1.  Motion from the Steering Committee to endorse the General Education Learning Outcomes as presented in the report of General Education Task Force I and amended through open faculty forums. (Mr. Graves)

MOVED that the Senate endorse the General Education Learning Outcomes as presented in the report of General Education Task Force I and amended through open faculty forums.

First Reading: Debatable, amendable, but not eligible for final vote.

Comment: The Learning Outcomes for Knowledge, Skills, and Values are available here.  When endorsed by the Senate, the Learning Outcomes will represent the consensus of the faculty in order to guide General Education Task Force II in creating a general education program.

2.   Motion from the Steering Committee to direct General Education Task Force II to recommend to the Senate a general education program based on the Learning Outcomes as endorsed by the Senate and taking into account the report of General Education Task Force I, together with all of its addenda and related Senate Committee reports (Ms. Mukherji).

MOVED that General Education Task Force II recommend to the Senate a general education program based on the Learning Outcomes as endorsed by the Senate and taking into account the report of General Education Task Force I, together with all of its addenda and related Senate Committee reports.

First Reading: Debatable, amendable, but not eligible for final vote.

Comment: The entire package of general education documents is available here. A description of the work of General Education Task Force II is available here.

E. Good and welfare

Note: Vacancies exist on the following Senate Committees. Please share these opportunities with your colleagues.
Human Relations Committee, 2002-2003 to replace Richard Barron (School of Education and Human Services)
Senate Planning Review Committee, 2002-2003 to replace Quingchong Liu (School of Engineering and Computer Science)

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