Oakland University Senate
12 April 2007
Elliott Hall Auditorium
3:10 p.m.
Agenda
Respectfully submitted by Virinder Moudgil for the Steering Committee.
A. Informational Items
1. Approval of Teacher Leadership Track in the Master of Education Degree -- Mr. Downing
Collaborative Interdepartmental Program Offering between the Department of Educational Leadership (EL) and Department of Teacher Development and Educational Studies (TDES)
2. Approval of modifications to existing graduate academic program -- Mr. Downing
----a. Concentrations in the Master of Public Administration program will appear on student transcripts--Criminal Justice Leadership, Health Care Administration, Nonprofit Organization and Management, Local Government Management.
----b. Master of Music program requirement of major focus area from among the following-- Conducting, Music Education, Pedagogy, Performance.
----c. Suspension of MSN in Adult/Acute Clinical Nurse Specialist program
3. Information on Plant Renewal Projects ("Deferred Maintenance") -- Mr. Moudgil
4. Cooley Law School update -- Mr. Moudgil
5. Medical School update -- Mr. Moudgil
6. Performing Arts Center update -- Mr. Moudgil
B. Roll Call
Approval of minutes of 15 March 2007.
C. Old Business
1. Motion from the Steering Committee to recommend approval of a new major in Applied Health Sciences. (Mr. Lepkowski, Mr. Goslin)
MOVED that the Senate recommend to the President and Board of Trustees approval of a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Health Sciences.
Second reading: Debatable, amendable, and eligible for final vote at this meeting.
2. Motion from the Steering Committee to recommend approval of B.F.A. degree in Dance and B.F.A. degree in Acting, Musical Theatre, Theatre Design and Technology. (Ms. Andersen, Ms. Eis)
MOVED that the Senate recommend to the President and Board of Trustees approval of a B.F.A. degree in Dance and a B.F.A. degree Acting, Musical Theatre, Theatre Design and Technology.
Second reading: Debatable, amendable, and eligible for final vote at this meeting.
3. Motion from the Steering Committee to endorse the recommendations of the Senate Task Force on Classroom Use and Scheduling. (Mr. Russell, Mr. Lepkowski)
MOVED that the Senate endorse the recommendation of the Task Force on Classroom Use and Scheduling and recommends the adoption of Plan #2 of the Task Force on Classroom Use and Scheduling Report.
Second reading: Debatable, amendable, and eligible for final vote at this meeting.
D. New Business
1. Motion from the Steering Committee to recommend approval of a new B.S. degree in Engineering Biology. (Ms. Williams)
MOVED that the Senate recommend to the President and the Board of Trustees approval of a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Biology.
First reading: Debatable, amendable, but not eligible for final vote at this meeting.
2. Motion from the Steering Committee to recommend approval of a new Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Informatics. (Ms. Mittelstaedt)
MOVED that the Senate recommend to the President and Board of Trustees approval of a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Informatics.
First reading: Debatable, amendable, but not eligible for final vote at this meeting.
3. Motion form the Steering Committee to discontinue the Senate Human Relations Committee.
MOVED that the Senate approve discontinuance of the Senate Human Relations Committee. (Mr. Lepkowski)
First reading: Debatable, amendable, but not eligible for final vote at this meeting.
Comment: The Senate Human Relations Committee has had few substantive tasks to undertake in the past several years. A perusal of past chairs' annual reports indicates that the work of the committee has been either non-existent or subsumed by the other campus venues, such as the Center for Multicultural Initiatives, Office of Student Affairs, and Office of Diversity. Below is the charge to the committee:
Human Relations Committee
Charge: Although universities often consider themselves as idealized communities, they are seldom independent of, and are rarely immune from, deficiencies that exist in the larger societies to which they belong. Consequently, a university should be continually alert to those social problems that can impede its educational goals. Such a set of problems involves those that derive from racial bias, intolerance, stereotyping, and other like manifestations of human beings' inability to deal constructively with those natural differences that exist among them. It is essential that Oakland University maintain continuous and systematic efforts to minimize the negative effects these particular deficiencies have upon the educational experience it seeks to provide, and it is the task of the University Senate Committee on Human Relations to give strong impetus to those efforts. To that end, the Committee on Human Relations is charged: a. to consider the total educational climate at Oakland University, and to select for its particular attention those issues that are most directly related to instances of significant under-representation of various community groups wherever they may occur in all of the academic programs of the university, b. to set priorities for possible improvements and develop biennial agendas of tasks to accomplish, c. to assist university units in establishing priorities, developing approaches to achieve them, and evaluating their success in meeting their objectives.
In further pursuit of this goal, the committee is also charged: a. to consult with, and to advise the President of the University, the Vice President for Academic Affairs, the Vice President for Student Affairs, and the President of the University Congress how they might best use their senior leadership positions to promote an educational climate that treats diversity constructively, b. to recommend to, and cooperate with, Senate and other committees whose actions define the formal Oakland educational experience, c. to promote dialogue, and otherwise heighten awareness among the larger groups of faculty, administrators, students, and other university personnel about how their individual actions contribute to the environment in which learning takes place, and to maintain the committee's accountability, and that of the parties with whom the committee is charged to work, by reporting in open meeting to the University Senate on a biennial basis concerning the tasks that the committee has undertaken and the results that have been obtained.
Membership: Eleven members consisting of five faculty members (one of whom shall be chair) nominated by the Senate Steering Committee; two members nominated by the Vice President for Academic Affairs; two members nominated by the Vice President for Student Affairs and two members nominated by the President of the University Congress. It is expected that minorities, including blacks, women and students will be represented. All members will be subject to confirmation by the University Senate. The term for non-student members will be three academic years, and the terms for student members will be not more than two years.
4. Procedural motion from the Steering Committee to staff Senate standing committees. (Ms. Andersen)
MOVED that the persons listed below be appointed to Senate standing committees and that and that the persons so designated be appointed as chair.
Procedural motion: Debatable, amendable, and eligible for final vote.
Senate Committee Membership--Faculty Appointments--New and Continuing Members
Academic Computing Committee
Subra Ganesan (SECS) -- 2007-2009 Chair
Anne Becker (CAS) -- 2007-2009
Laila Guessous (SECS) -- 2007-2009
Gary Moore (SON) -- 2007-2009
Robert Slater (Library) -- 2007-2009
Ram Orzach (SBA) -- 2006-2008
Yang Xia (CAS) -- 2006-2008
Vijay Sugumaran (SBA) -- 2006-2008
Howard Schwartz (SBA) -- 2006-2008
Academic Conduct Committee
Kasia Kietlinska (CAS) -- 2007-2009
Charlie McGlothlin (SHS) -- 2007-2009
Estela Moreno-Mazzoli (CAS) -- 2007-2009
Barbara Penprase (SON) -- 2007-2009
Dan Ring (Library) -- 2007-2009
Rachel Smydra (CAS) -- 2007-2009
ONE VACANCY
Floyd Willoughby (SBA) -- 2006-2008 Chair
Claude Baillargeon (CAS) -- 2006-2008
Nancy Brown (SEHS) -- 2007-2008
Sumit Dinda (SHS) -- 2007-2008
Beth Kraemer (Library) -- 2006-2008
Mariah Malec (CAS) -- 2006-2008
Cynthia Miree-Coppin (SBA) -- 2006-2008
Linda Pavonetti (SEHS) -- 2006-2008
Academic Standing and Honors Committee
Eddie Cheng (CAS) -- 2007-2009 Chair
Laszlo Liptak (CAS) -- 2007-2009
Mohammad Bazaz (SBA) -- 2006-2008
Suha Kridli (SON) -- 2006-2008
Dan Ring (Library) -- 2006-2008
Assessment Committee
Eileen Johnson (SEHS) -- 2007-2010
ONE VACANCY -- CAS
Frank Lepkowski (Library) --2006-2009 Chair
Carrie Motyka (SON) --2005-2008
Floyd Willoughby (SBA)�2005-2008
Charles Marks (SHS)�2005-2008
Madelyn Kissock (CAS) --2006-2009
Keyu Li (SECS) --2006-2009
Fran Meuser (CAS) -- Winter 2007-2008
Robert Van Till (SECS) --2006-2009 (at-large)
Shannon McNair (SEHS) -- 2006-2009 (at-large)
Athletics Committee
Ken Mitton (ERI) -- 2007-2010
Robby Stewart (CAS) Chair
Caroline Jumel (CAS) -- 2006-2009
David Kidger (CAS) -- 2006-2008
Karl Majeske (SBA) -- 2006-2009
Budget Review Committee
Shravan Chintala (ERI) -- 2007-2010
ONE VACANCY (2007-2010)
ONE VACANCY (2007-2009)
Balaji Ragagopalan (SBA) --2005-2008 Chair
Zissimos Mourelatos (SECS) --2005-2008
John Krauss (SHS) --2006-2009
Campus Development and Environment Committee
William Cramer (library) -- 2007-2009
Mark Isken (SBA) -- 2007-2009
Wanda Reygaert (SHS) -- 2007-2009
Barbara Oakley (SECS) -- 2006-2008 Chair
Mark Rigstad (CAS) -- 2006-2008
General Education Committee
Cathie Breidenbach (CAS) -- 2007-2009
Shawn Lombardo (Library) -- 2007-2009
Kathy Pfeiffer (CAS) -- 2007-2009
Marilyn Mouradjian (SON) -- 2007-2009
Andrea Eis (CAS) -- 2006-2008 Chair Fall 2007
Debatosh Debnath (SECS) -- 2006-2008 Chair Winter 2008
Bill Connellan (CAS) -- 2006-2008
Anandi Sahu (SBA) -- 2006-2008
Anne Mitchell (SON) -- 2006-2008
Honorary Degree Committee
Anahid Kulwicki (SON) -- 2007-2010
Greg Giberson (CAS) -- 2007-2009
Mike Polis (SECS) -- 2007-2010
Miron Stano (SBA) -- 2005-2008
Satish Walia (CAS) -- 2005-2008
Shravan Chintala (ERI) -- 2006-2009
Library Committee
Shannon Flumerfelt (SEHS) -- 2007-2009
Rebecca Gaydos (CAS) -- 2007-2009
Alice Horning (CAS) -- 2007-2009
Tricia Juettemeyer (Library) -- 2007-2009
Karen Markel (SBA) -- 2007-2009
Robert Slater (Library) -- 2007-2009
Cathy Larson (SHS) -- 2006-2008 Chair
Meghan Harris (SON) -- 2006-2008
Ann Pogany (Library) -- 2006-2008
Jeanie Robertson (CAS) -- 2006-2008
Kris Condic (Library) -- 2006-2008
Barbara Harrison (SON) -- 2006-2008
Ji-Eun Lee (SEHS) -- 2006-2008
Planning Review Committee
Gautam Singh (SECS) -- 2007-2010
Mukesh Bhargava (SBA) -- 2007-2010
Mary Stein (SEHS) -- 2006-2009 Chair Fall 2007
Frances Jackson (SON) -- 2005-2008
Richard Rozek (SHS) -- 2006-2008
Ingrid Rieger (CAS) -- 2007-2009
Research Committee
Lynne Williams (SHS) -- 2007-2009
Vince Khapoya (CAS) -- 2007-2009
Paul Kubicek (CAS) -- 2007-2009
Janell Townsend (SBA) -- 2007-2009
Anne Mitchell (SON) -- 2007-2008
Rasul Chaudhry (CAS) -- 2006-2008 Chair
Sayed Nassar (SECS) -- 2006-2008
Kasaundra Tomlin (SBA) -- 2006-2008
Student Academic Support Committee
Joel Russell (CAS) -- 2007-2010
Buck Dillon (SBA) -- 2007-2010
Fran Meuser (CAS) -- 2005-2008 Chair
Joseph Shively (CAS) -- 2005-2008
Anne Switzer (Library) -- 2006-2009
Peg Roytek (SEHS) -- 2006-2009
Teaching and Learning Committee
Mike MacDonald (SEHS) -- 2007-2009
Austin Murphy (SBA) -- 2007-2009
Pavlo Bosyy (CAS) -- 2007-2009
Henry Aigbedo (SBA) -- 2006-2008
Melodie Kondratek (SHS) -- 2006-2008
Anne Mitchell (SON) -- 2006-2008
University Committee on Undergraduate Instruction
Kieran Mathieson (SBA) -- 2007-2010
Darlene Schott-Baer (SON) -- 2007-2010
Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education: Susan Awbrey, Chair
Michael Smith (CAS) -- 2005-2008
Darrin Hanna (SECS) -- 2006-2009
Millie Merz (Library) -- 2006-2009
Timothy Larrabee (SEHS) --2006-2009
Charlie McGlothlin (SHS) -- 2006-2009
E. Senate Discussion
Research at OU
F. Good and Welfare
4/12/07