Senate Minutes
		       December 12, 1985

The meeting was called to order at 3:30 p.m.

Present:  Bennett, Betts, Combs, Coyne, Downes, Farzanegan, Grams, 
Henderson, Hollingsworth, Kormanik, Larson, Ruiz, Sweeney, Uldricks, 
Dorr, Cochran, Brown, Cadle

Visitors:  Bares, Huang, Brotak, Stern, Nickless, Howard, Seitz, 
Browning, Rainey, Rackham, James, Cooke, Jorgensen

The minutes from the November 14, 1985 Senate meeting were approved.

Dr. Brown presented a report from the Administration.

*  On Thursday, January 23, at 2 p.m., Enwright and Associates will present the 
final draft of the Master Plan in the Owen Conference Center.

*  A group of local Vice-Presidents for marketing were asked to
compose a descriptive statement about UNCA. The following "mission
statement" was the result of their deliberations:  UNCA is an
affordable, small but growing, high quality, liberal arts university
located in a cosmopolitan mountain environment with rigorous
academic programs which prepare students for successful careers and
an enriched life experience. 

*  There could be some legislative interest in establishing a Center for Active 
Retirement at UNCA.  A group of faculty is currently working with a 
tentative proposal for such a project.

Dr. Dorr reported on the following items:

*  At this year's meeting of the Southern Association of Colleges 
and Schools, there was discussion of recent reports critisizing 
higher education.  A year ago, the SACS adopted a plan to discover 
if a school's educational process is working.  Shirley Browning was 
given this project.  The first step was to encourage each program to 
sharpen up their educational objectives.  Now, we are developing 
ways to find out if what we do is effective.

*  At a recent meeting of Vice-Chancellors for Academic Affairs in 
Chapel Hill, President Friday expressed concern over the rising 
interest of the legislature concerning the quality of undergraduate 
education.  There is concern that undergraduate institutions have 
overemphasized research at the expense of quality teaching, which is 
what undergraduate institutions are best suited for.

*  The Faculty Handbook is being revised.  Shirley Browning is in 
charge of this project.

*  The University Snow policy is currently under review.  The
following points are considered in implementing such a policy. 



	1) The University has an obligation to stay open if at all possible. 
	2) Students have a personal responsibility to make a decision about
	   whether or not they can travel safely. 
	3) Faculty should state a policy about missing a class due to
	   circumstances beyond students control.  

A Snow Schedule, with classes starting at 10:00 and meeting for 40 
minutes each so that students can still attend all of their classes,
has been suggested by a student and is now being considered.  The
Student Government will provide child care when public schools are
closed due to inclement weather and the University remains open. 

Executive Committee Report 

*  Dr. Dorr has approved Senate Documents 7-12. 

*  Minutes from other Faculty Senates around the state can be made
available to this faculty if there is interest.  At the present
time, UNCA does not plan to distribute minutes to other institutions
unless there is a specific request. 

*  Senate Document #4, which requires that students receive the
results of at least one evaluation by the end of the fifth week of
the semester, was scheduled to take effect in the Fall, 1986
semester.  The Blue Banner, however, published an article to the
effect that the policy would be implemented in the Spring, 1986
semester.  Dr. Grams made a motion that the policy be implemented at
this time, Dr. Ruiz seconded the motion.  The motion was passed by a
vote of 11 to 4. 

*  Executive Committee Document #2 has been revised.  The revised 
document does not change the membership of the UPC but does contain 
provisions reemphasizing the fact that the UPC is a joint 
faculty-administration body and has responsibilities to report in 
both directions.  (Senate Document #13).

Academic Policies Committee

The Academic Policies Committee presented the following items to the 
Senate for consideration:

*  General Education Document #1, the new Composition Requirement for 
General Education, was moved by Dr. Combs.  Dr. Uldricks seconded 
the motion.  Dr. Rackham and Ms. James from the Language Department 
addressed points concerning the implementation of the new policy.  
The document was passed unanimously (Senate Document #14).

*  General Education Document #2, the new Mathematics Requirement 
for General Education was brought to the floor of the Senate.  Dr. 
Howard proposed the following editoral change:  Under the "Rationale 
of the Course" insert the word "approach" after 1) inductive, and 2) 
deductive. The document was passed unanimously (Senate Document 
#15).



*  APC Document #14, Foreign Language Catalog Changes, was moved by 
Dr. Combs.  Dr. Farzanegan seconded.  The motion passed unanimously 
(Senate Document #16).

*  Changes in the Art Department Catalog listing were presented to 
the Senate and passed unanimously (Senate Document #17).

The remainder of the agenda was deferred to the January meeting.

The meeting was adjourned at 5:20.


Submitted,			Approved,


Kimberly Sitton			Bahram Farzanegan
Recording Secretary		Secretary of the Faculty Senate