2023-24 Senate Documents
2023-24 Faculty Senate Legislation
SD0123F: Standing Rules and Rules of Order (2023-24) (FS1)
SD0223F: Revise Faculty Handbook Guidelines for Program Changes Faculty Handbook Section 5.4.2 (FWDC 1)
SD0323F: Change credit hours 1and revise description for IST 325 (APC 1)
SD0423F: Require the First-Year Seminar to be taken during the first semester, and revise the FYS 178 description to reflect the change (APC 2)
SD0523F: Revise the Academic Standing Policy (APC 3)
SD0623F: Change the title of PSYC 208 (APC 4)
SD0723F: Revise Guidelines for First Year Experience Advisory Committee Faculty Handbook Section 10.4.37 (FWDC 2)
SD0823F: Revise the Honors Program Description Faculty Handbook Section 11.2 (FWDC 3)
SD0923F: Adding new course, POLS 313, US Census: The Politics of Counting (APC 5)
SD1023F: Add new course, ART 480: B.A. Exhibition Preparation (APC 6)
SD1123F: Revise the ECON elective requirement in the Concentration in Pure Mathematics (MATH) (APC 7)
SD1223F: Change the demonstration of competency in Mathematics (APC 8)
SD1323F: Addition of new course, ANTH 346, Medical Anthropology (APC 9)
SD1423F: Addition of new course, SSCI 360, Poverty Law Practicum (APC 10)
SD1523F: Proposed Academic Calendar: (Appendix 1 2024-2025 Final draft) and (Appendix 2 2025-2026 Preliminary draft) (APC 11)
SD1623F: Advising Responsibilities for Faculty Revision of Faculty Handbook Section 3.1.4.5 (FWDC 4)
SD1724S: New Program Request to Establish M.S. in Climate Resilience (APC 20) Request to Establish
SD1824S: Delete SPHG 705, MPH Practicum; Add new course: PUBH 729, Migration and Health; Add new course: PUBH 743, Climate Change and Human Health; Revise the listing of courses required for the MPH (APC 21)
SD1924S: Petition for CHEM prefix and major credit hour exemption for BS Chemistry Major, required for major changes (APC 12)
SD2024S: Delete CHEM 312, replacing it with CHEM 317, 318, 319, and 320 (APC 13)
SD2124S: Delete CHEM 380, replacing it with CHEM 395 (APC 14)
SD2224S: Change the major requirements for the BA and BS degrees in Chemistry (APC 15) SD2224S Appendix A SD2224S Appendix B
SD2324S: Add new course, ECON 265 Race and Economic Opportunity; Add new course, ECON 359: Climate Finance (APC 16)
SD2424S: Add new minor in the Economics department: Minor in Finance (APC 17)
SD2524S: Add new course, PSYC 341, Positive Psychology (APC 19)
SD2624S: Revise Faculty Handbook Guidelines for Election Schedule Faculty Handbook Section 10.2.1.3 (FWDC 7)
SD2724S: B.A. in Elementary and Inclusive Education: Request for Preliminary Authorization (IDC 1) Request for Preliminary Authorization Education Budget
SD2824S: Transfer Credit Policy revision (Elimination of the 10-year old credit rule) (APC 22)
SD2923S: Add new course MATH 295: Math for Machine Learning (APC 23)
SD3024S: Delete CSCI 312 and 412, replacing with new topical course, CSCI 339: Topics in AI and Machine Learning; Change prerequisite and offering pattern for CSCI 346, Computer Graphics (APC 24)
SD3124S: Add a minor in Data Science to be administered by the Department of Mathematics and Statistics (APC 25)
SD3224S: Revise the requirements for the Computer Science major (APC 26)
SD3324S: Revise the requirements for the minor in Professional Writing and Rhetoric (APC 27)
SD3424S: Annual Evaluation of Chair and Program Directors Faculty Handbook Section 3.4.4 (FWDC 8)
*SD3523S: Changing the Physics Major Competency Requirement (APC 28)
*SD3623S: Changing the offering pattern for PHYS 310 (APC 29)
*SD3723S: Change Service-Learning to Community Engaged Learning; Change the criteria for Community Engaged Learning designation on courses; Update the Explanations of Criteria for Community Engaged Learning Designated Courses; Update the criteria for graduating with the designation of Community Engaged Scholar; Update the Explanation of Community Engaged Scholars’ Community Engaged Projects (APC 30)
*SD3823S: Revise the catalog description of the Key Center for Community Engaged Learning; Revise the catalog entry for Community Engaged Scholar (APC 31)
*SD3923S: Delete HWP 190, Foundations of Health Promotion; Delete HWP 380, Internship in Health and Wellness Promotion; Delete HWP 480 Advanced Internship in Health and Wellness Promotion Add HWP 327 Kinesiology & Biomechanics (APC 32)
*SD4023S: Change title for HWP 245, Research Methods in Health and Wellness Promotion; Change description for HWP 326, Food is Medicine; Delete HWP 425, Exercise Prescription, Fitness, and Lifestyle Assessment, replacing it with repeatable HWP 354; Change title and description for HWP 459, Senior Capstone in Health and Wellness Promotion (APC 33)
*SD4123S: Change the name of the Health and Wellness Promotion department and the major and minor to Health Sciences; Change prefix of Health and Wellness Promotion department and major and minor to HS (APC 34)
*SD4223S: Update the narrative and the major and minor requirements for Health and Wellness Promotion (Health Sciences) (APC 35)
*SD4323S: Reinstate HON 492; Update the requirements and description of the Honors Program, codifying Recognition as an Honors Scholar (APC 36)
*SD4423S: Change the course description for HIST 451, increasing the credit hours; Change the requirements for the Major in History and History with Teacher Licensure (APC 37)
*SD4523S: Change the name and description of HIST 303 (APC 38)
*SD4623S: Change Course Title, and Description for AME 420 (APC 39)
*SD4723S: Change the name of the Arts Management and Entrepreneurship concentration and minor to Arts and Markets; Revise the requirements for the major concentration and minor in Arts and Markets; Change the AME prefix to AM throughout the catalog (APC 40)
*SD4823S: Add new course, BIOL 299: Scientific Community Engagement; Reinstate BIOL 336: Parasitology, adding it to the Evolution and Critical Thinking and Quantitative Analysis categories (APC 41)
*SD4923S: Change the narrative for the Environmental Studies catalog entry; Change the Earth Science concentration name to Geoscience; Change the Ecology & Environmental Biology concentration name to Ecology (APC 42)
*SD5023S: Change the name of the Department of Environmental Studies tothe Department of Environmental Science; Change the Environmental Studies major to an Environmental Science major; Change the Environmental Studies minor to an Environmental Science minor (APC 43)
*SD5123S: Proposal to Revise the IST-Individual Degree Concentration requirements (APC 44)
*SD5223S: Add Service While on Full Leave Faculty Handbook Section 4.2.3 within Section 4.2 (FWDC 5)
*SD5323S: Revise Faculty Handbook Procedure for Annual Evaluation of Faculty Faculty Handbook Section 3.4.2 (FWDC 6)
*SD5423S: Faculty Mentoring Program Coordinators Membership Revision of Faculty Handbook Section10.5.12 (FWDC 9)
*SD5523S: New Academic Degree Program Request for Preliminary Authorization: BS Astronomy (IDC 2)
*Documents awaiting Provost signature