| 1. | Course and Program Approvals | ||
| Senate approved three undergraduate courses: | |||
| HNRS/BIOL 212: Honors Zoology Seminar, a new one credit hour course to be first offered in the Fall of 1997 if approved. | |||
| GEOG 333: Biogeography, a new three credit hour Liberal Arts Core course to be first offered in the Fall of 1997 if approved. | |||
| SOWK 405: Human Behavior and the Social Environment II, a new three credit hour course to be first offered in the Fall of 1997 if approved. | |||
| Senate approved one undergraduate program: | |||
| A Music Department Proposal | |||
| 2. | Faculty Senate Elections | ||
| A Kerper/Mainzer motion was approved to postpone the election (originally scheduled for 15 April 1997) until the senate chairperson can confer with the provost to verify the accuracy of the list which had been distributed to all senators. | |||
| Senate held an election to fill the four additional slots on the Academic Standards Committee. Nominees were: M. Chaudhary (CSCI); B. Ikenaga (MATH); J. Mone (BIOL); I. Sigler (MATH); M. White (LIBR); A. Kelly (ENGL); J. Rudden (ELED). The results o f the preferential balloting will be determined following the meeting. | |||
| 3. | Faculty Emeritus | ||
| Senate recommended Gene Wise as Director of Financial Aid emeritus. | |||
| 4. | Report of the General Education Task Force | ||
| Senate recommended that the General Education Task Force strike the original wording of item #5, phase 1, leaving intact the words added by the McLeod/Dorman addition. Item #5 in phase 1 reduces the required number of 200-level courses in general education from four to three. |