Millersville University Faculty Senate
Action Summary
Faculty Senate Meeting
June 9, 2009

The minutes of the April 21, 2009 meeting of the Faculty Senate were approved as corrected.

GERC proposed extension of this process through August 2010 to allow faculty more time to complete self reviews and requested a waiver of the two meeting rule for approval. The request to waive the two meeting rule for this proposal was approved without dissent. The GERC proposal to extend the expedited review process for adding a D label to existing courses was approved without dissent.

(1) CHANGE IN UNDERGRADUATE COURSE
ANTH220: Ethnographic Methods. Proposal to add W label was approved without dissent.

(2) NEW UNDERGRADUATE COURSE
BIOL390: Natural History of the Mid-Atlantic Shore, 3 credits, P. Proposal to create an elective course serving as an introduction to biological communities of the mid-Atlantic coast was approved without dissent.

(3) CHANGE IN UNDERGRADUATE COURSE
CHEM342: Physical Chemistry II. Proposal to change pre-requisites to CHEM341 with a D or higher or permission of the instructor was approved without dissent.

(4) CHANGE IN UNDERGRADUATE COURSE
ECON318: Intermediate Microeconomics. Proposal to add MATH151 or MATH161 as a pre-requisite was approved without dissent.

(5) NEW UNDERGRADUATE COURSE
ECON323: Games and Experiments in Economics, 3 credits. Proposal to create an elective course using economic theory to explain decisions of economic agents was approved without dissent.

(6) NEW UNDERGRADUATE COURSE
GEOG307: U.S. Environmental Policy, 3 credits, G3. Proposal to create an elective course examining major pieces of federal environmental legislation, including the role of interest groups and the public in environmental decision making was approved without dissent.

(7) NEW UNDERGRADUATE COURSE
PHYS101: Survey of Physics, 3 credits, G2. Proposal to create a course introducing fundamental concepts of classical and modern physics was approved without dissent.

(8) NEW UNDERGRADUATE COURSE
SCMA391/WSTU491: Women in Mathematics and Science, 3 credits, P, D. Proposal to create a course exploring the lives and discoveries of women in math and sciences (three disciplines represented in each offering) was approved without dissent.

(9) NEW UNDERGRADUATE COURSE
SPED237: Applied Foundations of Contemporary Special Education, 3 credits. Proposal to create a course required for the Foundations Bloc for the Dual certification “Early Childhood/Special Education” that explores contemporary and historical influences on special education in the American school system was approved without dissent.

(10) CHANGE IN UNDERGRADUATE COURSE
ITEC425: Robotic Systems. Proposal to revise description, objectives, outline, course requirements, evaluation, and bibliography and to add assessment section was approved without dissent.

(11) CHANGE IN UNDERGRADUATE COURSE
ITEC427: Designing Industrial Control Systems. Proposal to revise description, objectives, outline, text & materials, course requirements, evaluation, and bibliography and to add assessment section was approved without dissent.

(12) CHANGE IN UNDERGRADUATE COURSE
ITEC467: Microcontrollers. Proposal to revise description, objectives, outline, and bibliography and to add assessment section was approved without dissent.

(13) CHANGE IN UNDERGRADUATE COURSE
ITEC494: Total Quality Management. Proposal to add MATH130 or MATH235 or permission of instructor as pre-requisite was approved without dissent.

(14) CHANGE IN UNDERGRADUATE CURRICULUM
ENVI: Industrial and Environmental Health minor. Proposal to modify the required and elective course blocks to create flexibility and reflect the increased options for environmental courses was approved without dissent.

(15) CHANGE IN UNDERGRADUATE CURRICULUM
ENVI: Land Use minor. Proposal to modify the required and elective course blocks to create flexibility and reflect the increased options for environmental courses was approved without dissent.

(16) CHANGE IN UNDERGRADUATE CURRICULUM
ENVI: Environmental Policy and Regulation minor. Proposal to modify the required and elective course blocks to create flexibility and reflect the increased options for environmental courses was approved without dissent.

(17) CHANGE IN UNDERGRADUATE CURRICULUM
ENVI: Quantitative Methods in Environmental Science minor. Proposal to modify the required and elective course blocks to create flexibility and reflect the increased options for environmental courses was approved without dissent.

(18) CHANGE IN UNDERGRADUATE CURRICULUM
ENVI: Water Resources minor. Proposal to modify the required and elective course blocks to create flexibility and reflect the increased options for environmental courses was approved without dissent.

A Foster-Clark/Hendrick motion to postpone approval of formation of the Graduate Academic Appeals Committee until September 15 was defeated. The proposal for formation of the Graduate Academic Appeals Committee, modified to delete “The decision of the GAAC will be final and not open to further appeal,” was approved with three abstentions.

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