Millersville University, Faculty Senate

AGENDA

FACULTY SENATE MEETNG

4 March 1997


DATE: February 28, 1997
TO: Members of the Faculty Senate
FROM: Marvin Margolis, Secretary
SUBJECT: Meeting of the Faculty Senate 4 March 1997, 4:05-5:45 p.m.
Chryst Hall, Room 210

I. Minutes of the 18 February 1997 meeting
II. Report of the Faculty Senate Chairperson
III. Report of the Student Senate President
IV. Reports of the Administrative Officers
V. Reports of the Faculty Senate Standing Committees
VI. Special Reports of the Faculty Senate Committees
VII. Faculty Emeritus
VIII. Proposed Courses and Programs
One meeting to challenge courses:
CSCI450: Artifical Intelligence, a new four credit undergraduate course to be first offered in Fall 1997 if approved.
CSCI456: Robotics and Computer Vision, a new four credit undergraduate course to be first offered in Fall 1997 if approved.
BIOL447: Chesapeake Bay System, a new, four credit hour General Education Writing course first offered as a topics course in the Fall of 1995 and to be first offered in the Fall of 1997 if approved.
Two meetings to challenge courses:
MATH269: Calculus and Actuarial Science Problem Solving Seminar, a new one credit hour course to be first offered Spring 1998 if approved.
HIST209: Women in United States History, a new three credit hour General Education Writing (non-liberal arts core) course first offered as a topics course in the Spring and Fall of 1995 and to be first offered Spring 1998 if approved.
WSTU491: Topics in Women's Studies, a one to four credit hour new non-general education elective topics course to be first offered in the Fall of 1997 or Spring of 1998 if approved.
IX. Faculty Senate Elections
Senate needs to replace S. Lotlikar on the Unviersity Theme Committee, a nonschool position ending in 1998.
X. Report of the General Education Task Force
Senate will continue to discuss motions on the Report of the General Education Task Force
XI. Expansion of the Academic Standards Committee
Academic Standards Committee chairperson, J. Piperberg, has requested that senate raise the committee's size to give students more attention and better handle the committee's workload. Currently the committee has seven members serving overlapping three year terms.

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