| 1. | Course and Program Approvals | ||
| Senate approved the following proposals effective Fall 1998: | |||
| Psychology Proposal for Credit increases from 30 to 33 in Psychology-Philosophy; Psychology-Sociology and Psychology-Special Education Double Majors. | |||
| 2. | Senate Annual Reports | ||
| Senate voted not to continue to distribute paper copies of the annual reports by attaching them to today's minutes as in the past. Instead it will rely on senate's Webpage. | |||
| 3. | Academic Theme for 2000-2001 | ||
| Senate approved the next university academic theme, proposed by Senator M. Houlahan, and entitled Building a Community of pARTnerships: The Role of Arts in Society for the year 2000-2001. | |||
| 4. | Faculty Emeritus | ||
| Senate recommended Professor Russell L. DeSouza and Bernard L. Oostdam for faculty emeritus status as Professors of Meteorlogy and Oceanography respectively. | |||
| 5. | Election | ||
| Senate elected B. Schneller from the English Department as chairperson of the Women's Studies Curriculum Committee | |||
| 6. | Governance Document Wording on Major and Minor Policies | ||
| Senate voted to replace the current Governance Document wording with the following new wording: students who choose a minor containing courses from their major may not duplicate more than one course in the completion of both their major and minor. |