BEAUPRE CENTER FOR CHEMICAL AND FORENSIC SCIENCES, ROOM 105
A reception sponsored by Dean Kirby, College of the Environment and Life Sciences, will immediately follow the meeting.
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1. Call to order at 3:00 PM. “If I Had a Hammer”
2. Disposition of Minutes of the Faculty Senate Meeting #2, October 19, 2017
3. REPORTS OF OFFICERS AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
A. Announcements – Chairperson Conley
B. Activities of the Executive Committee – Vice Chairperson Leonard
Minutes of Executive Committee Meetings #9, #10, and #11
4. STATUS OF ACTIONS FORWARDED TO THE PRESIDENT
Bill #17-18—4B The Five Hundred and Forty-second Report of the Curricular Affairs Committee: Curricular Proposals. Approved by President Dooley on October 25, 2017.
5. PRESENTATIONS
A. Update from the Office of Innovation in General Education – Director DiCioccio
B. Affordable Course Materials Task Force – Professor Torrens and Professor Phelps
C. Enrollment Management update – Vice Provost Libutti
6. REPORTS OF STANDING, JOINT, AND SPECIAL COMMITTEES
A. Academic Standards and Calendar Committee Report 2017-18-1 – Senator Gindy
B. Curricular Report No. 2017-18-2 from the Graduate Council to the Faculty Senate, Appendices – Associate Dean Rusnock
C. Curricular Report No. 2017-18-3 from the Graduate Council to the Faculty Senate –Dean Zawia
D. The 543rd Report of the Curricular Affairs Committee, Appendices – Senator Emeritus Sullivan
E. General Education Committee Report 2017-18-3 – Senator Williams
7. UNFINISHED BUSINESS
A. That the Senate approve changes to By-Laws of the Faculty Senate 4.13- 4.16
B. That the Senate approve replacing existing By-Laws of the Faculty Senate 4.20 – 4.88 with new sections, By-Laws of the Faculty Senate 4.20 – 4.70, proposed Standing Committees of the Faculty Senate
C. Constitution, By-Laws, and University Manual Committee Report 2017-18-1 – Professor Wenisch
8. NEW BUSINESS
9. ADJOURNMENT