Student Senate- Academic Affairs April 9, 2014

Roll Call: Senators Zawatski, Garcia , Oliver, Bertel, Gold,Woodkock , Kidd, Succi, Egan

Non-senators: Jeremiah Bromell

1. Advising

-Faculty senate and UC create a committee to research new options to make advising better.

-President Maynard wants two academic committee members to join this committee Next semester at Thursday around 4

2. Flyer for Final Rights

-Senator Bertel and Walker talk with DOM about the flyer

-Zawatsky to tell to DOC about promoting it in social media

-Brief overview of what final rights are to new senators

-Deadline for the flyer is 4/16

-Flyering distribution to be assigned

3. General Education Courses

-Classes they are in the blue GenEd book and catalog that are required for graduation are not being offering in different colleges and majors

-We need a faculty senate liaison

-We need to target faculty senate, office of the provost to raise awareness about this group

-Survey, focus groups, GenEd book evaluation

-Connect GenEd handbook and websites had discrepancies between requirements for major

-We will compare the GenEd handbook and websites for two semesters. Resources need to be updated.

-Student struggle with the limited class offerings, limited time slot, and one semester classes, and class availability in general.

-Possible video about

-Zawatski and Garcia to work on questionnaires for the focus group for next Wednesday at 5pm

4.Minors

-Increase awareness of minors

-Increase attendance to Majors and Minors Fair

5. Academic Complaint System

-More marketing for it

-Ombud had not being active or effective

-Increase pressure to the provost to find a faculty member to take over the Ombud

-Increase awareness of ACS to the deans of different colleges

-DOC and DOM to increase accessibility to the online ACS

-Create Facebook page or create at tab in the current senate page

6. Liaisons

– Spread the word more about their positions

-Talk to Kim about getting business cards for the liaisons

7. Professor Evaluations

-Procedure needs to be follow for when students are completing applications

-TA’s are not getting their evaluations back