{"id":12409,"date":"2019-04-08T11:54:31","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T15:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/?p=12409"},"modified":"2019-04-08T11:54:31","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T15:54:31","slug":"academic-3-21-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/academic-3-21-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic 3-21-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ACADEMIC COMMITTEE MINUTES&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;DATE 03\/21\/19<\/p>\n<p><strong>MEETING START TIME:<\/strong> 5:05PM<\/p>\n<p><strong>ATTENDANCE: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Committee:<\/strong> Chair Morabito, Vice Chair Nelson, Senator McGrath, Senator Menard<\/p>\n<p><strong>Absent:<\/strong> Senator D\u2019Aguanno, Senator Barnes<\/p>\n<p><strong>Non-Committee:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>DISCUSSION: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>TOPIC 1: Faculty Senate<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Approved the changes\n<ul>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Reading days no longer have to be on weekdays, they can be on weekends<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Starting in Fall 2020 we will move from a 7-day finals schedule to a 6-day final schedule and we will continue to try to shorten it<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">We have Election Day and Veteran\u2019s Day Off<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">We have Columbus Day Classes, Wednesday before Thanksgiving Classes<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Saturday Final Exams in 2020<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">We have a bunch of new courses in music, business, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Working on Indigenous People\u2019s, Plastic on Campus, Parking, Organization Culture, etc. in the future<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>TOPIC 2: Academic Chair<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Is anyone interested in the position, position of vice-chair, involvement in academic or taking on any projects, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Extra:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>MEETING ADJOURNMENT TIME: 5:23 PM<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACADEMIC COMMITTEE MINUTES&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;DATE 03\/21\/19 MEETING START TIME: 5:05PM ATTENDANCE: Committee: Chair Morabito, Vice Chair Nelson, Senator McGrath, Senator Menard Absent: Senator D\u2019Aguanno, Senator Barnes Non-Committee: DISCUSSION: TOPIC 1: Faculty Senate Approved the changes Reading days no longer have to be on weekdays, they can be on weekends Starting in Fall 2020 we will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[21,29,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-affairs-minutes","category-academic-affairs-minutes-2019","category-minutes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}