{"id":1354,"date":"2013-11-13T16:29:36","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T21:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/?p=1354"},"modified":"2013-11-13T16:29:36","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T21:29:36","slug":"3-5-12-academic-affairs-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/3-5-12-academic-affairs-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"3-5-12 Academic Affairs Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ACEDEMIC AFFAIRS MINUTES \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 3,5,12<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>ATTENDANCE:<\/strong>\u00a0Caisse, Lamoureux, Dionne, Zawatsky, Pilkington, Balikov<br \/>\n<strong>COMMITTEE DISCUSSION:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Many classes that are centered around one topic, will change over time with different topics pertaining to the world.<\/li>\n<li>This would give meaning to some gen-eds<\/li>\n<li>Problems:\n<ul>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">People may take the title as \u201cConversations\u201d as non-academic<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Want ideas from senate as to topics for these \u201cConversations\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>-You could select all the classes at once (3 classes centered around this specific<br \/>\ntopic)<br \/>\n-Broad topic &#8212;&gt; Specific Topics &#8212;-&gt; Specific classes to take for these<br \/>\nconversations (what we think it should be)<br \/>\n-Students should be able to create their own conversations<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Topics:\n<ul>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Middle Eastern studies<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Cultures<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Human Rights<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Global Sustainability<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Healthcare system<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Survey and work through the majors<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Should have a wide range of topics so that way a student couldn\u2019t create their own conversations, the advising couldn\u2019t handle this in current state<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Annually the conversations should be looked over and revised, and maybe a few more could be added pending the success of these conversations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>-Meeting about early adoption<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Problem with professors coming up with books in time so the University can find competitive deals<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Thinks the senate should write a letter to all the professors so they will get the books in sooner to find more competitive prices<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Wants to have a strict deadline for professors<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Wants to educate book buyers on pricing of books<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Wants surveys at the end of classes to include books and usage, and wants access to that data<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>-Provost<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Technology committee\n<ul>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">$300,000 set aside for technology per year- want senate to go paperless<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Want to get interactive screens in the chambers and get iPads for the senators<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">$20,000 per program for funding, this would help senate go paperless, this would help promote senate<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Could make student senate app- this could be used for students and senators (this will lock down the iPad)<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Problems passing it through the committee:\n<ul>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Wont benefit the whole student body, will only benefit senators<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Come out with new devices every year<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Could be used for unintended purposes, people not responsible<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Email sent to Nancy Eaton of faculty senate about the drop period and second grade option being denied in the Faculty Senate<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACEDEMIC AFFAIRS MINUTES \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 [&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":[21,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-affairs-minutes","category-academic-2012"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354","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=1354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}