{"id":6211,"date":"2017-02-22T09:27:38","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T14:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/?p=6211"},"modified":"2017-02-22T09:27:38","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T14:27:38","slug":"academic-2-15-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/academic-2-15-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic 2-15-17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MEETING START TIME: 5:32<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>ATTENDANCE: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Committee: <\/strong>Chairman Garcia, Vice-Chair Temple, Senator Russo, Senator Morabito, Senator Tate<\/p>\n<p><strong>Absent: <\/strong>Senator Devine<\/p>\n<p><strong>Non-Committee<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>COMMITTEE DISCUSSION: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No committee next week\n<ul>\n<li>Instead faculty senate is at 3:30 at the new Chemistry Building<\/li>\n<li>They are going to introduce a change to the academic calendar but have not elaborated<\/li>\n<li>The agenda will likely be up on Tuesday<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Meeting with the PROVOST\n<ul>\n<li>A new testing center has been put in Chaffee\n<ul>\n<li>It will be used for people who need additional time and space for testing<\/li>\n<li>If students need special accommodations, especially during finals they now should have the space to satisfy them<\/li>\n<li>Provost are paying for the faculty there<\/li>\n<li>The library is also working on adding a testing center<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Library hours\n<ul>\n<li>Library hours bill is on the floor tonight at the general senate meeting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Chairwoman Garcia will try to speak at Faculty Senate in March regarding OER<\/li>\n<li>Election Days Memo\n<ul>\n<li>Written but it needs to be workshopped<\/li>\n<li>Need to add an amendment about showing proof of taking part in the election<\/li>\n<li>Need to add a sentence about the day following election days<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Academic bylaws change\n<ul>\n<li>Senator Russo as an OMBUD rep has information on how we look into academic complaints so we will use her info for the change<\/li>\n<li>A workshop regarding the current state of the Academic Affairs committee\u2019s bylaws will be held in the near future<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>MEETING ADJOURNMENT TIME: 6:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEETING START TIME: 5:32 ATTENDANCE: Committee: Chairman Garcia, Vice-Chair Temple, Senator Russo, Senator Morabito, Senator Tate Absent: Senator Devine Non-Committee: COMMITTEE DISCUSSION: No committee next week Instead faculty senate is at 3:30 at the new Chemistry Building They are going to introduce a change to the academic calendar but have not elaborated The agenda 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":[21,27,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-affairs-minutes","category-academic-affairs-minutes-2017","category-minutes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6211","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=6211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}