Consultation Completed

In light of changes to the textbook industry, Michael Hager, Senior Vice President for Finance and Operations, will provide an update, answer questions, and receive Senate feedback on potential changes to the UNI Bookstore.

CSBS Dean Brenda Bass of the New School Working Group will provide another progress update, answer questions, and receive Senate feedback for the ongoing work to create a school within the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences to bring together new and existing health-focused programs.

We have posted the ballot and a clean copy.  We have also posted a letter expressing concerns authored by faculty members on the committee around changes to the process and some decisions that were made. On Friday afternoon, we also got back the results of the FHC votes. Those are in two files, one for items that got a majority vote, the other for items that did not. The vote totals are posted with each item.

Departments that offer BS degrees have requested the minimum hours be changed from 126 to 120 hours.
There are no external barriers or considerations for this change to the minimum hour exit requirement.
The additional six hours was a choice UNI made related to the length of the LAC and other exit requirements that are no longer in place.

It is time for the University to review and update it's list of "peer" institutions.  These are the Universities that we use for comparison to see how we are doing in various benchmarks. 

They are proposing that we use the same process to establish a revised set of peers that we will submit to the board for approval.

However, they would also like to discuss the need for different sets of peer groups for different purposes (e.g. student success measures vs. faculty salaries).  This would be new.

This will be the second consultation on the proposed nursing program prior to the first reading of the Board of Regents on the Proposal.  

We have been gathering questions from the Faculty about the proposed program. The consultation will begin with the Adminstration addressing those questions. 

Due to issues of timing with the Board of Regents (BOR), the administration is asking us to accelerate consultations with the Faculty Senate.  The Senate is being asked to review and raise questions, not about the possible restructuring of a School of Health Sciences (this is not a done deal, consultation have just started with departments, we will be consulted later), but only on the basic structure of a four-year degree in Nursing.

The Senate has been asked to consult on a policy addressing issues of Faculty Misconduct.  The reason for calling a special meeting is that this needs to get in place in order to comply with AAUP standards.  It is also important to have this in place in order to provide due process in the (admittedly rare) event that a faculty member is accused of certain types of serious misconduct.  But it is also important to "get it right" so-to-speak.  A Provost's Working Group consisting of Jim Mattingly, co-Chair, John Vallentine, co-Chair, Becky Hawbaker, Amy Nielsen, Shar Self and Ky

The accelerated program allows students who are accepted into the accelerated program to take up to 12 credit hours of graduate courses in their 4th year of undergrad. The undergrad program doesn't change in an accelerated program; rather the Grad Council updated policy so that for accelerated programs the graduate courses will double count for both the undergrad and grad degrees. Prior to this, it was prohibited for graduate credit to double count in any situation.

The Committee working on the Univesity Strategic Plan would like to present and get comments on the current state of their work.