Motion Passed

UCC and GCCC Program Changes

Curriculum changes that require Board of Regents approval, such as program name changes and terminations, are handled before all other curriculum proposals in the annual cycle. The University Curriculum Committee and Graduate College Curriculum Comittee met this year on August 26 and August 24, respectively, to begin our curricular reviews. The UCC approved two program name changes, and the GCCC approved the termination of two programs (both of which have been suspended since 2014, and have no students pending graduation).

Charge and membership for the next phase of the General Education Re-envisioning Committee

This is a proposed new charge and membership for the next phase the General Education Re-envisioning Committee, based on the original charge and taking into account recommendations made by the previous GERC. It will be discussed at the September 14, 2020 Senate meeting. The original charge approved by the Senate on 11/13/2017 is also attached below.

Proposed Constitutional Changes

In the spring of 2020, a working group met and developed a proposal to revise the UNI Faculty Consitution as a result of the previous consitutional revisions related to the voting eligibility of term and temporary faculty. This proposal was tabled for further discussion; however such discussion did not occur because of COVID. This petition seeks to bring forward the proposed revisions for further discussion and in anticipation of the Fall Faculty meeting on Monday, October 19.  Revisions to the UNI Constitution require a 2/3 vote of faculty present at a regular faculty meeting.  

Petition to discharge Ad-Hoc Faculty Senate Summer Advisory Council

In May, due to the extraordinary circumstances presented by COVID-19, the Senate voted unanimously (via email) to approve the creation of an Ad-Hoc Faculty Senate Summer Advisory Council to offer the Senate’s perspective on emerging issues during the summer months. It consists of the Senate officers and one Senator from each college, the library, and contingent faculty. Membership is as follows:

Imam Alam (CBA representative)

Kenneth Hall (CHAS-Humanities)

Syed Kirmani (CHAS-Science)

Mark Hecimovich (COE)

Matthew Makarios (CSBS)

Proposed change to Policy 3.06 regarding religious observance

Northern Iowa Student Government passed a resolution in Spring 2020, requesting to change policy 3.06 to require instructors to excuse students from absences due to religious observance.  Although the current policy provides for discretionary excuse of such absences, the NISG resolution requests a policy change to make excuse of those absences mandatory.  Under the policy, students must be allowed to make-up missed work or complete an alternative assignment when an absence is due to a reason that falls under the class of events that qualify as mandatory excused absences.  The Educational Po

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