The UAF Faculty Senate passed the following at its Meeting # 97 on
October 30, 2000:
MOTION:
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The UAF Faculty Senate moves to amend Section 3 (Article V:
Committees, Permanent) of the Bylaws, as follows:
CAPS - Addition
[[ ]] - Deletion
PERMANENT
7. The Core Review Committee reviews and approves
courses submitted by the appropriate
school/college curriculum councils for their
inclusion in the core curriculum at UAF. The Core
Review Committee coordinates and recommends
changes to the core curriculum, develops the
process for assessment of the core curriculum,
regularly reports on assessment of the core
curriculum, monitors transfer guidelines for core
courses, acts on petitions for core credit, and
evaluates guidelines in light of the total core
experience. This committee will also review
courses for oral, written, and natural science core
classification.
The committee shall be composed of one faculty
member from each of the core component areas:
(Social Sciences, English, Humanities, Mathematics,
Natural Sciences, [[and]] Communication, AND LIBRARY
SCIENCE) and one faculty member from a non-core
component area. Membership on the committee will
include an undergraduate student.
EFFECTIVE: Immediately
RATIONALE: Library Science is a Core component area
and should have full voting membership.
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The UAF Faculty Senate passed the following at its Meeting # 97 on
October 30, 2000:
MOTION
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The UAF Faculty Senate moves to approve the M.A. degree program in
Cross-Cultural Studies.
EFFECTIVE: Fall 2001 or
Upon Board of Regents' Approval
RATIONALE: See full program proposal on file in the
Governance Office, 312 Signers� Hall.
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Executive Summary
MA, Cross-Cultural Studies
The intent of this request is to convert the current Ed.S. in Cross-Cultural
Education to an M.A. In Cross-Cultural Studies, to be administered through
the Department of Alaska Native Studies and the Center for Cross-
Cultural Studies, College of Liberal Arts, University of Alaska Fairbanks.
This will serve to broaden the applicability and appeal of the
degree/coursework currently available for graduate students under the
Education Specialist degree to fields beyond education that also involve
cross-cultural issues and utilize indigenous knowledge systems (e.g.,
ecological studies, natural resources, health care, community
development, social services, justice, Native studies, etc.). The M.A.
degree is also designed to incorporate and contribute to newly emerging
bodies of scholarship that have much to offer in addressing critical needs
of the state, and it will continue to be available to students by distance
education, in combination with intensive seminars and summer courses on
campus.
These program changes will help to improve the quality and availability of
services and provide for more efficient utilization of existing resources as
current faculty contribute to the instructional and research functions
associate with the reconstituted program. No additional faculty
resources are required, since instructional/advising responsibilities
previously associate with the Ed.S. program will be shifted to the M.A.
program. In addition, the revised program draws on several existing
courses and will continue to utilize the established distance education
course delivery system. Graduate students in education who have already
completed an M.Ed. degree but wish to pursue advanced work in "cross-
cultural studies" will still be able to do so, but as a second master's
degree, rather than at the post-masters level.
Objective 1 - To extend graduate opportunities in cross-cultural studies
to students outside Fairbanks and beyond the field of education, including
people working in ecological sciences, natural resources management,
health care, community development, social services, justice and Native
Studies.
Objective 2 - To provide research and advanced study opportunities in
comparative knowledge systems, world views and ways of knowing.
Objective 3 - To increase cross-cultural understanding through the
dissemination of student/faculty research and cultural documentation.
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The UAF Faculty Senate passed the following at its Meeting # 97 on
October 30, 2000:
MOTION
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The UAF Faculty Senate moves to delete the Ed.S.
EFFECTIVE: Fall 2001 or
Upon Board of Regents' Approval
RATIONALE: See full program proposal on file in the
Governance Office, 312 Signers� Hall.
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Executive Summary
Education Specialist, Cross-Cultural Studies
This request for the deletion of the Ed.S. degree reflects the
reconstruction of the current Ed.S. in Cross-Cultural Education into an
M.A. in Cross-Cultural Studies to broaden it applicability and appeal for
graduate students in a greater variety of fields involving cross-cultural
issues and indigenous knowledge systems, and to incorporate newly
emerging bodies of scholarship that have much to contribute in
addressing critical needs of the state.
The Ed.S. has been a stand-alone degree within the UAF School of
Education since the mid-1960s. It was initially created to provide a post-
masters degree program for the preparation of school superintendents
and was later expanded to include advanced study in the areas of cross-
cultural education. Due to staffing reductions in the School of Education,
the superintendents program was suspended in 1985, and then
discontinued altogether at UAF when the responsibility for preparing
school administrators was shifted to UAA in 1998. In the meantime, the
Center for Cross-Cultural Studies (which had responsibility for the Ed.S.
program in cross-cultural studies under SOE) was retained in the College
of Liberal Arts when the School of Education was administratively shifted
to the Graduate School in 1998, so this proposal is, in part, intended to
bring the degree program in line with the academic unit under which it is
to be administered.
The impact of the proposed revision on student enrollment will be
relatively minor, as only five students have completed the Ed.S. since
1990, and there are no active students enrolled in the program at the
present time. Graduate students in education who have already
completed an M.Ed. degree but wish to pursue advance work in "cross-
cultural studies" will still be able to do so, but as a second master's
degree or an interdisciplinary Ph.D., rather than at the post-masters level.
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The UAF Faculty Senate passed the following at its Meeting # 97 on
October 30, 2000:
MOTION
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The UAF Faculty Senate recommends that the "Guidelines for the
Evaluation Process for Administrators" formulated by the Faculty Appeals
and Oversight Committee be adopted for use by committees assigned the
task of reviewing administrators.
EFFECTIVE: Immediately
RATIONALE: Each time an administrator is evaluated the
committee assigned the task spends half their time
developing a process for evaluation. This would save the
committee time and also inform the administrators of the
process prior to their evaluation.
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GUIDELINES FOR THE EVALUATION PROCESS FOR ADMINISTRATORS
1. Within the first three weeks of the Fall Semester the Supervisor
of the Administrator to be reviewed will appoint an Ad Hoc
Administrator Review Committee consisting of three faculty
and two staff members from the Administrator's unit.
In the case of evaluation of the Dean of the Graduate School,
the Provost will appoint an Ad Hoc Committee consisting of
one faculty drawn from the UAF Faculty Senate's Graduate
Academic & Advisory Committee, two graduate program
department chairs, two Deans/Directors, and a student
representative from the Graduate Student Organization.
In the case of evaluation of the Dean of Students, the Provost
will appoint an Ad Hoc Committee consisting of one faculty
member from the UAF Faculty Senate's Curricular Affairs
Committee and one faculty member from the Graduate
Academic & Advisory Committee, two Deans/Directors, and one
student representative from ASUAF and one student from the
Graduate Student Organization.
Additionally, two members of the UAF Faculty Appeals and
Oversight Committee shall serve in an ex officio capacity as
representatives of the Faculty Senate.
The Ad Hoc Committee will solicit input from all relevant
constituencies on- and off-campus, including faculty, staff,
and students. This may be accomplished through various
instruments, e.g., a standard questionnaire completed
anonymously and returned to the Committee Chair.
2. The Administrator to be evaluated will prepare a narrative
self-evaluation of activities performed during the three year
period (academic years) prior to the year of evaluation or since
the last evaluation. This narrative should include reflections
about how adequately s/he has fulfilled responsibilities of
leadership consistent with his/her own performance
expectations and those of faculty, staff, and students in
the unit. Major or otherwise significant accomplishments should
be highlighted. Any issues raised in the last evaluation should
be referenced with a view to what progress has been made on
those items. Finally, the self-evaluation should identify a limited
set of reasonable goals for the unit over the next three years,
with some discussion about specific strategies that may be
undertaken through his/her administrative leadership.
3. The Ad Hoc Committee will interview a select sample of faculty,
staff, students and others as relevant for further evaluative
comments about the Administrator's performance.
4. The Ad Hoc Committee will interview the Administrator either
in person or by conference call. The interview shall proceed
on the basis of a selected set of questions which reference
the Administrator's self-evaluation, the results of returned
questionnaires, and the interviews of faculty, staff, and
students.
5. The Ad Hoc Committee will prepare an evaluative summary, and
submit its report to the Provost (in the case of evaluation of
Deans and Directors) or to the Chancellor (in the case of
evaluation of the Provost). The Ad Hoc Committee shall work
as expeditiously as possible in completing its report and submit
it to the Provost or Chancellor by March 15 of the Spring
Semester. The report shall be submitted also to the UAF Faculty
Senate's Faculty Appeals & Oversight Committee for review.
(a) At a date to be set by the Provost, the Provost shall meet
in joint conference with the Ad Hoc Committee and the
Faculty Appeals & Oversight Committee for final review,
recommendations, and disposition of the Administrator�s
evaluation. An evaluative summary of the Ad Hoc
Committee's report will be made available to the faculty
and staff of the Administrator's unit upon written request
to the appropriate supervisor. The supervisor of the
administrator will then provide his/her formal evaluation
taking into account the Ad Hoc Committee's report.
(b) At a date to be set by the Chancellor, the Provost and the
Chancellor shall meet to discuss the Ad Hoc Committee�s
evaluation of the Provost. During this meeting the
Chancellor and Provost shall identify performance
priorities for the next review period. The Chancellor
shall meet in joint conference with the Ad Hoc Committee
and the UAF Faculty Senate�s Faculty Appeals & Oversight
Committee to summarize his evaluation. The Chancellor
shall prepare an executive summary of the Provost's
evaluation to be made available to the University
community upon written request to the Office of the
Chancellor.
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The UAF Faculty Senate passed the following at its Meeting # 97 on
October 30, 2000:
RESOLUTION
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Whereas, in recent years there has been a movement nationwide as well
as within the Alaska legislature to evaluate higher education using the
market driven approach of consumer satisfaction.
Whereas, a relationship has been shown to exist between a student�s
persistence and his or her expectations being met.
Whereas, unmet expectations and low satisfaction appear to be the key
factor in the attrition of students in good standing from institutions of
higher learning.
Whereas, it is a priority to attract and retain Alaskan students in the
University of Alaska Fairbanks and keeping students satisfied while
meeting their expectations, now,
Therefore, Be it Resolved, That the UAF Faculty Senate supports the use
of the Noel-Levitz Student Satisfaction Inventory which will examine the
student expectations at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Specifically, it
will examine what is satisfying and important to UAF students, compare
student ratings to national benchmark data and check student perceptions
against those of faculty and staff, and
Be It Further Resolved, That the UAF Faculty Senate encourages faculty
whose classes are randomly selected to allow time to hand out the survey
and to encourage students to return it at the next class period.
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The UAF Faculty Senate passed the following at its Meeting # 97 on
October 30, 2000:
MOTION:
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The UAF Faculty Senate moves to send the motion on "The Baccalaureate
Experience" back to committee.
EFFECTIVE: Immediately
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REFERRED BACK TO COMMITTEE
MOTION:
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The UAF Faculty Senate moves to accept "The Baccalaureate Experience:
Core Curriculum Requirements" as updated by the Core Review
Committee.
EFFECTIVE: Immediately
Upon Chancellor Approval
RATIONALE: The Core Curriculum requirements were
approved by the UAF Faculty Senate in April 1990 and
this document was printed and distributed in August
1990. Since then the Senate has approved numerous
changes and additions to the guidelines. This document
includes all the changes and an updated philosophy
statement.
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