The UAF Faculty Senate passed the following at its Meeting #130 on May 2, 2005:
MOTION:
=======The UAF Faculty Senate recommends to the Board of Regents that the attached list of individuals be awarded the appropriate UAF degrees pending completion of all University requirements. [Note: copy of the list is available in the Governance Office, 312 Signers' Hall.]
EFFECTIVE: Immediately
RATIONALE: These degrees are granted upon recommendation of the program faculty, as verified by the appropriate department head. As the representative governance group of the faculty, we are making that recommendation.
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The UAF Faculty Senate passed the following at its Meeting #130 on May 2, 2005:
RESOLUTION OF APPRECIATION
FOR
ABEL BULT-ITO
WHEREAS, Abel Bult-Ito has served the UAF Faculty Senate in a manner deserving of the UAF Faculty Senate's greatest admiration and respect; and
Whereas, Abel Bult-Ito has served as Senator to the UAF Faculty Senate from 2001-2004; and
Whereas, Abel Bult-Ito has served as a member of the Faculty Development, Assessment, and Improvement Committee from 2001-2003 and as chair from 2002-2003, and as a member of the Faculty Affairs Committee and the Administrative Committee from 2002-2003; and
Whereas, Abel Bult-Ito has served as Chair of the Administrative Committee and as President-Elect of the UAF Faculty Senate from 2003-2004; and
Whereas, Abel Bult-Ito has served as a member of the UAF Governance Coordinating Committee from 2003-2005; and
WHEREAS, Abel Bult-Ito has served as a member of the UA Faculty Alliance and the UA Systemwide Governance Council from 2003-2005; and
WHEREAS, Abel Bult-Ito has served on various Task Forces, Search Committees, and other university and statewide committees representing the interests of faculty to the administration of UAF and statewide; and
Whereas, Abel Bult-Ito has served as President of the UAF Faculty Senate from 2004-2005 and has effectively represented the interests of the UAF Faculty Senate to the administration of UAF; and
WHEREAS, The UAF Faculty Senate wishes to acknowledge the outstanding service rendered the faculty and the University by the work of Abel Bult-Ito as he concludes his term as president; now
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, That the UAF Faculty Senate acknowledges the many contributions of Abel Bult-Ito and expresses its appreciation for his exemplary service.
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The UAF Faculty Senate passed the following at its Meeting #130 on May 2, 2005:
RESOLUTION:
===========OUTSTANDING SENATOR OF THE YEAR AWARD
FOR
SHIRISH PATIL
WHEREAS, Shirish Patil has served the UAF Faculty Senate in numerous capacities, most notably as a member and chair of the Faculty Affairs Committee, since 2002; and
WHEREAS, Shirish Patil, in service to the Faculty Senate, has made truly outstanding contributions to improving the quality of life at the university through his service on the Master Planning Committee and as chair of the Circulation and Parking Subcommittee; and
WHEREAS, Shirish Patil, as committee chair, has worked with willingness, passion and dedication for issues related to the University of Alaska, and takes responsibilities well beyond what is expected from a faculty senator; and
WHEREAS, Shirish Patil has handled very sensitive issues for the faculty through shared governance; now
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT, the UAF Faculty Senate recognizes Shirish Patil as Outstanding Senator of the Year for Academic Year 2004-2005.
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The UAF Faculty Senate passed the following at its Meeting #130 on May 2, 2005:
MOTION:
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The UAF Faculty Senate moves to accept an academic calendar for 2006-2007 for which the first day of classes for fall semester is on the Thursday before Labor Day (our traditional start date) and the first day of classes for spring semester is on the first Tuesday after Martin Luther King/Alaska Civil Rights Day.
EFFECTIVE: Immediately
RATIONALE: Several proposals have been floated concerning ‘common’ start dates for the various UA Campuses. Forward planning requires that we set our academic calendar well in advance of the start of a given semester. Given a Thanksgiving Holiday, it is impossible to accommodate a 14-week schedule without starting on a Thursday: the semester will either be too long or too short otherwise. Spring semester isn’t as constrained, and shifting to a different start day (from our traditional Thursday start) does not create schedule hassles.
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The UAF Faculty Senate passed the following at its Meeting #130 on May 2, 2005:
MOTION:
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The UAF Faculty Senate urges the UA administration to facilitate UA academic calendars to a common ‘start week’. We further urge the UA administration to facilitate changes in UA calendars to create common days for major financial and academic deadlines, including add/drop, fee payment, withdrawal with refund, and registration.
EFFECTIVE: Immediately
RATIONALE: We recognize the need for more uniformity in dates that effect students' across-MAUs and feel that uniformity in critical academic and financial deadlines are the highest priority.
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The UAF Faculty Senate passed the following at its Meeting #130 on May 2, 2005:
MOTION:
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The UAF Faculty Senate moves to approve a policy that a student may only earn a specific UAF degree in a specific discipline once. Using different emphases or concentrations within a degree program to count as different degrees is not allowed.
EFFECTIVE: Immediately
RATIONALE: Currently the practice of awarding the same degree with a different concentration does not reflect significantly new knowledge or transferable accomplishment of the student within the discipline with multiple concentrations.
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The UAF Faculty Senate passed the following at its Meeting #130 on May 2, 2005:
MOTION:
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The UAF Faculty Senate moves to amend the Course Designation/ Classification Criteria policy as follows:
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CAPS - Addition
COURSE DESIGNATION/ CLASSIFICATION CRITERIA
2. Courses are designated Social Science according to the following criteria:
[[a. Courses may be classified appropriately as Social Science if they exclusively address one or more of the following areas of study:
--Models or theories of social phenomena.A. CONTENT IS DIRECTLY DEFINED BY MAJOR MODELS OR THEORIES OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCE DISCIPLINES OF ANTHROPOLOGY, COMMUNICATION, ECONOMICS, GEOGRAPHY, HISTORY, JUSTICE, POLITICAL SCIENCE, PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL WORK, SOCIOLOGY OR INTERDISCIPLINARY SOCIAL SCIENCE DISCIPLINES.
b. Excludes courses [[whose primary]] FOR WHICH A MAJORITY OF focus is on research skills or techniques, practicum experience, or professional or vocational skill development.
C. COURSES APPROVED FOR "S" DESIGNATORS PRIOR TO MAY 2005 WILL RETAIN THEIR "S" DESIGNATOR.
EFFECTIVE: Immediately
RATIONALE: At one time, criteria for S, N, and H courses were all discipline-based. Several years ago the criteria for S courses were changed by attempting to define ‘social science’. Given the broad scale of the definition, however, virtually any course offered at UAF could quality. Subsequently, the Curricular review committee has received applications for ‘S’ designators for courses well outside of ‘social science’ as generally understood. The proposed change is to return to the better-defined discipline-based definition as still employed for ‘N’ and “H” designators. Similarly, argument in Curricular Review Committee about ‘how much focus constitutes a “primary” focus’ would be solved by using ‘majority’ instead. The grandfather clause is to ensure continuity in ‘s’ designated courses.
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The UAF Faculty Senate passed the following at its Meeting #130 on May 2, 2005:
MOTION REFERED BACK TO COMMITTEE:
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The Faculty Senate moves to amend the UAF catalog "Table of Substitutions: non-University of Alaska institutions" (page 31 of the 2004-05 catalog) as follows.
EFFECTIVE: Immediately
RATIONALE: To align credit for transfer courses more closely with UAF core curriculum requirements. Currently, transfer students can get core credit for courses that will not fulfill core requirements for UAF students, which disadvantages UAF students. These changes allow all students, transfer and UAF, the same opportunities to fulfill the UAF core requirements
We tell our students, their parents, and the world at large that our graduates have a very specific intellectual experience when they have earned a degree from UAF. The central component of that intellectual experience is UAF's CORE Curriculum. Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts, which houses the Perspectives on the Human Condition area of the CORE Curriculum, and the CORE Review Committee believe that we must make good on that claim for all of UAF's graduates.
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[[ ]] = Deletion
CAPS = Addition
TABLE OF SUBSTITUTION: Non-University of Alaska institutions
Perspectives on the Human Condition: |
Transfer Courses |
HIST 100X: Modern World History |
a Western or non-Western Civilization course at the 100-level or [[above]] 200 LEVEL (LOWER DIVISION), EXCLUDING INDIVIDUAL NATIONAL HISTORIES |
ECON/PS 100X: Political Economy |
[[a foundation course in political science, economics or law]] A COURSE IN US OR COMPARATIVE POLITICAL ECONOMY, OR US ECONOMIC HISTORY, OR MACROECONOMICS AT THE 100-LEVEL OR HIGHER |
ANTH/SOC 100X: Individual, Society and Culture |
a foundation course in [[sociology,]] social/cultural anthropology OR FOUR-FIELD ANTHROPOLOGY (CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, ARCHEOLOGY, PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL LINGUISTICS), AT THE 100 OR 200 LEVEL (LOWER DIVISION) [[, social psychology; psychology, language and culture, or cultural geography at the 100level or above]] AN INTRODUCTORY LEVEL COURSE IN SOCIOLOGY, OR LOWER-DIVISION SOCIAL PROBLEMS COURSE. A COURSE IN CROSS-CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY. |
ENGL/FL 200X: World Literatures |
a literature course at the [[100-]] 200-level or above THAT STUDIES WORKS OF LITERATURE FROM WESTERN AND NON-WESTERN TRADITIONS, AN EARLIER AND A LATER PERIOD, MORE THAN ONE LITERARY GENRE, AND ISSUES OF GENDER, RACE, AND CLASS. |
ART/MUS/THR 200X: Aesthetic Appreciation or HUM 201X |
a history or appreciation course in art, theatre or music at the 100-level or above |
PHIL 322X: Ethics (Values and Choices) |
an upper-division course in ethics, or, with approval of the philosophy department, a lower-division course in ethics. |
Other |
Transfer Courses |
Foreign Language |
[[a minimum of two semesters in a single, non-English language.]] OR COMPLETE 12 CREDITS FROM THE PHC OPTIONS ABOVE, PLUS TWO SEMESTER-LENGTH COURSES IN A SINGLE ALASKA NATIVE LANGUAGE OR OTHER NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE OR THREE SEMESTER-LENGTH COURSES (9 CREDITS) IN AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE AT THE UNIVERSITY LEVEL. |
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The UAF Faculty Senate passed the following at its Meeting #130 on May 2, 2005:
MOTION:
=======The UAF Faculty Senate moves to amend Section 1, (Article III: Membership) and Section 3, (Article V, Committees, Standing) of the Bylaws pertaining to membership and the Faculty Affairs Committee as follows:
[[ ]] = Deletion
CAPS = AdditionSect. 1 (ART III: Membership)
A. The membership of the Faculty Senate, hereinafter referred to as "Senate," shall consist of approximately [[41]] 44 members plus one non-voting presiding officer. Approximately 35 members shall be elected by and from the faculty and will have voting privileges. Six non-voting members will be selected by and from other university constituencies as follows: one non-graduate student and one graduate student selected by the ASUAF, one professional school dean and one college dean selected by the Deans' Council; one staff representative from the registrar's office; and one additional staff member selected by the Staff Council. [[If the staff representative from the registrar's office is APT, the second staff member must come from the classified staff ranks. If the staff representative from the registrar's office is classified, the second staff member must be APT.]] THREE ADDITIONAL NON-VOTING MEMBERS WILL BE SELECTED BY AND FROM THE UNIONS AS FOLLOWS: ONE ELECTED OFFICIAL EACH FROM UNITED ACADEMICS-AAUP/AFT, ACCFT, AND ADJUNCT (UNITED ACADEMICS)-AAUP/AFT.
Sect. 3 (ART V: Committees)
STANDING
2. The Faculty Affairs Committee shall review issues dealing with faculty prerogative and recommend policy changes to the Faculty Senate. Issues of faculty prerogative include academic freedom, faculty ethics, research and creative activity, and legislative and fiscal issues that may impact faculty concerns at the university. The committee will act as a faculty advocate with legislators and candidates. In its concern for fiscal issues the committee shall monitor budget appropriations to the university and evaluate any notice to the faculty of financial exigency. In performing these duties, the committee will coordinate as necessary with the relevant officers (and/or their representatives) of the extant collective bargaining units WHO SERVE AS NON-VOTING MEMBERS OF THE SENATE AND EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS OF THIS COMMITTEE.
EFFECTIVE: IMMEDIATELY
RATIONALE: Representation by three faculty union elected officials on Faculty Senate and Faculty Affairs Committee will open channels of communication and serve as a conduit of information exchange between the unions and faculty senate. The Union elected members, who serve on Faculty Senate and Faculty Affairs Committee will be ex-officio members with no voting rights. This is consistent with the Faculty Senate bylaws.
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The UAF Faculty Senate passed the following at its Meeting #130 on May 2, 2005:
MOTION:
=======The UAF Faculty Senate moves to approve the Unit Criteria for the Fisheries Division (SFOS).
EFFECTIVE: Immediately
Upon Chancellor ApprovalRATIONALE: The committee assessed the unit criteria submitted by the Fisheries Division of SFOS. With some changes, agreed upon by the school representative the unit criteria were found to be consistent with UAF guidelines.
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The UAF Faculty Senate passed the following at its Meeting #130 on May 2, 2005:
MOTION:
=======The UAF Faculty Senate moves to approve the Unit Criteria for the Institute of Marine Science (SFOS).
EFFECTIVE: Immediately
Upon Chancellor ApprovalRATIONALE: The committee assessed the unit criteria submitted by the Institute of Marine Science. With some changes, agreed upon by the school representative the unit criteria were found to be consistent with UAF guidelines.
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The UAF Faculty Senate passed the following at its Meeting #130 on May 2, 2005:
MOTION:
=======The UAF Faculty Senate moves to approve the Unit Criteria for the Fisheries Industrial Technology Center (SFOS).
EFFECTIVE: Immediately
Upon Chancellor ApprovalRATIONALE: The committee assessed the unit criteria submitted by the Fisheries Industrial Technology Center. With some changes, agreed upon by the school representative the unit criteria were found to be consistent with UAF guidelines.
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The UAF Faculty Senate passed the following at its Meeting #130 on May 2, 2005:
MOTION:
=======The UAF Faculty Senate moves to endorse the 2005-2006 committee membership as attached.
EFFECTIVE: Immediately
RATIONALE: New Senate members' preference for committee selection were reviewed and weighted against membership distribution from schools and colleges.
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2005-2006 UAF Faculty Senate Committees
STANDING COMMITTEES
Curricular Affairs
Faculty Affairs
Unit Criteria
PERMANENT COMMITTEES
Committee on the Status of Women
Core Review
Developmental Studies Committee
Faculty Appeals & Oversight Committee
Faculty Development, Assessment & Improvement
Graduate Academic & Advisory Committee
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The UAF Faculty Senate passed the following at its Meeting #130 on May 2, 2005:
MOTION:
=======The UAF Faculty Senate moves to adopt the following calendar for its 2005-2006 meetings.
EFFECTIVE: Immediately
RATIONALE: Meetings have to be scheduled and the Wood
Center rooms reserved well in advance.
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UAF FACULTY SENATE
2005-2006
Calendar of Meetings
Mtg. # |
Date |
Day |
Time |
Type |
131 |
9/19/05 |
Monday |
1:00 p.m |
audioconference |
132 |
10/31/05 |
Monday |
1:00 p.m |
face-to-face ** |
133 |
12/12/05 |
Monday |
1:00 p.m |
audioconference |
134 |
2/6/06 |
Monday |
1:00 p.m |
audioconference |
135 |
3/6/06 |
Monday |
1:00 p.m |
face-to-face |
136 |
4/3/06 |
Monday |
1:00 p.m |
audioconference |
137 |
5/1/06 |
Monday |
1:00 p.m |
face-to-face |
Location: Wood Center Carol Brown Ballroom (face-to-face meetings)
Wood
Center Conference Room C/D (audioconference meetings)
**Regents'
Conference Room, Butrovich 109
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The UAF Faculty Senate passed the following at its Meeting #130 on May 2, 2005:
MOTION:
=======The UAF Faculty Senate moves to authorize the Administrative Committee to act on behalf of the Senate on all matters within its purview, which may arise until the Senate resumes deliberations in the Fall of 2005. Senators will be kept informed of the Administrative Committee's meetings and will be encouraged to attend and participate in these meetings.
EFFECTIVE: May 2, 2005
RATIONALE: This motion will allow the Administrative Committee to act on behalf of the Senate so that necessary work can be accomplished and will also allow Senators their rights to participate in the governance process.
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The UAF Faculty Senate passed the following at its Meeting #130 on May 2, 2005:
ⓒ UAMOTION:
=======The UAF Faculty Senate reaffirms that authority for setting the academic calendar traditionally--and for good academic reasons--belongs to the individual universities, i.e., UAF, UAA, and UAS, that comprise the University of Alaska System.
The UAF Faculty Senate further reaffirms that substantive changes to UAF’s academic calendar can only be made with the explicit involvement of UAF’s Governance Coordinating Committee, which makes a recommendation to the Chancellor. Substantive changes include a change of the length of the semester or time available for grading. The Governance Coordinating Committee receives recommendations from UAF faculty (through the Faculty Senate), staff (through Staff Council), and students (through ASUAF).
The UAF Faculty Senate hereby charges the UAF Registrar to not publish a UAF academic calendar that has not been reviewed by UAF’s Governance Coordinating Committee.
EFFECTIVE: Immediately
RATIONALE: UAF faculty, staff, and students are directly impacted by changes to the academic calendar. These changes can affect academic issues, such as the length of the semester or time available to faculty to determine the course grade of their students. Therefore, faculty, staff, and students should be part of the decision making process that establishes the academic calendar. The purpose of this motion is to clarify to all concerned our commitment to shared governance.