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University Curriculum Forum (UCF)


Minutes 10/2/97

Present: J.Feng, J. Ulian, D. Fredeen, P. Cascella, L. Lancor, J. Tait, J. Mills, A. Seidl, M. Shea, D. Holt, L. Yacher, C. Tadder, P. Beals, F. Harris, A. Bielefield, K. Swenson, M. Bunco, J. Kavanagh, J. Kidney, M. Spence, E. Budris, S. Dobbins, F. Hetata, P. Gallup, J. Rakfeldt, D. Emmelman, J. Granfield, J. Sullivan, L. Kohrn, A. Pinciaro, R. Cretella

I.    Call to Order: The meeting was called to order by DonnaJean Fredeen at 9:35 am.

II.    Announcements:

  • D. Fredeen met with a student government representative to facilitate student participation on the UCF.
  • D. Fredeen requested identification by faculty who do not currently have access to Eudora.
  • The Faculty Development Advisory Committee needs representation from the UCF. Persons interested should contact D. Fredeen.
  • The University-Wide Impact Committee will be reviewing the Score program.
  • UCF members were reminded that a Call for Nominations to faculty offices was distributed. Additional copies of the form are available from J. Kavanagh. A. Pinciaro will make available a list of permanent faculty members who previously held temporary one-year appointments.
  • F. Harris thanked the UCF for its facilitation of a journalism class.
  • D. Fredeen has sent a letter to all department chairs regarding the initial tasks completed by the UCF. D. Fredeen requested that UCF members keep their own department chairs informed of actions taken at the UCF meetings.

III.    Approval of Meeting Minutes: The minutes of the previous UCF meeting (9/18/97) were unanimously approved. The following reports were made available with the UCF agenda: University-Wide Impact Committee (9/25/97), Standing Committee on Assessment (9/25/97), and New Programs and Innovations Committee (9/25/97). In addition, two documents (text & flow charts) titled "Flow of Proposals" was available from the Rules Committee.

IV.    Committee Reports:

  1. Notifications Management: Peggy Gallup (chair) reviewed information from two meetings of this committee, including: actions taken toward the development of procedures for the course review process, maintaining integrity in the review process, substantive reviews of proposals not reviewed by School Curriculum Committees, and approval of two courses, Journalism 298 and Theater 498.
  2. University-Wide Impact: (See report). There was no discussion of this report. P. Beals (chair) requested clarification regarding when this committee will need to complete an evaluation of the Score program. A. Pinciaro commented that a date will be identified at the next UCF meeting.
  3. New Program & Innovation: (See Report). There was no discussion of this report.
  4. Program Review & Assessment. (See Report). There was no discussion of this report.

V.Rules Committee: (See report). D. Fredeen introduced the report titled "Flow of Proposals" submitted by the Rules committee. J. Ulian was thanked for his organization of the flow charts.

Discussion:

Discussion, clarification and changes in the language of the document occurred.
Discussion, clarification and changes in the flow chart models occurred.
The Rules committee will review the comments made by UCF members and revise the content (i.e., substance) and format (i.e., cosmetics) of the document.
A motion was made, seconded and unanimously approved as follows:
move that the UCF says that the proposal presented by the Rules committee is moving in the correct direction

VI.    Steering Committee: Three motions were introduced from the Steering committee

  • A motion was made, seconded and unanimously approved as follows:

move that School Curriculum Committees shall scrutinize all proposals to ensure that the proposals contain all requested information and materials. The rationale given in these proposals shall receive special attention and shall delineate the academic merits of the request to the University community at large.

  • A motion was made, seconded and unanimously approved as follows:

move that new UCF forms shall be available in either hard copy or electronically and that the approved number of copies of proposals shall be submitted in hard copy to Ingrid McGowan. Changes in the content and design of UCF proposal forms shall be completed by 1/29/98.

  • A motion was made, seconded and unanimously approved as follows:

move that any proposals concerning new courses, program revisions, L courses, and HD courses that want to be considered for inclusion in the Fall, 1998 schedule and the 1998-1999 undergraduate catalogue shall be submitted to the appropriate standing committee of the UCF by 11/13/97.

VII.    Adjournment:


  1. A motion to adjourn the meeting was made, seconded and passed unanimously.
  2. The meeting was adjourned at 11:00 am.

Minutes recorded by:

Paul W. Cascella
Department of Communication Disorders