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Undergraduate Curriculum Forum (UCF)


Minutes 9/14/06

Present 
M. Rogers, G. Cochenet, R. Vaters-Carr, J. Feng, G. Kowalczyk, D. Weiss, D. Neuman, R. Glinka, S. DiFrancesco, A. Abrugi, N. Marano, N. Henderson, C. Coron, T. Fleming, E. Schmidt,  E. West,  N. Chrissidis, C. Kim, J. Fields, R. Vaden-Goad, C. Dellinger-Pate, W. O'Brien,  J. Goralski,  R. Kustin, S. Bochain, L. Rebeski, M. Vancour, D. Flynn, D. Pettigrew., K. Marsland, R. Hunter, M. Kiare, T. Lin, J. Mielczarski, L. Kohrn, K. Laing, K. Mauro, M. Heidmann, M. Geelan

I.    Call to Order
The meeting was called to order at 9:45 a.m.

II.    Announcements

  • The chair announced that we will continue to meet in MO 103 for the rest of the year, due to space constraints.  Coffee and food is coming.
  • The chair announced that Aya Jensen, former UCF Assistant, has left Southern.  Until another assistant can be hired, the chair is spending time in the UCF office, Tuesdays to Fridays from 9-noon..
  • Wes O'Brien announced the upcoming film to be screened in the Adanti Student Center Theatre on 9/20 from 5-7 p.m.
  • Tricia Lin announced that the woman and worklife conference will take place on 10/13 in the Student Center. 
  • David Pettigrew announced that Dr. Kujundjie will be speaking on Thursday, 9/21 at 1:50 in ENC112.
  • David Pettigrew announced that the Faculty Scholar Award will be presented to Mark Kuss on Monday from 1-2 in the Student Center Ballroom. In addition, the Trustees Research Award will also be presented to Tom Fleming at that time.
  • The chair asked the new members to introduce themselves.  We welcomed new representatives David Pettigrew from Philosophy, Marie Geelan from Residence Life, Mike Rogers from Anthropology and Bob Vaden-Goad from Mathematics.

III.    Chair's Report

The chair explained that in a recent conversation with the provost, the vacant UA position was discussed.  It is possible that this position will become full-time, but will be combined with the vacant UA positions for WACC and the General Education Task Force. 

IV.    Approval of Minutes of 5/__/06
The minutes of 5/__/06 were not yet available and will be approved at the next meeting.

V.    Standing Committees
Current chairs of the Standing Committees explained the focus of their committees to new and returning members as follows.

University-Wide Impact Committee (UWIC) - approves AUR courses and considers other issues that impact general education requirements in the university.

Notifications Management Committee (NMC)  -- reviews all new and revised course proposals, except special topic courses, courses fulfilling general education requirements. Also reviews program revision proposals.  This is a heavy workload committee, as they review approximately 10-15 proposals per meeting.

New Programs and Innovations (NPIC) - Logs special topics courses and reviews new program proposals.

Program Review Assessment Committee (PRAC) - Develops standards for 5-year program assessment cycle and holds workshops to assist faculty members with program assessment.

It was announced that the additional subcommittees of the UCF, including Writing-Across-the-Curriculum (WACC), Ad Hoc Committee on the Standards Document, and the General Education Task Force were specially appointed committees.

WACC committee members reminded UCF members of the important upcoming deadlines for the submission of W-course proposals.  All proposals must be received by WACC by November 1, 2006 in order to ensure that these courses are approved as W-courses by the time the L-course program officially becomes the W-course program.  Once that change occurs, L-courses that haven't been approved as W-courses under the new guidelines will no longer run.  Members were asked to urge faculty in their departments to submit these proposals by the deadline.

The chair of UCF announced that the secretary of UCF would like to find a replacement for her position because she is currently serving on a time consuming subcommittee, WACC.  The secretary's duties include recording and compiling minutes from meetings.  Because that work is somewhat time consuming, the secretary is not expected to serve on a subcommittee of the UCF, like the current secretary is doing.

VIII.    Adjournment

The meeting was adjourned at 10:25 a.m.

Minutes recorded by Nicole Henderson, Secretary for UCF