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Undergraduate Curriculum Forum (UCF)


Minutes 9/28/06

Present

M. Narumanchi, M. Rogers, G. Cochenet, J. Feng, G. Kowalczyk, D. Weiss, R. Glinka, S. DiFrancesco, M. Generali, A. Abugri, S. Grubacic, N. Marano, C. Coron, T. Fleming, D. Marino, M. Fede, E. Schmitt, E. West, N. Chrissidis, B. Nakamura, C. Kim, J. Fields, J. Scheuermann, W. O'Brien, J. Goralski, R. Kustin, S. Bochain, L. Rebeschi, D. Flynn, D. Pettigrew, C. Weed, C. Novosad, R. Hunter, T. Lin, J. Mielczarski, K. Rondinone, N. Bobrek, K. Laing, K. Mauro, M. Heidmann

Call to Order

The meeting was called to order at 9:45 AM.

Announcements

  • Mark Heidmann announced that a collection of successful writing assignments used by members of SCSU faculty in courses is available.  The collection may be obtained by sending an email request to Mark at heidmann1@southernct.edu.  Joe Fields will post the collection on the UCF website as well.
  • David Pettigrew announced the screening of Blue Angel on September 28 in ENG A120.
  • Joe Fields announced that the remainder of the UCF meetings for fall 2006 will be held in the Adandi Student Center, Room 301.
  • Greg Cochenet announced that the art show will continue to be available until the end of October in the Adanti Student Center, Room 235.  Scheduled hours may be obtained from billsm1@southernct.edu.
  • Joe Fields announced that the Provost has requested one UCF volunteer to be on the committee working on guidelines for review of undergraduate programs.  In the discussion that followed, the overlapping role of PRAC relative to the role of this new committee was raised.  It was suggested that possibly the Provost is unaware of the role that PRAC fulfills in review of undergraduate programs.  Cynthia Coron pointed out that PRAC has functioned in its full capacity in the way it is intended to function, however has not been included in university plans for assessment.  Cynthia Coron and Herv Podnar volunteered to serve on the new university committee.
  • It was announced that the General Ed Task Force will meet weekly during UCF meeting time; therefore UCF representatives who serve on the General Ed Task force will not attend UCF meetings.
  • Five new representatives were welcomed to UCF.

Approval of Minutes

UCF and UCF subcommittee minutes were all approved.  In addition, motions were passed for WAC and NMC (as they appear in the minutes for those subcommittees) with one abstention and all others voting in favor. 

Notable subcommittee issues included:

NMC requested that proposals be handed in during the UCF meeting or at least one week prior to the committee meeting so that all members would have the opportunity to review the proposals.  The desirability of electronic filing of proposals was discussed.  One suggested protocol would be the use of the group option in My SCSU in order to make documentation available to all members of the group. 

WAC discussed the fact that many "L" courses have not been converted to "W" courses and there is a limited time frame for doing so.  Implications were discussed by UCF representatives of not having enough "W" courses in place when the final transition takes place.  Potential problems that might ensue if students don't have enough "W" courses to fulfill their requirements were raised.

A request was made by a UCF member for a model "W" course proposal to be used as an example.  Mark Heidmann has copies of proposals that can be shared.  Joe Fields will post these on the UCF website. 

Old Business

There was no old business presented.

New Business

There was no new business presented.

Adjournment

The meeting was adjourned at 10:48 AM.

Minutes recorded by

Deborah Weiss