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Undergraduate Curriculum Forum


Thursday, September 20, 2007 Minutes
Adanti Student Center, Room 301

Present:
D. Weiss Chair, A. Abugri, I. Antonius, J. Cheng, G. Cochenet, C. Coron, K. Cummings, C. Dellinger-Pate, S. Difrancesco, J. Fields, T. Fleming, D. Flynn, M. Generali, M. Ginicola, R. Glinka, S. Grace, N. Henderson, R. Hunter, L. Kohrn, G. Kowalczyk, K. Lacey, K. Laing, T. Lin, N. Marano, K. Marsland, A. Marsoobian, K. Mauro, J. Mielczarski, R. Mugno, B. Nakamura, M. Narumanchi, J. Oppedisano, D. Pettigrew, T. Radice, L. Rebeshi, K. Rondinone, E. Schmitt, C. Simoneau, M. Shea, J. Terpstra, R. Tamura, D. Tomasko, R. Vaters-Carr, C. Weed, E. West.

I. Call to order 9:35am

II. Announcements

 
  • K. Marsland announced New Haven Reads had a strong response from Southern students and raised $600, about 200 pounds of books, and filled 54 backpacks.
  • J. Oppedisano reminded us that the L course to W course transition will happen Jan 2008.
  • D. Pettigrew announced the commencement of Cinema du Monde, in EN A 120 with a film from Hong Kong, moderated by M. Shea (Date missing).
  • A. Marsoobian announced the documentary Decline by Degrees will be shown at 1pm in EN C112 (Date missing).
  • N. Henderson announced FYE events on campus will be available online at southernct.edu/FYE (all caps)
  • T. Lin announced that the Women's Center is holding a Work-Life Balance conference Friday September 21 from 9-2pm in EN A120.
  • D. Weiss announced that a UCF secretary has been hired. She also reminded us that New Course Proposals need to be sent with 12 copies.
  • Additional note: The UCF office secretary will take notes at UCF meetings.

III. Approval of minutes of September 6, 2007

  • All approved with one abstention, pending revisions.

IV. Presentation of Minutes of Standing Committees and vote on standing committee motions

  • NPIC - minutes received
    NPIC Motions:
        Motion to approve special topics courses:
        1. ANT 298 : The Ritual Experience
        2. ANT 398 : Osteology - The Human Skeleton
        3. MDS 398 : Reading Six Feet Under
        4. THR 498 : Projection Design
     All NPIC motions unanimously approved.
  • NMC - minutes received
    NMC Motions:
        Motions to approve the following Revised Program Proposals:
        1. Recreation & Leisure Studies (1)
        2. Recreation & Leisure Studies (2)
        3. Media Studies 
     All NMC motions unanimously approved with one nay.
  • PRAC - minutes received
  • No UWIC meeting
  • Ad-hoc Standards Committee - minutes received
  • WACC - minutes received
       WACC Motions:
       Motions to approve the following W courses:
       1. CSC 324/PHI 324W Computer Ethics (T. Bynum)
       2. PHI 200W Problems in Philosophy (D. Stevenson)
       3. PHI 200W Problems in Philosophy (D. Pettigrew)
       4. PHI 342/PSC 342W Political Thought II (R. Volkman)
       All WACC motions unanimously approved.

V. Presentation of Ad Hoc Committee Report - FYE Temporary Committee

Nicole Henderson and Nikos Chrissidis, Co-chairs of Temporary FYE Committee presented update of First Year Experience Program

  • N. Henderson and N. Chrissidis brought up the following issues: Clustering classes was not in the original FYE proposal but was discussed at committee meetings; more information needed to be available to the professors teaching the Gen Ed courses being clustered; Scheduling for the Fall 08 classes will begin soon and a committee needs to be available to oversee this (and avoid scheduling FYE courses during the community hour). N Chrissidis proposed the following motion:
    FYE Motion:
  • A motion was made and seconded to reconvene the temporary FYE committee until a permanent committee takes its place.
  • Discussion: Questions raised were: Is the FYE committee ready to adjourn? Wasn't this an ongoing committee already? Do we want the same people or just an FYE committee? What is the process for appointing committee members? A friendly amendment to the motion was made:
    Amendment to FYE Motion:
  • A friendly amendment to the above motion was made to extend the temporary FYE committee until a permanent committee takes its place.
  • Further discussion: the FYE proposal is being phased in and should be voted on by UCF; UCF needs to discuss clustering and clustering needs more of a faculty "buy-in;" UCF needs to have further discussions about FYE.
    Motion passed unanimously
  • Further Discussion: Issues raised were: How soon will Fall 08 need to be approved by UCF? FYE needs to address students withdrawing from courses and FYE professor should have all of the rights as an advisor.

VI. New Business

Discussion, Senate Bill 1318

  • Discussion: This Senate Bill will create common course numbering and placement test scores among the CSUS system. A 9 member committee comprised of faculty senate presidents from the 4 CSU campuses, 4 provosts/vice-presidents and the interim vice-chancellor will report to the General Assembly no later than January 1, 2008;
    UCF Motion:
  • A motion was made and seconded to send 2 representatives to a second committee to be comprised of faculty representing UCF from all 4 CSU campuses.  This grass-roots committee will provide input to the official CSU Committee.  1 representative must be from UCF and 1 may be from the Gen Ed Taskforce.
    Motion passed unanimously

VII. Adjournment, 10:55 am.