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Undergraduate Curriculum Forum

Thursday, September 6, 2007 Minutes

Adanti Student Center, Room 301

Present:
D. Weiss Chair, I. Antonius, G. Cochenet, R. Conforti, C. Coron, C. Dellinger-Pate, M. Fede, T. Fleming, D. Flynn, R. Glinka, J. Goralski, N. Henderson, M. Heidmann, R. Hunter, L. Kohrn, G. Kowalczyk, R. Kustin, K. Laing, T. Lin, N. Marano, D. Marino, K. Marsland, K. Mauro, J. Mielczarski, R. Mugno, B. Nakamura, M. Narumanchi, J. Oppedisano, D. Pettigrew, T. Radice, D. Risisky, Rosado, K. Rondinone, E. Schmitt, M. Shea, D. Tomasko, R. Vaters-Carr, E. West.

I.    Call to order 9:35 a.m.


II.    Announcements

  • D. Pettigrew announced a talk by Eric Reeves on the Darfur genocide Sept. 18th at 5pm with a reception to follow from 6-7 in EN A-120.
  • M. Heidman talked about the successful writing workshop this August and noted that WACC had time to meet with the Provost.
  • K. Marsland announced the Psychology Club is having a service project that is linked with Yale collecting school supplies (esp. backpacks) for New Haven Reads.  She mentioned that SCSU collected $11,000 for Christina Cortese but said Christina's is currently not doing well.

III. Approval of minutes of 5/3/2007.

  • All approved with one abstention, pending revisions.

IV. New Business

  1. Recruitment of secretary - no volunteers yet (4 weeks to go for a volunteer!)
  2. Presentation of subcommittees by chairpersons. Several issues were raised before the subcommittee presentations were conducted:
  • The issue of alternates serving on subcommittees but not having a vote was raised.
  • The issue of no students serving on UCF for several years was raised.
  • The issue of non-faculty having a vote on curricular matters was raised.  
        a. Voting members are: at-large members, faculty members, and 1 from Academic Advising, library, Academic Affairs, Records, Student Affairs.
        b. Non-voting members are: faculty alternates, Faculty Senate, Graduate Council, students and ex-officio chairs were not listed but assumed to be non-voting.
        c. A recommendation that curricular matters be voted on only by faculty members, perhaps even including the alternates was raised.
  • The ad-hoc committee to look at the by-laws will need to address these issues.
  • Each committee presented its titles, descriptions and most pressing goals for the next year.
        c. Selection of subcommittees by UCF members was conducted.
        d. Election of chairpersons by each subcommittee was conducted.

V. Adjournment at 10:50 am.