University-Wide Impact Committee
Minutes 10/29/09

Present
L. Foss, J. Fullmer, K. Gatzke, M. Generali, J. Irving, T. Lenda, H. Lockwood,
A. Marsoobian, J. Mielczarski, W. O'Brien, B. Nakamura, A. Reynaga, M. Shea, J. Strawn

I. Call to Order

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

II. Old Business

The standing committee agreed to table discussion on the topic of major/minor declaration until the 11/12/09 UWIC meeting, when Seth Joyner from Student Affairs, et al. will be scheduled to attend.

III. New Business

The standing committee voted to approve CHI 101: Chinese II from the World Languages and Literatures Department.  The vote was 12 yeas, 0 nays, 1 abstention.

Also, the standing committee brought up the issue of whether departments when submitting new course proposals would need to provide rationale specifically for their inclusion as an A.U.R. beyond the rationale provided for new courses in general.  The committee determined that the UCF chair would be consulted.

Next the standing committee discussed the criteria needed for representation on UCF from programs other than conventional departments.  Finally, the standing committee produced a "Linnaean Taxonomy" of those university programs.

It was also determined that UWIC invite J. Mills and D. Savage to a future UWIC meeting, possibly on 12/3/09 to inform the standing committee their reasoning behind their request for UCF representation.

IV. Adjournment

The meeting adjourned at 10:50am.

Minutes prepared by Byron Nakamura