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Academic Year: 2006-2007April 26Present: Ken Kruempel, Heather Babka, Stuart Birrell, Bill Dilla, Laura Doering, Helen Ewald, Char Hulsebus, Sara Kadolph (recorder), Michael Martin, Wade Miller, James Thompson. Minutes from 4/19/07 approved with correction. The location of Ken and Bev Kruempel’s retirement reception location is the Campanile Room (May 11, 3-5). Recognition: :Ken’s upcoming retirement. Announcements:
Approval: Pol S 347X Introduction to African Politics as an international perspectives course (motion Stuart, second Bill) Honors Seminars: (motion Stuart, second Michael)
Diversity and International Perspectives:
No further discussion was undertaken regarding the catalog process. Committee members were encouraged to retain the most recent document (sent 4/17) to guide the development of the 09-11 catalog. Char was awarded a “Hallelujah” angel for completing the catalog to accompany her “studious” angel from the previous catalog. Brief discussion reviewed next year’s committee, members who may be returning, and who might chair the committee. April 19Present: Dave Holger, Ken Kruempel, Sara Kadolph, Bill Dilla, Char Hulsebus, Laura Doering, Wade Miller, James Thompson, Stuart Birrell, Heather Babka, Chris Verhaeghe, Michael Martin (minutes recorder) [amended 4/26—see underscored] Minutes from 4/4/2007 approved unanimously Char asked whether an outline of catalog deadlines for incoming FSCC reps would be useful; everybody said oh, yes, indeed Ken noted his (and his wife’s) retirement ceremony set for May 11, 3-5pm, Campanile Room MU Kinesiology: Summer grads don’t get new name on degree; not until fall, because department name changed but not the degree name. Question raised: if a degree name changes in midstream for a student, can student request the old name? Dave’s answer: it depends. In this case there is as yet no board-approved name change for anything, so point is moot. X-course submitted for approval: HCI 592x Entrepreneurial workshop: approved unanimously with newly submitted catalog description (Wade motion, Stuart second) Another X-course submitted for approval: HCI 697x; approved unanimously (Wade motion, Bill second) Course submitted for International Perspectives listing: TSM 596x ***correction: 496X, per action on 9-27-07***Technology and Travel; discussion ensued around the fact that while “international” travel is not addressed in title, it is addressed specifically in course description. Approved unanimously (MM motion, Heather second) Char presented proposed new forms for X-course approval. Char noted that as a Word doc this has advantages over pdf used presently; Chris notes that the Word doc allows some blanks to be “protected”, such that choices are from a pull-down menu (preventing some form-filling-out inconsistencies and/or ambiguities); Stuart suggests that even department names could be “protected”, just to really make it idiot-proof (my term, not Stuart’s—MM) Chris suggests maybe adding helpful info on “how to write a proper course description that might actually pass muster through FSCC the first go-‘round” (not his exact phrasing—MM) Ken notes: FSCC members need to call attention to the new forms in their respective Colleges, as obsolete forms never die; they just…fade…away…(again, recorder’s paraphrasing/poetic license—MM) Stuart moves to approve new form and to have it in use beginning May 1 2007; Wade seconds; unanimous approval Ken notes: Faculty Senate knuckled under (OK, acceded) to Helen Ewald’s request that Departments and Colleges not be required to reconsider and re-approve USDIV/IP courses currently on the approved lists Ken introduced his matrix for USDIV/IP evaluation (matrix adapted from one in use by Entrepreneurial Studies minor program) for consideration. Alas—discussion had barely begun when time ran out FSCC decided to meet one week hence (4/26/2007); Ken will advise if meeting room is different from the usual LOM 107 April 5Present: Ken Kruempel (Chair), Stuart Birrell (Eng.), Bill Dilla (BUS), Helen Ewald (LAS), David Holger (Vice Provost), Char Hulsebus (Registrar Office), Sara Kadolph (HS), Michael Martin (Design), Wade Miller (Agric.), James Thompson (Vet. Med.), Don Payne (Guest, ISU Comm), Donna Niday (Guest, ISU Comm) Review of minutes: Minutes from the meeting of March 8, 2007 were reviewed and a motion to accept the minutes was passed unanimously (Motion: Wade Miller, seconded Sara Kadolph) Announcements/comments: Discussion of Review of International Perspectives and US Diversity Courses. Ken Kruempel reported that the proposal from the LAS College petitioning the present LAS review process be accepted for prior IP/US courses, has been forwarded to the Academic Affairs Council for consideration at the next meeting, which will be attended by Helen Ewald. Sara Kadolph reported that Human Sciences College curriculum committee has already completed the new IP/US review process and therefore a similar request from Human Sciences will not be required. Board of Regents Review Request. David Holger stated that all programs that need approval by Board of Regent in the coming year be submitted, so they may be placed on the list of Agenda Items. This is primarily new majors. David Holger encouraged that all possible items be submitted, since items not submitted would require significant additional information to be added later. Review of Catalog Process: Ken Kruempel warned that the catalog process starts once more and that changes will need to be approved in the new year. College committee should start thinking about this very soon. Update on ISU Comm: Ken Kruempel reported that the faculty senate had been given an update by ISU Comm, and invited Don Payne and Donna Niday to provide a similar update to FSCC. Don Payne and Donna Niday reported that the implementation of ISU Comm is a four stage process 1) Establishment of Basic Principles 2) Curriculum Planning 3) Establishment of Foundation Courses 4) Integration of communication throughout the curriculum. At present, the implementation is at the end of stage 3, with the foundation courses (Engl.150, 250) having been tested in a pilot program. The full implementation of the new courses will be in Fall, with the Engl 250 moving into the sophomore year. If students place out of 150 then 250 can be taken in the first year. In a two years transition period there will be a reduction in sections for Engl 250 as this moves into the sophomore year. There will be a slight change in Fall/Spring distribution of course sections to match student loads. Approximately 1300 students actually take both 150 and 250. Placement and test out procedures will not change, and no changes in credit transfer from Community Colleges will occur. After discussion on the effect high school advanced placement courses and students who transfer credits from institutions not implementing the WOVE principles, David Holger stated that approximately 80% of the transfer students come from 5 community colleges. Many of these schools are working with ISU and implementing the WOVE principles in their courses. The next phase of ISU Comm will implementation of WOVE through the curriculum and senior years, particularly through partnerships with CELT and Learning Communities. Update on Catalog Process: Char Hulsebus reported that the catalog pdf files are now online, with links to all courses although the curriculum links were no yet completed. The Catalog Indexing process was not as smooth as hoped, and some gaps in the catalog index may have occurred. The catalog editing process starts again in January. David Holger mentioned that Fall is the correct time for curriculum changes for the next cycle. After a discussion of problems associated with cross-listed courses, particularly changes in cross-listed designators and primary departmental ownership, it was asked if an automated system to streamline this could be developed, Char Hulsebus volunteered to find out what is available. Discontinuance of graduate minor in Ag Systems Technology: Ken Kruempel explained that the AST graduate minor was not required, due to the AST merger with Industrial technology graduate program. A motion to discontinue the graduate minor in AST was passed unanimously (Motion: Stuart Birrell, seconded Bill Dilla) Experimental Course HCI 592X Entrepreneurship Workshop: After concerns were raised regarding duplication with other courses particularly Mgmt 566, Bill Dilla explained that there is no conflict since Mgmt 566 is restricted to Business Majors and therefore not available to any other students. However, the course description was considered inadequate, particularly since the description should be in catalog format. The committee decided not to consider the approval request until the correct information and format is provided on the request form. The meeting was then adjourned March 8Present: Ken Kruempel (Chair), Heather Babka (GPSS, GDCB), Stuart Birrell ( Review of minutes: Feb. 22, 2007 minutes were approved. Heather moved and Sara seconded a motion to approve the minutes. Announcements/comments: Ken presented concerns about Languages and Cultures for Professions (LCP). LCP is listed in the ISU Catalog as a second major option in various languages and a minor option in Chinese Studies. Students in Business and Engineering are encouraged to complete the LCP option. Ken’s concern is that the LCP options are sometimes mistaken as LCP majors, but rather second majors available to Business and Engineering students for study in various languages. Bill mentioned that business students with a second major in a world language appear to have these designated as Spanish, German, etc., not as LCP. Laura will research whether LCP has a unique coding and will report to Ken, who will forward the report to the remaining committee members (Laura reports that on a student’s record these are second majors in a language – LCP is not mentioned). Catalog Update: Char distributed copies of the 2007-2009 catalog to Committee members. Copies have been sent to campus departments. The complete online version of the catalog will be available by late March. S07-7: Concurrent B.S. in Animal Science and M.S. in Nutritional Sciences and S07-8: Concurrent B.S. in Nutritional Science and M.S. in Nutritional Sciences: M.S. in Nutritional Sciences is the result of the merger of two graduate majors: Animal Nutrition and Nutrition. Each of these graduate majors had an approved concurrent program with their respective undergraduate major. These proposals redefine the concurrent programs. Stuart moved and Michael seconded the motion to approve the redefined concurrent programs. The motion passed unanimously. S07-9: International Perspectives: Arch 597 Seminar on the Built Environment Several committee members had questions about the suitability of a graduate course for undergraduate International Perspectives credit. Michael responded to these questions with information about prerequisites for Arch 597 and its place in the Arch undergraduate curriculum. Committee members were still concerned that undergraduate students taking Arch 597 might not be fully qualified for the course. Bill noted that while the supporting materials presented to the Committee indicated that the course met ISU IP requirements, the course catalog description did not indicate an international focus. Thus, the course might no longer meet IP requirements if taught by a different instructor. Sara noted that Arch majors might already be taking courses that would satisfy their IP requirements. The two Arch history courses required for the major (221 and 222) both appear to have an international component. Committee consensus was to defer action on this item and for Mike to communicate the Committee’s concerns to the current Arch 597 instructor. C Dev 523x Grant Writing: Committee members raised concerns about the generic course title and non-descriptive listing, “Introductory course in grant writing.” Committee consensus was that the course title should specifically describe how this course is appropriate for the C Dev program and that the listing should give details on course content. The committee was also concerned about the listing of a one contact hour course for one to three credits. Committee consensus was that the course proposal should be for one hour if that is the C Dev program’s intent; they have the option to file another experimental course proposal should they desire to increase the course to three credit hours. F06-4 International Perspective Courses and
Meeting adjourned: 9:02. Minutes by Bill Dilla. February 22Present: Ken Kruempel (Chair), Heather Babka (GPSS, GDCB), Stuart Birrell ( Review of minutes: Feb. 8, 2007 minutes approved. Heather Babka’s name was missing from minutes. Wade moved and Helen seconded a motion to approve the revised minutes. Announcements/comments: Experimental course in Community Development – CDev 523X Grantwriting was discussed. There is some confusion on how credits can be earned since variable credit of 1-3 was listed. It appears that the content overlaps with other existing courses such as English 509. The course description is sketchy. Ken will ask that the form be redone to address these issues. Catalog Update: Char announced that the 07-09 catalog is on line as a PDF file. A notice to that effect will be sent by email. Another update will be available by March 1. S07-6: Request to change the name of majors – Kinesiology: The request to change the name of the Department was approved by the Board of Regents effective July 1. We discussed the name change for the major. Sara moved and Bill seconded a motion to approve the name change for the major. Approved. International Perspective Courses and Continuing agenda items: Items 6-8 (S07-7, S07-8, and S07-9) on today’s agenda will be rescheduled for the FSCC meeting on March 8.
Future agenda item: modify experimental course form to show application of X courses to degree requirements Meeting adjourned: 8:55. Minutes by W. Wade Miller. February 8Present: Laura Doering, Registrar’s Office; Bill Dilla, Bus.; Helen Ewald, LAS; Dave Holger, Provost’s Office; Char Hulsebus, Registrar’s Office; Sara Kadolph, Human Sciences; Ken Kruempel (chair), , Michael Martin, DSN; Wade Miller, AG; James Thompson, VMed, Minutes: Approved as amended (corrected spelling of Hulsebus) Announcements: LASCC changed the titles of two courses per the recommendation of FSCC: LAS 160X, title to: Introduction to Race and Ethnicity in LAS 161X, title to: Studies in Race and Ethnicity in The proposed name change: B.S. in Health and Human Performance to Kinesiology and Health does not seem to face much, if any, opposition. Corresponding name changes to the M.A. and Ph.D program titles expected to make their way through the system. The Iowa Administrative Code is in need of updating. It has such errors as the A hard copy of the catalog should be ready the first week in March. In the meantime, it is available on line through Access Plus. Holger noted that for the first time in a while, the net number of courses at ISU increased this year, and by quite a bit. New Business: F06-1: Discussion centered around courses that were scheduled for more hours than credit hours would seem to suggest and on courses with “optional” meetings. The committee decided to ask the Registrar’s Office to send alerts to curriculum committee chairs about currently non-standard courses, beginning Fall 07. This would involve situations where the catalog and the offerings as scheduled do not match. The committee also asked the Registrar’s Office to investigate different coding for instructional type. There might be, for example, a code that could be used for Help sessions, which would allow for the scheduling of rooms but which would also notify the student that the section or course hour was optional. On another topic, Laura noted that Web-taught courses that may require one or more face-to-face meetings need scheduling, causing additional challenges. Next meeting: Thursday, Feb. 22, 107 Lab of Mechanics, 8:00 a.m.. Submitted by: H. Ewald
January 11Present: Ken Kruempel (Chair), Heather Babka (GPSS, GDCB), Stuart Birrell ( Review of minutes: Minutes from the meeting of November 30, 2006 were reviewed and a motion to accept the minutes was passed unanimously (Motion: Wade Miller, seconded Helen Ewald) Announcements/comments: Discussion of Catalog Cover. Ken Kruempel reported that the new catalog cover has been provided and that the catalog cover is to market the university and that FSCC does not have any input into the process. In general, the committee did not seem overly enthusiastic about the catalog cover layout. Ken reported that although the catalog lists over 100 majors, it is unknown whether this includes both undergrad and graduate programs, since there are a number of different estimates published which are not consistent with each other. Catalog Update: The catalog update report from Char was postponed due to her absence Dropping of courses not taught in 4.5 to 6.5 years: Ken Kruempel reminded the committee that the FSCC had previously recommended that all courses not taught be dropped from the catalog. He reported that for the latest catalog revision the drop rate was only 40% of these courses and asked if this rate was sufficient. Bill Dilla stated it was difficult to overrule a Department chair’s decision to retain courses due to the governance issues, and that departmental response varied. Helen Ewald reported that the LAS committee required strong justification for continuation and any course not adequately justified was dropped. Michael Martin stated that in the past the design college tended to maintain courses due to the perception of the difficulty in getting new courses approved. He stated that this perception was found to be false, particularly in the case of new faculty. Ken Kruempel reported that some departments attempt to retain courses using the excuse that lack of faculty prevented courses being taught. They then try to use this as leverage for new faculty. He stated that in his view this should not be tolerated and was bad policy. After general discussion, it was suggested that courses should be automatically dropped after either 4½ (two catalog cycles) or 6½ (three catalog cycles) to force departments to actively petition for courses they wish to retain. Helen Ewald and Bill Dilla both agreed that graduate course were more likely to be given some latitude. After discussion it was agreed that 6½ (three catalog cycles) be used for automatic removal, since this would allow for courses taught on alternative years that may miss a single year due to students numbers. A motion stating ‘that all courses not taught within a 6½ year time period (three catalog cycles) be automatically listed as dropped at the start of the new catalog cycle by the registrar office” was approved unanimously (Motion: Bill Dilla, seconded Wade Miller) Review of Catalog Process: Ken Kruempel asked that committee members discuss any issues or problems with the catalog review process and make recommendations for the next cycle. The following bulleted items outline issues and suggestions
Additional Comments and Future Agenda Items: Future Agenda Items: Ken Kruempel reported that two new items have been added to the schedule of future agenda items, including evaluation of an IP course and Diversity courses in LAS. Report on BCB and Ph.D. in Business and Technology: Ken Kruempel reported that proposals related to the BCB program, and PhD. Program in Business and Technology, have both been forwarded to the Academic Affairs Council. The meeting was the adjourned November 30Present: Ken Kruempel (Chair), Heather Babka (GPSS, GDCB), Sara Kadolph (HS), Bill Dilla (BUS), Michael Martin (Design), James Thompson (VM), Char Hulsebus (Catalog), Dave Holger, and Wade Miller (Ag) Guests: Drena Dobbs (GDCB), Duane Enger (GDCB), Steve Willson (Math.) The minutes from November 9, 2006 were reviewed. Editorial change: date changed from 11/02 to 11/09. Michael moved to approve, James seconded and motion passed. Announcements/ comments: Char gave an update on catalog editing. The page proofing stage has started. Page proofs will be posted on the FSCC web site as PDF files. These pages will be downloaded for editing. The edits need to be done in red ink and then sent back to Char. It is recommended that the person who submitted the document be the person who edits it. If there are changes in editors please let Char know the name of the new contact person. The edits should be minor. It is anticipated that the pages may be posted for review during the first week of December. New Business: Bioinformatics proposal. Steve Willson presented the proposal for a B.S. in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. A handout was distributed at the meeting and the proposal was sent tot he committee on 10/31. He presented the rationale for the program, proposed requirements, staffing needs, funding needs, and other aspects of the proposal. Several suggestions for editorial changes were made: Bill moved and Wade seconded a motion to approve the proposal subject to editing and a final review by Ken and Dave. The motion passed. Ken presented the formal proposal to discontinue the M.S. in Enterprise Computing and circulated the proposal to the Committee. This proposal was sent to the committee on 11/08.As discussed in the 11/02 Committee meeting, this program never admitted any students, so discontinuance will be a simple matter. Bill had talked to Mike Crum, Associate Dean of Business about this, and that the Ken presented the formal proposal to discontinue the stand-alone minor in Portuguese. This proposal was sent to the committee on 11/15. It was explained that Portuguese courses are being changed and some are being discontinued so the minor is no longer viable. Emphasis is now being placed on the new Latin American Studies Certificate. Michael moved and Bill seconded a motion to discontinue the minor. The motion was approved. Ken presented an experimental course: C Dev 525X Seminar: Role of Tribal Colleges in Economic Development. This announcement was sent to the committee on 11/13. The seminar is a part of the consortium. After a brief discussion, Bill moved and Heather seconded a motion to approve the experimental course proposal. The motion passed. Michael gave a follow-up report on ARCH 529X Spatial Dialectics in the American Midwest to address the concerns expressed at the meeting on 11/09. Michael indicated that a number of advanced undergraduates would take this course. Helen and Bill both raised concerns at the last meeting that neither the Experimental Course Form nor the proposed course syllabus clearly described how the course would meet U.S. Diversity learning objectives. Michael obtained this information from the course instructor and presented it to the committee. Bill moved and James seconded a motion to approve the course. The motion was approved. Michael handed out an updated (edited) version of the The next meeting is scheduled for 11/30 but may be cancelled if there is no business to consider. The meeting was adjourned at Submitted by W. Miller November 9Present: Ken Kruempel (Chair), Heather Babka (GPSS, GDCB), Stuart Birrell ( The minutes from Announcements/ comments: Ken mentioned that he had sent committee members a copy of the updated Engineering Catalog report on Ken also discussed the summary of catalog changes, also sent 11/7. This is the first time in three catalog cycles that the number of courses added is greater than the number dropped. A new summary is forthcoming, as the The committee has a proposed B.S. in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology as a future agenda item. Ken requested that the proposed program develop a governance document. This is needed, since it is an interdisciplinary program. He sent them the M.S. in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology governance document to use as a model. Ken announced that on 11/8, he received a formal proposal to discontinue the M.S. in Enterprise Computing and circulated the proposal to the Committee. As discussed in the 11/02 Committee meeting, this program never admitted any students, so discontinuance will be a simple matter. Bill mentioned that he had talked to Mike Crum, Associate Dean of Business about this, and that the Char announced that edits to catalog source files ended on 11/3. The Catalog office is now preparing publication files. These should be distributed to colleges and departments in early December. Individuals responsible for edits should note these on hard copies and send the marked-up documents to Char through campus mail. Helen gave the college catalog report from Liberal Arts and Sciences. Some minor editorial changes were noted. In addition to these changes, Ken mentioned that ENGL 150 and 250 were listed as changes to ENGL 104 and 105, respectively, instead of as new courses. Helen noted that the English department decided to list the courses in this fashion as the transition to the new courses is occurring on a gradual basis—some ENGL 104 sections are being taught this year with 150 content, and some 105 sections are being taught with 250 content. Stuart moved and Michael seconded to approve the report. The motion passed unanimously. The committee considered the following Spring 2007 Honors Seminars for International Perspectives credit: HON 322J Foreign Bodies: Identity and Difference in HON 322R The Russian Film Comedy HON 322U Understanding War HON 322V The Pilgrimage Route to Santiago de Compostela HON 324A Rich Nations, Poor Nations: Can Scaled-Up Foreign Aid Reverse the Great Divergence? HON 324E Celtic Dance and Culture They also considered for US Diversity credit: HON 324C Race, Ethnicity, and Community Relations Michael moved and James seconded to approve all the requests for International Perspectives or US Diversity credit. The motion passed unanimously. The committee next discussed approving ARCH 529X Spatial Dialectics in the American Midwest. This course had been sent to the FSCC for consideration on 11/1, but the Committee did not discuss it on 11/2 because of concerns whether a 500-level course was appropriate for undergraduate U.S. Diversity credit. Michael indicated that a number of advanced undergraduates would take this course. Helen and Bill both raised concerns that neither the Experimental Course Form nor the proposed course syllabus clearly described how the course would meet U.S. Diversity learning objectives. Michael will obtain this information from the course instructor. The Committee will defer a decision on this course until the information is available. Ken announced that the Committee would be discussing the proposed B.S. in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at its next meeting The meeting was adjourned at Submitted by November 2Present: Ken Kruempel (Chair), Heather Babka (GPSS, GDCB), Stuart Birrell The minutes from October 26, 2006 were reviewed and corrected. Stuart moved to approve, Michael seconded and motion passed. Announcements/ comments: The possible discontinuing of Enterprise Computing was discussed. They have no students. Bill Dilla noted that enterprise computing is not as “hot” a topic as in the past. Industrial Engineering and others will be consulted. The topic will be brought up at our next meeting. The stand alone minor in Portuguese along with the required courses to get the minor will be discontinued. Advertising and Journalism and Mass Communication are in discussion about merging their minors into a minor called Mass Communication. Deadline for catalog changes is November 3, 2006. New Business: Michael Martin gave the college catalog report from Design. The appropriateness of dual listing ARTIS 429/529 was discussed. ARCH 426 and ART 494 may need some clarification. Stuart moved to approve the report after the clarification and acceptance by Ken. Wade seconded the motion which passed by voice vote. Jackie Blount presented the International Perspective: Chin 472X. Commercial Culture in Anthr 343X. Ethnobotany: Cross Cultural Perspectives was discussed. Wade moved to approve the course for IP and Michael seconded. Motion passed with one abstention. Anthr 394X International Study in Anthropology was discussed. Michael moved to approve and Stuart seconded. Motion passed. The meeting was adjourned at 1:00 pm. Submitted by J. Thompson October 26Present: Ken Kruempel (Chair), Heather Babka (GPSS, GDCB), Stuart Birrell (Eng.), Laura Doering (Registrar Office), Sara Kadolph (HS), Michael Martin (Design), Wade Miller (Agric.), James Thompson (Vet. Med.), Helen Ewald (LAS). Excused: David Holger (Vice Provost), Char Hulsebus (Registrar Office) Review of minutes: approved as corrected (Bill, not Bob Dilla) Announcements: Future Agenda Items Art Is 409/509, 429/529, 484/584: dual-lists not through Anthr 343/543, 394/594: IP Chin 472: IP Arch 529: US Diversity (?grad level) BCB: new undergraduate degree to complement existing graduate degree New Business F06-10 College Catalog Report – Business Significant trends include added B.S. in Business Economics and M.S. in See Technology and Business; also added a concurrent B.S./M.B.A. in mechanical and civil engineering; MIS minor reinstated; course additions mainly electives for upper-division and graduate business students, others for new programs p. 1: eliminate ACCT 558 (dual list); p. 2 & 4: eliminate LSCM 440 and OSCM 440 (cross-lists with MIS) Report approved with minor corrections.
F06-11 College Catalog Report – Agriculture Significant trends include greater cooperation among departments in interdisciplinary efforst and programs. Merger between Agricultural Systems Technology and Industrial Technology. Study of ethics increased. Learning communities increased. Outcomes statements generated. Check ownership of A ECL 457, 458, 459, etc. (CONSULT with LAS) p. 1: check for AN S 536 p. 3: drop TSM: not in catalog p. 8: correct ag systems engineering to ag systems technology Delete 7 courses as cross-list adds rather than new courses Report approved with minor corrections and expected consultations with LAS about 457, 458, 459; also 557, 558, 559 F06-12 Request to change the name of a graduate major from Plant Physiology to Plant Biology Recommended by external review team; matches other programs in field; no problems with regent schools Committee could see no problem with request, although name change has to be approved at higher levels. F06-13 Experimental Course approval for C Dev 518X Land Development Planning. This course is part of a consortium. Course approved pending Martin’s checking with CRP. F06-16 Concurrent bachelor-graduate certificate. Now have concurrent enrollment in degree programs; first 12 credits must stand alone; p. 116 of catalog describes certificates, p. 108 concurrent programs; in catalog but curriculum not laid out. Expect “no” on providing teaching assistantships for the certificate programs. Approved Procedures for Obtaining Approval for a Concurrent Undergraduate Degree and a Graduate Certificate with some dissent involving the overlapping nature of requirements and of degree programs. Report approved with minor corrections and expected consultations with LAS about 457, 458, 459; also 557, 558, 559 F06-12 Request to change the name of a graduate major from Plant Physiology to Plant Biology Recommended by external review team; matches other programs in field; no problems with regent schools Committee could see no problem with request, although name change has to be approved at higher levels. F06-13 Experimental Course approval for C Dev 518X Land Development Planning. This course is part of a consortium. Course approved pending Martin’s checking with CRP. F06-16 Concurrent bachelor-graduate certificate. Now have concurrent enrollment in degree programs; first 12 credits must stand alone; p. 116 of catalog describes certificates, p. 108 concurrent programs; in catalog but curriculum not laid out. Expect “no” on providing teaching assistantships for the certificate programs. October 19Present: Ken Kruempel (Chair), Heather Babka (GPSS, GDCB), Stuart Birrell ( Excused: David Holger (Vice Provost) Review of minutes: Minutes from the October 12, 2006 meeting were reviewed and unanimously accepted as amended (Motion: Thompson, seconded Miller) Announcements/comments: Ewald is working on a memo for Faculty Senate on the DIP course list asking for a change in procedure. The problem limiting faculty access to the on-line 2007-2009 catalog has been corrected. Responsibilities in the Registrar’s Office have changed. For the time being, send catalog changes to Hulsebus. College representatives should check the course change list since many courses on the list are not really changed. College representatives should be prepared to report if their college faculty had voted to approve catalog changes when they present their report. Faculty Senate Business: no current business related to curriculum. Catalog discussion: Approval of Changes: Remove Secondary Education from the list of majors (unanimously approved; motion Martin; seconded Miller). Interdisciplinary (Kruempel): reviewed significant trends; identified issues that may involve other college reports; described special circumstances impacting this report (Consortium courses). The report was unanimously approved (motion: Miller; seconded Birrell). Other business: none October 12Present: Ken Kruempel (Chair), Heather Babka (GPSS, GDCB), Stuart Birrell ( Excused: David Holger (Vice Provost), Char Hulsebus (Registrar Office) Review of minutes: Minutes from the meeting of October 5, 2006 were reviewed and a motion to accept the minutes as amended was passed unanimously (Motion: Wade Miller, seconded Sara Kadolph) Announcements/comments: Faculty Senate Business: Ken Kruempel reported that there were ongoing discussions in the faculty senate on the Latin American Studies program. The senate is discussing issues related to the requirement for participation in a study abroad program. In addition, the faculty senate was discussing the departmental name change from Department of Health and Human Performance to the Department of Kinesiology. The faculty senate expressed a wish that the name change should have had wider discussion throughput the system. Ken also stated that from the FSCC point of view that department name changes was not a major concern of the FSCC, unless there was a corresponding change in the degree programs. The FSCC main charge was the degree programs and not the Departmental names. Issue of Excess Contact Hours for Credits received: Ken Kruempel reported on the issue of excess credit hours (see e-mail 9/19/2006). Ken reported that David Holger’s position was that the credit hours should correspond to contact hours. At present the registrar’s office could add/change scheduling hours outside the catalog hours. The committee was asked whether a procedure should be adopted to limit this, whether present courses with additional contact hours should be grandfathered in. Laura Doering updated the committee on the present procedure at the registrars office. The registrars office monitors all requests to change the scheduling hours and enforces minimum required contact hours but does not enforce any policy on excess contact hours. Faculty are warned that FSCC does monitor this and may require these additional hours to be dropped. Laura also stated that calculation of credit hours has some uncertainty. Due to the unusual circumstance of summer courses, Laura suggested that these be considered under a different procedure. The committee discussed issues related to use of excess hours to reserve facilities and whether departments should be asked to monitor contact hours. The consensus was that departments would not adequately monitor this. It was felt that monitoring is required at the college or FSCC level, and old courses with excess hours should not be automatically grandfathered in. It was suggested that the registrars office monitor contact hours and make a judgment to identify courses with excess contact hours. These would then be forward to FSCC and/or college committees for approval. It was also suggested that classroom scheduling for additional contact hours be a separate category integrated into the class scheduling programs and access plus but removed from the catalog. The issue of whether instructors follow the prescribed catalog scheduled hours was unresolved. Ken Kruempel recommended that FSCC members discuss this within their respective colleges. Catalog discussion: Ken Kruempel reported that the initial catalog college database reports included a number of errors, and that new reports will be sent as soon as possible. Ken also provided additional information on different sources of information that could be used for the reports. The registrars office was asked to send X-course enrollment figures for the last two catalog cycles to be forwarded to FSCC members. The changes to catalog report include a number of errors particularly for cross-listed courses and contact hours for R courses. Ken reiterated that courses must only be counted once, and is only counted according to the designated teaching department October 5Present: Char Hulsebus, Ken Kruempel, Helen Ewald, Heather Babka, Dave Holger, Bill Dilla, James Thompson, Stuart Birrell, Sara Kadolph, Laura Doering, Michael Martin (minutes recorder for this meeting) September 21 minutes approved unanimously KK noted FSCC schedule for Catalog Production Summary Reports in upcoming weeks; CH noted that college reports will come to Colleges by 10/09/06 and that Colleges add parts they are responsible for CH noted (and distributed a hard-copy list, dated 10/05/06) sections not yet received for the curriculum part of the new catalog; also noted “front of back” materials still missing CH noted that course designations will include upper/lower case, not all-caps for everything KK noted that 10/27 is the date send “faculty listings” (appointments that occur within departments that are noted in the catalog); email will come to chairs concerning this KK notes that “courses not taught” justifications to be sent to CH and copied to KK; for the copy to KK, be sure to include a rationale for any that are to be kept despite KK’s persuasive efforts KK submitted catalog description of the Undergraduate Certificate for FSCC approval; MM moved, BD seconded, unanimous yes US Diversity/Int’l Perspectives catalog issues: KK noted that president of fac senate advised KK to put USD/IP outcomes in the catalog. KK’s proposed language unanimously approved after deletion of “of the” from line 2 of the proposed text (SB motion, MM second) KK noted that Women’s Studies is only department listing own courses that meet USD/IP requirement (p. 354 center column); KK notes problem that this is an inconsistency for catalog but also possibly not current and thereby potentially misleading; HE agreed to ask Women’s Studies to delete from new catalog. Also, SK will determine from Education what a “Human Relations” requirement is, and explore whether this is still appropriate for catalog text US Diversity/Int’l Perspectives assessment issues: KK proposed we set a new deadline for completing the faculty senate-mandated review/assessment of courses (by colleges), since earlier FSCC deadline of 10/01/06 has passed. KK noted he would put all existing USD/IP courses on a spreadsheet, listed by college HE noted the burden was too great for LAS, what with 300+ courses. DH suggested LAS come back to faculty senate with a counterproposal for a more streamlined, less tedious and excruciating re-approval process. Discussion ensued; ideas included grandfathering of existing USD/IP courses, approval by departments without the use of forms designed by FSCC and distributed earlier; finally, it was agreed that HE will bring a proposal that LAS can live with back to FSCC at the 10/12/06 meeting A discussion began on course listings: for numerical code that differentiates between lecture and lab (3-1, etc.), how to designate whether the lab part is optional…but the bell tolled, so this to be continued… September 21Attending: Ken Kruempel (Chair), Bill Dilla (Bus.), Helen Ewald (LAS), Michael Martin (Design), Wade Miller (Ag.), Stuart Birrell ( Minutes of
Oct 12 Interdisciplinary Oct 19 Engineering and Vet Medicine Oct 26 Business and Agriculture Nov 2 Design and Human Sciences Nov 9 LAS
September 14Minutes for September 14 approved 9/22/06 Attending: Ken Kruempel (Chair), Bill Dilla (Bus.), Helen Ewald (LAS), Michael Martin (Design), Wade Miller (Ag.), James Thompson (Vet.Med.), Stuart Birrell (
4. New U.S. Diversity and International Perspectives lists. A process was approved on 10/24/05 to reformulate the lists. However no action has been taken and Ken Kruempel has received no course proposals. It was concluded that the Committee will not be able to finish the lists by the deadline of October 1, 2006. A new date will be established later. 5. Future agenda items: There will be a DARS report next week. Also, for a future meeting there will be a discussion on excess contact hours exceeding the number of credits. For example a 3-1 course with 3 credits. 6. The meeting was adjourned 1:05 pm. The next meeting is scheduled for September 21. Minutes submitted by: Wade Miller |
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