Undergraduate Academic Affairs Council (UAAC)

Meeting Minutes

September 25, 2007

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2:30 PM

Present: Joel Sipress (Chair), Erin Aldridge, Dorothy Anway, Kim Borst, Glenn Carlson, Ella Cross, Barb Erickson, Gary Johnson, Gary Keveles, Brent Notbohm, Martin Pflug, Chuck Reichert, Steve Rosenberg, Deborah Schlacks, Cecilia Schrenker

Guests: Beth Gilbert, Peter Nordgren

I. Call to Order, 2:30 PM

II. Approval of minutes: Aldridge/Carlson (M/S): Approve minutes of September 11, 2007. Motion carried.

III. Reports:

a. Chair: (1) With the goal of finishing today’s business by 4:00pm, the chair suggested that Council members save lengthy discussion for issues that need it. (2) Erin Aldridge, on behalf of the Music Department, brought cookies for the Council as penance for introducing so many documents into today’s meeting.

b. Secretary: Asked permission to record today’s meeting with a digital voice recorder.

c. General Education Subcommittee: (1) Rosenberg/Schrenker (M/S): Approve SOCI/WST 475 for satisfaction of the non-Western requirement in general education. Motion carried. (2) Gary Keveles has resigned from the General Education Committee because he was appointed to head a service learning committee. Ella Cross volunteered to fill Keveles’ place. Chair Sipress moved without objection to close nominations and appoint Cross to the General Education Committee. Motion carried.

d. Registrar: The course schedule will be on the Web on Monday (October 1).

e. Other Announcements: None.

IV. Old Business:

a. Assessment of Prior Learning: Johnson/Carlson (M/S): Approve the Memorandum from Peter Nordgren and Ron Harshman dated 9/25/2007 on “Academic Policy Changes”. Schrenker/Aldridge (M/S): Add the text “(when feasible)” in item #1 after “individuals”. Amendment carried by a vote of 7 to 6. Main motion carried as amended. (A second amendment, to strike item #5, failed.)

b. Reinstatement Committee Proposal: The chair observed that, as a new Dean of Students has not arrived on campus, this item remains on the table.

V. New Business:

a. Schrenker/Johnson (M/S): Approve the catalog language changes relating to degree progress reports in Barb Erickson’s memorandum on “Modification of Catalog copy” dated July 18, 2007. Motion carried.

b. Carlson/Aldridge (M/S): Approve the changes to the Geography Minor in the document dated 9/14/07. Motion carried.

c. Schlacks/Cross (M/S): Approve the proposals from the English Department on introduction of a Writing Minor and new courses ENGL 303 and ENGL 470, as a package. Motion carried.

d. Proposals from Social Inquiry: (1) Schlacks/Johnson (M/S): Approve Dick Hudelson’s “Proposed change to minor in philosophy” dated Sept. 18, 2007. Motion carried. (2) Johnson moved to approve the new course proposal for SOCI 300 (Chinese Societies). Motion carried. (3) Reichert/Schrenker (M/S): Approve the addition of SOCI 300 to the list of electives for the Anthropology Minor. Motion carried.

e. Reichert/Carlson (M/S): Approve the proposals from Department of Business and Economics (see attached documents). Motion carried.

f. Aldridge/Schrenker (M/S): Approve the entire package of proposals from the Music Department, together with a 1-credit exemption to the 60-credit limit for the Bachelor of Music Education (Choral) Program, conditional on the approval by the Teacher Education Committee of the teacher certification program changes, and subject to the renumbering of the conducting practicum from MUSI 490 if necessary. Motion carried.

g. Anway moved to maintain the current policy of defining “upper-division” according to whether the course number is at least 300, regardless of whether the course is being used to substitute for another course. Motion carried.

h. (Other): The chair announced that any agenda items which need Senate approval should be sent in time for the next UAAC meeting of October 16.

VI. Meeting Adjourned, 3:28 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,

Steve Rosenberg, Secretary