2024-2025 Faculty Senate Meetings
Actions:
Old Business:
- Motion 2024/2025-289- 1: Course Compression - Approved
Consent Agenda Items:
- Motion 2024/2025-289-2: Approve list of AY2024-2025 graduates - Approved
- Motion 2024/2025-289-3: Replace EdReady with directed self-placement (DSP) for UAF writing placement - Approved
- Motion 2024/2025-289-4: SADA Bylaw update - Approved
- Motion 2024/2025-289-5: RSI Addendum - Approved
- Motion 2024/2025-289-6: Delegate the approval of the Academic Course and Degree Procedures manual to the Curricular Affairs Committee (CAC) - Approved
Regular Agenda Items:
- Recognition of Committee Chairs
- Resolution 2024/2025-289-1: Outstanding Senate Service of the Year Award (OSSYA) recipient - Bill Howard - Faculty Senate Approved
- Motion 2024/2025-289-7: History Unit Criteria - Returned to Committee
- Motion 2024/2025-289-8: IANRE Unit Criteria - Approved
- Motion 2024/2025-289-9: PhD Comm - New Program - Approved
- Motion 2024/2025-289-10: Integrity of UAF Courses - Returned to Committee
- Resolution 2024/2025-289-2: Call for Constructive Engagement - Faculty Senate Approved
- Resolution 2024/2025-289-3: In support of Mutual Aid Defense Compact - Faculty Senate Approved
- Resolution 2024/2025-289-4: Increased Transparency and Support for Shared Governance - Faculty Senate Approved
- Resolution 2024/2025-289-5: In Support of the Continuation of the Department of Developmental Education to Enable Collaboration on a Holistic Approach to Provide Students with a Solid Foundational Education - Faculty Senate Approved
2025-2026 Faculty Senate Actions:
- Motion 2025/2026-289-1: Adopt the 2025-2026 meeting schedule - Approved
- Motion 2025/2026-289-2: Adopt the 2025-2026 committee assignments - Approved
- Motion 2025/2026-289-3: Authorize the 2024-2025 Administrative Committee to act on behalf of the Senate over the summer - Approved
Actions:
- Motion 2024/2025-288-1: Anthropology Unit Criteria - Approved
- Motion 2024/2025-288-2: CFOS Unit Criteria - Approved
- Motion 2024/2025-288-3: CTC Unit Criteria - Approved
- Motion 2024/2025-288-4: INE Unit Criteria - Approved
- Motion 2024/2025-288-5: Formation of the Enriching Assessment for General Education Requirements (EAGER) ad hoc committee -
Approved
- Memo: Pausing the GER Assessment Cycle
- Motion 2024/2025-288-6: Establish Template for Graduate Admissions - Approved
- Motion 2024/2025-288-7: Amend the Upper-Division Credit Requirement - Approved
- Motion 2024/2025-288-8: Update regulations and guidelines on Special Topics and Trail Courses - Approved
- Motion 2024/2025-288-9: Establish procedures for minors that overlap with majors - Approved
- Motion 2024/2025-288-10: Eliminate the Bachelor Intended (BI) Status & enforce catalog admissions requirements - Approved
- Motion 2024/2025-288-11: Blue book update to include Open Educational Resources practices - Approved
- Motion 2024/2025-288-12: Sabbatical leave changes - Approved
- Motion 2024/2025-288-13: Moving the W deadline - Deferred until UAA & UAS are consulted and in agreement
- Motion 2024/2025-288-14: Policy for courses that are compressed into less than 6 weeks - Tabled until the next meeting on 5/5/25
- Resolution 2024/2025-288-1: Resolution on Admission of Graduate Students - Faculty Senate Approved
Actions:
- Resolution 2024/2025-287-1: Faculty Senate Resolution in Support of Free Speechand Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion - Approved
- Motion 2024/2025-287-1: DEI replacement statement motion - Chancellor Acknowledged
- Motion 2024/2025-287-2: Motion on graduate credits as a non-degree seeking student - Approved
- Motion 2024/2025-287-3: Modify catalog language regarding admissions and graduation requirements for Honors College - Approved
- Motion 2024/2025-287-4: Syllabus checklist requirement removed from CourseLeaf - Approved
- Motion 2024/2025-287-5: Change UAF’s current credit transfer procedures covering study away - Approved
- Motion 2024/2025-287-6: Space Operations, Minor - Approved
- Motion 2024/2025-287-7: Petroleum Engineering, BS (Deactivation) - Approved
- Motion 2024/2025-287-8 : Establish an ad-hoc committee: GER Revision Committee - Approved
Actions:
- Motion 2024/2025-286-1: Replace UAF NoLo course designator - Approved
- Motion 2024/2025-286-2: Geophysical Institute Unit Criteria - Approved
- Motion 2024/2025-286-3: Music Unit Criteria - Approved
- Motion 2024/2025-286-4: Revise GRE Language in the catalog - Approved
- Agenda
- Recording
- Meeting Minutes - Approved
Actions:
- Motion 2024/2025-285-1: American Sign Language Studies, Certificate - Approved
- Motion 2024/2025-285-2: American Sign Language English Interpreting, Associate of Applied Sciences - Approved
- Motion 2024/2025-285-3: American Sign Language, Minor (Reinstatement) - Approved
- Motion 2024/2025-285-4: Climate and Atmospheric Sciences, Bachelor of Science - Conditional Approval
- Motion 2024/2025-285-5: Eskimo, Minor (Deletion) - Approved
- Motion 2024/2025-285-6: Inupiaq Eskimo, Bachelor of Arts (Deletion) - Approved
- Motion 2024/2025-285-7: Medical Scribe Specialist, Certificate - Approved
- Agenda
- Recording
- Meeting Minutes - Approved
Actions:
- Motion 2024/2025-284-1: Applied Statistics, Minor - Approved
- Motion 2024/2025-284-2: Speech-Language Pathology, Minor - Approved
- Motion 2024/2025-284-3: Unmanned Aircraft Operations, Minor - Approved
- Motion 2024/2025-284-4: Amend the deadline for midterm grade submissions - Approved
- Motion 2024/2025-284-5: Economics, Bachelor of Business Administration - Approved
Actions:
- Motion 2024/2025-283-1: Summary to Add PTE (Pearson Test of English) - Approved
Actions:
- Motion 2024/2025-282-1: Clarifying of Graduate Admissions Procedure - Approved
- Motion 2024/2025-282-2: Recommended Procedures for Involuntary Removal of Principal Investigator (PI) - Failed
Actions:
- Motion 2024/2025-281-1: Deactivation of Resilience & Adaptation Graduate Certificate - Approved