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A G E N D A
UAF FACULTY SENATE MEETING #132
Monday, October 31, 2005
1:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Regents' Conference Room, 109 Butrovich

1:00	I	Call to Order – Paul Layer 				  5 Min.
		A.	Roll Call
		B.	Approval of Minutes to Meeting #131
		C.	Adoption of Agenda

1:05	II	Status of Chancellor's Office Actions 		  5 Min.
	A.	Motions Approved:
1.	Motion on mixed-gender representation on university-wide 
committees.  
	B.	Motions Pending:  none

1:10 	III	Public Comments/Questions   			  5 Min.

1:15	IV	President's Comments - Paul Layer    		10 Min. 
		President-Elect's Comments - Shirish Patil 		10 Min.
		UAF Strategic Plan:  Themes and Goals 

1:35	V	A.	Remarks by Provost P. Reichardt		  5 Min.
B.	Remarks by Chancellor Steve Jones  		10 Min.
		
1:50	VI	Governance Reports    				  5 Min. 
		A.	Staff Council - Maya Salgenak 
	B.	ASUAF -Joseph Blanchard 
C.	GSO - Susan Hazlett

1:55	VII	New Business  					10 Min.
	A.	Motion to recommend approval of the proposed changes in BOR Policy 
and University Regulation (10.04.02-03), submitted by Curricular Affairs 
(Attachment 132/1)
B.	Motion on the Table of Substitution for non-UA Institutions, submitted 
by the Core Review Committee (Attachment 132/2)

2:05	***Break****  Group Photo 

2:20	VIII	Discussion Items  					  5 Min. 
	A.	Motion to amend the policy on Probation and Academic Disqualification,
submitted by Curricular Affairs (Attachment 132/3)

2:25	IX	Presentation     					10 Min.
	A.	Faculty Work Life Survey - Sine Anahita

2:35	X	Committee Reports 					15 Min.
	A.	Curricular Affairs - Rainer Newberry (Attachment 132/4)
	B.	Faculty Affairs - Jon Genetti (Attachment 132/5)
	C.	Unit Criteria - Glenn Chappell (Attachment 132/6)
	D.	Committee on the Status of Women - Jane Weber 
(Attachment 132/7)
	E.	Core Review - Mark Box (Attachment 132/8)
	F.	Curriculum Review - Rainer Newberry
	G.	Developmental Studies - Cindy Hardy (Attachment 132/9)
	H.	Faculty Appeals & Oversight - Larry Duffy
	I.	Faculty Development, Assessment & Improvement - Lee Haugen
		(Attachment 132/10)
	J.	Graduate Academic & Advisory Committee - Cathy Cahill 
		(Attachment 132/11)

2:50	XI	Guest Speaker
		A.	Wellness Program - Mike Humphreys

3:05	XII	Members' Comments/Questions			10 Min.

3:15	XIII	Adjournment

ATTACHMENT 132/1
UAF Faculty Senate #131
OCTOBER 31, 2005
SUBMITTED BY CURRICULAR AFFAIRS 

MOTION:  
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The UAF Faculty Senate recommends approval of the proposed change in Board of Regents Policy and University Regulations 10.04.02-03 adding Workforce Certificate of Completion and Occupational Certificate of Completion.

	EFFECTIVE:  	Immediately

RATIONALE:  	The Curricular Affairs Committee discussed the proposed revisions to the policies on Degree and Certificate Programs forwarded to the Faculty Senate for review and moves to forward them to the full Senate, with its recommendation that they be accepted, with the addition of a sentence to better spell out the approval process.  

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REGENTS POLICY

Degree and Certificate Program Approval	P10.04.02

All academic and certificate program additions, deletions, major revisions, and offerings of existing programs outside the State of Alaska will be approved by the Board of Regents with the exception of occupational and workforce certificates of completion in which approval authority is granted to the President.   This Policy has a corresponding University Regulation.
	(05-07-81, revised 02-16-96, revised XX-XX-05)

Credit Hour Requirements for Degree and Certificate Programs	P10.04.03

The minimum number of credits which may be required by a degree or certificate program approved by the Board of Regents will be, for each level:

Workforce Certificate of Completion	3 credits
Occupational Certificate of Completion	16 credits
Certificate	30 credits	Master's degree	30 credits
Associate degree	60 credits	Graduate Certificate	12 credits
Bachelor's degree	120 credits

With the exception of Graduate Certificates, programs of less than 30 credits do not require Board of Regents approval.  The award for completion of such programs will be a "certificate of completion" that must be clearly distinguished from a certificate awarded by the Board of Regents.  

The maximum number of credits which may be required by a degree or certificate program approved by the Board of Regents is, for each level:

Workforce Certificate of Completion	15 credits
Occupational Certificate of Completion	29 credits
Certificate	60 credits	Master's degree	45 credits
Associate degree	75 credits	Graduate Certificate	29 credits
Bachelor's degree	132 credits

The actual number of credits required for each degree and certificate, including prerequisites for required courses, will be specified in the current catalog of each university or community college.

UNIVERSITY REGULATION
________________________________________________________________________
Degree and Certificate Program Approval	R10.04.02

Occupational and Workforce certificates of completion program approvals shall be submitted to the President by the Chancellor.  A summary form shall be submitted through the Systemwide Academic Council to the President in a format approved by SAC.  The OCC/WCC program approval process will be different from that employed for degree and certificate programs and will include significant industry (or other relevant vested interest) involvement.

ATTACHMENT 132/2
UAF Faculty Senate #131
OCTOBER 31, 2005
SUBMITTED BY CORE REVIEW 

MOTION:
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The Faculty Senate moves to amend the UAF catalog "Table of Substitutions: non-University of Alaska institutions" (page 31 of the 2004-05 catalog) as follows:

[[  ]]  = Deletion
CAPS = Addition

TABLE OF SUBSTITUTION: Non-University of Alaska institutions

Perspectives on the Human Condition:	Transfer Courses	
HIST 100X:  Modern World History	a Western or non-Western Civilization course at the 100-level or [[above]] 200 LEVEL (LOWER DIVISION), EXCLUDING INDIVIDUAL NATIONAL HISTORIES	
ECON/PS 100X: Political Economy	[[a foundation course in political science, economics or law]]  A COURSE IN US OR COMPARATIVE POLITICAL ECONOMY, OR US ECONOMIC HISTORY, OR MACROECONOMICS AT THE 100-LEVEL OR HIGHER	
ANTH/SOC 100X:  Individual, Society and Culture	[[a foundation course in sociology, social/cultural anthropology, social psychology; psychology, language and culture, or cultural geography at the 100 level or above]] 
AN INTRODUCTORY COURSE IN ANTHROPOLOGY AT THE 100 OR 200 LEVEL (LOWER DIVISION).
AN INTRODUCTORY LEVEL COURSE IN SOCIOLOGY, OR LOWER-DIVISION SOCIAL PROBLEMS COURSE.
A COURSE IN CROSS-CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY. 	
ENGL/FL 200X:  World Literatures	[[a literature course at the 100-level or above]] AN INTRODUCTORY OR LOWER DIVISION COURSE IN WORLD OR COMPARATIVE LITERATURE.	
ART/MUS/THR 200X: Aesthetic Appreciation
or HUM 201X
or ANS 202X	a history or appreciation course in art, theatre or music at the 100-level or above	
PHIL 322X: Ethics (Values and Choices)
or COMM 300X
or JUST 300X
or NRM 303X
or PS 300X	an upper-division course in ethics, or, with approval of the philosophy department, a lower-division course in ethics.	
Other	Transfer Courses	
Foreign Language 	[[a minimum of two semesters in a single, non-English language.]]
OR COMPLETE 12 CREDITS FROM THE PHC OPTIONS ABOVE, PLUS TWO SEMESTER-LENGTH COURSES IN A SINGLE ALASKA NATIVE LANGUAGE OR OTHER NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE OR THREE SEMESTER-LENGTH COURSES (9 CREDITS) IN AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE AT THE UNIVERSITY LEVEL.	

	EFFECTIVE:   	Immediately
				Upon approval of the Chancellor.
				This will appear in the 2006-07 catalog.

RATIONALE: The purpose is to align credit for transfer courses from out of state more closely with university core-curriculum requirements.  Currently, transferring students receive core credit for taking courses elsewhere that do not approximate content required in the core curriculum.  The proposed changes will achieve greater consistency between the experience of general-education requirements for students starting their studies at the university and those transferring from out of the state system.  

The central component of the intellectual experience at the university is the core curriculum.  It is possible to achieve a better correspondence between the content of the core and the courses selected to substitute for core courses without making the curriculum into a procrustean bed.   

ATTACHMENT 132/3
UAF Faculty Senate #131
OCTOBER 31, 2005
SUBMITTED BY CURRICULAR AFFAIRS 

DRAFT MOTION: 
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The UAF Faculty Senate moves to amend the policy on Probation and Academic Disqualification (2005-2006 UAF Catalog, page 72).

[Current language: bold strikethrough   Suggested language: bold italic]

Probation

*	Undergraduate students--Students whose cumulative and/or semester GPA falls below 2.0 will be put on academic probation. Students on probation should may not enroll in more than 12 credits a semester.  Probation may include additional conditions and/or credit limitations for the student's next enrollment at UAF, as determined by the dean of the college or school in which the student's major is located. Students on probation Probation students may will be referred for developmental advising/education and/or to an advising or support counseling center. The student will prepare with an Academic Advisor an academic plan for achieving a higher gpa; the Advisor is responsible for forwarding this plan to the appropriate Dean.  A student on probation will not be allowed to register unless the academic plan is on file.  Removal from probation requires the student's cumulative and semester GPAs to be at least 2.0. 

Academic Disqualification

*	Undergraduate students--Undergraduate students on probation students whose semester and cumulative GPAs are less than 2.0 at the end of spring semester may will be disqualified from degree-seeking status. Disqualified students may continue their enrollment at UAF only as non-degree students and are limited to a maximum of 9 credits per semester. To be eligible for reinstatement in an academic degree program, the student will normally be is expected to earn at least a C grade in all courses taken as a non-degree student.  To be restored to degree-seeking status, the student must apply for readmission. A student may be reinstated but may be still on probation.

ATTACHMENT 132/4
UAF Faculty Senate #131
OCTOBER 31, 2005

Curricular Affairs Committee         MINUTES
Monday OCT 3  2005           12-1  pm   Runcorn Room, Nat Sci Bldg

Present:   Anna Berge, Ataur Chowdhury, Katrin Iken, Joseph Thompson, Tim Stickel, Gayle Gregory, Wanda Martin, Linda Hapsmith, Jodie Anderson, Carol Lewis, Rainer Newberry

1.	Report from Carol Lewis RE reactions of Deans to request for clarification and improvements in probation/disqualification policy.

2.	  Discussion of proposed change in wording of probation/disqualification, as slightly modified from Joseph Thompson.

3.  Report from Tim Stickel  regarding (a) Registrar’s reactions to UA common dates (e.g., Drop, fee payment) and (b) suggested calendars.  Tim said ‘maybe.’  More news in 2 weeks.

4.  Preview of coming attractions:  “Occupational Certificates of Completion”.   UAA does it and TCC is apparently eager to jump on the bandwagon.   Some discussion about academic vs non-academic programs & certification ensued.

5.  ADJOURNED AT 1 PM.

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Curricular Affairs Committee         MINUTES
Monday OCT 17  2005           12-1  pm   Runcorn Room, Nat Sci Bldg

Present:   Anna Berge, Ataur Chowdhury, Katrin Iken, Joseph Thompson, Tim Stickel, Gayle Gregory, Linda Hapsmith, Jodie Anderson, Carol Lewis, Rainer Newberry, guest Pete Pinney

1. “Occupational Certificates of Completion”.   Pete answered questions.  We agreed to forward to the Faculty Senate for approval the proposed policies & regulations, with the addition of a sentence to better spell out the approval process.  

2.  Suggested amended version of the probation/disqualification language…as amended at today's meeting (in agenda).

3.  Brief report from Tim Stickel  regarding suggested academic calendars for 2007, 2008, 2009.  These will be considered next meeting.

4.  Adjourned at 1 pm.

ATTACHMENT 132/5
UAF Faculty Senate #131
OCTOBER 31, 2005

Faculty Affairs Committee
September 28, 2005

Present: Scott Bailey, Jim Collins, Mike Davis, Jon Genetti, Chris Wolsko, Mingchu Zhang, Denis Wiesenberg, David Porter

Topics discussed:

1. UNAC ex-officio member:  David Porter will attend FA meetings and provide insight on how issues discussed relate to the CBA.  The union has legal standing for many issues and management deals with UNAC differently than the Faculty Senate.

2. Meeting times and dates changed for rest of the Fall semester:
Wednesdays from 11-12 on 10/19 and 11/16

3. 3 year vs. 2 year term for senators:  The consensus is that 3 year terms would result in better continuity in committees and the senate, but it would be much more difficult to recruit faculty to serve.  Those who would serve 3 year terms, can easily get re-elected to serve an effective 4 year term now.  A majority of FA recommends no action.

4. Hamilton memo on freedom of speech:  As long as Hamilton is the UA president, faculty do not have to state that their opinion “may not be the opinion of the university”.  This seems to overrule BOR regulation that states an employee must state that.

5. Wellness Program:  All of the FA members recently received both a letter from Hamilton and a brochure from Summex Health Management describing the importance of everyone participating in the survey.  After the current CBA expires, health care is outside of the CBA, so the union will not negotiate university contribution rates.  The health plan is self-funded, with the university paying a fixed amount and any overages the responsibilities of the members.  There is currently a joint management-union committee being formed to deal with controlling health care costs.  FA recommends that a FS representative be on this committee.

6. TRS/ORP update:  David Porter points out that TRS is outside of the CBA and is not negotiable via the union.   As of March 2005, Michael Jennings reported that 2/3 of the faculty were ORP.  The new plan that comes into effect July 2006 will make faculty recruiting and retention more difficult, especially when combined with below-market salaries.  Jon Genetti will get the legal plan description to determine what will happen for ORP participants if there is a one-time payment to TRS to bring its funding up to 100%.

7. Electronic Faculty Workload Project:  Anupma Prakash will schedule a new demo with Hild Peters for one of the fall meetings.  One specific point is how the information will be protected, e.g. workloads are public, but activities reports are part of the faculty personnel files.

A. Non-represented/research Faculty:  Jon Genetti will ask for clarification during the next administrative meeting.

B. Legislative Mixer:  The committee is disappointed that it could not have been scheduled closer to the face-to-face Faculty Senate meeting in October.  Scott Bailey is available to help with preparations.

C. New UNAC President:  FA recommends that the newly elected president meet with either FA or the full senate this fall.

ATTACHMENT 132/6
UAF Faculty Senate #131
OCTOBER 31, 2005

UAF Faculty Senate Unit Criteria Committee
Meeting Minutes
10 a.m.-11 a.m. Friday, October 14, 2005, 301B Duckering Building

Attending:
Glenn G. Chappell (Computer Science), chair
Brenda Konar (SFOS/GURU), committee member
Ping Lan (School of Management), committee member
Debasmita Misra (Mining & Geol. Eng.), committee member
Julie Riley (CES, Horticulture), committee member (by phone)

1.	September 6, 2005 meeting minutes.
•	The minutes were approved.
2.	Future meeting dates.
•	The committee agreed to meet on Tuesday, November 8, 2005, 2:30-3:45 p.m. and Tuesday, November 29, 2005, 2:30-3:45 p.m.
3.	Reports from members.
•	G. Chappell said that, at the recent Administrative Committee meeting, it was agreed that the effect of student evaluation of instruction on faculty promotion and tenure, should be considered by the Faculty Affairs Committee.
•	No unit criteria have been submitted for consideration by the committee.
4.	Units lacking approved unit criteria
•	There does not seem to be any complete list of units lacking approved unit criteria. G. Chappell agreed to look into the creation of such a list.

Note: D. Misra was chosen as committee co-chair in e-mail discussions between the previous meeting and this one.

Minutes prepared by Glenn G. Chappell

ATTACHMENT 132/7
UAF Faculty Senate #131
OCTOBER 31, 2005

Faculty Senate Committee on the Status of Women
26 September 2005, 718 Gruening

Present: Carol Gold, Jane Weber, Sine Anahita, Qwynten Richards, Rene Pasker, Joan Braddock, Renate Wackerbauer, Denise Thorsen, Uma Bhatt & Cindy Hardy.

1) Debrief on Women Faculty Luncheon of last week 
	- Aldona Jonaitis was left off the list
	- We are encouraged to have this event each year.
	- Include recognition of promotion and tenure of women faculty.  

2) Misc.
- Senate Reps, increase to two appointed senators by changing by-laws. This will ensure that we at least get one male since all of us are elected other than the Senate Rep. This will be done in a few weeks.
- Update on 'Mixed Gender Representation' on committee, passed Senate but many people did not vote.
- How do we get a man to run for our committee?

3)  Report from Sine about the Survey
Key Points
- Both Men and Women felt naive about the hiring process, women more so.
- Men collaborate more than the women, how can we encourage more collaborations especially out of UAF realm
- Promotion committee differences, it was suggested to remove the assistants to see how this looks (Fig. 17)
- Women perceive greater barriers to leadership then men but the main reason is that they have too much to do right now.
- Sine will condense the 76 pages of comments

- Recommendations need to be put into the executive summary

4) The next meetings will be held on 10/10/05 and 10/24/05.

Submitted by Uma S. Bhatt

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10 October 2005 CSW meeting
3:PM- 4:15   7th floor Gruening

Present: Renate Wackerbauer, Wendy Zhou, Carol Gold, Jane Weber, Cindy Hardy, Sine Anahita, & Uma Bhatt. 

1) The committee continued to go through the Final report of the Study of Faculty work life survey. 
- The final revisions were discussed. Sine was commended on the great job she did putting the survey together. 
- Conclusions -- we should pick a few ideas that we put forth. Does something leap out, 1) Mentoring works - THINK ABOUT WHAT OUR BULLET POINTS ARE  - Sine will do a powerpoint presentation to the Senate 31st October, 2005 on the survey. Who else should she give this presentation to? Administration and faculty. SAC -- system provosts including state wide administration. 

2) Sine showed curves that Hild Peters put together that shows the promotion rates of current men and women. Sine suggested that we use the charts of Hild for the introduction of our survey. 

3) Cindy attended the Diversity meeting and provided us a report. 

4) Next meeting will be more than two weeks now. 

ATTACHMENT 132/8
UAF Faculty Senate #131
OCTOBER 31, 2005

Core Review Committee
Minutes for Meeting of 2-3 p.m. Wednesday 12 October 2005

Present: Mark Box, Karen Callahan, Christie Cooper, Suzan Hahn, Eric Madsen, Scott Rupp, Alexei Rybkin, Tim Stickel (members), Linda Hapsmith (interested observer)

Report for the Senate Minutes.  The committee met on 12 October with six members present.  Also present was Linda Hapsmith.  After reviewing six new petitions and revisiting one old one, the committee found itself out of time. As a result of our discussion, Tim Stickel was asked to add language to the forms encouraging inclusion of documentation supporting a petitioner's contention that a core course is commensurate with a course proposed as a substitution.  The committee agreed to meet next on 26 October.  

Respectfully submitted, M. A. Box

ATTACHMENT 132/9
UAF Faculty Senate #131
OCTOBER 31, 2005

Developmental Studies Committee
September 30, 2005

Attendance: Nancy Ayagarak, Latrice Bowman, John Creed, Linda Hapsmith, Cindy Hardy, Ron Illingworth, Marjorie Illingworth, Joe Mason, Gabrielle Russell.

--Discussion of Certificates of Completion. We have been asked to address this by the Administrative Committee.  Various rural campuses have been giving out Certificates of Completion, certificates that require less than the 30 credits needed for a formal UAF Vocational Certificate.    They are usually established at the request of employers in specific industries and presuppose a level of skill at entry (though these are not necessarily academic skills).  Certificates of Completion can be important to students who need to demonstrate competence in a field or area, especially a particular set of skills required by an employer.  Two examples at UAF campuses include a certificate in Uphill Welding and a certificate in Grantwriting.  It is up to the individual unit to decide what they will use as a baseline for completion of these certificates; therefore, there are no established uniform standards.  None of the accrediting agencies have established standards for these types of certifications.  

The University is interested in these certificates as another way to capture student headcount, particularly among those students who enter and exit UAF without graduating.  There’s confusion about the titles: the difference between Vocational Certificates and Certificates of Completion.    We discussed the implications of formalizing these types of certificates—less flexibility, more red tape, and more delays in establishing certificates to meet specific, immediate needs.

This is a form of program that’s used at other Universities and Colleges throughout the US.  Other names used include “Career Certificates” and “Short-term Intensive Training.”  Joe, Nancy, Marji, and Ron will compile lists of Certificates of Completion at their campuses to forward to Cindy, who will report back to the Administrative Committee. 

--Revision of role of DEVS committee to include curriculum review for Vocational Certificates and AAS program-specific classes: Joe, Ron and Cindy met to discuss this on September 14.  They considered the possibility of expanding the role of the committee, particularly in the area of curriculum review for AAS and Vocational Certificates. There is a lot of overlap between the vocational programs and Developmental programs, including a significant overlap of student populations.  We discussed developing a proposal to the Administrative Committee and the Faculty Senate.  Our discussion raised the following questions, which we will continue to address as part of our process of redefinition:

Does the committee want to dilute its responsibility to developmental issues? Will we lose our focus by broadening responsibilities? 

Should this be pursued? Or, should vocational programs form their own Faculty Senate curricular review committee?

We will put up documents on our Blackboard site and create a forum to discuss this: “Redefining the Developmental Studies Committee.”

--Response to the idea of Selective Admission at UAF.   We discussed the Chancellor’s response at the Convocation to the question on selective admissions.  Although his response seemed to point to support for developmental programs, through CRCD and TVC, this term still needs to be defined. The concept of selective admission seems to be focused at the bachelor’s level programs.

We agreed to ask Tim Barnett and Susan Henrichs of the Enrollment Management task force, which is developing a report on selective admissions, to meet with us at our next meeting.  We hope to both get an update on their process and offer input from “the trenches.”

--Resolution to the Faculty Senate in support of the role of developmental programs at UAF. We plan to write a resolution to the Faculty Senate in support of developmental programs at UAF—and particularly the Department of Developmental Education, which was formed through this committee’s labor, and which now is being asked to become self-supporting.  We anticipate that our response to the report on selective admissions may either include or parallel this resolution.  We will take this up at our next meeting.

The next meeting will be October 14, 2:15-3:30pm.

ATTACHMENT 132/10
UAF Faculty Senate #131
OCTOBER 31, 2005

Faculty Development, Assessment and Improvement Committee
October 6, 2005 at 11:00 AM

Attending: Joy Morrison, Channon Price, Corky Corkern, Susan Herman, John Kawula, Marjorie Illingworth, Lee Haugen, 

Meeting Minutes

1.	TeachingOnTheNet: 
The provost asked that we look at this distance education site and comment on its usefulness. After discussion regarding the value of this site for faculty, the committee agreed NOT to recommend it and asked that Curt Madison to look at the site and perhaps recommend other choices.

2.	Plus/Minus Grading Policy
Acting on the recent letter sent by Paul Layer, Is Our Grading Policy Broken?, FDAI voted to support the adoption of a plus/minus grading policy.  Although the committee likes the benefits of increased granularity, we recognize the difficulties consistent with numerical calculations and their implications for financial aid, graduate degrees, the ’A’ grade, etc.  
Further FDAI recommends that Curricular Affairs pursue a policy change regarding this issue.

3.	Future Meeting Date Change
Due to travel by various committee members, the FDAI November meeting date is changed from Nov.3 to NOV.10 at 11am.

Minutes submitted by Lee Haugen

ATTACHMENT 132/11
UAF Faculty Senate #131
OCTOBER 31, 2005

Graduate Academic & Advisory Committee
September 28, 2005

Present:  Cathy Cahill, Patty Gray, David Maxwell, Paul McCarthy, Laura Milner, Joan Parker-Webster, Heinz Wiechen, Richard Wies, Susan Henrichs, Pauline Wilson, Joan Braddock, Susan Hazlett, Tim Stickel and Laura Bender

1)  FISH 694 and FISH 694 were both conditionally approved as trial courses for Spring 2006 pending contact with Pauline Wilson concerning the courses’ library needs.  The committee requires professors proposing new courses to contact the Library Collection Development Officer prior to the course being approved.

2)  BIOS 694 was approved as a trial course for Spring 2006.

3)  Atmospheric Sciences wants to offer ATM 698 (Non-Thesis Research/Project) as both pass/fail and graded.  The consensus of the committee is that it should be one or the other.  The suggestion was to keep ATM 698 as pass/fail and add a course that was graded for a M.S. with project option.  The program requirements would then need to be changed to require that course for the M.S. with project option.  After reviewing the catalog, Cathy Cahill found that there are some additional questions about whether ATM has this course, where it is required in their curriculum and whether they have the M.S. with project option.  Therefore, Cathy will try to find the answers to the new questions and get back to the committee with them during the next meeting.

4)	The committee and the Dean of the Graduate School agree that post-bacc certificates for licensure in education should go through the entire Board of Regents approval process including the New Program form with hex chart.  Because these programs are already in existence, the documentation for the new program will not need to be as comprehensive as that required for an entirely new degree program.  The committee believes that the information should be easily accessible to the School of Education because they already know the demand for the courses and have documentation compiled for the licensing board.

5)  	Discussion Items:

a)  Trial Courses - Do we need the trial course process?  The committee recommends dropping the trial course option since new courses can be tested as special topics courses (693) or by going through the new course process.  Joan Braddock suggested emphasizing the deadline by which special topics courses must submitted for them to be included in the course schedule.  Tim Stickel is going to check what the impacts of this action would be.

b)  Realistic Space Usage - Tim Stickel said there is no money for furniture this year so classroom usage/space issues are moot this year.

c)	Minor vs. major changes – The committee members will examine what currently goes on the minor and major change forms before the next meeting.  Suggestions for improving the forms and clarifying what constitutes major and minor changes will be discussed at the next meeting. 

d)	Susan Henrichs told us her progress on determining what can be done to provide graduate students with higher wages and/or health insurance.  The Institute of Arctic Biology is requiring new grant proposals to include graduate student funding at the national average for Biology programs.  The School of Engineering and Mines is also considering increasing graduate student funding.  Susan is investigating ways of adding catastrophic insurance to the basic health insurance the students are currently buying.  It is an expensive proposition because adding health insurance for all of UAF’s TAs would cost $250,000.  
 
e)	We need a replacement for Bob Bolton, one of the graduate student representatives on GAAC, starting Spring 2006.  If you know of a good candidate, please suggest them to the committee.	

6)  If we need it, the next meeting of GAAC will be October 19th at 2:15 in the Runcorn conference room in the Natural Sciences Facility.