President Keeler called for a motion to vote, and there was none. He returned the measure to APC with the recommendation that the committee work with Dr. Schneller on the best next steps.

10 minutes were added for additional items from APC.

Senator Gyawali raised the questions of whether the faculty wanted to consider allowing a “Pass/Fail” option for student grades, as was done for the spring semester due to the emergency transition to online instruction. He also raised the question of whether faculty evaluations would be done this semester, and would they count for annual evaluations and promotion and tenure. These are issues that APC may be considering at future meetings. During this discussion, President Keeler ran an online poll of the senate which came out 11 against Pass/Fail for this semester and seven for it. He suggested that perhaps a survey of the entire faculty would be helpful for our consideration of this issue.

6. Curriculum Committee report [10 minute time limit]
6. Curriculum Committee report [10 minute time limit] Curriculum Committee had no action items. Chair Changzheng Wang reported that the main item of business at their last meeting was consideration of a request for the director of Institutional Effectiveness to be made an ex officio, non-voting member of the FSCC. Rationale for this was to help the committee with matters of program alignment and assessment. Senator Wang reported that the committee rejected this proposal because of concern that an “ex-officio” member would, by definition, be a full member of the committee, which means voting. The committee requests instead that the director of Institutional Effectiveness become a permanent liason to the curriculum committee. President Keeler said he would communicate this to the provost.