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Minutes of Faculty Senate, 1/30/17 Meeting 123 Hathaway Hall

SenatorsNarayanan Rajendran (at large)
Ibukun Amusan (Math & Sci)Reba Rye (at large)
Ken Andries (AFE)Rita Sharma (Math & Sci)
Nancy Capriles (BSS)Kimberly Sipes (at large)
Rene Desborde (Business)Peter Smith (LLP)
Gary Elliott (WYS) EStephen Ulrich (PUA, CJ, SW)
Maheteme Gebremedhin (AFE)Changzheng Wang (at large)
Caroline Gibson (FIAR) A
Cindy Glass (BSS)Ex Officio Members and Guests
William Graham (EDU)President Aaron Thompson
Robert Griffin (FIAR)VP Candice Jackson
Buddhic Gywali (AFE)Chandee Felder (Senate Admin)
Dantrea Hampton (Library)Elgie McFayden (Faculty Regent)
Jens Hannemann (Comp Sci)Donavan Ramon (WYS)
Ashok Kumar (at large)LeChrista Finn (AFE)
Vikas Kumar (AQU)Patti Marraccini (Nursing)
Li Lu (Math & Sci)Cynthia Shelton (WYS)
Rebecca McCoy (Nursing) AMara Merlino (BSS)
Joe Moffett (LLP)

1. Call to Order

The meeting was called to order at 3:13 pm. Seventeen senators were present.

2. Approval of agenda

A motion carried to rearrange the agenda so that BASC would report before APC and the Senate President's Report and the VP's Report would follow the Regent's Report.

3. Approval of minutes

The Minutes of the 12/12/2016 meeting were approved unanimously as distributed.

4. Report of the Curriculum Committee

Chair Andries noted that he was not present for the previous CC meeting, but it had discussed a revision of the Nursing courses that had been approved in the 12/12/16 Senate meeting. One course had an incorrect number and “Gerontological” in the course titles should be changed to “Gerontology.” Graduate Director Dr. Obielodan should have seen all these changes since courses must first pass the Graduate Council before going to CC. Disagreement arose with regard to which courses needed to be changed, so Senate tabled the issue.

5. Report of the Budget and Academic Support Committee