CIE requesting revision of a prereq for CIE435: Statistics for Criminal Justice. Revise to change prereq MAT111 to MAT115 or MAT200.
Senate Action: FSCC 17-18-05 approved unanimously after explanation and brief discussion.
The Curriculum Committee will continue to review submitted action items, but they cannot be guaranteed review and passage by Senate for implementation Spring 2018.
Chair Gebremedhin reported the academic calendar was the primary discussion. Committee members raised concerns of calendar changes without knowledge of the committee. The FY2018-2019 calendar is being drafted.
Chair Reilly reported the committee continues to look at precedents for honoring and recognizing long service to the university on retirement. He and Dr. Walston are reviewing policies elsewhere at six other HBCUs, as well as EKU, WKU, and past policies at KSU.
VP Appleton has been invited to attend their next committee meeting to discuss primarily the indirect cost recovery in grants policy. Regent McFayden said that the Board unanimously approved the Senate's action item on this issue two years ago. However, stated policy recommendation has not been followed consistently. FY17 Senate President Sipes pointed out that Senate passed a PCC 16-17-03 Request to implement APC 13-14-05 Indirect Cost. Dr. Tierra Freeman said an Action Item was passed in 2013 as well.
Regent McFayden said programs should be pushed to be “complete self-sufficiency”.
Action Items Presented:
Revised Appendix P to the Faculty Handbook (Tenure & Promotion Benchmarks and name change to current “College of Agriculture, Food Science, and Sustainable Systems” from previous name “College of Agriculture and in all appropriate sections when referenced)
After extensive discussion, and a 5 minute extension of time, FSPCC 17-18-04 was tabled for further review by the committee, in order to:
Highlight all sections where there is a linguistics change for comparison.
Review the stipulation for Post-Tenure & Promotion Review every 4 years, instead of the University-wide policy of 5 years.
Review consistency or conflict with recently passed University-wide Tenure & Promotion standards, and incorporate a statement of reference.
Although the standards are already published as Appendix P to the Faculty Handbook, and the changes to those are primarily linguistic due to name change, there was extensive discussion of the paradigm of units having individual standards in general and need for careful review to assure they are not in conflict with the new University-wide standards. It was reported that PCC had discussed in committee the