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AGENDA
Senate of the Urbana-Champaign Campus
March 7, 2016
3:10 pm

ILLINI UNION - ILLINI ROOM A

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I.		Call to Order—Interim Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Provost Edward Feser

II.		Approval of Minutes—February 8, 2016

III.		Senate Executive Committee Report—SEC Chair Gay Miller

IV.		Chancellor’s Remarks—Interim Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Provost Edward Feser

V.		Questions/Discussion

VI.		Consent Agenda

	If a senator wishes to move an item from the Consent Agenda to Proposals and have copies at the meeting, they must notify the Senate Office at least two business days before the meeting. Any senator can ask to have any item moved from the Consent Agenda to Proposals.

	EP.16.37	Proposal to Establish an Undergraduate Minor in Global Markets and Society, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences	Educational Policy (B. Francis, Chair)

	EP.16.41	Proposal to Revise the Clinical Concentrations in the Master of Social Work Program, School of Social Work	Educational Policy (B. Francis, Chair)

	EP.16.44	Proposal to Rename the General Engineering Degree to Systems Engineering and Design	Educational Policy (B. Francis, Chair)

	EP.16.48	Proposal to Establish or Modify an Undergraduate Minor in Public Relations (PR) offered by the Charles H. Sandage Department of Advertising, College of Media	Educational Policy (B. Francis, Chair)

	EP.16.52	Proposal to Establish a Undergraduate Minor in Creative Writing, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences	Educational Policy (B. Francis, Chair)

	EP.16.53	Proposal to Discontinue the Minor in the Teaching of Mathematics, Grades 6-8, in the Department of Mathematics, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences	Educational Policy (B. Francis, Chair)

	EP.16.59	Proposal to Revise the Bachelor of Science (BS) in Kinesiology Curriculum in the Department of Kinesiology and Community Health (KCH), AHS	Educational Policy (B. Francis, Chair)

	EP.16.60	Proposal to Revise the Mathematics and Computer Science BSLAS in the College of LAS	Educational Policy (B. Francis, Chair)

	EP.16.61	Proposal to Revise the Statistics and Computer Science BSLAS in the College of LAS	Educational Policy (B. Francis, Chair)


VII.		Proposals

	CC.16.10	Nominations to the Athletic Board	Committee on Committees (P. Kalita, Chair)

	SP.16.07	Amendment to the Statutes: Nondiscrimination Statement SP.16.07 Amended	University Statutes & Senate Procedures (W. Maher, Chair)

	EP.16.51	Proposal to Establish a Bachelor of Science in Innovation, Leadership and Engineering Entrepreneurship (BS in ILEE) Degree in the College of Engineering.	Educational Policy (B. Francis, Chair)

VIII.		University Strategic Plan Discussion 2015 Strategic Plan Website Download the PDF of the working draft

IX.

Committee of the Whole Discussion

	SP.15.08	Proposed Revisions to the Constitution, Article II, Section 1.b – Faculty Representation and Article III, Section 1.b – Other Academic Staff Representation	University Statutes & Senate Procedures (W. Maher, Chair)

X.

Reports

	EP.16.55	Administrative Approvals – February 8, 2016	Educational Policy

	EP.16.58	Administrative Approvals – February 15, 2016	Educational Policy

	EP.16.63	Administrative Approvals – February 29, 2016	Educational Policy

	EQ.16.02	Report on the Spring 2015 Diversity Climate Survey	Equal Opportunity and Inclusion

	SC.16.27	BOT Observer Report – January 21, 2016	A. Mixon

XI.		New Business
		Matters not included in the agenda may not be presented to the Senate without concurrence of a majority of the members present and voting.

XII.		Adjournment