University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Senate

AGENDA
Senate of the Urbana-Champaign Campus
November 17, 2014
3:10 pm

I.		Call to Order—Abbas Benmamoun, Vice Provost for Faculty & Academic Affairs

II.		Approval of Minutes—October 20, 2014

III.		Senate Executive Committee Report—Roy Campbell

IV.		Chancellor’s Remarks—Abbas Benmamoun, Vice Provost for Faculty & Academic Affairs

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.15.15	Proposal to Revise the Biochemistry Specialized Curriculum	Educational Policy (G. Miller)

EP.15.16	Revision to the Major in the Science and Letters Curriculum: BALAS Creative Writing, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences	Educational Policy (G. Miller)

EP.15.18	Proposal to Rename the Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology & Rename MS and PhD	Educational Policy (G. Miller)

EP.15.23	Proposal from the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences to eliminate the Food Industry and Business concentration in the Bachelor of Science in Food Science and Human Nutrition	Educational Policy (G. Miller)

EP.15.24	Proposal from the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences to establish a minor in Adult Development	Educational Policy (G. Miller)


VII.		Proposals

CC.15.06	Nominations for Membership on Standing Committees of the Senate	Committee on Committees (P. Kalita)

SP.15.07	Revisions to the Statutes, Article X, Section 2 – Academic Freedom (Final; Action)	University Statutes and Senate Procedures (W. Maher)

VIII.		Current Benefits Issues (5 min.) John Kindt, Chair of Faculty and Academic Staff Benefits

IX.		Reports

HE.15.02	FAC/ IBHE Report – October 2014	A. Aminmansour

UC.15.04	USC Report – October 8, 2014	J. Tolliver

SC.15.05	New Provost Communications Communication #26: Promotion to Teaching, Research or Clinical Associate or Full Professor Titles Communication #27: Shared Governance for Academic Units	R. Campbell

X.		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.

XI.		Adjournment

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