University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Senate

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Senate

Academic Calendars Committees Faculty Policy Guide Honorary Degree Awards SEC Meeting Schedule Senate Agendas & Minutes Senate Meeting Schedule Senate Meeting Videos Senate Members Senator Guide

*** For recording purposes, you must speak directly into the microphone and identify yourself by name and college/department when you address the Senate.

AGENDA
Senate of the Urbana-Champaign Campus
April 4, 2016
3:10 pm

ILLINI UNION - ILLINI ROOM A

Download the PDF of the Senate Packet

I.		Call to Order—Interim Chancellor Barbara Wilson

II.		Approval of Minutes—March 7, 2016

III.		Senate Executive Committee Report—SEC Chair Gay Miller

IV.		Chancellor’s Remarks—Interim Chancellor Barbara Wilson

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.16.54	Proposal to Revise the Professional Science Masters in Geographic Information Science, LAS and Graduate College	Educational Policy (B. Francis, Chair)

	EP.16.56	Proposal to Revise the Undergraduate Minor in Asian American Studies, LAS	Educational Policy (B. Francis, Chair)


VII.		Proposals

	SP.15.21	Revisions to the Statutes to Implement the Recommendations of the Hiring Policies and Procedures Review Committee	University Statutes & Senate Procedures (W. Maher, Chair)

	SP.16.10	Revisions to the Bylaws, Part F, Section 1 – State Universities Retirement System Members Advisory Committee (SURSMAC)	University Statutes & Senate Procedures (W. Maher, Chair)

VIII.		Illinois Climate Action Plan (iCAP) (10 min. + Q&A)
		Ben McCall, Associate Director for Campus Sustainability PowerPoint Presentation Slides

IX.

Proposals

	CO.16.01	Resolution in Support of the Illinois Climate Action Plan (iCAP)	Campus Operations (N. O’Brien, Chair)

	RS.16.06	Campus Senate Recommendation to University of Illinois Regarding Coal Divestment	M. Scanlan, et. al.

	BG.16.01	Resolution Calling for the State of Illinois to Enact a Budget	Budget Committee (M. Sandretto, Chair)

X.

Reports

	EP.16.67	Expected Enrollment Increase for the Online Masters of Computer Science (MCS) Degree Focusing on Data Sciences	Educational Policy

	SC.16.28	BOT Observer Report – March 16, 2016	D. O'Brien

	UC.16.01	Report on the 2015-16 Meetings of the University Senates Conference (USC)	M. Wheeler

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