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AGENDA
Senate of the Urbana-Champaign Campus
November 14, 2016
3:10 pm

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I.		Call to Order—Vice Chancellor for Research Peter Schiffer

II.		Approval of Minutes—October 10, 2016

III.		Senate Executive Committee Report—SEC Chair Gay Miller

IV.		Chancellor’s Remarks—Vice Chancellor for Research Peter Schiffer

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.17.15	Proposal to Change the Name of the Business Process Management Major to Operations Management, College of Business	Educational Policy (B. Francis, Chair)
	EP.17.16	Proposal to Change the Name of the Information Systems / Information Technology Major to Information Systems, College of Business	Educational Policy (B. Francis, Chair)
	EP.17.19	Proposal to Revise Five Undergraduate Bachelor of Science Concentrations in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, College of ACES	Educational Policy (B. Francis, Chair)
	EP.17.20	Proposal to Revise the Curriculum to the Ph.D. Requirements for the Department of Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering	Educational Policy (B. Francis, Chair)
	EP.17.21	Proposal to Establish a Graduate Minor in Statistics, Department of Statistics, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences	Educational Policy (B. Francis, Chair)
	EP.17.23	Proposal to Revise the BALAS in Interdisciplinary Studies and Discontinue American Civilization and Renaissance Studies Concentrations, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences	Educational Policy (B. Francis, Chair)
	EP.17.24	Proposal to Establish an Undergraduate Minor in Criminology, Law, and Society, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences	Educational Policy (B. Francis, Chair)
	EP.17.25	Proposal to Revise the BALAS in Sociology, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences	Educational Policy (B. Francis, Chair)
	EP.17.27	Proposal to Revise the Interdisciplinary Minor in Aging, College of Applied Health Sciences	Educational Policy (B. Francis, Chair)
	EP.17.28	Proposal to Revise the Core Curriculum of the Campus-Wide Master of Science (M.S.) in Bioinformatics Program	Educational Policy (B. Francis, Chair)
	EP.17.29	Proposal to Revise the Requirements for M.A. in Speech and Hearing Science, Clinical Program	Educational Policy (B. Francis, Chair)
	EP.17.30	Proposal to Change the Name of the Major in Bioenergy to Bioprocessing and Bioenergy, for the Master of Science degree in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences	Educational Policy (B. Francis, Chair)


VII.		Proposals

	EP.17.34	Proposed Revisions to the Policy on Acceptance of Transfer Credit for Undergraduate Admission Purpose (USC OT-337)	Educational Policy (B. Francis, Chair)
	CC.17.09	Nominations for Membership on Standing Committees of the Senate	Committee on Committees (L. Monda-Amaya, Chair)

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

XI.

Reports

	EP.17.26	Report of Administrative Approvals through October 17, 2016	Educational Policy (B. Francis, Chair)

XII.		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.

XIII.		Adjournment