Academic Calendars CommitteesFaculty 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
September 18, 2017
3:10 pm

ILLINI UNION - ILLINI ROOM A

Download the PDF of the Senate Packet

I.   Call to Order—Chancellor Robert Jones
     
II.   Approval of MinutesApril 17, 2017 and May 1, 2017
     
III.   Senate Executive Committee Report—SEC Chair Bettina Francis
     
IV.   Chancellor’s Remarks—Chancellor Robert Jones
     
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.18.02 Proposal to Revise the Curriculum of the Master of Music, Instrumental Conducting- Wind Band Concentration from the College of Fine and Applied Arts

Educational Policy
(G. Miller, Chair)

  EP.18.03 Proposal to Revise the Curriculum of the Doctor of Musical Arts, Instrumental Conducting-Wind Band Concentration, in the School of Music from the College of Fine and Applied Arts

Educational Policy
(G. Miller, Chair)

  EP.18.04 Proposal to Revise the Undergraduate Minor in History from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Educational Policy
(G. Miller, Chair)

       
VII.   Proposals
  CC.18.03 Nominations for Membership on Standing Committees of the Senate and Other Bodies with Senate Representation

Committee on Committees
(N. O'Brien, Chair)

  CC.18.05 Nomination to the State Universities Retirement System Members Advisory Committee (SURSMAC)

Committee on Committees
(N. O'Brien, Chair)

  SC.18.03 Election of a University Senates Conference (USC) Member to Serve on the Senate Executive Committee (SEC)

Senate Executive Committee
(B. Francis, Chair)

  SC.18.04 Election of a Faculty Member to the Committee on Committees

Senate Executive Committee
(B. Francis, Chair)

  EP.17.74 Proposed Revisions to the Guidelines for General Education Courses (GB.91.02) Revised and Approved EP.17.74.final

Educational Policy
(G. Miller, Chair)

  EQ.18.01 Resolution on Planned Termination of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Policy

Equal Opportunity and Inclusion
K. Oberdeck, Chair

     
VIII.   Call for Honorary Degree Award Nominations – Matthew Wheeler, Chair of Honorary Degrees
    Nomination Criteria for Honorary Degree Award and Nomination Form
     
IX.   Reports
  SC.17.15 Report on the May 11, 2017 Meeting of the Board of Trustees

G. Miller

  SC.17.16 Report on the July 13, 2017 Meeting of the Board of Trustees

N. Burbules

  EP.18.06 Administrative Approvals through August 24, 2017

Educational Policy
(G. Miller, Chair)

  EP.18.07 Administrative Approvals through September 11, 2017

Educational Policy
(G. Miller, Chair)

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