2024-2025 Faculty Senate Meetings
Actions:
Old Business:
- : Course Compression - Approved
Consent Agenda Items:
- : Approve list of AY2024-2025 graduates - Approved
- : Replace EdReady with directed self-placement (DSP) for UAF writing placement - Approved
- : SADA Bylaw update - Approved
- : RSI Addendum - Approved
- : Delegate the approval of the Academic Course and Degree Procedures manual to the Curricular Affairs Committee (CAC) - Approved
Regular Agenda Items:
- : Outstanding Senate Service of the Year Award (OSSYA) recipient - Bill Howard - Faculty Senate Approved
- : History Unit Criteria - Returned to Committee
- : IANRE Unit Criteria - Approved
- : PhD Comm - New Program - Approved
- : Integrity of UAF Courses - Returned to Committee
- : Call for Constructive Engagement - Faculty Senate Approved
- : In support of Mutual Aid Defense Compact - Faculty Senate Approved
- : Increased Transparency and Support for Shared Governance - Faculty Senate Approved
- : In Support of the Continuation of the Department of Developmental Education to Enable Collaboration on a Holistic Approach to Provide Students with a Solid Foundational Education - Faculty Senate Approved
2025-2026 Faculty Senate Actions:
- : Adopt the 2025-2026 meeting schedule - Approved
- : Adopt the 2025-2026 committee assignments - Approved
- : Authorize the 2024-2025 Administrative Committee to act on behalf of the Senate over the summer - Approved
Actions:
- : Anthropology Unit Criteria - Approved
- : CFOS Unit Criteria - Approved
- : CTC Unit Criteria - Approved
- : INE Unit Criteria - Approved
- : Formation of the Enriching Assessment for General Education Requirements (EAGER) ad hoc committee -
Approved
- : Pausing the GER Assessment Cycle
- : Establish Template for Graduate Admissions - Approved
- : Amend the Upper-Division Credit Requirement - Approved
- : Update regulations and guidelines on Special Topics and Trail Courses - Approved
- : Establish procedures for minors that overlap with majors - Approved
- : Eliminate the Bachelor Intended (BI) Status & enforce catalog admissions requirements - Approved
- : Blue book update to include Open Educational Resources practices - Approved
- : Sabbatical leave changes - Approved
- : Moving the W deadline - Deferred until UAA & UAS are consulted and in agreement
- : Policy for courses that are compressed into less than 6 weeks - Tabled until the next meeting on 5/5/25
- : Resolution on Admission of Graduate Students - Faculty Senate Approved
Actions:
- : Faculty Senate Resolution in Support of Free Speechand Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion - Approved
- : DEI replacement statement motion - Chancellor Acknowledged
- : Motion on graduate credits as a non-degree seeking student - Approved
- : Modify catalog language regarding admissions and graduation requirements for Honors College - Approved
- : Syllabus checklist requirement removed from CourseLeaf - Approved
- : Change UAF’s current credit transfer procedures covering study away - Approved
- : Space Operations, Minor - Approved
- : Petroleum Engineering, BS (Deactivation) - Approved
- : Establish an ad-hoc committee: GER Revision Committee - Approved
Actions:
- : Replace UAF NoLo course designator - Approved
- : Geophysical Institute Unit Criteria - Approved
- : Music Unit Criteria - Approved
- : Revise GRE Language in the catalog - Approved
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Actions:
- : American Sign Language Studies, Certificate - Approved
- : American Sign Language English Interpreting, Associate of Applied Sciences - Approved
- : American Sign Language, Minor (Reinstatement) - Approved
- : Climate and Atmospheric Sciences, Bachelor of Science - Conditional Approval
- : Eskimo, Minor (Deletion) - Approved
- : Inupiaq Eskimo, Bachelor of Arts (Deletion) - Approved
- : Medical Scribe Specialist, Certificate - Approved
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Actions:
- : Applied Statistics, Minor - Approved
- : Speech-Language Pathology, Minor - Approved
- : Unmanned Aircraft Operations, Minor - Approved
- : Amend the deadline for midterm grade submissions - Approved
- : Economics, Bachelor of Business Administration - Approved
Actions:
- : Summary to Add PTE (Pearson Test of English) - Approved
Actions:
- : Clarifying of Graduate Admissions Procedure - Approved
- : Recommended Procedures for Involuntary Removal of Principal Investigator (PI) - Failed
Actions:
- 2024/2025-281-1: Deactivation of Resilience & Adaptation Graduate Certificate - Approved