ACADEMIC SENATE MEETING

Minutes

TUESDAY, November 10, 2009

SEVEN HILLS CONFERENCE CENTER, NOB HILL ROOM

2:00 – 5:00 p.m.

OPEN FLOOR PERIOD: 2:00 - 2:10 p.m.

The Open Floor Period provides an informal opportunity for faculty members to raise questions or make comments directed to Senate officers or to university administrators. Please arrive promptly at 2:00 p.m.

ATTENDANCE:
Avani, Nathan	Gomes, Ricardo	Ozluk, Ozgur
Bartscher, Patricia	Hellenga, Kate	Pong, Wenshen
Boyle, Andrea	Hellman, David	Rehling, Lu
Bugayong, Arlene	Jeung, Russell	Rosegard, Erik
Chen, Yu-Charn	Jin, Leigh	Rothman, Barry
Cheung, Yitwah	Landry, Lynette	Shapiro, Jerald
Chou, Fang-yu	Lau, Jenny	Shrivastava, Vinay
Collins, Robert	LePage, Pamela	Sinha, Dipendra
Corrigan, Robert	Levy, Eileen	Steier, Saul
Dariotis, Wei Ming	Li, Wen-Chao “Chris”	Stowers, Genie
Davila, Brigitte	McCarthy, Chris	Taylor, Don
Flatt, Sylvia	McCracken, Bridget	Trautman, Ray
Getz, Trevor	Minami, Masahiko	Vaquilar, Julie
Ginwala, Cyrus	Modirzadeh, Hafez	Wagner, Venise
Girouard, Shirley	Moody, Laura	Whalen, Shawn
Goen-Salter, Sugie	Neely, Francis	Yee, Darlene
Absences: Arnoldy, Tod (exc); Burke, Adam (exc); Danner, Don (exc); Gubeladze, Joseph (leave F09); Holzman, Barbara (exc); Hussain, Mahmood (exc); Mahan, Dianne (exc); Morishita, Leroy; (exc); Rosser, Sue V. (exc); Salama, Mohammad (leave 09 10); Sherwin, Paul (exc).
Guests: Brian Beatty, Lee Blitch, Caran Colvin, Linda Buckley, Gail Evans, Alan Jung, Oswaldo Garcia, Helen Goldsmith, Ann Hallum, Alex Katz, Wanda Lee, Jason Porth, Susan Shimanoff, Jaylan Turkkan, Pamela Vaughn, Robert Williams, Elise Wormuth,

CALL TO ORDER: 2:14 p.m.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

AGENDA ITEM#1—Approval of the Minutes for the October 27, 2009—minutes approved.

AGENDA ITEM #2—Approval of the Agenda for November 10, 2009—Senator Boyle proposed to amend the agenda to include new Agenda Item # 8, a report from Statewide Academic Senators. The motion carried. The agenda, as amended, was approved.

AGENDA ITEM#3—Report from Academic Program Review Committee Chair, Brian Beatty, Coordinator of Program Review, Oswaldo Garcia, and Associate Vice President of Academic Planning and Educational Effectiveness Linda Buckley regarding the 6^th Cycle of Program Review—Chair Beatty, Coordinator Garcia, and AVP Buckley presented a report on the 6^th Cycle of Program Review.

AGENDA ITEM#4—Report from President Robert Corrigan regarding the status of University Planning Efforts—President Corrigan presented a report on the status of University Planning Efforts for program review and budget planning.

AGENDA ITEM#5—Recommendation from the Curriculum Review and Approval Committee: Proposed Revisions to the MA Degree in English, Concentration in Composition, 1^st Reading, proposal to be hear no later than 3:00 p.m.—At 3:17 pm, CRAC Chair Vinay Shrivastava brought the Proposed Revisions to the MA Degree in English, Concentration in Composition, into first reading. Beverly Voloshin, Chair of English Literature and Composition, and Jennifer Trainor, the Coordinator of the MA Program in Composition, presented the proposed revisions. Senator Rosegard motioned to move the item to second reading. The motion was seconded and passed. The proposed revisions were passed.

AGENDA ITEM#6—Recommendation from the Curriculum Review and Approval Committee: Proposed Revisions to the Graduate English Certificate in Teaching Composition, 1^st Reading, proposal to be hear no later than 3:15 p.m. –At 3:26 pm, CRAC Chair Vinay Shrivastava brought the Proposed Revisions to the Graduate English Certificate in Teaching Composition into 1^st Reading. Beverly Voloshin, Chair of English Literature and Composition, and Jennifer Trainor, the Coordinator of the MA Program in Composition, presented the proposed revisions. Senator Goen-Salter motioned to move the item to second reading. The motion was seconded and passed. The proposed revisions were passed.

AGENDA ITEM#7— Recommendation from the Curriculum Review and Approval Committee: Proposed Revisions to the B.S. Degree in Business Administration: Concentrations in Corporate Finance and Financial Services, 1^st Reading, proposal to be heard no later than 3:30. –At 3:28, CRAC Chair Vinay Shrivastava brought the Proposed Revisions to the B.S. Degree in Business Administration: Concentrations in Corporate Finance and Financial Services into 1^st Reading. Alan Jung, Finance Department Chair, presented the proposed revisions. Senator Shrivastava motioned to move the item into second reading. The motion was seconded and passed. The proposed revisions were passed.

AGENDA ITEM #8—Report from the Statewide Senate by Statewide Senators Andrea Boyle, Jerry Shapiro, and Darlene Yee. –Statewide Senators Boyle, Shapiro, and Yee each presented a detailed report on activities at the Statewide Senate.

AGENDA ITEM #9--Adjournment—4:02 p.m.