Status: Resolutions/Motions Passed
Academic Year(s): 2020-2021
Committee(s): Senate Executive Committee (SEC)
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Presented to the Mト]oa Faculty Senate by the Senate Executive Committee (SEC) for a vote of the full senate on May 12, 2021, an SEC motion on the Graduate Council. Approved by the Mト]oa Faculty Senate on May 12, 2021 with 66 votes (90.41%) in support; 7 votes (9.59%) opposed; and 7 abstentions.
フフフフフフフフフフフフフフフフフフフフフフフフフフ SENATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MOTION ON THE GRADUATE COUNCIL
WHEREAS, the restructuring of Graduate Council窶冱 relationship with the Mト]oa Faculty Senate (MFS) was established via the ; and
WHEREAS, while the Graduate Council is a committee of the Graduate Division and not of the Mト]oa Faculty Senate, but it is by Board of Regents policy (RP 1.210) that the Mト]oa Faculty Senate has authority over all matters of curriculum; and
WHEREAS, previously the Mト]oa Faculty Senate had a Committee on Research and Graduate Education that reviewed graduate level curricular proposals and by an agreement with the Graduate Division in , theフ Committee on Research and Graduate Education changed its focus to research and became the Committee on Research and agreed that the Graduate Division (via the Graduate Council) would continue to conduct reviews and recommend actions on graduate curricular matters; and
WHEREAS, the common practice is for faculty members who serve on the Graduate Council to have experience as department leadership, experience as a graduate chair and/or department chair, and several years of experience as graduate faculty; and
WHEREAS, the Mト]oa Faculty Senate and Graduate Division recognizes the past difficulty of finding sufficient numbers of qualified faculty to serve on both the former Committee on Research and Graduate Education and Graduate Council; and
WHEREAS, the process of nomination by the Committee for Faculty Serviceフ of faculty to serve on the Graduate Council as normal, non-senator faculty members was not clear in the 2015 motion; and
WHEREAS, the Dean of Graduate Division has in the past appointed non-Mト]oa Faculty Senate members to the Graduate Council and continues to do so; and
WHEREAS, the Mト]oa Faculty Senate has identified and continues to identify and appoint two senators, from the Senate Executive Committee and/or Committee on Academic Planning and Policy, selected by the Senate Executive Committee to serve on the Graduate Council, who also have Level 3 Graduate Faculty status, and experience as graduate chairs, department chairs, or several years of experience as graduate faculty; and
WHEREAS, the purpose of that restructuring and partnership with the Graduate Division was to preserve the Mト]oa Faculty Senate窶冱 窶懌ヲprimary responsibility for such fundamental academic areas as curriculum content, subject matter, and methods of instruction and research窶 ( Preamble); and
WHEREAS, among the duties of the Mト]oa Faculty Senate Committee on Academic Policy and Planningフ are to provide oversight and make recommendations on the 窶彳stablishment and modification of degree programs and curricula窶 (, Article IV, Section 1, g);
THEREFORE, the Senate Executive Committee moves to clarify that
- The Senate Executive Committee will continue to ensure that there are always two Mト]oa Faculty Senators serving on Graduate Council, who are Level 3 Graduate Faculty status and currently serving on the Senate Executive Committee and/or Committee on Academic Planning and Policy; one of whom shall be invited to serve as the chair of the Graduate Council窶冱 Program Committee (, Article III, Section 5 (12)); and
- The chair of the Graduate Council窶冱 Program Committee will present any proposals for new graduate degree programs or certificates, as well as any policy changes relating to graduate education, to the Mト]oa Faculty Senate for discussion and decision; and
- Service on the Graduate Council does not satisfy a senator窶冱 committee service obligation to the Mト]oa Faculty Senate (although relief from other committee duties is recommended); and
- The Graduate Division can continue to nominate Mト]oa faculty to serve as regular council members (not the Senate Executive Committee appointees) and will share the list of prospective members with the Mト]oa Faculty Senate Office for review by the Committee of Faculty Service and subsequent endorsement by the Senate Executive Committee, with the appointment made by the Graduate Division; and
This partnership with the Graduate Council will be reviewed by the Committee on Faculty Service, and Senate Executive Committee with Graduate Division every five years, or sooner, and adjusted as necessary.