Please bring your October 31, 2002 Faculty Senate Agenda:
Attachment A &
Attachment B

2002 - 03 
FACULTY SENATE
California State University, Sacramento

AGENDA
Thursday, November 21, 2002
Mendocino Hall, 1003
3:00 - 5:00 p.m.

OPEN FORUM

CONSENT CALENDAR

CONSENT ACTION

FS 02-78/Ex. COMMITTEE APPOINTMENT - UNIVERSITY

Committee for Persons with Disabilities
Demetra Oliphant, SSPAR, 2004

FS 02-79/Ex. COUNCIL ON THE PREPARATION OF SCHOOL PERSONNEL (CPSP) (Amends AS 90-131 and as 96 78A/CPC, Ex.)

The Faculty Senate recommends restructuring the University Teacher and Education Council (UTEC) and renaming it Council on the Preparation of School Personnel (CPSP), as outlined in Attachment A.

FS 02-80/CPC, Ex. PROGRAM REVIEW - DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY

The Faculty Senate receives the recommendations (Attachment B) of the Curriculum Policies Committee on the program review of the Department of Philosophy and recommends that the Department's current academic programs be approved for six years or until the next program review.

REGULAR AGENDA

MINUTES

FS 02-77/Flr.

Approval of the Minutes of NOVEMBER 7, 2002.

SECOND READING

2000 GENERAL EDUCATION PROGRAM REVIEW TEAM - RECOMMENDATIONS 3, 4, 5, & 13

Background:  In December 2001 the GE Program Review Team completed its report and sent fourteen (14) recommendations to the Faculty Senate for consideration and action. Last spring the Senate considered and approved nine (9) of the fourteen (14) recommendations. At that time the Senate established a General Education Impact Study Workgroup and referred the remaining five (5) recommendations them. The membership and structure of this Workgroup was recommended by the GE Review Team. The members are as follows:

GE Review Team Representatives: 

John Henry (Economics/SSIS) 
Ruth Ballard (Biological Sciences/NSM)

GEP/GRC Chair: 

Jackie Donath (Humanities & Religious Studies /A&L)

GE Director: 

Greg Wheeler (Academic Affairs)

Faculty Coordinator of Assessment: 

Linda Buckley (Academic Affairs)

At-large Members: 

Ann Haffer (Nursing/HHS) 
Dick Kornweibel (History/A&L) 
Marjorie Gelus (Foreign Languages/A&L) 
Amy Heckathorn (English/A&L, Writing & 
Reading Subcommittee Chair) 
Student: (to be appointed by ASI)
Chair: Bob Buckley (Faculty Senate Chair)

The Workgroup's charge was to identify the issues associated with each of these recommendations and to bring the recommendations and their findings to the Senate for consideration and action. 

FS 02-72/Ex. UPPER DIVISION GE PREREQUISITES, 2000 GENERAL EDUCATION PROGRAM REVIEW RECOMMENDATIONS

The Faculty Senate recommends that students must complete at least 30 units of lower division GE before enrolling in upper division GE.

(Reference: 2000 GE Review Team Report, Recommendation 13)

FS 02-73/Ex. WRITING INTENSIVE REQUIREMENT, 2000 GENERAL EDUCATION PROGRAM REVIEW RECOMMENDATIONS

The Faculty Senate recommends that the "Advanced Study" GE course designation be changed to a "Writing Intensive" designation.

(Reference: 2000 GE Review Team Report, Recommendation 5)

FS 02-71/Ex. DIVIDES GE PROGRAM, 2000 GENERAL EDUCATION PROGRAM REVIEW RECOMMENDATIONS

The Faculty Senate recommends that the General Education program be divided into 1) FOUNDATIONS OF GENERAL EDUCATION, containing only lower division GE courses, and 2) upper division courses that can be selected to satisfy the 9 units of upper division GE courses required of all CSUS undergraduate students.

(Reference: 2000 GE Review Team Report, Recommendation 3)

Link:  GE Impact Study Workgroup Issue Paper (October 31, 2002 Faculty Senate Agenda Attachment A)

FS 02-74/Ex. AN UPPER DIVISION ADVANCED GENERAL EDUCATION PACKAGE, 2000 GENERAL EDUCATION PROGRAM REVIEW RECOMMENDATIONS

The Faculty Senate directs the GE Impact Review Workgroup to prepare a proposal and implementation plan which would restructure the "9 unit upper division General Education Requirement" to be an ADVANCED GENERAL EDUCATION Package. The proposal and implementation plan is to be presented to the Senate for consideration and action in the spring semester of 2003.

(Reference: 2000 GE Review Team Report, Recommendation 4)

Link: GE Impact Study Workgroup Issue Paper (October 31, 2002 Faculty Senate Agenda Attachment B)

FIRST READING

FS 02-81/Ex. ACADEMIC INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE, CREATION OF

The Faculty Senate recommends creating an Academic Information Technology Committee, as described in Attachment C.

INFORMATION

  1. Faculty Senate's home page:  www.csus.edu/acse, or, from the CSUS home page, click on Administration and Policy, then Administration, then Faculty Senate.
  2. Status on actions taken by the Senate:  http://www.csus.edu/acse/02-03_actions.htm
  3. Schedule of fall meetings:

    November 28, 2002 - Happy Thanksgiving!
    December 5, 2002 - tentative
    December 12, 2002 - last Senate meeting of the semester