Please bring October 17, 2002 Faculty Senate Agenda Attachment E

2002 - 03 
FACULTY SENATE
California State University, Sacramento

AGENDA
Thursday, October 31, 2002
Foothill Suite, Union
3:00 - 5:00 p.m.

OPEN FORUM

REGULAR AGENDA

MINUTES

FIRST 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. The following schedule identifies the meeting dates when each of recommendations will come to the Senate for FIRST and SECOND READINGS.

October 17th: FIRST READING: Recommendations 6. 
October 24th: (no mtg.) 
October 31st: FIRST READING: Recommendations 4, 3, 5 and 13 
November 7th: SECOND READING: Recommendations 6. 
November 14th: (LIVINGSTON LECTURE CONVOCATION, no Senate meeting.) 
November 21st: SECOND READING: Recommendations 4, 3, 5 and 13 
November 28th: Thanksgiving

The Faculty Senate recommends that the General Education program be divided into a FOUNDATIONS OF GENERAL EDUCATION package, containing only lower division courses, and an UPPER DIVISION package, containing only courses that satisfy the "9 unit upper division General Education Requirement".

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

Link:  GE Impact Study Workgroup Issue Paper (Attachment A)

The Faculty Senate recommends that students must complete, as a prerequisite, 33 units of lower division GE before enrolling in upper division GE.

NOTE. The intent is to require native students to use their freshman and sophomore years to complete their lower division GE requirements as a prerequisite to enrolling in upper division courses.

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

The Faculty Senate recommends that the "Advanced Study" GE course designation be dropped and that its 5,000 word "writing intensive requirement" be satisfied either through a certified course in the student's major or a certified course in the UPPER DIVISION package.

REMINDER. Motion 1 defined UPPER DIVISION package to be those courses that fulfill the "9 unit upper division General Education Requirement".

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

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, consisting of three upper division units in each of three theme-based areas. 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 (Attachment B)

The Faculty Senate endorses the Scholarship Theme in the Strategic Plan and recommends that it be forwarded to the Council on University Planning (October 17, 2002 Faculty Senate Agenda Attachment E).

Background:  In April 2002, the Faculty Senate passed FS 02-21, which amended the University ARTP document, allowing probationary faculty members the right to decline without prejudice to serve on hiring committees.  The President, in a memo to the Faculty Senate of September 4, 2002, asked that the Senate reconsider this language.  The matter was referred to the University ARTP Committee for debate and consideration.  William Dillon, Presiding Member, reported the University ARTP Committee's findings in his memo of October 17, 2002 (Attachment C).  [This item is in Adobe (.pdf) format.  You must have version 5.0 to successfully access these files.  Go to: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/alternate.html to download the latest version.]

The Faculty Senate recommends amending Sections 6.04.B.1, 6.04.C.2 and 6.06.B.1 as shown 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 7, 2002 - Senate meets
   November 14, 2002 - Livingston Lecture (no Senate meeting)
   November 21, 2002 - Senate meets
   November 28, 2002 - Happy Thanksgiving!
   December 5, 2002 - tentative
   December 12, 2002 - tentative