GENERAL POLICY REPORT #38

December 15, 2006

The items listed below will be considered to have the necessary faculty approval unless a petition requesting further consideration of them is signed by five faculty members and submitted to the chair of the Faculty Council within 14 calendar days after the December 15, 2006, date of circulation. As a rule, if no petition is received within 14 days, or in this case by December 29, 2006, the report would be submitted to the president for approval and transmittal to the regents, if regents’ action is required (however due to the extensive Christmas break, the deadline will be extended to January 5, 2007). If a petition is received, the report will be referred to the Faculty Council. On items referred to it, the council may: (1) affirm the action and report it to a meeting of the university faculty, (2) amend the action and report it to a meeting of the university faculty, or (3) rescind the action.

 The following items are presented in the policy report that begins immediately below:

 UCC Catalog Changes:

• FC-07-010: NOI: Change B.S. in Mathematics – Modeling option to Scientific Modeling option

• FC-07-011: NOI: Change in Geography– Regional Analysis Development option to Global and Regional Studies option

• FC-07-012: NOI: Change B.S. in Mathematics – Actuarial Science to Actuarial Science and Finance option

• FC-07-013: NOI: Discontinue B.S. in Geography – Cartography option

• FC-07-014: NOI: New Minor in Bioethics

• FC-07-015: NOI: Change Title: M.S. Resource Recreation & Tourism to M.S. Conservation Social Sciences·        

• FC-07-017: NOI: Move Environmental Science M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the College of Letters, Arts and Social Science to the College of Graduate Studies

• FC-07-018: Memo from Margrit von Braun in support of FC-07-017

• FC-07-019: Proposed addition to Part 4 – Annual Enrollment Policy

• FC-07-020: NOI: Education, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, B.S. Education, major in Secondary Education – North Idaho

• FC-07-021: NOI: Education, Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, Discontinue B.S.Ed. School & Community Health and rename B.S.P.E. Sport Science to B.S.P.E. Exercise Science and Health

• FC-07-023a: NOI: Graduate Studies – New Graduate Water Resources Program – Part 1

• FC-07-023b: NOI: Graduate Studies - New Graduate Water Resources Program – Part 2

• FC-07-024: NOI: Education,  Change Master’s and Specialist Major Titles: Adult and Organizational Learning to Adult/Organizational Learning and Leadership

• FC-07-025: NOI: Education, Change Bachelor’s and Master’s Majors Titles: Industrial Technology to Technology Training and Development

• FC-07-026: NOI: Business & Economics, New Undergraduate Certificate in Entrepreneurship

• FC-07-027: NOI: Business & Economics, Discontinue BS-Business degree Finance – Financial Planning Option

• FC-07-028: NOI: Agricultural & Life Sciences, Discontinue B.S. Entomology

• FC-07-029: NOI: Agricultural & Life Sciences, Discontinue B.S. Horticultural and Crop Science

• FC-07-030: NOI: Agricultural & Life Sciences, Discontinue B.S. Soil Science

• FC-07-031: NOI: Agricultural & Life Sciences, New Program: B.S. Agroecology, Horticulture and Environmental Quality (unification of above 3 discontinued programs)

• FC-07-032: NOI: Agricultural & Life Sciences, Expand B.S. in Biochemistry; B.S. in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology

• FC-07-033: NOI: Agricultural & Life Sciences, Discontinue B.S. Veterinary Science and Animal Science, create new combined degree, B.S. Animal and Veterinary Science

• FC-07-034: NOI: Agricultural & Life Sciences, Rename Natural Resource Economics and Community Development minor to Natural Resource Economics

• FC-07-035: NOI: Agricultural & Life Sciences, Rename M.S. Agricultural Economics to M.S. Applied Economics with 3 emphasis areas

• FC-07-036: Proposed Change to Regulation J-3-c.

• FC-07-039: Graduate Studies: Proposed Addition to Part 4 - Satisfactory Progress and Performance

• FC-07-040: NOI: College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences: Academic Certificate in Organizational Dynamics

• FC-07-041: NOI: Natural Resources: B.S. in Fire Ecology and Management

  Faculty Staff Handbook:

• FC-07-037: FSH 1800 - Staff Affairs By-laws (Dan Noble)

 'pdf' file of General Policy Report #38