Meeting Agenda-March 20, 2024
Faculty Senate Meeting
SUB Ballroom B
March 20, 2024
3:15pm-4:30pm
Webex:
https://montana.webex.com/montana/j.php?MTID=m36d9ab493b94989b3138aca5c1446aa7
I. Call to Order
II. Approval of FS Minutes from March 6, 2024
III. FYI Items
a. Dr. Cara Neumann lecture: Grassroots to Global: The Power of Public Health (today, 6:30-7:30 in NAH Inspiration Hall
b. Keely Holmes will provide walk-in help sessions for the CIM system:
i. Walk-In Help Session 1: Monday, March 25th, 10:00am-12:00pm in Montana Hall 116
ii. Walk-In Help Session 2: Thursday, March 28th, 1:00pm-3:00pm in Montana Hall 116
c. Call for First Generation Service Excellence Award nominations (deadline April 2, 2024). This award is meant to honor a faculty or staff member that is working towards advocacy and support of first-generation college students on campus as well as modeling excellence in first-generation leadership. Nominations close on April 2, 2024 at 11:59pm.
i. https://www.montana.edu/firstgen/First-GenerationServiceExcellenceAward.html
IV. Information Updates
a. Distance learning policy: Tracy Dougher
V. Old Business
a. Changes to the Graduate Catalog (Second Reading)
i. Eligibility for Assistantships
ii. Academic Standing
VI. Undergraduate Courses and Programs
a. Courses – Second Reading
i. ANSC 106: Careers in Animal Agriculture
ii. CULA 106: Kitchen and Food Production Fundamentals
iii. CULA 108: Station Cookery
iv. CULA 112: Fundamentals of Protein Cookery
v. ECNS 433: Economics of the Environment
b. Course Inactivations – Second Reading
i. SPNS 341: Warriors and Damsels in Spanish Literature
c. New Programs – Second Reading
i. -C : Certificate in Special Education
d. Program Inactivations – Second Reading
i. CARB-CBL: Certificate in Arabic
A. We no longer offer second year Arabic courses. The enrollment in those courses was consistently low, so they were cancelled
VII. Graduate Courses and Programs
a. Courses – Second Reading
i. BIOH 585: Human Dissection for Teachers
VIII. Senators’ Open Conversation
IX. Public Comment
X. Adjourn