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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

i.      https://www.montana.edu/universitycouncil/proposed-policies/drafts/2024-0215%20MSU%20Distance%20Education%20Policy%20draft%20v1.pdf 

 

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