UNIVERSITY CURRICULUM COMMITTEE

Minutes of the March 6, 1998 Meeting

 

PRESENT: Scott Bradley, Tom Colwin, George Ferencz, Stuart Glosser, Avanni Hobbs, Philip Johns, Katie Kempfer, Michael Longrie, Terry Ostermeier, Larry Schuetz, Jim Stewart, Richard Telfer, Janet Thatcher, Bonnie Trudell, Lance Urven, and John Washbush

ABSENT: Michael Beix, Gregory Green, Ruth Koskela, David Rossbach, and Grant Strobel

GUESTS: Richard Salem and Richard Schauer

 

Dick Telfer called the meeting to order at 2:20 p.m.

George Ferencz moved to approve the agenda. Stuart Glosser seconded the motion and the motion carried.

The minutes of the January 23, 1998 meeting (listed as 1997 on agenda in error) were approved on a Tom Colwin/Phil Johns motion.

Phil Johns made a motion to approve the two year continuation of the core courses Global Perspectives, Science and Technology in Society, and The US in a World Context, and to strongly concur with the findings and sentiments of the General Education Committee on their report dated February 17, 1998. John Washbush seconded the motion, and the motion carried.

Terry Ostermeier then moved to receive and record the special courses that had been approved between January 17, 1998 and February 27, 1998 as listed below:

 

Scott Bradley seconded the motion, which also carried.

John Washbush moved to approve a number of proposed revisions in the UW-W Curriculum Handbook. These revisions had been suggested by a committee consisting of the Chair of the UCC, the Chairs of the College Curriculum Committees, and the Chair of the Graduate Council, to align our campus procedures with new UW-System policies (ACIS-1). George Ferencz seconded the motion. In the discussion that followed, Richard Salem spoke to several resolutions passed by the College of Letters and Sciences Curriculum Committee. Dick Telfer noted that the resolutions did not strictly concern the revisions; instead, the resolutions addressed aspects of the Handbook that had not been revised. The sense of the UCC was to consider the resolutions within the discussion of the proposed revisions.

An amendment was proposed by Phil Johns and seconded by Janet Thatcher to modify Form 2, Change in Degree, Major, or Submajor, to add a line addressing program deletions. This change would also be reflected by the addition of an additional line (beneath Change in Submajor) on the Undergraduate Curriculum Approval Procedures Matrix, with the same notations as Change in Submajor. The amendment passed.

Lance Urven moved to amend the main motion to allow appeals of "curricular approval/disapproval" decisions made by the College Curriculum Committees or College Deans. The motion was seconded by Phil Johns.

The UCC returned to the main motion: to approve revisions in the UW-Whitewater Curriculum Handbook. The main motion, as amended, passed.

An additional resolution was forwarded by the College of Letters and Sciences Curriculum Committee: That the University Curriculum Committee should develop policies and procedures regarding the role of distance learning in the University curriculum, and the approval processes, timetabling and recording of distance learning courses. This resolution was tabled until the next meeting on a Mike Longrie/Lance Urven motion.

At 3:54 p.m., the meeting adjourned on a John Washbush/George Ferencz motion.