Faculty Senate

Agenda - February 2, 2015 - 3:05pm

CCSU FACULTY SENATE MEETING

1. Minutes

a. Minutes of December 8, 2014

b. Clarification of Minutes of November 24, 2014

2. Announcements:

a. AAUP President (M. A. Mahony)

b. SUOAF-AFSCME President (M. Ansarra)

c. SGA (S. Sonet)

d. FAC to the Board of Regents (S. Adair)

e. Center for Teaching and Faculty Development (K. Russell)

f. President of the Senate (S. Cohen)

3. Committee Reports

a. Community Engagement Committee (R. Simmons)

b. Committee on Committees (B. Barr)

• Community Engagement Committee bylaws

c. General Education Implementation Committee (B. Merenstein)

• Proposal from the General Education Implementation Committee
  • Tagged Courses for General Education
  • Writing Across the Curriculum Proposal
  • Critical Inquiry Seminars
• Resolution from the Department of Philosophy
• Response from the Department of History
• Note: there is no plan to approve the General Education proposal at this meeting; it has not yet been considered by the Curriculum Committee, and it would need to be in order to be approved.

4. Unfinished Business:

a. Transform CSCU 2020

• Values and Assumptions requisite
• Categorization of Initiatives
• Proposed resolution: "The Central Connecticut State University Faculty Senate endorses the 'Values and Assumptions Requisite for Transform CSCU 2020' and 'CSCU Transform 2020 Initiatives Categorization' documents drafted by the CSU Leadership Group on December 17, 2014, and revised on January 9, 2015."
• Prioritization of Initiatives Based on SUOAF Labor Impact - presented informationally as context for our discussion of the two other documents

5. Adjournment