GEORGIA
SOUTHWESTERN Office of
Academic Affairs
S T A T E U N I V E R S I T Y
M E M O R A N D U M
TO: All Faculty
FROM: Cathy L. Rozmus
Vice
President for Academic Affairs
SUBJECT: General Faculty Meeting
DATE: November
22, 2006
AGENDA
General
Faculty Meeting
Friday,
December 1, 2006 - 11:00 A.M.
1. Call
to Order
2. Approval
of Minutes of April 28, 2006
3. Remarks
by the President
4. Remarks
by the Vice President for Academic Affairs
5. Reports
by Committees:
Academic Affairs
Academic Grievances
Athletics
Business and Finance
Faculty Affairs
Graduate Affairs
Institutional Research
Institutional Review Board
Instructional Technology
Scholarships & Financial Aid
Student Affairs
University and Alumni Relations
6. New Business
A. Academic Proposals
(1) Deletion - Program
(a) BAS
in Technology Management
The purpose of this proposal is to
deactivate the BAS degree in
Technology Management. The program has limited enrollment and is no
longer appropriate to the mission of the
and
GSW Strategic plan.
Deletion of BS in History degree
(c) BBA Degree in General Business
The purpose of this proposal is to delete
the BBA degree in General
Business.
This program has not been offered since fall 2002.
(d) AAS Programs
This proposal will delete all associate
degree programs at GSW. Programs with
students enrolled will not accept any new students and then will be terminated
after the graduation of the last student.
The cooperative AAS degree programs were implemented prior to the
technical colleges granting 2 year degrees.
In addition, 2 of the 3 cooperating technical colleges are now
accredited by the Commission on Colleges of SACS. Enrollment is low in all programs and some
programs have never had any students enrolled.
(2) Substantive Change - Program
The curriculum for the Bachelor of Science degree in Geology is being
altered to reflect the following: 1)
Removal of GEOL 3131 (Optical Mineralogy) from the Required Courses in the
curriculum sheet; 2) Removal of GEOL 4941/4942 (Senior Thesis I and II) from
the Required Courses list to the Math/Science Elective list; 3) Addition of
option of Math 2204 (Statistics) to Area D of the Core Curriculum; 4) Addition
of new course, GEOL 4951 – Special Topics in Geology, to the Math/Science
Elective List; 5) Change of hours for GEOL 4311 (Sedimentary Petrology) from 2
credit hours back to its original 4 credit hours; and 6) Modification of Free
Elective course hours to “3/4” from “3”.
The primary motivation for making these changes at this time is to make
the program more attractive to potential majors by reducing requirements and
allowing for graduation without Calculus I or Senior Thesis.
B. Resolution
Concerning Changes in the State Contribution to the
University System of
7. Announcements
8. Adjourn