Faculty Assembly Agenda: April 27, 2022

To: Departmental Executive Officers
From: Amber Brian, Chair of the Faculty Assembly
RE: Faculty Assembly Agenda: April 27, 2022

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April 20, 2022

Please note that today’s agenda calls for two meetings. Regular business will be conducted in the first meeting, with adjournment at its conclusion. The organizational meeting for the 2022-2023 Faculty Assembly will occur next, with the nomination and election of new FA officers. Faculty Assembly members elected during the CLAS spring elections have been invited to attend. Please join the Faculty Assembly in welcoming its new members.

Faculty Assembly
Wednesday, April 27, 2022
3:30 to 5:00 p.m.
Zoom Meeting

AGENDA

  1. Announcements
  2. Minutes from March 2 (Special Meeting) and March 30, 2022
  3. Presentation of CLAS Vision with Dean Sara Sanders, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  4. Visit with Kevin Kregel, Executive Vice President and Provost
  5. Vote on closure of Bachelor of Arts in Health and Human Physiology, effective fall 2022, previously approved by Undergraduate Educational Policy and Curriculum Committee: Warren Darling, DEO, Department of Health and Human Physiology

NOTE: Pending approval by the Board of Regents (BOR), this single major (Bachelor of Arts in Health and Human Physiology) will be replaced by three independent majors (which was a proposal approved by Faculty Assembly at the September 2020 meeting):

  • Exercise Science (BS)
  • Health Promotion (BS)
  • Health Studies (BA)
  1. Business from the floor
  2. Adjournment of the meeting

 

2022-2023 Organizational Meeting Agenda

  1. Welcome to the newly elected members of the Assembly: Chair Amber Brian

Group I (Natural and Mathematical Sciences)

Ionut Chifan, Department of Mathematics

Jennifer Rogers, Department of Health and Human Physiology

Group III (Humanities)

Kendra Strand, Department of Asian and Slavic Languages and Literatures

Sang-Seok Yoon, Department of Asian and Slavic Languages and Literatures

David Gooblar, Department of English

Group IV (Arts)

William Menefield, School of Music

  1. Nomination of new FA officers:  Faculty Assembly Chair Amber Brian introducing:

Nominations are also welcome from the floor

Candidates for Vice Chair/Chair Elect

Lori Adams

Associate Professor of Instruction

Dept of Biology

Alan Huckleberry

Professor

School of Music

R. Eric Stone

Associate Professor

Dept of Theatre

Candidates for Secretary

Emily Finzel

Associate Professor

Dept of Earth and Environmental Science

Andrew Kitchen

Associate Professor

Dept of Anthropology
  1. Election of the new FA officers
  2. Selection of Faculty Assembly representatives to CLAS Committee on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (2 openings)

Nominees are:

Alicia Ambler

Associate Professor of Instruction

English as a Second Language

Bengi Baran

Assistant Professor

Dept of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Kendra Strand

Assistant Professor

Dept of Asian and Slavic Languages and Literatures

Alexei Tivanski

Associate Professor

Chemistry
  1. Adjournment of the organizational meeting

Faculty Assembly Schedule 2021-2022

Wednesday, 3:30-5:00, via Zoom

September 15 

October 20

November 17 

January 26

February 23 

March 30

April 27

 

Faculty Assembly Schedule 2022-2023

Wednesday, 3:30-5:00, via Zoom or 2520D UCC

September 21 

October 19

November 16 

January 25

February 22 

March 29

April 26