The Faculty Assembly is a representative body to express the voice of the faculty within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. It serves as a forum where important issues are generated and exchanged with the Executive Committee, the Undergraduate Educational Policy and Curriculum Committee, the Graduate Educational Policy Committee, and the Dean. These issues can be discussed and recommended for approval or dismissal. As Chair of the Faculty Assembly, I encourage all faculty in CLAS to attend Faculty Assembly meetings whenever possible to share in discussion and debate. However, only elected or appointed representatives, or their designated alternates, may vote.

Thank you for discussing the issues in the agenda with your colleagues and for attending the Faculty Assembly. If you have suggestions for the agenda, please let me know. Our schedule of meeting times for 2020-2021 is below the agenda.

Faculty Assembly
Wednesday, September 16, 2020
3:30 to 5:00 p.m.
Zoom Meeting

(Please contact jennifer-bertrand@uiowa.edu for Zoom meeting link)

AGENDA

1. Discussion with Sara Sanders, Interim Dean, and Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
2. Announcements
3. Introduce Faculty Assembly officers for 2020-2021, and welcome new electoral group and unit representatives to Faculty Assembly

Officers

Chair

      Steve Duck, Professor and DEO, Rhetoric

Vice Chair/Chair-Elect

      Amber Brian, Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

Secretary

      Benjamin Hassman, Lecturer, Rhetoric

Past Chair

      Rachel McLaren, Associate Professor, Communication Studies

Electoral group representatives serving fall 2020-spring 2023

Group I (Natural and Mathematical Sciences)

      Miodrag Iovanov, Mathematics

      Denise Szecsei, Computer Science

Group II (Social Sciences)

      Kajsa Dalrymple, Journalism and Mass Communication

      Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz, Communication Studies

Group III (Humanities)

      Amber Brian, Spanish and Portuguese

Group IV (Arts)

      Joyce Tsai, Art and Art History

New unit representatives and replacement electoral group representatives
https://clas.uiowa.edu/faculty/faculty-assembly-membership

4. Minutes from February 26, 2020
5. Minutes from Emergency Meeting held July 17, 2020
6. Vote on proposal for creation of Bachelor of Science in Exercise Science, Bachelor of Science in Health Promotion, and Bachelor of Arts in Health Studies from current Bachelor of Arts in Health and Human Physiology tracks, previously approved by CLAS Undergraduate Educational Policy and Curriculum Committee: Warren Darling, Professor and Chair, Department of Health and Human Physiology; and Lucas Carr, Associate Professor, Department of Health and Human Physiology
7. Vote on proposal for Bachelor of Arts in Translation, previously approved by CLAS Undergraduate Educational Policy and Curriculum Committee: Aron Aji, Associate Professor of Instruction, Division of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures
8. Appointment of five faculty members to serve on CLAS Committee on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, including at least one instructional-track faculty member and one tenure-track faculty member
9. Business from the floor
10. Adjournment of the meeting

Faculty Assembly Schedule 2020-2021
Wednesday, 3:30-5:00, via Zoom
September 16  October 21
November 18  January 27
February 24  March 31
April 28