Highlights of the College Park Senate meeting
on April 19, 2004
- Online education is an emerging issue at the University. Senate will
be appointing a task force to study this issue.
- At May 3rd meeting will be
an initial discussion of the proposed new APT rules to be voted on in the
fall.
- Revised
CORE proposal (Elizabeth Beise): Revision of Distributive Studies
Program (28 credits at 100-200 level). Broaden current rules to allow additional
courses that don’t fit into humanities, math/science, social science
areas by adding an interdisciplinary and emerging issues area by allowing
students to take one course in this area instead of the 3rd course in one
of the existing 3 areas.
- Proposal to make the SGA vice president for academic affairs an ex officio
member of the Senate educational affairs committee
(Alan Mattlage)
- Proposal to rename the School of Public Affairs to the School of Public
Policy (Victor Korenman): “Public Affairs” has taken on the meaning
of “advertising”
- Proposal
to establish a new upper-division certificate in computational science (Victor
Korenman)
- Proposal to amend
the code of student conduct - changes titles of current members of the office
to reflect current reality
Dana Nau and Marv Zelkowitz
