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AGENDA
Urbana-Champaign Senate
November 18, 2013, 2013
3:10 pm
Illini Union - Illini Room A

I.   Call to Order—Chancellor Phyllis Wise
     
II.   Approval of MinutesOctober 21, 2013
     
III.   Senate Executive Committee Report—Roy Campbell
     
IV.   Chancellor’s Remarks—Chancellor Phyllis Wise
     
V.   Questions/Discussion
     
VI.   Consent Agenda
  If a senator wishes to move an item from the Consent Agenda to Proposals and have copies at the meeting, they must notify the Senate Office at least two business days before the meeting. Any senator can ask to have any item moved from the Consent Agenda to Proposals.
       
  EP.14.08 Proposal from the College of Business Department of Accountancy and the Graduate College to Increase the Credit Requirement Needed to Earn the MS in Taxation

Educational Policy
(G. Miller)

       
  EP.14.09 Proposal from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) and the Graduate College to Add the Existing Graduate Concentration in Medieval Studies to the PhD in East Asian Languages and Cultures

Educational Policy
(G. Miller)

       
  EP.14.11 Proposal from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) and the Graduate College to Revise the Language Requirement in the Graduate Concentration in Medieval Studies

Educational Policy
(G. Miller)

       
  EP.14.13 Proposal from the College of Engineering to Revise the Bachelor of Science in Bioengineering

Educational Policy
(G. Miller)

       
  EP.14.14 Proposal from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) to Revise the Undergraduate Minor in Portuguese

Educational Policy
(G. Miller)

       
  EP.14.15 Proposal from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) to Establish an Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Minor in Medieval Studies

Educational Policy
(G. Miller)

       
  EP.14.16 Proposal from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) to Revise the Major in the Sciences and Letters Curriculum: BALAS in Interdisciplinary Studies, Medieval Studies Concentration

Educational Policy
(G. Miller)

       
VII.   Proposals
  CC.14.06 Nominations for Membership on Standing Committees of the Senate

Committee on Committees
(P. Kalita)

       
  SP.14.06 Proposed Revisions to the Statutes, Article XIII, Section 8 – to authorize the University Senates Conference to initiate revisions to the Statutes (Second Reading)

University Statutes and Senate Procedures
(W. Maher)

       
  RS.14.01 Resolution on Governance Procedures for Changes in Academic Organization

K. Oberdeck
D. O’Brien
K. Riedel

       
VIII.   Current Benefits Issues (5 min) - John Kindt, Chair of Faculty and Academic Staff Benefits
     
IX.   Reports
  HE.14.02 FAC/ IBHE Report – October 18, 2013 A. Aminmansour
       
  SUR.14.01 SURSMAC Report – October 8, 2013 H. F. Williamson
J. Kindt
       
X.   New Business
     
XI.   Adjournment
     

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