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AGENDA
Senate of the Urbana-Champaign Campus
December 10, 2018
3:10 pm

ILLINI UNION - ILLINI ROOM A

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I.   Call to Order—Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Provost Andreas Cangellaris
     
II.   Approval of MinutesNovember 12, 2018
     
III.   Senate Executive Committee Report—SEC Chair Bettina Francis
     
IV.   Chancellor’s Remarks—Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Provost Andreas Cangellaris
     
V.   Questions (senators only)
     
VI.   Old Business
  RS.19.04 Resolution to Protect Faculty from Trolling, Harassment, and Stalking J. Rosenstein
       
VIII.   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.19.19 Revision of Curriculum Requirements for the Concentration in Energy Systems for the degree of Master of Engineering in the College of Engineering and establishing an Online option Educational Policy
G. Miller, Chair
  EP.19.22 Establish an undergraduate minor in Turkish Studies

Educational Policy
G. Miller, Chair

  EP.19.23 Revision to the BALAS in Philosophy

Educational Policy
G. Miller, Chair

  EP.19.24 Revisions to the curriculum of the Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre; Renaming the concentration in Lighting Design

Educational Policy
G. Miller, Chair

  EP.19.25 Revise the undergraduate minor in Adult Development

Educational Policy
G. Miller, Chair

  EP.19.30 Combine the Agricultural Education (AGED) and Agricultural Communications (AGCM) Programs into a new Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communications (ALEC) Program; move the current MS in Agricultural Education degree from AGED to the new ALEC program; terminate the undergraduate major in Agricultural Leadership and Science Education and its two concentrations; terminate the undergraduate major in Agricultural Communications and its two concentrations; and create a new major in Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communications with four concentrations, in the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences Educational Policy
G. Miller, Chair
       
VIII.   Proposals
  EP.19.26 Revise the BALAS in English, including the establishment of a new concentration Educational Policy
G. Miller, Chair
  CC.19.15 Election of Members on Standing Committees of the Senate Committee on Committees
N. O'Brien, Chair
  EC.18.03 Revisions to the Election Rules for the Student Electorate Elections and Credentials
K. Graber, Chair
  HD.19.05 Nomination for Honorary Degree Award Honorary Degrees
M. Wheeler, Chair
       
IX.   Solar Farm Expansion
    Scott Willenbrock, Affiliate of the Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment (iSEE)
     
X.   Reports
  SC.19.09 Report on the November 15, 2018 Meeting of the Board of Trustees G. Miller
  EP.19.31 Administrative Approvals through December 3, 2018

Educational Policy
G. Miller, Chair

       
XI.   New Business
    Matters not included in the agenda may not be presented to the Senate without concurrence of a majority of the members present and voting. Such matters may not be acted upon at the meeting in which they are introduced, according to the requirements of the Open Meetings Act.
     
XII.   Adjournment