UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND
Kingston, Rhode Island
Minutes
General Faculty - Graduate Faculty Meeting
September 23, 2004
1. The meeting was called to order by Provost Swan at 3:05 p.m. in the
Cherry Auditorium of the Chester Kirk Building
2. Provost Swan asked the faculty to observe a moment of silence in
memory of the following faculty members who had passed away since the
last meeting of the General Faculty-Graduate Faculty:
Paul
Abell, Chemistry
Charles Armstrong, Business
Administration
Linda Blood, Human
Development
Nathalie Briggs, University
Libraries
Phyllis Brown, Food Science
& Nutrition
Frank Cuomo,
Physics
Kathleen Hauke, English
Milton Huston, Civil
Engineering
Mary Martin James, Textiles
Janet Kulberg, Psychology
& Graduate School
Wilma Nagel, Education
Frank Newman, President Emeritus
Stewart Schneider, Library Science
G. David Shilling, Chemical
Engineering
Robert Shoop. Biological Sciences
Carl Slader, Physical
Education
Robert Sorlien, English
Andrew Turyn, University Libraries
3. The Minutes
of the April 15, 2004 General Faculty - Graduate
Faculty Meeting were approved as distributed.
4. Vice Provost Swift moved to recommend to the Board of Governors for
Higher Education approval of the candidates for the award of
undergraduate degrees whose names had been certified for September
2004. The motion passed.
Associate Dean Bibb moved to recommend to the Board of Governors for
Higher Education approval of the candidates for the award of graduate
degrees whose names had been certified for September 2004. The
motion passed.
5. The meeting was adjourned at 3:07 p.m. and was followed by a
meeting of the Faculty Senate.
Respectfully submitted,
Sheila Black Grubman for
G. Faye Boudreaux-Bartels
Secretary