BEAUPRE CENTER FOR CHEMICAL AND FORENSIC SCIENCES, ROOM 105

A reception sponsored by Dean Kirby, College of the Environment and Life Sciences, will immediately follow the meeting.

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1. Call to order at 3:00 PM. “If I Had a Hammer”

2. Disposition of Minutes of the Faculty Senate Meeting #2, October 19, 2017

3. REPORTS OF OFFICERS AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

A. Announcements – Chairperson Conley

B. Activities of the Executive Committee – Vice Chairperson Leonard

Minutes of Executive Committee Meetings #9, #10, and #11

4. STATUS OF ACTIONS FORWARDED TO THE PRESIDENT

Bill #17-18—4B The Five Hundred and Forty-second Report of the Curricular Affairs Committee: Curricular Proposals. Approved by President Dooley on October 25, 2017.

5. PRESENTATIONS

A. Update from the Office of Innovation in General Education – Director DiCioccio

B. Affordable Course Materials Task Force – Professor Torrens and Professor Phelps

C. Enrollment Management update – Vice Provost Libutti

6. REPORTS OF STANDING, JOINT, AND SPECIAL COMMITTEES

A. Academic Standards and Calendar Committee Report 2017-18-1 – Senator Gindy

B. Curricular Report No. 2017-18-2 from the Graduate Council to the Faculty Senate, Appendices – Associate Dean Rusnock

C. Curricular Report No. 2017-18-3 from the Graduate Council to the Faculty Senate –Dean Zawia

D. The 543rd Report of the Curricular Affairs Committee, Appendices – Senator Emeritus Sullivan

E. General Education Committee Report 2017-18-3 – Senator Williams

7. UNFINISHED BUSINESS

A. That the Senate approve changes to By-Laws of the Faculty Senate 4.13- 4.16

B. That the Senate approve replacing existing By-Laws of the Faculty Senate 4.20 – 4.88 with new sections, By-Laws of the Faculty Senate 4.20 – 4.70, proposed Standing Committees of the Faculty Senate

C. Constitution, By-Laws, and University Manual Committee Report 2017-18-1 – Professor Wenisch

8. NEW BUSINESS

9. ADJOURNMENT