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January 22, 1990

 

                                    MINUTES

                      COMMISSION ON UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES

 

                            Burruss Hall Board Room

                               January 22, 1990

 

 

 

  PRESENT:  Dr. James F. Wolfe for E. Fred Carlisle; Dr. Dennis Hinkle, Sec-

                retary, Deans J. M. White, D. E. Egger, M. A. Ogliaruso, T.

                W.  Bonham, M. A. Lewis, J. F. Marchman, R. S. Purdy; Drs. R.

                E. James, R.  Daniel, E. Brown, K. Eschenmann, D. Morris, M.

                Norton, C. J. Dudley, J.  F. Williams-Green, Wanda Dean,

                Registrar; W. Kuster, I. Sobeiski, and T.  Abbou, SGA

 

  ABSENT:   E. W. Carson, R. Lamy, W. E. Dugger, R. Salvaggio, B. Morris, D.

                Bousquet

 

  VISITORS: Susan Trulove, Spectrum; Lisa Rudd, Collegiate Times

 

 

  1.  CALL TO ORDER AND ANNOUNCEMENTS:

 

      Dr. Wolfe called the meeting to order at 3:04 p.m.

 

  2.  The AGENDA was approved as distributed.

 

  3.  The MINUTES of the January 8, 1990 meeting were approved as distrib-

      uted.

 

  4.  COURSE CRITERIA COMMITTEE REPORT - M. A. Lewis

 

      The following courses were submitted for approval:

 

 

      MATH 2524           Matrices and Modeling - Revised Course

 

      MATH 2215-16        Calculus II - Revised Courses

 

      MATH 2534           Introduction to Discrete Mathematics - Revised

                          Course, Drop Math 1534

 

      MATH 3134           Applied Combinatories and Graph Theory - Revised

                          Course, Drop Math 3535-36

 

      MATH MINOR          Revised

 

      PHYS 2305-06        Foundations of Physics I - Revised Course

 

      HNF 4634            Socio-Cultural Food Systems - New Course

 

      Dr. Lewis urged departments to submit all additional requests for new

      and revised courses as soon as possible.  She indicated that, due to

      the large number of courses that had been submitted to date, the agenda

      for the next two Course Criterion Committee meeting has already been

      set.

 

  5.  CORE CURRICULUM - J. Wolfe

 

      Dr. Wolfe asked for comments regarding Dr. Carlisle's January 8, 1990,

      memo to the members of the commission.  Dr. White raised a concern

      about the composition of the committee.  He suggested that having only

      one Assistant/Associate Dean on the committee was not acceptable.  He

      suggested that there should be at least two, both from the larger col-

      leges, or none.  If none, then the Assistant/Associate Dean, as a

      group, could serve as a resource to the committee.  Mr. Kuster indi-

      cated that there should be more than one student on the committee.

 

      Dr. Wolfe briefly reported on the comment made by the Deans at the re-

      cent administrative retreat.  The Deans raised issues both on the com-

      position of the committee and form of the report.  Of importance was

      whether the expectation was for radical change in the core curriculum

      or just substantive adjustments to it.

 

  6.  The meeting was adjourned at 3:35 p.m.

 

                                     Respectfully submitted,

 

 

 

 

                                     Dennis Hinkle, Secretary

 

 

 

                        NEXT MEETING:  FEBRUARY 5, 1990

                               3:00 - 5:00 P.M.

 

                            PRESIDENT'S BOARD ROOM

 

 

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