The UMW University Faculty Council will hold its first regular meeting of the 2013-14 academic year next Monday, September 16 at 3:30 pm in Lee Hall, Room 412. Highlights of the agenda include:
- Discussion of last June’s Summer Orientation for new students (with Doug Searcy, Meg Higgenbotham and Keith Mellinger);
- Review of the existing Faculty Handbook language regarding any Discontinuance of a Program that may occur as a result of the Strategic Resource Allocation (“Restructuring Initiative”);
- Review of the upcoming October 11 forum to discuss the recent faculty governance survey (with Jim Lollar, President of the Faculty Senate of Virginia);
- Discussion of the need to create a QEP Advisory Committee; and
- Endorsement of a motion by the Speaking Intensive Committee to recommend SI designation for three courses:
- HIST 471E5: American Sports History
- PSCI 471: Special Topics: Indian Foreign Policy
- RELG 304: Significant Books in American Religious History
