GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
FALL MEETING OF THE ACADEMIC SENATE
Combined with a
MEETING OF THE GENERAL FACULTY
Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 3:00 pm
Student Center Theater
AGENDA
1. Call to Order and Opening Remarks (President Schuster)
2. Approval of minutes of previous meeting October 21, 2008
3. Proposed resolution supporting faculty participation in the Capital Campaign (Steve Dickerson)
4. Presentation of Degree Candidates (Pikowsky)
5. Presentation of annual reports and pending minutes of Standing Committees of the General Faculty held over from the previous meeting.
a. Faculty
Honors (Bill Hunt)
Annual Report for 2007-08
b.
Welfare & Security (Bob Pikowsky)
Annual Report for 2007-08 & Minutes: 4/14/08, 9/8/08, 10/14/08. No action
items.
6. Presentation of annual reports and pending minutes of Standing Committees of the Academic Senate, some held over from the previous meeting.
a. Undergraduate
Curriculum (John Tone)
Minutes: 9/24/08, 10/22/08, 11/5/08
Action items. From 11/5: Applied Physiology participation in Research Option;
Public Policy degree modifications for BSPP, 9 new courses, 1 deactivated, 3
renumbered; Modern Languages change in minimum grade requirement for GEML and
IAML degrees, 6 new courses, revisions to 6 minors (incl. reduction of hrs from
18 to 15); Management 1 new course; LCC participation in International
Plan.
b. Graduate
Curriculum (Gary Parker)
Minutes: 10/23/08, 11/13/08
Action Items. From 10/23: Architecture 3 new courses; MSE 6 new courses;
Appl. Physiology change to allow all forms of grading for APPH 6997. From
11/13: ME changes in the Masters in Medical Physics degree requirements
concerning seminars, and 5 new courses and 1 deactivated course; ISyE changes
in the specializations in PhD programs, in particular Optimization and Stochastics
have moved from Industrial Engineering to Operations Research and System
Informatics and Control will be new in Industrial Engineering, and then
also 4 new courses.
c.
Student Grievance & Appeal (Facundo Fernandez)
Annual Report for 2007-08
d.
Academic Integrity (Robert Kirkman)
Annual Report for 2007-08 & Minutes: 11/2/07, 11/30/07, 2/8/08, 4/18/08. No
action items.
7. Any Other Business.
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Ronald A Bohlander
Secretary of the Faculty
November 14, 2008