FACULTY SENATE

The fourth regular meeting of the Faculty Senate for the academic year
1979/80 will be held on Tuesday, December 11, 1979 at 2:10 p-m. in Room 221,

Mendenhall Student Center.

Call to Order
Approval of the Minutes
Special Order of the Day

A. Announcements
B. Report from the Faculty Assembly

Unfinished Business ::

A. Report of Committee on Educational Policies: and Planning
and proposed amendment (see attachment).

Report of Committees’

A. Committee on Committees (see Agenda, November 20, 1979)
(Professor E. Ryan)

University Curriculum Committee (Professor W. _Grossnick le)

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1. BS Degree in Home. Economics Major: Teacher Certification
and Community Service Options’ .

BA Drama, BA Drama and Speech, Broadcasting Minor,
BS Theatre Arts Major

BS in Medical Technology
BS in Environmental Health
For information purposes only, the legal opinion that
curriculum requirements cannot go into effect until they
appear in the appropriate catalog.

(See University Curriculum Committee Minutes of November 15, 1979).

C. Faculty Governance Committee (see attached) (Professor Woodside)

6. New Business

 
Agenda Item 4.A - Attachment 1 (Committee on Educational Policies § Planning)

The Committee on Educational Policies and Planning recommends that the General

College Committee, the University Curriculum Committee, the Graduate Curriculum ee
Committee, the Library Committee, and such other committees whose charges imply

that they should be involved, review and make recommendations concerning all

reports from task forces on academic programs before they are submitted to the
Subcommission on Academic Programs; the Committee recommends further that other

Faculty Senate Committees, as appropriate, review and make recommendations con-

cerning task force reports of the Subcommission on Student Service and the Sub-
commission on Public Service prior to their submission to the subcommissions. The
Committee recommends further that the Faculty Senate endorse this action.

Agenda Item 4.A - Attachment 2 (Amendment from Professor Schmidt)

WHEREAS, the charge of the Committee on Educational Policies and Planning states
that it shall advise the Chancellor on the educational policies, goals, standards
procedures, and resources of East Carolina University," and that it "shall advise
the Chancellor concerning long-range planning of academic programs...,'' and that
it "shall participate in the formulation of the university's five-year plan,"
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Committee on Educational Policies and Planning
shall review the reports of the Planning Commission Subcommission Task Forces
prior to their submission to the various Subcommissions. The Committee also shall
review the reports of the Subcommissions prior to their submission to the Planning
Commission. The Committee shall make whatever recommendations it deems necessary
to the appropriate Subcommission. To this end the Committee may consult with any
academic committee whose charge grants it authority in the area of particular

Task Force Reports. Beg

Agenda Item 5.C -(Amendment to Code of Operations of the Department of Philosophy)

In Section VI. A. 1. delete the sentence, "A quorum will consist of all members
of the committee except those on leave of absence, unless a member declines in
writing to attend, in which case his attendance is not required for a quorum,"

and replace it with the following sentence: A quorum will consist of three fifth
of the members currently in residence."

The entire paragraph would then read:

1. Personnel Committee: The permanently tenured members of the department
other than the chairperson or the acting chairperson will constitute the
departmental Personnel Committee, to carry out the duties set forth in
the East Carolina University Code, the Faculty Manual and this code. The
committee will convene immediately after the organizational meeting of the
department each fall term to elect a chairperson for that year. A quorum
will consist of three fifths of the members currently in residence. In its
advice concerning personnel matters, if a majority is not in favor of making

an affirmative recommendation, the committee must make a negative recommenda-
tion.