Attachment: Agenda Item Number 5.3.1.

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UNIVERSITY RESEARCH COMMITTEE

Revised Charge October 13, 1981:

1. Name: University Research Committee

2. Membership: 12 faculty members, plus ex officio: Dean of the Graduate
School and the Vice Chancellor for Institutional Advancement and Planning
or an appointed representative. The Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
or an appointed representative serves as ex officio without vote. All
faculty members shall serve staggered three-year terms. The member-
ship of the Committee ‘shall be as follows: 6 from the College of Arts
and Sciences with no more than two each from Humanities, Social Sciences
and the Sciences/Math; and 6 from the professional schools and other
academic units with not more than 1 from each professional school.

Each member shall have demonstrated scholarly accomplishment in the
pursuit of creativity, as evidenced by data submitted for each person
nominated by the Committee on Committees .or from the floor of the Faculty
Senate.

3. Quorum: 8 elected faculty members exclusive of ex officio.

4. A. Committee Functions: The University Research Committee recommends
funding of research proposals based on the merits of the proposals.
With the advice of its ex officio members, the committee develops
and presents to the Faculty Senate for its approval policies and
procedures for application by individual faculty, criteria for the
awarding of grants, guidelines for the use of research funds, and
procedures for annual reporting by grant recipients. The Committee
proposes other activities which would improve and promote research.
It recommends to the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs recipients
of awards during the academic year and outside the normal academic
year.

B. To Whom Committee Reports: The Committee makes its recommendation
of policies and procedures governing funding of grants to the Faculty
Senate for its approval.

How Often Committee Reports: The Committee reports to the Faculty
Senate within four weeks of its decision the number of grant ap-
plications received and the number recommended for funding including
the name of the nominee, department or school, grant title and the
dollar amount of the grant.

Power of the Committee to Act: The Committee is empowered to re~
commend to the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs both nominees
for grant funding and activities which would improve and promote
research.

 
Attachment: Agenda Item Number 5.3.2

CREDITS COMMITTEE

Revised Charge November 10, 1981 &

1. Name: Credits Committee

Membership: 5 faculty members, one student member, plus ex officio:
Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, or an appointed representative.

$z uorum: 3 faculty members exclusive of ex officio.

4. A. Committee Functions:
The Credits Committee: (1) reviews policies and practices pertaining
to academic credits and academic standards. Matters ef concern
include academic credits and grading policies, absentee policies,
drop policies, withdrawal policies, and multiple F policies; (2)
serves as an appeals board for students who wish to appeal adminis-
trative decisions involving the interpretation and enforcement of

policies pertaining to academic credits and standards.

To Whom Committee Reports:

The Credits Committee (1) recommends policies and practices pertain-
ing to academic credits and academic standards to the Faculty Senate;
(2) forwards the Committee's student appeal decisions on student
appeals to the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs.

C. How Often Committee Reports:

The Committee reports to the Faculty Senate as often as necessary,
but at least once a year.

D. Power of the Committee to Act:
The Committee is empowered to make decisions in student appeal cases.

 
PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF LOCATION AND TIME.

FACULTY SENATE

The fourth regular meeting of the Faculty Senate for the academic year 1981/82

will be held on Tuesday, December 8, 1981, at 2:15 p.m. in the Auditorium of

Regional Development Institute, Willis Building, First Street.

AGENDA

Call to Order

Approval of the Minutes

Special Order of the Day

A. Announcements

B. Report of Faculty Assembly Delegation (C. Ayers)
Unfinished Business

A. Report from Chancellor Selection Committee (R. Lao)

B. Report of Committee for Teaching Effectiveness (P. Adler)
Report of Committees

A. Faculty Welfare Committee- 1980-81 Salary Study (R. Hursey)

B. Committee on Committees, Revised Charges
1. University Research Committee (see attachment)
2. Credits Committee (see attachment)

University Curriculum Committee (W. Grossnickle)

1. Revise B.S. degree in Urban and Regional Planning

2. Revised following Physics degrees: B.S., B.S. (Teaching),
B.A., B.A. minor, and B.S. in Applied Physics
New B.S. minor in English
(above changes found in UCC minutes of November 9, 1981)
Revise B.S.B.A. degree
Revise following INDT degrees: 8.S. (Teaching), B.A./B.S. minor
IT Educ., B.S. Professional, B.S. Professional (Tech. Inst./
Community College Transfer), IT B.A./B.S. minor, B.A.
Revise Bachelor of Music
(above changes found in UCC minutes of November 23, 1981)
Revisions found in University Curriculum Committee minutes of
November 30, 1981.