ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CURRICULUM COMMITTEE

Date: April 9, 1987
To: Kenneth Wilson, Chairman of the Faculty
From: William F. Grossnickle, Chairman

Membership of the Committee:

Ex-officio: Chancellor John Howe] |
Vice Chancellor Angelo Volpe (Myra Cain served as
rep.)
Chairman of the Faculty, Ken Wilson

Herb Carlton, Political Science

Byron Coulter, Physics

Stella Daugherty, Mathematics (Secretary)
William F. Grossnickle, Psychology

E. H. Keeter, Technology

Dorothy Muller, Education

Marilyn Steele, Home Economics

Mary Susan Templeton, Allied Health & Social Work
Paul Topper, Music

Hugh Wease, History

Jeannie Yount, Nursing

Committee Meetings (dates and members absent):

August 28, 1986

September 26, 1986

October 9, 1986 Yount

October 23, 1986 Coulter, Muller, Templeton, Yount
November 13, 1987 Daugherty

January 22, 1987 Keeter, Yount

February 12, 1987 Topper

February 18, 1987 Cain, Wease

March 26, 1987 Carlton

Dates of Reports to the Faculty Senate During the Year:

The Committee reports at every Senate meeting, save the
organizational meeting, through the Committee’s minutes. Only
when new degrees, changed degrees, or policy changes are made is
an active role of the Senate required; otherwise, the Senate
votes "by acquiescence”.

Specific Instructions Given to the Committee by the Faculty
Senate:

None

Committee Organization, Subcommittees, Research Activities:

 
None

Committee Accomplishments, Including Recommendations Made to
Agencies Other Than the Faculty Senate:

The Committee performed its usual business.

Citation of the resolution numbers of Senate resolutions that
originated with the Committee:

A. New degrees/majors/options/concentrations:
minors:

Change degree requirements: majors/concentrations:
minors:

Delete majors or minors: majors/concentrations:
minors:

Add Courses:

Minor changes in courses ‘hours, level,
pre-requisite, etc.): 30

Delete Courses: 41
Remove courses from Curriculum Bank: 5
Place courses in Curriculum Bank: 37

Policy changes or additions: Passed policy on General
Education credit for Interdisciplinary Courses.

Proposals and/or Business to be Carried Over to Next year:

A few proposals were received too late to be passed by the Senate
this academic year.

Evaluation of the Committee:
A. Structure: Satisfactory
B. Duties: Satisfactory
Functions: Satisfactory
Personnel: The Chairman wishes to express his gratitude to

the Committee’s members for their hard work, patience, and

assistance. It has been a very real pleasure to work with
them.

Suggestions for Improving the Effectiveness of the Committee:

A. The Committee continues to urge that units planning changes

 
be aware of the time requirement to obtain all approvals

necessary for curriculum changes --- especially during the
year when a new catalogue is to be published with its early

deadline for copy.

The Committee wishes to remind units that proposals to change

degrees must include a page in catalogue format showing
the new requirements. If this is not done, the proposal wil!

not be placed on the Committee’s agenda.

The Committee sees no reason to change its opinion (expressed
in Dr. Ryan’s report of 1976-77) that the first year of
membership is essentially an orientation period and that
written procedures are not an adequate substitute for

experience.