Faculty Senate
2021-2022 Faculty Senate Committee Charges
Academic Affairs Committee
- Consider changes to policy and/or procedure regarding required advising to align with the Academic Advsing Council's endorsed recommendations.
- Consider developing a policy and/or procedure for placing, communicating, and managing holds on student accounts.
- Continue revisions to warning/probation/suspension policy/procedure and craft modifications of policy/procedure to reflect these revisions.
- Continue working with the ADI ad-hoc committee on policy language about the anti-racist and/or a race and ethnicity graduation requirement for undergraduate students.
- Continue revisions to the academic dishonesty policy (CWUP 5-90-040(25)) and procedure to clarify the process overall and for appeals.
- Continue working on the language for policy 5-90-080 regarding Disruptive Behavior in academic settings.
- Consider developing policy and/or procedure for improving transfer students' catalog year and degree requirements consistency.
- Consider revisions to honors definitions and honor roll requirements.
- Consider revisions to policy and/or procedure regarding academic probation rules and how they are implemented.
- Consider reviewing the policy about prior learning requirement.
- Consider the creation of a set of procedures (CWUR 2-90-060) to mirror CWUP 5-90-060 outling the process of creating, reorganizing, and renaming academic units.
- Consider revisions to policy and/or procedure regarding course Syllabi, specifically to 493 courses and discrimination/harrassment.
- Consider revisions to the academic advising and orientation policy (CWUP 5-90-040(3) to clarify the process overall.
- Consider revisions to the academic admission to major policy (CWUP 5-90-040(4) to clarify the process overall.
- Consider developing university policy or procedure to ensure departmental policies on plagiarism and other behaviors are consistent with the student conduct code, WAC, and FERPA.
- Review and update numbering references, hyperlinks, phone numbers, etc. in Academic Policy and Procedure.
- Review committee procedures manual and update as required.
Budget and Planning Committee
- Establish a strong line of communication and good working relationship with the new president and upper administration regarding their budget structure and processes/plans.
- Provide recommendations for a transparent budget process for the ASL, non-college budget.
- Continue establishing and communicating closely with college and unit budget committees, and advocate for transparency in the college level budgets.
- Continue monitoring implementation of the budget model at Central by collecting and analyzing data regarding impacts to programs, departments, anc colleges. Disseminate results to administrators and faculty as appropriate.
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