ASCRC Minutes 11/30/10
Members Present: B. Borrie, D. Dalenberg, M. Beebe-Frankenberger, C. Henderson,, L.
Higgins, C. Knight, M. Grimes, T. Manuel, P. Muench, J. Sanders, E. Uchimoto, L.
Sims, K. Spika, J. Staub, A. Williams, K. Zoellner
Members Absent/Excused: S. Greymorning, S. O’Hare
Ex-Officio Present: B. Holzworth, E. Johnson, A. Walker-Andrews
Guests: R. Saha, A.Vernon
Chair Knight called the meeting to order at 2:10 p.m.
The minutes from 11/23/10 were approved.
Business Items:

Professor Saha provided background on the service learning designation and
presented the consent agenda for the Subcommittee. Andrea Vernon, Director of the
Office of Civic Engagement, was also in attendance. In 2008 the University was
awarded the Carnegie’s Community Engagement designation. UM applied in 2006
but was not successful because service learning courses were not clearly identified.
There are now approximately 40 service learning courses. A colloquium is scheduled
this spring to provide information to faculty interested in incorporating community
engagement into their courses.
There was only one course, GPHY 491: Digital Map Design, submitted for review
this year. The instructor revised the reflection section of the form and syllabus to
better connect the course content with service learning.
ASCRC recommends the instructor be encouraged to apply for permanent status for
the course. It was approved for one-time-only service learning status.

Professor Beebe- Frankenberger presented the remaining items from the Social
Science Subcommittee. The items appended below were approved. One member
abstained from the vote on approving the six new courses in Political Science because
the courses are taught by adjunct faculty and no courses have been deleted from the
program to account for the increase. The department assures the courses will be
taught on a rotating basis and the College of Arts and Science Dean signed the forms.
Anthropology will resubmit course forms to split ARAB 307 Model Arab League into
two courses, one for delegates and one for staff. The department would like the
courses to be repeatable, which would allow students to take 12 credits of the same
course. Some members felt this was excessive. Political Science will be contacted to
provide information regarding the Model UN course as a comparison.
Associate Provost Walker-Andrews met with the proposers of the Police Science
Certificate. Board of Regents Policy 301.5 states that: Campuses from the MUS may
give credit for education received from non-collegiate institutions on the basis of
recommendations published by the American Council on Education and the National
Program on Non-collegiate Sponsored Instruction from the Board of Regents of the
State of NY (NYSED). The Attorney General is pushing for a stronger academic
foundation in police officer training. MSU Northern is developing a 2 plus 2 program
that would complement the certificate as well. Discussions are taking place with the
Academy in terms of faculty status. The faculty may be hired as adjunct instructors
or recognized as affiliates. Addendums to the course syllabi describing assignments
will be submitted. ASCRC will deliberate further after these have been received.
This is a good opportunity to assure the courses have appropriate academic rigor.
The certificate would be under the Industrial Technology department, not Applied
Arts and Sciences.
Revised catalog language is forthcoming for the program modification in Women and
Gender Studies.

Professor Muench presented follow-up information for the Humanities
Subcommittee. A revised form for JPNS 371 was submitted and the instructor was
given additional feedback. Liberal Studies was consulted regarding the program
modification and will submit a revised form that lists WRIT 101 and four semesters
of a language as a separate requirement. The item was approved. At the time of the
meeting a revised proposal for the East Asian Studies Major had not been received. It
was distributed electronically and revised the language requirement to a second year
of Chinese or Japanese or the equivalent in order to bring the ratio of lower to upperdivision credits in compliance with Regents policy. The item was approved
electronically, so that it could be placed on the December Faculty Senate agenda and
forwarded to the Board of Regents for consideration in January.

The items appended below were approved from the Forestry and Biomedical
Subcommittee.
Good and Welfare

ASCRC will not meet next week.
The meeting was adjourned at 3:10 PM.
Social Science Consent Agenda
Linguistics
LING/ENLI LING/ENLI 270S
270S
LING/ENLI LING/ENLI 470
470
Political Science
PSCI 321
Post-Communist
Politics
PSCI 332
Global Environmental
Politics
PSCI 336
European Union
PSCI 448
Health Care Policy
UG
PSCI 449
Environmental Health
UG
Policy
PSCI 469
Ethics and Government
UG
LING/ENLI 270S
LING/ENLI 470
New course
New course
New course
New course
New course
New course
Forestry and Biomedical Consent Agenda
Communicative Sciences and Disorders
CSD 360
Language Disorders
CSD 430
Senior Capstone I
Forestry
RECM /FOR
424
Community Forestry and
Conservation
Add CSD 210 & CSD 320 as prerequisites
Add prerequisite
Change from UG to U, change description