Undergraduate Academic Council Minutes
Meeting: Wednesday, September 4th, 2013 from 2:30 pm to 3:00 pm
Room: LC 31 J
Present: Jeanette Altarriba, Dave Casey, Karen Chico Hurst, Tony DeBlasi, Rick Fogarty, Anne Hildreth,
Janell Hobson, Trudi Jacobson, Linda Krzykowski, JoAnne Malatesta, Jim Pasquill, Caro-Beth Stewart,
Kathie Winchester, Jim Zetka
Chair’s Report:
This first meeting of the year is primarily to do introductions and to highlight some of the upcoming
tasks for the year. UAC will usually meet weekly but no meeting will be held on the following dates:
9/18, 9/25, 10/23, and 11/6. In advance of the meeting relevant sections of the Senate Charter
regarding UAC and its standing committees were distributed. Also distributed was UAC Procedures, a
document from 3/2013 that was the culmination of the Senate’s May 2012 charge to UAC to clarify its
procedures based on the Senate Charter. It outlines UAC’s primary curricular responsibilities and what
matters UAC will handle internally or will bring to a full Senate vote.
Anticipated business for Fall 2013
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A review of the General Education Committee’s new learning objectives for the
International Perspectives category
Potential changes to the bulletin statement regarding an undergraduate being required to
have their major declared by the time they have taken 42 credits
Department of Informatics proposal to change the Information Science major from Faculty
Initiated to a registered major
Financial Market Regulation (now moved to the School of Business) proposal to revise the
major
The School of Public Health proposal for Bioinstrumentation as a new registered major
The School of Business proposal for Digital Forensics as a new registered major
Environmental Sciences proposal to change the Climate Concentration
Program review for certain restricted majors as to remaining restricted
General Education Competencies in the major
Academic departments have until December 1 to submit plans on how they will address in their majors
the General Education competencies of Advanced Writing, Critical Thinking, Oral Discourse, and
Information Literacy in time for Fall 2014. UAC is charged with reviewing those plans. These proposals
will comprise the bulk of UAC’s work for Spring 2014.
New Business:
Committee assignments for UAC members will be determined by the chair based on members’
preferences, if possible. Graduate and undergraduate representatives to UAC are named through the
Student Association and this typically does not happen until later in the semester. Committee Chairs are:
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JoAnne Malatesta, General Education
Bruce Miroff, Admissions and Academic Standing
Tony DeBlasi, Curriculum and Honors
Linda Krzykowski, Interdisciplinary Studies
Next meeting scheduled for September 11.
Meeting adjourned at 3:00 pm.