4:00

1.     Faculty Senate President’s Welcome Remarks – Thomas Chittenden [10 min]

4:10

2.     Consent Agenda (VOTE) [3 min]

·      Minutes of the 12/16/19 Faculty Senate Meeting

Curricular Affairs 

·      New Post-Professional Doctorate in Occupational Therapy (CNHS/GRAD)

·      Name change PhD in Animal, Nutrition, and Food Sciences to the PhD in Animal Biosciences (CALS/GRAD)

·      No contest termination Bachelor of Music degree (CAS)​

4:13

3.     Conferral of Degrees (VOTE) [7 min]

4:20

4.     Divestment of Fossil Fuels – Don Ross FPPC [15 min]

Resolution: The Faculty Senate reaffirms its support for divestment from the fossil fuel industry investments and requests Board action in 2020. (VOTE)

Rationale for fossil fuel divestment

4:35

5.     Residential Learning Community Assessment Plan – Alex Yin, and J. Dickinson [15 min]

4:50

6.     General Education Framework and Refinement Process– J. Dickinson [35 min]

Draft General Education Framework

5:25

7.     New Business [5 min]

5:30

8.     Adjourn