Academic Senate Reports
Rick Luttmann is our representative to the Academic Senate. Below are notes from AS meetings.
This meeting is the last of the ‘20-‘21 academic year.
President Sakaki announced that the search for a permanent Provost has concluded and that Interim Provost Karen Muranski has been selected for the permanent position.
She also reported on a recent Board of Trustees meeting...
The original agenda for this meeting included a First Reading of a Policy on Chair Selection being proposed by FSAC. However, in response to multiple commentaries on the draft policy which the Committee received before its meeting that preceded this Senate meeting, the Committee asked to pull...
Changes proposed by the Spanish section of the Modern Languages Department to its MA program and approved unanimously by the EPC were accepted by the Senate on a consent basis. See https://sonoma.curriculog.com/proposal:930/form ....
President Sakaki reported;
The campus is considering adding an additional week at the beginning of the Fall 2021 semester. The CSU Council of Ethnic Studies is continuing its discussion of how to implement the legislative requirement for a course in Ethnic Studies as a CSU graduation...Chair J Reeder had several announcements:
>> The Executive Committee has decided unilaterally not to hold even a virtual Recognition Ceremony for the new crop of retirees awarded Emeritus status by the Academic Senate in September. The SSU-ERFSA Board was not involved in this...
Chair J Reeder had several announcements:
>> Things are moving statewide on implementation of the new Ethnic Studies requirement
>> The Spring 2021 retreat will be held virtually on Thursday, 21 January from 9:00 am to 12:30 pm.
>> The issue of stress on...
President Sakaki reported that SSU’s plan for spring instruction has been submitted to WASC for approval. She also reported on a recent meeting of the Board of Trustees. The Board has approved a budget request to be sent to the Governor regarding funding for the CSU...
SETEs are supposed to be in students’ hands two weeks before the end of the term, but this year due to early end of semester and late Thanksgiving, there must be an adjustment of the schedule. They will go out the end of the week before Thanksgiving, Friday, 20 November.
President Sakaki...
Much of the business at this Senate meeting was rather routine, so I will merely summarize the most important and interesting items. Then I will move on to two major items that were considered at this meeting, both of which were regarded as so urgent that First Readings were waived.
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