Motion #23-01:

The Faculty Senate approves the Feasibility/Planning request for a Ph.D. in Chemistry.

Motion #23-02:

The Faculty Senate approves the Varying Exceptionalities Track in the Undergraduate Special Education Program.

Motion #23-03:

The Faculty Senate approves the Varying Exceptionalities Track in the Master's Special Education, the non-thesis track for the Master's Program in Medical Laboratory Sciences and the Family-Centered Nursing of Children Track in the MS in Nursing with a name change to Advanced Child Health Nursing.

Motion #23-04:

The Faculty Senate approves courses in Bulletin 1/2 with the following changes and corrections:

1.NGR 6XXX Advanced Family Centered Nursing of Children I: new name: "Advanced Child Health Nursing I"

2.NGR 6XXXL Advanced Practice in Family Centered Nursing of Children I: New name: "Advanced Practice in Child Health Nursing I" Add: Credit hrs: 3.

3. NGR 6XXX Advanced Family Centered Nursing of Children II: New name: "Advanced Child Health Nursing II."

4. NGR 6XXXL Advanced Practice in Family Centered Nursing of Children II: New name: "Advanced Practice in Child Health Nursing II."

5. NGR 6704 Role Synthesis in Advanced Nursing Practice: Family Nursing Practice: Advance Child Health Nursing."

All prerequisites for these courses will be changed as needed to reflect name changes for the courses.

Motion #23-05:

The Faculty Senate approves the Proposed Upper Division Vocal Music Curriculum Track, the Proposed Upper Division Instrumental Music Curriculum Track, and the Proposed Upper Division Theatre Curriculum Track (New World School of the Arts) which appears in Curriculum Committee Bulletin #3.

Motion #23-06:

The Faculty Senate approves the balance of Curriculum Committee Bulletin #3 with any typographical errors noted therein corrected.

Motion #23-07:

The University goal of becoming a recognized research institution is better served by incentives to principal investigators to receive enough money to actually carry out the research. Practical limitations of obtaining and implementing grants often restricts them. At the same time, the University must fund and operate a viable research infrastructure to distribute money in a way which will best support university-wide research opportunities. The following plan is deemed most appropriate to propose to the Faculty Senate:

RECOVERED INDIRECT COSTS

                                                                                                          Old Allogation Plan                              New Allocation Plan
                               DSRT                                                                           83%                                                            70%
                                 PI                                                                                  0%                                                              10%
                          PI'S DEAN                                                                       17%                                                             15%
                 PI'S DEPT. CHAIR                                                                   0%                                                               5%

Motion #23-08:

A subcommittee shall be appointed to study the issue of a separate North Miami Campus Senate and, if necessary, properly propose a constitutional amendment.

Motion #23-09:

The Faculty Senate approves Curriculum Bulletin #4.

Motion #23-10:

The Faculty Senate believes that the current procedure for graduation at FIU has been lacking in decorum related to the increased numbers of degree recipients. We recommend that an overall graduation ceremony be held where the President confers degrees by college and that each individual school or college would then have its own ceremony to recognize its Master and Bachelor degree recipients. We recommend that this motion be acted upon no earlier than Fall 1993. Such a trial must be reviewed by the Faculty Senate before it becomes a permanent procedure.

Motion #23-11:

The Faculty Senate recommends to the Office of the Provost that printed drafts of existing Academic Affairs Policies and Procedures be made available for university review by the end of this semester. To aid in this endeavor we urge cooperation by university divisions and departments and the provision of resources as needed.

Motion #23-12:

The Faculty Senate approves the Master of Arts in Political Science.

Motion #23-13:

The Faculty Senate recommends the creation of a joint faculty/administration task force to consider the role of undergraduate education in the immediate future, including the following issues:

(1) Rate of Growth

(2) Basic skills of incoming students

(3) Issue of relations with the community colleges

(4) Recruitment and retention of high ability and minority students

(5) State of the Honors Program

This committee will be in existence for 45 days.

Motion #23-14:

The Faculty Senate approves Curriculum Committee Bulletin #5.

Motion #23-15:

The Faculty Senate recommends that the Traffic Advisory Council be restructured to include equal representation of faculty, staff and students.

Motion #23-16:

The Faculty Senate will hold its last meeting of the spring, 1993 semester on Tuesday, April 13, 1993, on the North Miami Campus.

Motion #23-17:

The Faculty Senate recommends that six (6) graduate hours be designated as full-time for the Summer term.

Motion #23-18:

The Faculty Senate approves a recommended proposal for implementation of a Ph.D. in Comparative Sociology.

Motion #23-19:

The Faculty Senate approves a recommended proposal for implementation of a Ph.D. in International Relations.

Motion #23-20:

The Faculty Senate approves Curriculum Committee Bulletin #6.

Motion #23-21: 1993-94 - Faculty Senate Meeting Dates

FALL: SPRING:

SEPTEMBER 14, 1993 JANUARY 25, 1994

OCTOBER 5, 1993, NMC FEBRUARY 15, 1994 NMC

OCTOBER 26, 1993 MARCH 15, 1994

NOVEMBER 16, 1993, NMC APRIL 5, 1994

DECEMBER 7, 1993 APRIL 19, 1994

SUMMER MEETING: JUNE 7, 1994

Motion #23-22:

The Faculty Senate recommends that the normal registration period from semester to semester be maintained at ten days.

Motion #23-23:

The Faculty Senate endorses the Registrar's plan to establish a deadline for students to apply for graduation by the end of open registration in the semester before they expect to graduate.

Motion #23-24:

The Faculty Senate approves the following officers for 1993-94:

Janet Lineback, Chairperson

David Bergwall, Vice Chairperson

Robert Ruttenberg, Secretary

Motion #23-25:

The Faculty Senate approves Curriculum Committee Bulletin #7 with the following corrections: ACG 3XXX - Omit word "Corequisite," and ACG 4101 - replace prefix "GEB" with "ACG."