COMMITTEE:           Educational Policies and Planning

 

MEETING DATE:    3-9-07

 

PERSON PRESIDING:      Dale Knickerbocker

 

REGULAR MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE:       R. Allen, J. Mitchell, D. Knickerbocker, J. Mitchell, L. Pagliari; D. Weismiller

 

EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE:    G. Kasperek, M. Taggart, J. Tovey

 

OTHERS IN ATTENDANCE:        S. Bland

 

EXCUSED: S. Warren, L. Kean, L. Griffin

 

 

 

ACTIONS OF MEETING

 

Agenda Item:  Approval of minutes of 2-9-07

 

 

Discussion:  Chair announced that minutes were not yet ready for approval

 

 

Action Taken:  Tabled until next meeting by consensus

 

 

Assigned additional duties to:

 

 

 

Agenda Item:   Announcements

 

Discussion:  Chair informed the committee that there would be a meeting with Academic Program Development to discuss faculty representation on the APD team, and procedural matters, on 29 March.

 

Action Taken:  None

 

Assigned additional duties to:  NA

 

Discussion:  None

 

Action Taken:  None

 

Assigned additional duties to:  NA

 

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Agenda Item:  Professors Nelson Cooper and Susan McGhee presented a Recreation and Leisure Studies (RCLS) proposal for a new concentration for the Management of Recreation Facilities and Services (MRFS)

 

Discussion:  The increasing need for professional sports and recreational organizers was discuseed, as was the possible need for more resources—there will be none.

 

Action Taken:  Approved by consensus.

 

Assigned additional duties to:  NA

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Agenda Item:  Professor George Kasperek presented a proposal from Brody School of Medicine to change the name of the PhD degree in Biochemistry to Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

 

Discussion:  Question concerning the relationship between their program and curriculum and the nomenclature were asked and answered.

 

Action Taken:  Approved by consensus.

 

 

Assigned additional duties to:  NA

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Agenda Item:  Professor Xiaoming Zeng presented an HSIM (Health Services and Information Management) proposal to establish a health informatics minor

 

Discussion:  The increasing need for Information Technology personnel in the medical field, and the possible need for more resources—there will be none—, were discussed.

 

Action Taken:  Approved by consensus.

 

 

Assigned additional duties to:  NA

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Agenda Item:  Professors James Decker, Peter Farrell, and Sharon Knight presented a proposal from EXSS that the master of arts (MA) designation for the exercise and sport science program be changed to a master of science (MS) degree.

 

Discussion:  Focused on the program’s evolution from being housed in Arts and Sciences to the present, and the standard degree denomination in the field.

 

Action Taken:  Approved by consensus.

 

 

Assigned additional duties to:  NA

 

 

 

 

NEXT MEETING:    13 April

 

ITEMS TO BE DISCUSSED:        TBA