EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY
2006-2007 FACULTY SENATE
The seventh regular meeting of the
2006/2007
Tuesday, March 20, 2007, at 2:10 in the Mendenhall Student Center Great Room.
FULL AGENDA
I. Call to Order
II.
Approval of Minutes
III. Special Order of the Day
A. Roll
Call
B. Announcements
C. Steve
Ballard, Chancellor
Discussion
of the University’s
Strategic Plan
D. Jim
Smith, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
E. Mark
Taggart, Chair of the Faculty
F. Approval
of Spring 2007 Graduation Roster, including honors program graduates,
subject
to the completion of degree requirements.
IV. Unfinished Business
V. Report of Committees
A. Calendar
Committee, Shanan Gibson
1. Proposed Summer 2008 – Spring 2009 University
Calendars (attachment 1).
2.
Draft of an unofficial informational faculty calendar (for discussion
only)
(attachment 2).
B. Educational Policies and Planning
Committee, Dale Knickerbocker
For information only.
1. School
of Health and Human Performance, Recreation and Leisure Studies (RCLS) proposal
for a new concentration for the Management of Recreation Facilities and
Services (MRFS)
2. School
of Health and Human Performance, Exercise and Sports Science (EXSS) Master of Arts (MA) designation be changed to a Master of Science
(MS) degree
3. School
of Allied Health Sciences, Health Services and Information Management
(HSIM)
proposal to establish a health informatics minor
4. School
of Medicine proposal to change name of Department of Biochemistry to
Biochemistry
and Molecular Biology
C. Unit Code Screening Committee, Garris
Conner
Approval of the Revised School
of Nursing Unit Code of Operation.
All approved unit codes of operation are available on the Faculty Senate
website at: http://www.ecu.edu/cs-acad/fsonline/uc/unitcodes.cfm
D. University
Budget Committee, Cal Christian
Overview of Online Education.
Curriculum matters contained in the
minutes of the February
22, 2007, and March
8, 2007, meetings.
VI.
New Business
Resolution Commending the ECU
Women’s Basketball Team, David Long
(attachment 3).
Faculty Senate Agenda
March 20, 2007
Attachment 1.
CALENDAR COMMITTEE REPORT
Proposed Summer 2008 –
Spring 2009 University Calendar
Proposed Summer Session 2008
First Term
(Actual days First Term: 4 Mondays, 6
Tuesdays, 5 Wednesdays, 5 Thursdays, 5 Fridays,
1 day for registration, 1 day for
final examinations.)
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March 17,
Monday |
Last day
to apply for admission to Graduate School for first summer term. |
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May 16,
Friday |
Schedules
canceled for all who have not paid fees by 4:00 pm. |
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May 19,
Monday |
New
student registration; schedule changes. |
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May 20,
Tuesday |
Classes
begin; late registration; schedule changes. |
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May 21,
Wednesday |
Last day for
late registration and schedule changes (drop and add) for first term by 5:00
pm. |
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May 22,
Thursday |
Last day
for schedule changes (add only) by 5:00 pm. |
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May 26,
Monday |
Memorial
Day (no classes). |
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June 3, Tuesday |
Last day for undergraduate students to drop term‑length
courses or withdraw from school without grades by 5:00 pm. Block courses may be dropped only during
the first 40% of their regularly scheduled class meetings. |
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June 18,
Wednesday |
Last day
for graduate students to drop courses without grades by 5:00 pm. |
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June 24,
Tuesday |
Classes
end. Last day for submission of grade
replacement requests. |
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June 25, Wednesday |
Final examinations. |
Second Term
(Actual days Second Term: 5 Mondays, 5 Tuesdays, 5
Wednesdays, 6 Thursdays, 4 Fridays,
1 day for new student registration, 1 day for final examinations.)
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May 1,
Thursday |
Last day
to apply for admission to Graduate School for second summer term. |
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June 23,
Monday |
Schedules
canceled for all who have not paid fees by 4:00 pm. |
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June 25,
Wednesday |
New
student registration; schedule changes. |
|
June 26,
Thursday |
Classes
begin; late registration; schedule changes. |
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June 27,
Friday |
Last day for
late registration and schedule changes (drop and add) for second term by 5:00
pm. |
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June 30,
Monday |
Last day
for schedule changes (add only) by 5:00 pm. |
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July 4,
Friday |
State
holiday (no classes). |
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July 10, Thursday |
Last day for undergraduate students to drop term‑length
courses or withdraw from school without grades by 5:00 pm. Block courses may be dropped only during
the first 40% of their regularly scheduled class meetings. |
|
July 21,
Monday |
Last day
to submit thesis to Graduate School for completion of degree in the summer
session. |
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July 25,
Friday |
Last day
for graduate students to drop courses without grades by 5:00 pm. |
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July 31,
Thursday |
Classes
end. Last day for submission of grade
replacement requests. |
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August 1,
Friday |
Final
examinations; last day to submit appeals for readmission for Fall semester. |
(Actual class days: 9 Mondays, 11
Tuesdays, 10 Wednesdays, 11 Thursdays, 9 Fridays,
1 day for Final Exams.)
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March 17, Monday |
Last day to apply for admission to Graduate School
for summer term |
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May 16, Friday |
Schedules canceled for all who have not paid fees
by 4:00 pm. |
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May 19, Monday |
Registration and schedule changes. |
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May 20, Tuesday |
Classes begin; late registration; schedule changes. |
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May 21, Wednesday |
Last day for late registration and schedule changes
(drop and add) by 5:00 pm. |
|
May 22, Thursday |
Last day for schedule changes (add only) by 5:00
pm. |
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May 26, Monday |
Memorial Day (no classes). |
|
June 17, Tuesday |
Last day for undergraduate students to drop term‑length
courses or withdraw from school without grades by 5:00 pm. Block courses may be dropped only during the
first 40% of their regularly scheduled class meetings. |
|
June 25, Wednesday |
Midsummer Break (no classes). |
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July 4, Friday |
State Holiday (no classes). |
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July 21, Monday |
Last day to submit thesis to Graduate School for
completion of degree in the summer session. |
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July 25, Friday |
Last day for graduate students to drop courses
without grades by 5:00 pm. |
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July 31, Thursday |
Classes end.
Last day for submission of grade replacement requests. |
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August 1, Friday |
Final examinations; last day to submit appeals for
readmission for Fall semester. |
Proposed Fall Semester 2008
(Actual class days: 13 Mondays, 14 Tuesdays, 15 Wednesdays, 14 Thursdays,
14 Fridays, 13 Saturdays.
Effective class days: 14 Mondays, 14 Tuesdays, 14 Wednesdays, 14 Thursdays, 14
Fridays, 13 Saturdays)
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June 2,
Monday |
Last day
to apply for admission to Graduate School for the Fall semester. |
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August 1,
Friday |
Last day to
submit appeals for readmission for Fall semester. |
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August 11, Monday |
Last day to apply as an
undergraduate transfer student for the Fall term. |
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August 12, Tuesday |
Fall semester fees accepted with late processing
fee. |
August 13, Wednesday
|
Schedules
canceled for all who have not paid fees by 4:00 pm. |
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August
18, Monday |
Faculty
meetings. |
|
August
19, Tuesday |
Advising,
registration, and schedule adjustments. |
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August
20, Wednesday |
Classes begin;
late registration; schedule changes. |
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August
26, Tuesday |
Last day
for late registration and schedule changes
(drop and add) by 5:00 pm. |
|
August
27, Wednesday |
Last day
for schedule changes (add only) by 5:00 pm. |
|
September
1, Monday |
Labor Day
holiday (no classes). |
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September
3, Wednesday |
Last day
to apply for graduation in December. |
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October
1, Wednesday |
Last day
for undergraduate students to drop term‑length courses or withdraw from
school without grades by 5:00 pm.
Block courses may be dropped only during the first 40% of their
regularly scheduled class meetings. |
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October
11-14 Saturday-Tuesday |
Fall
Break. |
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October
15, Wednesday |
8:00 am ‑
Classes resume. |
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October
15, Wednesday |
State holiday
makeup day (classes which would have met on Monday, September 1, will meet on
this day so there will effectively be the same number of Mondays and
Wednesdays as every other weekday during the semester; Wednesday classes will
not meet.) |
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October
20 – 24 Monday-Friday |
Advising
for Spring Semester 2009. |
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October 27, Monday |
Registration for Spring Semester 2009 begins. |
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November
21, Friday |
Undergraduate
students last day to remove incompletes given during Spring and/or Summer
session 2008. |
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November
21, Friday |
Last day
for graduate students to drop courses without grades by 5:00 pm. |
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November
24, Monday |
Last day
to submit thesis to the Graduate School for completion of degree in this
term. |
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November
26‑30 Wednesday‑Sunday |
Thanksgiving
break. |
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December
1, Monday |
8:00 am ‑
Classes resume. |
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December
3, Wednesday |
Graduate
students last day to remove incompletes given during Fall 2007. |
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December
3, Wednesday |
Classes
end. Last day for submission of grade
replacement requests. |
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December
4, Thursday |
Reading
day. |
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December
5, Friday |
Final
Examinations begin. |
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December
12, Friday |
Exams for
Fall semester close at 4:30 pm; last day to submit appeals for readmission
for Spring semester. |
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December
13, Saturday |
Commencement. |
EXAMINATION SCHEDULE
FALL SEMESTER 2008
There will be no departure from the
printed schedule, except as noted below:
All examinations for one credit hour classes will be held during the last
regular meeting of the class. Classes
meeting more than three times a week will follow the examination schedule for
MWF classes. The final exam meeting is
required in order to satisfy the 750 contact minutes per credit hour required
by the University of North Carolina Office of the President.
Classes beginning 6:00 pm or
later are considered night classes.
Examinations in classes meeting one night a week will be held at 7:30‑10:00
pm on the first night of their usual meeting during the examination period
(December 5‑December 12).
Examinations in classes meeting two or more nights a week and beginning
before 8:00 pm will be held at 7:30‑10:00 pm on the first night of their
usual meeting during the examination period (December 5- December 12). Examinations in classes meeting two or more
nights a week and beginning at or after 8:00 pm will be held at 7:30‑10:00
pm on the second night of their usual meeting during the examination period
(December 5- December 12). Classes
meeting on Saturday morning will have their final examinations on Saturday,
December 6, at the usual hour at which the classes meet.
Classes beginning on the half hour or
meeting longer than one hour will have their final examination at the time
determined by the hour during which the classes begin (e.g., 9:30‑11:00
am TTh classes will follow the examination schedule of the 9:00 am TTh classes;
8:00‑10:00 am MWF classes will follow the examination schedule of the
8:00 am MWF classes)
Common examinations will be held
according to the following schedule:
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FREN
1001, 1003, SPAN 1001, 1004, GERM 1001 |
5:00 ‑
7:30 Friday, December 5 |
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FREN
1002, SPAN 1002, 1003, GERM 1002 |
5:00 ‑
7:30 Monday, December 8 |
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MATH 1065 |
5:00 ‑
7:30 Tuesday, December 9 |
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CHEM 0150,
1120, 1130, 1150, 1160 |
5:00 ‑
7:30 Wednesday, December 10 |
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CHEM
1121, 1131, 1151, 1161, 2753, 2763 |
5:00 ‑
7:30 Thursday, December 11 |
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Times
class regularly meets |
Time and day of examination |
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8:00 MWF |
8:00 ‑ 10:30 Wednesday, December 10 |
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8:00 TTh |
8:00 ‑ 10:30 Friday,
December 12 |
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9:00 MWF |
8:00 ‑ 10:30 Friday, December 5 |
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9:00 TTh (9:30) |
8:00 ‑ 10:30 Tuesday, December 9 |
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10:00 MWF |
8:00 ‑ 10:30 Monday, December 8 |
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10:00 TTh |
8:00 ‑ 10:30 Thursday, December 11 |
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11:00 MWF |
11:00 ‑ 1:30
Wednesday, December 10 |
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11:00 TTh |
11:00 ‑ 1:30
Thursday, December 11 |
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12:00 MWF |
11:00 ‑ 1:30
Friday, December 5 |
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12:00 TTh (12:30) |
11:00 ‑ 1:30
Tuesday, December 9 |
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1:00 MWF |
11:00 ‑ 1:30
Monday, December 8 |
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1:00 TTh |
11:00 ‑ 1:30
Friday, December 12 |
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2:00 MWF |
2:00 ‑ 4:30
Wednesday, December 10 |
|
2:00 TTh |