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Committee Minutes 03/17/2025

Wayne A. Reaud Building Room 202             

 Attending: Ashwini Kucknoor, (A&S); Adam Nemmers (A&S), Sujing Wang (A&S), John Gossage (Eng); Jane Liu (Faculty Senate); Elizabeth Casey (CID rep); Sanaz Alasti (CJ), Lucy Tsado (CJ),  Gabriel Crosby, Kyle Boudreaux, Ken Young, Annette Hernandez-Uddameri, Purnendu Mandal (Business), Jane Liu, Zanthia Smith (DSDE),

Absent:, Garrick harden, Dawn Short, Katherine Sprott, Ping He, Kurt Dryaug, Kevin Elgar, Penny Clark (lib), Elizabeth Casey

Via Proxy: No records

Ex-Officio Attending:  Samuel Jator, Associate Provost; Jessica White (Records), David Short (Registrar),

Ex-Officio Absent: Bryan Proksch, Julia Yoo,  Bryam Proksch, Ana Christensen, Alberto Marquez, Ricardo Tovas-Silos (Business), Ana Christensen (A&S),  Doug Williams,

Executive Associate Academic Affairs: Shelly Traxler

Guests:

Presiding: Dr. Jator

Call to Order: 3:30 pm

Approval of Minutes:

• Motion to approve the past meeting minutes was called by Jator. Sujing moved the motion, Zanthia Smith seconded the motion, and the motion passed unanimously.

Business:   

Review of Program changes: BS- Family Studies

                                                     BS- Hospitality

                                                     BS- Nutrition

                                                     BS Nutrition/Dietetics

• Courses being removed and few new ones added, to fit into the programs listed above.
• Sujing moved to approve the changes, after carefully considerations, and Adam seconded the motion, and the council voted unanimously to pass the motion.

Program deletions:

Jane moved to approve the program deletions, Adam seconded, and motion passed unanimously.

Sujing motioned to approve the course deletion associated with the program changes, Zanthia Smith seconded, and the motion passed unanimously.

Course changes:

Zanthis asked about the SACS approval for the course changes, and the courses were checked again to make sure that they were all SACS approved.

Adam moved to approve the course changes requested to go along with the program changes, mandal seconded, and the motion passed unanimously.

Course additions:

FMSC 3318- change contact hours to 45

FMSC 3375- contact hours checked and were 45.

FMSC 4320-changed contact hours to 45

FMSC 3301- changed contact hours to 45

FMSC 3350- changed contact hours to 45

Zanthia motioned to approve the course additions, Sujing seconded the motion, and the motion passed with unanimous votes.

Criminal Justice proposal:

Alasti explained why the need; to grow the CJ as a department, and to increase student numbers.

Everyone is supportive of new program.

Sujing moved to approve the proposal, Adam seconded the motion, and motion passed with unanimous votes.

Adam asked about the elections for next year. Sujing mentioned about the survey for the committees, and that senate will hold the elections shortly.

Jator talked about the best colleges survey and encouraged all members to participate in the survey.

Adjourn: Motion to Adjourn at 4.15 pm by Nemmers; Seconded by Sujing and was unanimously approved.

Next meeting: April 21, 2025, 3.30 pm.

Respectfully submitted:

Ashwini Kucknoor, Biology