Senate Steering Committee

Agenda
December 5, 2008
3:00-5:00 PM
226 Tigert Hall

Infrastructure Council

Welfare Council

Research and Scholarship Council

Budget Council

Academic Policy Council      

Jane Brockmann, Chair

Susan Percival, Chair

Jacob Chung, Chair 

David Quillen, Chair  

Danaya Wright, Chair

Information Items:

    University Curriculum Committee Proposed Name Changes                                  

• The department of Romance Languages and Literatures underwent the following changes: Faculty in Spanish and Portuguese became the nucleus of a new department, which is now proposing the name, Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies.  Faculty in French, Italian and Haitian Creole became part of a second department, which is now proposing the name, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures.

•  Faculty in the Department of African and Asian Languages and Literatures and the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies also became part of the new department which is now proposing the name, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures.

• The Department of Sociology and the Department of Criminology, Law and Society were merged into one unit.  The proposed name for the new department is the Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law.