Steve announced that President Hopkins will host a reception before the upcoming UNF basketball game against Edward Waters College. Contact Valerie Anthony for information and reservations.

T. J. Accord reported that the UNF Bookstore is making improvements on getting spring books in stock ahead of time. Please turn in your book orders as soon as possible. Check your e-mail to see if there are any ordering problems, and tell your students that book buy-back time is this week.

The committee met November 9 and 30 to discuss the procedure for student medical withdrawal, sending on its suggestions to the Vice-President for Student Affairs. The committee meets again January 10 at 3:00 PM.

One vacancy remains to be filled from the College of Arts and Sciences on the Nominations and Elections Committee. Please volunteer.

The committee is now reviewing summer research grants. It will meet again December 7.

The committee met and is finalizing its planning process.

The committee will meet December 13 and January 24. Please submit any agenda items to Ted. Steve added that the committee is made up of people from across campus and is still looking for a volunteer to succeed Ted as chair.

President Hopkins distributed materials to the faculty that included a press release, documents, and letters regarding the Roland Buck situation. She discussed some procedural concerns in this still-open question and said that there were three important concerns for her: the integrity of UNF, the judicial presumption of innocence guaranteed Dr. Buck, and the rights of the alleged victim.

Paul Mason directed 2 questions to the Office of Enrollment Services:
(1) Is there a computer process to determine if students have prerequisites and corequisites for courses?
(2) Why are we no longer receiving notification of student withdrawals throughout the semester?

Judy Solano commented that the pilot program for calculating prerequisites is working well in the College of Computing Sciences and Engineering.

Margaret Nonnemacher asked when the rest of the sidewalks will be finished.

Bob Fagin replied "as soon as possible."

Item #1 FA 99-38: Submitted by the Academic Programs Committee.
College of Arts and Sciences - curricula additions and changes.
Moved by Sharon DeHaven.
Steve noted the following corrections to 99-110 and 99-111,credit hours should be 2 cr;
99-129, Ecological (not biological) Philosophy; 99-130, Introduction to Environmental (not biological) Studies. The motion passed.

Item #2 FA 99-39: Submitted by the Academic Programs Committee.
College of Business Administration - curricula additions and changes.
Moved by Sharon DeHaven.
Steve noted one correction: 99-052 should be listed as BBA Banking and Finance (not Financial Services). The motion passed.

Item #3 FA 99-40: Submitted by the Academic Programs Committee.
College of Computing Sciences and Engineering - curricula additions and changes.
Moved by Sharon DeHaven. The motion passed.

Item #4 FA 99-41: Submitted by the Academic Programs Committee.
College of Education and Human Services - curricula additions and changes.
Moved by Sharon DeHaven. Steve noted one correction: 99-148 strike Master of Education and substitute Bachelor of Arts in Education. The motion passed.

Item #5 FA 99-42: Submitted by the Academic Programs Committee.
College of Health - curricula additions and changes.
Moved by Sharon DeHaven. The motion passed.

Item #6 FA 98-43: Submitted by the Executive Committee on behalf of the Student Government Association. A proposal requesting that no classes be held the Wednesday before Thanksgiving.
Moved by Kathleen Cohen.
Kathleen noted that it would not be a holiday, only that no classes would be held.
Judy Solano noted that the move would not require an extra day on the current calendar.
Chris Rasche wondered that if you have a Wednesday-only class how you would make it up.
David Courtwright suggested you'd have to add a "Wednesday" somewhere.
Hank Camp, speaking in favor of the motion, opined that the student body has changed, and is no longer composed only of commuters but of dorm students with travel concerns.
Bill Caldwell argued that Tuesday will become the new travel day.
Ellie Scheirer agreed and noted that some reasons given for wanting the day off are specious.
Donna Mohr asserted that while the students' argument is that we have met the required number of days, there has been no discussion of how a Wednesday-only class can meet minimum hours.
Alex Diaz, President of the Student Government Association, said that students would happily add time to a class to accommodate their needs or add another day to give them the latitude to get home for the holiday.
David Courtwright offered a friendly amendment to conduct no classes on Thanksgiving Wednesday, provided that another Wednesday class day is added to the schedule. But the Executive Committee chair did not accept the amendment.
Chris Rasche then moved to refer the item back to committee to get more information on the issue; her motion passed.

Item #8 FA 99-45: Submitted by the Faculty Enhancement Committee.
A proposed mission statement for the Office of Faculty Enhancement.
Moved by Verna Urbanski. The motion passed.

With no further business, the meeting adjourned at 1:10 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,

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Elizabeth Lane Furdell, Secretary