2018-12-04 Minutes | The Administrative Boards

MINUTES
MEETING OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE BOARDS
of the General College and the College of Arts and Sciences
Tuesday, December 4, 2018
3:00–4:47 PM, 3020 Steele Building

Members in attendance: Rita Balaban, Jessica Brinker, Claude Clegg, Amy Cooke, Lauren DiGrazia, Mara Evans, Beverly Foster, Kelly Giovanello, Richard Langston, Jennifer Larson, Lauren Leve, Doug MacLean, Lee May, David Mora-Marin, Abigail Panter, Valérie Pruvost, Nick Siedentop, James Thompson, Frank Tsui, Charlie Tuggle, Jonathan Weiler

Absent: Kevin Guskiewicz, Christian Lundberg, Ted Mouw, Lyneise Williams

Guests: Tamara Cabrera, Rich Goldberg, Jason Kinnear, Andy Perrin

Staff: Ben Haven

Senior Associate Dean Abigail Panter welcomed the Boards to the final meeting of the semester and began the meeting with introductions.

1. Discussion of the New General Education Curriculum
Andy Perrin, Special Assistant to the Dean, Director of Carolina Seminars, and Professor of Sociology

Perrin started his presentation with a brief overview of progress toward a new draft proposal. The Committee has presented at two faculty council meetings, two Education Policy Committee meetings, various open houses, and other meetings across campus. They plan to hold one more meeting tomorrow, December 5 and a final meeting in January 2019. The goal is to incorporate all of the feedback into the latest draft, which should be ready for discussion sometime in spring 2019. The Committee still plans to implement the Curriculum in fall 2020 once it has gone through the Administrative Boards and the Faculty Council (Education Policy Committee) approval processes.

The Curriculum is broken into three parts: 1) Focus on the First Year – four courses, 2) Focus Capacities – nine portable capacities, and 3) Integration, Reflection, and Action – level three of a global language, an upper-level communication course, two high-impact courses, a lifetime fitness course, a non-graded campus life experience component, and a student-curated portfolio of academic work.

To evaluate new courses in the first year, the College is piloting five Ideas, Information, and Inquiry (III) courses in spring 2019, five First Year Launch (FYL) courses in fall 2018/spring 2019, and 23 First Year Thriving (EDUC 101) sections in spring 2019. To evaluate the junior/senior communication course, the College will offer one section in spring 2019.

3. Sub-committee Reports

Course Committee, James Thompson, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Curricula and Professor of English and Comparative Literature
- The Boards approved the report as distributed.
Foreign Language and Quantitative Reasoning Substitution Course List and Criteria, James Thompson, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Curricula and Professor of English and Comparative Literature
- The Boards approved the list with a recommendation that the Substitution Committee continue to look for ways to increase the number of courses that would fulfill Quantitative Reasoning and Quantitative Intensive requirements through substitution.
Program Committee, Nick Siedentop, Director, Office of Undergraduate Curricula
- The Boards approved the report as distributed.

4. Addendum to the Articulation Agreement with North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, Physics (for original proposal, click here)

The Boards considered an addendum to allow two physics courses offered at NCSSM to articulate in for PHYS 104 and 105 if the student received a grade of B or higher. The Boards approved the addendum to the Agreement with a recommendation that physics courses with online labs would not articulate for credit.

5. Applied Physical Sciences and Engineering, B.S.
Rich Goldberg, Research Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Physical Sciences

Goldberg updated the Boards on the proposal to change the name of the degree, Applied Physical Sciences, which has been dormant for four years, to the new name, Applied Physical Sciences and Engineering. The Department of Applied Physical Sciences has been actively seeking funding and would like to have the degree name made official so that it is consistent with the plan to offer the degree under the new name in the future. The program will remain the same with a few minor tweaks to requirements, so it already qualifies for the new name and classification under the new CIP code, which will not be similar to, nor directly compete with, other programs in the state. The department has plans to have the program effective in time for students to begin enrollment in fall 2022. Students would receive engineering degree, but from a College of Arts and Sciences rather than an engineering school. The Boards approved the plan to change the name of the program with a recommendation that Applied Physical Sciences put someone from Neuroscience on their program board.

6. New Graduate Certificate, Impact Evaluation (from November meeting)

The Boards reviewed the graduate certificate program with a requirement to vote on approval since Public Policy, a unit in the College of Arts and Sciences, is one of the members in this joint degree program. The Boards approved the certificate proposal with recommendations for the program administrators to 1) broaden the course list – especially in public health – so that there are enough offerings and 2) ensure that they track class offerings over time and adjust the course list as needed.

7. New Undergraduate Major, Medical Anthropology, B.A. (from November meeting)

The initial proposal for the major in Medical Anthropology was reviewed by the Program Committee who submitted feedback. The department incorporated the Committee’s feedback and submitted a second draft for the Boards’ consideration. This proposal is the first step in a two-step process to establish the new major. The program will be a second major in the Department of Anthropology, which already has a minor in Medical Anthropology. The department assumes some minors will move over to the major, and students who would have otherwise pursued this major or similar in the Interdisciplinary Studies Program, will have an official department home once the major is established. The Boards approved the proposal with a recommendation that the Department of Anthropology provide projections for the anticipated number of majors at the next step in the proposal process.

8. New Undergraduate Minor, Translation and Interpreting, (from November meeting)
Tamara Cabrera, Teaching Assistant Professor, Department of Romance Studies

This five course minor will have four of the five focused on training students in the specialized skills of translating and interpreting. This opens the door to many professional opportunities for students post-graduation. This program also fills a need since there are other programs in the United States, but not enough to meet demand. Two of the courses will also have a strong focus in the legal and medical fields, two areas that make up much of the job demand. The Department of Romance Studies is also piloting a French course in fall 2019 to mirror the Spanish course, and they are considering incorporating other Romance Languages into the minor as well.

9. Study Abroad Proposals
Jason Kinnear, Interim Associate Dean for Study Abroad

Kinnear began his presentation with some updates from the Study Abroad Office. In 2017-2018, UNC-CH saw the highest level of student participation in study abroad experiences in the history of the program. UNC-CH is currently 17th in the nation in participation as a percentage of the total student population. The Office has set a goal of 2,300 participating students by 2022, which would be just over half the graduating class. To keep up with anticipated demand and make some program improvements, the Office has hired two new advisors and plans to hire a marketing staff member and a curriculum specialist to help create specific pathways for students to study abroad in certain majors. The Office is also looking to create a study abroad liaison for athletics to help target more programs toward student athletes. The Office has increased outreach, with a goal to connect with every academic department by the end of spring 2019. Additionally, the Office is rolling out a new process for credit transfer, revised their post-program student survey, will be implementing a pre-program survey for students, and launched a new website in July 2018.

The Boards approved the proposals as distributed.

10. Policy on Level One (1) of a High School Foreign Language
James Thompson, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Curricula and Professor of English and Comparative Literature

This policy is intended to address an anomaly whereby students who place into a level one language are not allowed to take the level one courses for credit toward graduation. The new policy would allow students who place into a level one language course to take that course for credit toward graduation even if they have completed two or more years of the language in high school. The Boards approved the policy with recommendations to draw up a policy document, receive approval from all academic units that have language programs (effective for all enrolled undergraduate students beginning January 2019), and form a subcommittee of the Boards to implement the changes.

The meeting adjourned at 4:47 P.M.