UUCC Minutes 05-18-2020
Via Collaborate Ultra meeting
Attending: Michael Saar, Library Services; James Armacost, Ashwini Kucknoor, Mamta Singh, Education and Human Development; Tracy Benson, Alberto Marquez, Engineering, Millicent Musyoka, Fine Arts and Communication, Computer Science Melissa Riley, Faculty Senate Rep, Garrick Harden, A&S, Tracy Benson, Engineering, Stefan Andrei, CID rep, Alberto Marquez, Zanthia Smith,
Via Proxy: Barbara Hernandez Education and Human Development, Serdar Ilban Fine Arts and Communication, Kate McCall Student Government Association, Judy Smith, Arts & Sciences
Absent:
Ex-Officio: James Nelson, A&S CC Chair, Craig Escamilla, Acting Exec Dir Student Achievement & Retention; Liv Haselbach, Engineering CC Chair, Tony Mulvaney, COB, Theresa Hefner-Babb,
Ex-Officio Absent: Joel Grothe, Fine Arts and Comm, CC Chair,
Executive Associate Academic Affairs: Joe Nordgren
Guests: Kakoli Bandyopadhyay
Presiding: Michael Saar
Call to Order: 3:30
Michael Saar opened the meeting.
Approval of Minutes: Minutes from April 20,2020.
- Garrick Harden motioned to approve the minutes. Millicent Musyoka seconded it, and the motion was approved
Items on the agenda:
- Michael Saar said that the individual courses can be approved first before the BBA-MIS Program can be approved.
- MISY 3370, 4380, 4350 and 3395: Kakoli Bandyopadhyay said that all these courses are streamlined with minor tweaks, and there hasn’t been any major content changes. Since there were not any errors, a motion was called.
Millicent Musyoka motioned to approve the courses, and Mamta Singh seconded the motion. The motion passed unanimously.
- ECON 4370: Kakoli Bandyopadhyay explained that this course was specifically designed to be offered as an elective for BBA-MIS program with Business Analytics track. It will only be allowed for this particular program. Joe Nordgren questioned the minimum grade requirement of “D”, and Kakoli answered that that’s a standard requirement in College of Business.
James Nelson motioned to approve the course, and Mamta Singh seconded the motion. The motion passed unanimously.
- MKTG 4380: Like ECON 4370, this course is also only for BBA-MIS program. Kakoli explained the fact that these courses are being added to provide options for two separate tracks BBA_MIS, Business Analytics track and Enterprise Systems track, and these courses would be catering to these tracks.
Garrick Harden motioned to approve the course, and Tracy Benson seconded it. The motion passed and the course was approved.
- MISY3321, 3341, 3350, 3360, 3390, 4340: Kakoli explained that all these were old courses on the catalog and had not been changed for over 20 years. They took this opportunity to revamp these courses and made it up-to-date. 4340 was offered as special topics for long time, and now they have separated it as Business Intelligence Course, while saved 4390 for Special topics. 4340 needs a minor change- it needs to be 3 credit hours. Michael Saar said that he would fix that.
Garrick Harden motioned to approve the courses, Mamta Singh seconded the motion. The courses were approved.
- BBA-MIS Degree program; Kakoli presented the need for this new degree plan, since the field is changing rapidly, and the employers need more business analytics, to provide a good foundation in analytics, and to give flexibility to students, it was decided to have this new program.
Garrick Harden motioned to approve the degree plan, Mamta Singh seconded the motion. The motion passed unanimously.
- INEN3101: It was a special topics course before, and they are trying to give it a new number. Brief description of course is missing, and this should be added.
Tracy Benson motioned to approve pending addition of description. Alberto Marquez seconded the motion. The motion passed.
- MEEN 2302: Pre-requisites on the course change form should match with that of the syllabus. ISBN is missing for textbook.
James Nelson motioned to approve the course pending changes. Tracy Benson seconded the motion, and the motion was passed unanimously.
- GEOL3370: Syllabus needs to be adjusted to match the pre-requisites. No other changes.
James Nelson motioned to approve with changes. Qin Qian seconded, and the motion passed.
- ELEN3101: Gleb explained that this is a lab course specifically designed for students transferring from community colleges, to bring them up to speed with the hardware used in Lamar. There were no issues with the course as such.
Ashwini Kucknoor motioned to approve the course, Tracy Benson seconded the motion. The motion passed unanimously.
Closing Remarks: Theresa Heffner-Babb mentioned that along with Aida Lasher, they are trying to come up with a website to aid faculty and administrative staff to create the course additions and substitution forms, and streamline the forms.
Michael Saar mentioned that he will send out a survey to the council members to also help streamline this process.
Next meeting will be on June 15, 2020 (only if needed).
Adjourn: Motion to Adjourn at 4.21 pm by Garrick Harden; Tracy Benson seconded, and the meeting was adjourned.
Respectfully submitted: Ashwini Kucknoor, Biology