UC DAVIS: ACADEMIC SENATE

May 11, 2001

2000-01 ANNUAL REPORT

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATIONAL POLICY

To: The Representative Assembly of the Davis Division of the Academic Senate

During the 2000-01 academic year, the Committee has met nine times and has one more meeting scheduled.

• The Committee examined, accepted, and made recommendations for 7 program reviews:

  Human Development; Plant Biology; Animal Science; Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Cell Biology; Neurobiology, Physiology & Behavior; and Biological Sciences

• In addition, The Committee considered and reported on the following issues:

  • Request for new ORU "UC Davis Health System Cancer Center"

  • Name Changes:

    • from Exercise Science to Exercise Biology Degree
    • Department of Psychiatry to Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
    • Mexican-American B.A. to Chicana/o Studies B.A. Degree
    • and Agricultural Systems & Environmental Major to Agricultural Management & Rangeland Resources

  • The use of proposed additional funding for undergraduate education

  • The proposed UC Teaching, Learning & Technology Center

  • Davis Division Regulation 538, Examinations

  • Proposed utilization of the Varsity Theatre for large lecture classes

  • Report of the Ad Hoc Panel for Academic Review of University Extension

  • Proposed changes in regulations regarding communication skills (composition) in the undergraduate curriculum

  • Recommendations regarding intercampus summer enrollment

  • Proposal on Dual Admissions to UC and community colleges

  • Internship credit and ENWS as they relate to minimum progress

  • Department status for the Division of Biomedical Engineering

  • Waiting lists and drop date

  • Effect of increased graduate student enrollment

  • Faculty supply for summer session

  • Reconstitution of the Division of Education as a School of Education

  • Proposed Masters of Public Health Degree Program

  • Effect of the number of undeclared quarters on time to graduation

  • Subject A Examination Following Workload 57

  • Appointment of Undergraduates as Readers and TAs

  • Review of the Crocker Nuclear Lab

  • Capstone Report: Academic Plan for UC Davis 2000-2006

  • Contingency plans for final exams in the event of rolling blackouts

  • Establishment of a Natural Sciences Degree Program

Respectfully submitted,

Terence Murphy, Chair, Dennis Dingemans, Y. Hossein Farzin, Louis Grivetti, Evelyn Lewis, Peter Pascoe, Paul Primakoff, Mel Ramey, Janelle Reinelt, R. Paul Singh, David Woodruff, Robert Zierenberg, Academic Senate members; Kevin Roddy, Academic Federation Representative; and Mona Ebrahimi, Kevin Sakamoto, and Jessica Harness, Undergraduate Student Representatives. (Regular Guests: Pat Turner and Art Amos)