Tuesday, October 9, 2012

October 2, 2012 Academic Council Minutes

Dean Skerrett called the meeting to order at 10:30 a.m. The minutes of the September 18, 2012 meeting were approved.

All proposals on the October 2, 2012 consent agenda were approved.

Dean Skerrett asked for the removal of degree proposals from he consent agenda. Moving forward, all new degreeproposals will be placed on the discussion agenda.

Yvonne Howell proposed to approve the following:

 MLC 242 From Scheherazade to Jasmine:  The Arabian Nights in World Literature and Culture
 MLC 243 Politics and Social Movements in  Modern Middle Eastern Literature
 MLC 244 Writing Women in Modern Arabic Fiction
 MLC 347 Islam, Nationalism, and the West--Modern Thought in the Arab World
 Arabic Studies Major  

 The motions were seconded and following discussion the motions were approved.

Dean Skerrett asked that everyone involved in annual performance reviews to break into small groups to discuss calibration and how to review faculty returning from sabbatical.

The meeting adjourned at 10:50 a.m.

Respectfully submitted,

Zandria Haines

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