Faculty Senate Meeting September 12, 2025

College of Business and Economics Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes
Subject: Faculty Senate Meeting
Date: September 12, 2025
Time: 12-1pm
Meeting Type: Online Zoom
Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes (PDF)

Present:
Todd Inouye, Andrey Simonov, Benjamin Zenk, Chenbo Shi, Xuan Xie, Keisuke Nakao (vice chair), Hee Sun Kim (chair), Deborah Hughes, Wei Wei

Agenda Items:

1.) Approve Previous Meeting Minutes

Motion by Todd; seconded by Andrey; vote: 8-0-0 (w/o Chenbo)
Reference: Meeting Minutes 09102025 CoBE Senate (PDF)

2.) Curriculum proposal to remove QBA 260 and MATH 115 as a prereqs for MGT 425 (Todd)

Motion by Todd; seconded by Keisuke; vote: 8-0-0 (w/o Chenbo)

3.) Curriculum proposal to stop out Business Administration certificate from FA26, Business Administration minor would remain (Todd)

3 students since 21 - 22
Motion by Todd; seconded by Andrey; vote: 9-0-0

4.) Curriculum proposal to establish an Entrepreneurship certificate (15 credits) in FA26 to replace the Business Administration certificate, only pre-reqs will be 15 or more college credits, MATH 125 or higher, ECON 130, 200-level ENG course (Todd)

ECON 130 Intro to Microeconomics (3)
ACC 201 Intro to Financial Accounting (3)
BUS 290 Critical Thinking (3)
MKT 310 Princ of Marketing (3)
MGT 425 Bus Planning for New Ventures (3)

Motion by Todd; seconded by Andrey; vote: 9-0-0

5.) Curriculum proposal to create MGT 100 Introduction to Leadership (3 credits) starting FA26 (Todd)

See distributed syllabus (PDF)
Apply for GE status FGC: Group C - Prehistory to Current

Motion by Todd; seconded by Keisuke; vote: 7-0-0 (w/o Xuan & Ben).