Faculty Senate Electronic Meeting - 09/30 - 10/31/19
Date: 09-30-2019, 10-17-2019, and 10-31-2019
Subject: Faculty Senate Electronic Meeting Minutes
Attendance: Andrey Simonov (Chair), Sijie Sun (Vice Chair), Terrance Jalbert, Keisuke Nakao, Todd Inouye, Sukhwa Hong, Amirhossein Mohammadian, Angela Faanunu, Benjamin Zenk, James Czarski, Deborah Hughes, Helen Tien, Marcia Sakai, Emmeline de Pillis (ex officio)
Topics:
- BUS 110 Business Experience (09-30-2019)
Report: The motion is to change from " BUS 110 Freshmen Business Experience (3) (lecture/lab/other)" to " BUS 110 First Year Business Experience (3) (lecture/lab/other) ." and was amended to change from "BUS 110 First Year Business Experience (3) (lecture/lab/other) to "BUS 110 First Year Business Survey (3) (lecture/lab/other)."
Actions:
• Sijie Sun moved to motion, and the motion was seconded by Sukhwa Hong.
• Benjamin Zenk moved to amend a motion on the floor from "BUS 110 First Year Business Experience (3) (lecture/lab/other) to "BUS 110 First Year Business Survey (3) (lecture/lab/other)", and the motion was seconded by Sukhwa Hong.
• The motion was approved with 8 votes in favor, 0 against, 0 abstained.
- Communications Assessment Rubric (10-17-2019)
Report: The motion is to change the current Oral Communications Assessment Rubric to the one proposed by Todd Inouye (See Appendix A)
Actions:
• Sukhwa Hong moved to motion, and the motion was seconded by Todd Inouye.
• The motion was approved with 8 votes in favor, 0 against, 0 abstained.
- Draft CLEP Credit Chart (10-31-2019)
Report: The motion is to discuss " CLEP exams (credit by examination exams administered by the College Board that do AP [advanced placement] testing) and see if the assigned [business] courses match the test.". The amended motion is to transfer CLEP credits only for the lower-division business courses and not for the upper-division business courses.
Actions:
• Sijie Sun moved to motion, and the motion was seconded by Sukhwa Hong.
• The discussion is that all courses that are listed in the document and taught by CoBE faculty match the test, except Principals of Marketing that cannot be transferred as MKT 310.
• Sukhwa Hong moved to amend the proposition that transferring CLEP credits only for the lower-division business courses and not for the upper-division business courses.
• The motion was approved with 5 votes in favor, 1 against, 2 abstained.
Appendix A
Proposed Oral Communication Rubric