University of Illinois System Senate Committee on Educational Policy met Sept. 14.
Here is the agenda provided by the committee:
I. CALL TO ORDER
II. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
July 29, 2020
III. PUBLIC COMMENT
IV. CHAIR’S REMARKS (Moorhouse)
V. REPORTS
A. Office of Provost update (Kathy Martensen)
EP.21.008, Report of Administrative Approvals through September 14, 2020
B. Graduate College update (John Hart)
C. Other updates from other ex-officio members
VI. OLD BUSINESS
FULL COMMITTEE
EP.20.12, Review Bylaws Part D.8 – Educational Policy Committee and Standing Rule 13 - Formation, Termination, Separation, Transfer, Merger, Change in Status, or Renaming of Units
EP.20.43, Establishing Minimum Hours for Joint Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree Programs
SUBCOMMITTEE C
EP.20.183, Marketing, BS - Revision of Marketing Major within the Gies College of Business
VII. NEW BUSINESS
SUBCOMMITTEE A
EP.21.006, Statistics, MS -- Establishment of Online Delivery Mode of Instruction to Existing, On Campus Graduate Degree Programs- MS in Statistics
EP.21.007, Statistics: Analytics, MS -- Establishment of Online Delivery Mode of Instruction to Existing, On-Campus Graduate Degree Programs- MS in Statistics (tied to the Statistics, MS (key 58) and Analytics concentration (Key 781)
SUBCOMMITTEE B
EP.21.004, Bioinformatics: Information Sciences, MS -- Rename and Revise the Library and Information Sciences concentration in the MS in Bioinformatics.
EP.21.005, Child Health and Well-being Minor -- Establish the undergraduate minor in Child Health and Well-being in the College of ACES - Human Development & Family Studies Department
EP.21.013, Agronomy, BS -- This is a multi-element change. 1) Proposal to Establish a new Bachelor of Science degree with a major in Agronomy (B.S. in Agronomy) in the Department of Crop Sciences, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences (Key 960); 2) Deactivate the Crops concentration (Key 763); 3) Deactivate the Plant Protection concentration (Key 765); 4) Deactivate the Biological Sciences concentration (Key 761)
SUBCOMMITTEE C
EP.21.003, Proposed Revision to the Policy Governing the Academic Calendar
EP.21.009, Crop Sciences: Plant Protection, BS -- Phase out this concentration since it will be replaced by the new Agronomy major (Key: 960).
EP.21.010, Crop Sciences: Crops, BS -- Phase out this concentration since it will be replaced by the new Agronomy major (Key 960).
EP.21.011, Crop Sciences: Plant Biotechnology and Molecular Biology, BS -- Phase out this concentration since it will be replaced by the new Plant Biotechnology major (Key 896)
EP.21.012, Crop Sciences: Biological Sciences, BS -- Phase out this concentration since it will be replaced by the new Agronomy major (Key 960).
VIII. ADJOURNMENT
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