3.3 Student Members - Student members shall consist of four (4) designated students duly appointed by the Executive Cabinet of the Weber State University Student Association. Student members shall have the right to discuss, make motions, and second motions, and vote but only two students will have the right to vote.

PPM 1-13 Faculty Senate Constitution - Article C-III. AMENDMENTS

mailed to the general faculty. A faculty member who wishes to abstain from voting shall submit a blank ballot in envelopes sealed and signed in the prescribed manner. At the end of ten (10) days, the secretary shall send a second ballot, plainly marked, to all members of the faculty who have not yet submitted ballots. At the end of the 15- (fifteen-) day period, the ballots shall be counted and the results announced. (For amendments to the Bylaws see Article B-XIII Amendments.)

C. Major Requirements for the Second Degree
All of the requirements of the second declared major must be fulfilled by a combination of previous course work and the required additional 30 semester hours.

D. Minor Requirements for a Second Degree
A minor may be required for a second baccalaureate degree as specified by the major department.

1. Foreign Language Requirement: If the first degree is not a Bachelor of Arts degree and the second baccalaureate degree is to be a Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Music, Bachelor of Music Education, or Bachelor of Arts in Music, the current WSU foreign language requirement must be met by some combination of courses taken as part of the first baccalaureate degree and/or courses taken in conjunction with the second degree.

3. Diversity (DV) Requirement: All candidates for a baccalaureate degree must satisfy this requirement. Course work taken as part of the first degree that is comparable to the current list of approved diversity courses may be used to satisfy this requirement.

A. Departments/colleges will assume total advising responsibility for students who have declared majors or have been admitted into a program having admission criteria (PPM 6.5). The culmination of advising will be verification that all graduation requirements are complete. This approval will include verification that all major, minor, general education, University and/or second baccalaureate degree requirements have been fulfilled.

1. The major department is responsible to sign off general education, University, Bachelor of Integrated Studies (BIS), and major requirements.

2. The minor department (where applicable) is responsible to sign off minor requirements.

B. Each academic dean will designate a responsible person(s) (e.g. associate dean, assistant dean, college-wide advisor, or other designee) to supervise advising and graduation verification within the college. The responsible person(s) will work closely with the Graduation Office to enforce University policy, coordinate the efforts of programs and department within the college, and submit final verification of graduation requirements to the Graduation Office by the appropriate deadline.

VII VIII. Waiver of Requirements
A petition for waiver of any graduation requirement must be requested from the Graduation Office. The Graduation Office will inform the student of the appropriate procedures to be followed based on the type of waiver requested.

VIII. IX. Conflict Resolution

Department chairs may assign faculty to advise students regarding their progress toward graduation, graduate school, or career placement.

1. Total advising includes advisement relative to General Education, University and Major requirements. Weber State University core and graduation requirements, and satisfying requirements for the major program of study.

II. PROCEDURE

A. Undergraduate Students

1. Catalog Selection

An undergraduate student may complete requirements for graduation from two separate catalogs; one for general education and a second for the major, minor, and university requirements under the following conditions:

a. Major, minor, and university requirements.

An undergraduate student’s catalog will be the catalog in effect the Fall Semester of the academic year when he or she first enroll at Weber State University.

b. Undergraduate students who change their programs of study will follow requirements as noted in the catalog current at the date of the program of study change.

c. A change of emphasis, track, or concentration within a major will not initiate a change in catalog year.

2. General Education

An undergraduate student’s catalog will be the catalog in effect the Fall Semester of the academic year when he or she first enroll at Weber State University.

a. Undergraduate students who change their programs of study will follow the general education requirements as noted in the catalog current at the date of the program of study change.

b. When an undergraduate student completes general education requirements he or she may meet with the academic department within which his or her program of study (major) resides to have this portion of his or her degree requirements verified for graduation.

It is the responsibility of the academic department to verify the completeness of general education requirements and notify the Graduation Office that the general education requirements have been met.

c. Undergraduate students may also choose to select a more recent catalog from which to complete general education requirements.

d. When a student completes general education requirements and the Graduation Office has been appropriately notified, this portion of the degree requirement will be considered fulfilled regardless of future changes to general education, changes to the program of study, or expiration of the catalog under which he or she completed the general education requirement.

3. Catalog Expiration

a. A student must complete all graduation requirements within six (6) years for baccalaureate degree candidates or three (3) years for associate degree candidates.

b. Students who take longer than six years to complete a bachelor's degree, or three years to complete an associate's degree will be held to the major and/or minor requirements found in the oldest active catalog at the time of graduation.

1. Major, minor, and university requirements

Students who withdraw or are withdrawn for any reason from the University and are subsequently readmitted after an absence of two or more semesters, excluding summer, will be governed by the catalog expiration policy in Section II.A.b above for major, minor, and university requirements.

2. General education requirements

a. A returning student who completed ALL of their general education requirements prior to stopping out may meet with the academic department within which his or her program of study (major) resides to have this portion of his or her degree requirements verified for graduation.

b. It is the responsibility of the academic department to:

determine the process for reviewing general education;

verify the completeness of general education requirements prior to the student stopping out; and

notify the Graduation Office that the general education requirements have been met.

c. When a student completes their general education requirements and the Graduation Office has been appropriately notified, this portion of the degree requirement will be considered fulfilled regardless of future changes to general education, changes to the program of study, or expiration of the catalog under which he or she completed the general education requirement.

d. If the student did not complete ALL of their general education requirements prior to stopping out he or she will be assigned a catalog as outlined in Section II.A.2 above.

e. The completion of the general education requirements will be noted in the student's electronic record but will not appear on an official transcript, except as part of a completed degree.

C. Graduate Students

(The time allowed for program completion by graduate students will be determined by the appropriate department.

D. Exceptions

VI. ONE-COURSE REDUCTION FOR TENURE-TRACK FACULTY

If the second-year review of a tenure-track faculty member shows satisfactory progress towards tenure, he or she is eligible for a one-course reduction of his or her contracted workload for one semester. This course reduction must be awarded before the faculty member is granted tenure and is for the purpose of promoting scholarly activity. In order to be granted this course reduction, the faculty member must submit to his or her department chair and dean an application describing plans for the research or creative activities he or she plans to pursue during the semester in question. Such applications must be submitted 6 months in advance and approved by both the faculty member’s chair and dean. Before the start of the semester in which the workload reduction is to occur, the dean will forward a list of the names of all faculty members who have been approved for such a reduction to the provost who will in turn forward the list to the Board of Trustees for final approval.

In an attempt to chart ongoing teaching performance, student evaluations shall be administered and compiled by an impartial third party. Each year, all contract, non-tenured, and adjunct faculty members will have student evaluations administered in every course taught, and each year each tenured faculty member shall have student evaluations administered and compiled by an impartial third party in at least two of the courses that the faculty member teaches. The two courses to be evaluated each year will be determined through consultation between each faculty member and his/her department chair. If the faculty member and the chair cannot come to agreement on which two courses should be evaluated by the students, the choice of courses to be evaluated will be subject to binding arbitration by the dean, after consultation with the faculty member and the chair. The results of those evaluations shall be seen by the chair, the faculty member, and those specified in the review process. The summaries shall will be kept on file in the office of the chair.

1. Consideration and approval of new course proposals will remain with the Curriculum Committee.

2. The General Education Committee will only become involved in the course proposal procedure in the event that a course proposal (a) is seeking general education status (core or breadth); and (b) does not receive unanimous approval from the Curriculum Committee.

3. If both circumstances occur, the role of the General Education Committee will be to examine the course proposal in question, and provide a recommendation to the Curriculum Committee as to the proposal’s suitability.

4. The Curriculum Committee will then consider the General Education Committee’s recommendation and vote again to determine whether the proposal is forwarded to the Faculty Senate. A majority vote is sufficient to send the proposal forward to the Faculty Senate Executive Committee. Although the decision rests with the Curriculum Committee, it is expected that the General Education Committee’s recommendation will carry considerable weight.

5. The General Education Committee will provide current information to the Curriculum Committee regarding general education learning outcomes, to assist the Curriculum Committee in determining the suitability of course proposals noted in (2) above.

Addendum: current thinking regarding item (5) is that revised versions of Forms I and III, which deal with general education goals and assessment, would be provided to the Curriculum Committee. These revised forms would contain the learning outcomes for each core/breadth area, with space for proposal authors to indicate which learning outcomes will be met (and how), and how they will be assessed.

Students will demonstrate their understanding of the following characteristics of life:

B.S. DEGREE REQUIREMENTS 

Recommendation of the University Curriculum Committee, and the General Education Improvement and Assessment Committee regarding continuation of the moratorium on all General Education, S.I., and Diversity course proposals.

The University Curriculum recommends that the Faculty Senate place in effect a new moratorium on General Education, Scientific Inquiry, and Diversity course proposals: 1) The moratorium shall continue for breadth area General Education, Scientific Inquiry, and Diversity course proposals. 2) The moratorium for breadth General Education, Scientific Inquiry, or Diversity course proposals shall extend until Faculty Senate passes new guidelines related to the proposed course and the General Education Improvement and Assessment Committee generates the associated curriculum course proposal forms with course guidelines, or until the end of Fall Semester 2007, whichever shall occur first.