UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION POLICY COMMITTEE
ATTACHMENT E

Resolution to Recommend Approval of the RME Proposal from the
College of Applied Sciences and Arts to Eliminate the Captioning
Specialization in the B.S. in Information Systems Technologies

WHEREAS years of budgetary cuts in the College of Applied Sciences and Arts (CASA) have necessitated difficult cut-backs in staffing in nearly all degree programs in the College, which have led some programs with high student demand actually to turn qualified students away; and

WHEREAS because of these budgetary problems and the recommendations of the Provost’s Budget and Planning Task Force, CASA has engaged in a strategic review of its degree programs in terms of their productivity in research, teaching, and service; and

WHEREAS one result of this review was that elimination of the Captioning specialization in the B.S. in Information Systems Technologies was consistent with both the College’s strategic plan and the need to re-allocate increasingly scarce resources to programs more central to the College’s mission, particularly in meeting student demand; and

WHEREAS the only faculty member in the program on continuing appointment, Dr. Joyce Sheets, is retiring this June; and

WHEREAS the Undergraduate Education Policy Committee (UEPC) has reviewed all the relevant documents and testimony – including those provided by the Dean of CASA, by Professor Sheets, by the Faculty Senate panel on the specialization, and by the Faculty Association – and considered them in light of the Faculty Senate’s “Protocol on the Elimination of Undergraduate Degree Programs” (passed February 11, 2003);

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that on the recommendation of UEPC, Faculty Senate approve the RME proposal from CASA to eliminate the Captioning specialization in the B.S. in Information Systems Technologies.

[Resolution passed UEPC by paper ballot, 7 yes – 1 no – 2 abstentions, 5/24/04]

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