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UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION POLICY COMMITTEE
ATTACHMENT GResolution to Recommend Approval of the RME Proposal
from the College of Applied Sciences and Arts to Eliminate
the A.A.S. in Dental TechnologyWHEREAS years of budget reductions 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 to turn qualified students away; and
WHEREAS because of these budgetary problems and the recommendations of the Provost’s Budget and Planning Task Force to reconsider all associates degrees, CASA 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 the identification of the A.A.S. in Dental Technology as a program whose elimination 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 two faculty members on continuing appointment will be re-assigned to other units in the Health Care Professions program, should the A.A.S. in Dental Technology be eliminated; 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 the affected faculty, by the Faculty Senate panel on the degree program, and by the Faculty Association – and considered them in light of 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 A.A.S. in Dental Technology.
[Resolution passed UEPC by paper ballot, 4 yes – 3 no – 2 abstentions, 5/25/04]
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