DATE: September 24, 2025
TO: The Faculty Senate and Voting Faculty
FROM: Julien Panetier, Chair
SUBJECT: FACULTY SENATE MEETING – SEPTEMBER 30
The first Faculty Senate meeting of the 2025-2026 academic year will be held on Tuesday,
September 30, beginning at 11:45 a.m. in Old Union Hall.
The agenda is:
1. Resolution of Appreciation Presented to President Harvey G. Stenger
2. Approval of Minutes from the May 6, 2025 meeting
3. In Memoriam: Faculty Obituaries
a. Prof. Emeritus Thomas Wallace Donnelly, Geology
b. Prof. Emeritus James F. Geer, Engineering & Applied Science
c. Prof. Emeritus Charles J. Houghton, Mathematics & Statistics
d. Prof. & Founding Dean Patricia (Wallace) Ingraham, CCPA
e. Distinguished Prof. Emeritus G. Philip Rightmire, Anthropology
4. Reports
5. Curriculum items (PRC)
a. Program Revision- Physics + Mechanical Engineering 4+1
b. Deactivation and Discontinuance for a Adolescence Special Education (Grades 7 to 12) Certificate
6. ADA Accessibility Update
7. New Business
a. Global Interdependencies Task Force
b. Civic Discourse and AI Task Force
c. General Education Task Forces' Proposed New Gen Education Text
8. Upcoming Faculty Senate meeting:
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- Tuesday, November 4, 2025 (Full Faculty/Faculty Senate)
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9. Faculty Senate- Open floor (time permitting)
10. Adjournment