Farnsworth Pavilion; 01.23.17 9 PM Senate Meeting Farnsworth Pavilion; 01.23.17 9 PM

Agenda Roll Call Attendance and Approve Minutes/Agenda Vote on Student Athlete Advisory Legislation Updates or Questions for SA Credit Override Committee Reps Presentation and Discussion about the Current State of Distribution Credit System Presentation of Drug Culture at Rice Update on the State of the SA budget Announcements: V2C2 Members Thursday lunch: Higher Education Under the New Presidency Applications for Health Professions Task Force

Faculty Senate Working Group on Distribution Requirements

Purpose Inspect distribution requirements and context and issues surrounding it Routine process conducted every 5-10 years Draft recommendations for resolving these issues to CUC First meeting held in mid-December Identified common issues surrounding distribution requirements and brainstormed potential solutions to them Next meetings scheduled for Jan. 30 and Feb. 6 Rushi Bhalani (SA) and Palvasha Deme (SA/CUC) are student reps Other members are professors and administrators

Context Discussion Rationale for gen ed is weakly defined Insufficient number of distribution courses 36 hours of distribution may be difficult with the 18-credit hour cap Distribution being used to control class numbers Lack of proper resource allocation towards gen ed Departmental issues with students largely preferring to take distribution in certain subject areas - creates gaps Inconsistent conformity of distribution courses Specify the principles and competencies desired to determine the purpose of general education Review processes of allocating distribution credit to courses Decrease distribution requirements from 36 to 30 credit hours Implementing thematic requirements (i.e., FWIS, Quantitative Reasoning) More specifically define D1, D2, D3

Feedback/Questions?

Diversity in SA Elections Why is it important? Plan Sonal to attend multicultural council club meetings to describe what Election Process/positions are Contact QuestBridge, SS Form to be sent on Listserv with more details of positions Ideas? Vision and Mission of SA Exec team this year is to increase diversity on campus, and to make sure each individual, not matter what socieconomic class, culture, sexuality, etc. feels safe on campus. Especially important in this time period we are in