MEMORANDUM

TO: Academic Senate Members

FROM: Keith Edgerton, Chair

Academic Senate

RE: MEETING DATE, PLACE, AND AGENDA

The next meeting of the Academic Senate will be held on Thursday, March 3, 2005, at 3:40 p.m., in the Chancellor’s Conference Room.

I. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: February 24

II. DISCUSSION/ACTION ITEMS

A. Further Budget Discussion (as needed)

B. Fast Track Program – VTEM Recommends Dissolution

C. Information Literacy Category in Academic Foundations – What does it mean?

D. Data from Department Chairs Regarding Budget Cuts

E. Issues with Academic Senate Manual for Curriculum

Item 31 Manual for the Preparation of Curricular Materials for Consideration by the Academic Senate. Revised.

F. Public Service Requirement for all Students

G. General Faculty Approval of Bylaw Change (Student Voting on Academic Senate) – If No General Faculty Meeting, Online Vote?

H. Format for New Certificates

I. Re-examine MSU-Billings Online Program

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