The November 2025 UAPC meeting will be held in-person in Bascom Hall 260 on Thursday, 20 November 2025, 3:30-5pm. Zoom video participation is an option for members, presenters, and guests, as needed. Please see details below for Zoom access.
Join Zoom Meeting: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/92427377220?pwd=DX034a3X9nt1sHhPYATWCfuxshHwN4.1
Questions can be directed to Karen Mittelstadt; Data, Academic Planning & Institutional Research; mittelstadt@wisc.edu
1. Welcome, introductions, opening announcements
CONSENT AGENDA
2. Minutes of the October 2025 meeting
3. Suspend and subsequently discontinue a graduate/professional certificate program, Certificate in Bilingual Psychological Services: Esperanza, Department of Counseling Psychology, School of Education. Admission will be suspended effective fall 2026 with the discontinuation effective fall 2027. Action pending approval by the Graduate Faculty Executive Committee (GFEC), 14 November 2025.
4. Discontinue a center/institute, Center for Plasmas in the Laboratory and in Astrophysics, Department of Physics, College of Letters & Science, effective Spring 2026.
5. Discontinue a center/institute, Seminary of Medieval Spanish Studies, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, College of Letters & Science, effective Spring 2026.
APPROVAL ITEMS
6. Establish a new degree/major (Request for Approval to Plan / Notice of Intent, Fast-Track), PhD-Wisconsin Idea Executive Program, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, School of Education. Action pending approval by GFEC, 14 November 2025. Presenters: Barb Sramek, program director; Percival Matthews, associate dean.
7. Establish a new degree/major (Request for Authorization to Implement), BS-Aerospace Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering. Presenters: Greg Nellis, professor; Darryl Thelen, chair.
8. Establish a new academic department, Department of Biology (from the Departments of Botany and Integrative Biology), College of Letters & Science, effective summer 2026. Presenters: Mary Halloran, chair, Integrative Biology; Ruth Litovsky, associate dean; Anne Pringle, chair, Botany.
DISCUSSION ITEM
9. Update on Act 15: Universities of Wisconsin Implementation of Transfer of Core General Education Requirements.