UAPC Agenda, September 2024

The September 2024 UAPC meeting will be held in-person in Bascom Hall 260 on Thursday, 19 September 2024, 3:30-5pm.

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Questions can be directed to Karen Mittelstadt; Data, Academic Planning & Institutional Research, mittelstadt@wisc.edu

1. Welcome, introductions, opening announcements

2. UAPC Orientation. Presenter: Allison La Tarte; Vice Provost; Data, Academic Planning & Institutional Research

CONSENT AGENDA

3. Minutes of the April 2024 meeting

4. Minutes of the May 2024 meeting

5. Updates to Faculty Policies and Procedures, Chapter 6

6. Change the administrative home of a school/college, Graduate School, from Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education to the Office of the Provost, effective Summer 2024. Academic programs associated with the Graduate School were also moved, effective Fall 2024. Action approved at the 4 December 2023 Faculty Senate meeting.

7. Add College of Engineering Honors in the Liberal Arts to a degree/major program, BS-Environmental Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, effective Spring 2025.

8. Discontinue a graduate/professional certificate, Certificate in Global Health, Department of Population Health Sciences, School of Medicine and Public Health, effective Fall 2025. Action pending approval at the 13 September 2024 Graduate Faculty Executive Committee (GFEC) meeting.

APPROVAL ITEMS

9. Establish a new degree/major (Request for Authorization), MS-Animal and Dairy Sciences, Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. Action pending approval at the 13 September 2024 Graduate Faculty Executive Committee (GFEC) meeting. Presenter: Kent Weigel, chair.

10. Establish a new degree/major (Request for Authorization), PhD-Animal and Dairy Sciences, Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. Action pending approval at the 13 September 2024 GFEC meeting. Presenter: Kent Weigel, chair.

11. Establish a new degree/major (Request for Authorization), PhD-Science Communication, Department of Life Sciences Communications, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. Action pending approval at the 13 September 2024 GFEC meeting. Presenter: Dominique Brossard, chair.

INFORMATION PROVIDED FOR THE RECORD

12. The Information Provided for the Record, September 2024 document lists assorted actions that were approved administratively by Data, Academic Planning & Institutional Research (DAPIR) during AY 2023-24 that are being noted here for the record.