The process of approving senior seminars will likely be streamlined by the Council on Academic Affairs today, said Andrew Methven, CAA chair.

The CAA will meet at 2 p.m. in the Arcola/Tuscola Room of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.

CAA members will vote on whether to dissolve the Senior Seminar Advisory Committee at the meeting, Methven said.

The eight-member committee, composed of faculty members and administrators, was created several years ago to review and approve senior seminar proposals.

However, he said, individual departments and the CAA have recently assumed this job as well, leading the committee to recommend its own dissolution.

“(The committee) felt the role they were playing wasn’t that great anymore,” Methven said. “It seems like an extra step of approval that isn’t really needed.”

Methven said the CAA will “probably” vote to dissolve the committee.

In other business, CAA members will review a list of recommendations made by the Taskforce on Technology Enhanced and Delivered Courses concerning Web-based classes at Eastern.

The list includes recommendations that Eastern develop non-binding guidelines on how classes that are entirely or partly Web-based should be taught, create a Web site with information about these classes, and create a system for Web-based classes to be approved by the administration, Methven said.

Two requests from Blair Lord, vice president for academic affairs, will also be heard asking that CAA members be appointed to two committees.

Lord will request that a CAA member serve on the Academic Technology Advisory Committee, as well as the advisory committee of the Center for Academic Technology Services, Methven said.

The ATAC, among other things, decides how students’ technology fee funds are spent. The CATS advisory committee awards grants to faculty members who wish to teach a class that is partially or entirely Web-based, he said.

Both appointments would be 2-year terms.