The Council on Academic Affairs will meet Thursday at 2 p.m. in Room 4440 of Booth Library.

The Council will look at approving an updated format of the history departmental honors program.

According to the proposal, changes include taking away four currently-required courses from the program and adding three different ones.

The courses that are being proposed to be removed from the requirements include HIS 44442, HIS 45552, HIS 4666 and HIS 46442.

The proposed course additions are HIS 44441 -Honors Independent Study, HIS 45551  -Honors Research and HIS 46441 -Honors Thesis.

There is also some proposed language changes to the catalog copy of this program.

The council will also get a governance update from the Faculty Senate regarding a proposal that was discussed at the senate’s meeting Oct. 16.

In the draft proposal Jeff Stowell, senate vice-chair and psychology professor, shared with the senate on Tuesday, he wrote, “Curricular bodies on campus (CAA, CGS, COTE) are not explicitly asked to consider the new program in the context of the university mission or the fiscal and personnel resources required.”

The proposal discussed Tuesday stated that these new programs, the ones that require Illinois Board of Higher Education approval, needed more faculty input when considering the allocation of resources and the alignment to Eastern’s mission.

Stowell said this role of providing more input about mission and resource allocation when it comes to new programs should, according to its constitution, fall on the senate.

The discussion was tabled at the senate until a more thorough discussion of constitutional changes can take place.

The council will look at this proposal and discuss it at its meeting Thursday.

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