UAC Report to Senate
May 3rd, 2023
Council Meeting and Chair-ship
Last UAC meeting of year occurred on April 20th; some work continues through summer
2022-2023 UAC Chair Annette Richie stepped down, remains UAC member
Zakhar Berkovich was nominated as UAC Chair for 2023-2024 and accepted!
Committees
Continuing Chairs include Brandon Lewis (Academic Standing), Damira Pon (General
Education), Susanna Fessler (Curriculum and Honors), and Zakhar Berkovich
(Interdisciplinary Studies). There is an opening for GEC co-chair from the teaching faculty for
2023-2024, with excellent candidates among the current roster (2 will be on sabbatical).
GEC met last on 5/2 to finalize review of course proposals for Gen Ed qualification.
CAS will continue to meet biweekly re petitions as necessary, as they have all year.
Business Report Out
UAC and GAC obtained SEC approval to bring the Bill – Change to W and S/U Deadlines to the
5/3 Senate meeting. The bill was passed unanimously in GAC and by all voting UAC members.
C&H/UAC approved the Bill Art History B.A. + Liberal Studies M.A., which is being
presented by GAC at the 5/3 Senate meeting and is sponsored by GAC and UAC. C&H
also reviewed a combined Art History B.A. 4+1 with Information Science M.S..
UAC approved proposal of a 1-credit UUNI 120 academic success course for first-year
students as presented by Student Engagement AVP Linda Krzykowski to UAC on 4/20
UAC received 2 memos from CEHC regarding the new Cybersecurity B.S. being approved by
SUNY and NYSED, with the same curriculum as existed in deactivated concentration (in B.A.).
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(1) Two existing 4+1 programs and agreements transition to the new Major (B.S.):
(a) the Informatics B.S. and the Digital Forensics and Cybersecurity M.S. (Risk,
Policy and Compliance and Health, Security, and Privacy concentrations)
(b) Information Science Master of Science Degree (MSIS). Articulation
agreements that impacted the Informatics B.S. Cybersecurity concentration also
transition to the new Cybersecurity B.S..
(2) The current Informatics B.S. Honors program will be transitioned to the new
Cybersecurity B.S. with no changes. For all matters, the changes will be reflected in the
2023-2024 Undergraduate Bulletin and in university administrative systems.
UAC reregistration review teams approved and forwarded proposals from East Asian
Studies (Majors in EAS, Chinese, and Japanese) and Social Welfare.
Nursing B.S. and new Gen Ed program (DEISJ) implementation steps are both underway
in preparation for fall 2023 activation (scheduling, degree audits, coding, SLOs, apps...).
Thank you to all UAC, CAS, C&H, GEC, and IDS members and to University Senate leadership!
