The faculty on Thursday voted to allow students to
declare up to two minors.
They also approved an AAC proposal that students be
required to declare all minors by the end of their first term in senior
year.
Faculty
also approved the requirement for an instructor's permission to add a
course during the second week of a term, even if the course is open.
They also voted to extend the deadline for declaring
Pass/Fail to the end of the second week of the term, bringing it in line
with the Add/Drop deadline.
Faculty also considered revisions to the faculty
manual proposed by the Faculty Executive Committee. Faculty are to vote on
the proposals by mail ballot after 30 days.
Among the changes would be an amendment to the preface
of the manual that changes to the manual be made in consultation with the
FEC, that the administration consult the FEC on changes to the faculty
manual not requiring faculty approval, and that appointments to liaison
committees be staggered three-year terms. Also discussed was a change that
would empower the FRB to create as many subcommittees as necessary to deal
with its areas of responsibility, that would grant faculty status and
voting rights to the director of the Schaffer Library, that chair of the
FEC (not the dean of faculty) be consulted about procedural questions in
appeals.