February 26, 2026

MEETING INFORMATION

Date

Thursday, February 26, 2026

Time

3:15 – 5:15 p.m.
Business 3:30 – 5 p.m.

Location

101 Richard Woodcock Education Center

And we’ll be in a different room next time!

Zoom link:

Agenda

Meeting Agenda ()

Draft Minutes

Draft Minutes for February 12, 2026 ()

 

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MATERIALS

Institutional ReportsÌý

  • Faculty Senate President’s (Michael Baltzley)

  • University President’s ReportÌý(Jesse Peters)

  • Interinstitutional Faculty Senate Report (IFS) (Ricardo Pelegrin, Tad Shannon)Ìý

Consideration of Old Business

1. None

New Business

1. (Kim Jensen)

2. American Sign Language Drop Concentration, Minor, or Other Programs Proposals (Brent Redpath)

3.Drop Concentration, Minor, or Other Programs Proposal (David Doellinger)

4. Criminal Justice Sciences Drop Concentration, Minor, or Other Programs Proposals (Misty Weitzel)

5. Elementary Mathematics Specialization and STEM Education Drop Major, Degree, or Graduate Certificate and Drop Concentration, Minor, or Other Programs Proposals (Gregory Zobel)

6.Drop Major, Degree, or Graduate Certificate Proposal (Elisa Maroney)

7. Department of Music Drop Concentration, Minor, or Other Programs Proposals (Daniel Tankersley)

8.Drop Concentration, Minor, or Other Programs Proposal (Laura Ellingson-Sayen)

9. 2025-26 Faculty Senate officer elections

  • President
  • Vice-President
  • Secretary
  • At-large members (2): Steve Scheck

Informational Presentations, Open Discussions, Committee Reports, Announcements

1. (Melanie Landon-Hays and Jay Schwartz)Ìý

2. Call for future business: New Business, Presentations, Discussions

3. Announcements

  • Academic Excellence Showcase, Thursday, May 28th
  • Fall Kick-Off Week
  • Panel conversation, Q&A, and a reception in the Willamette Room on Thursday, March 5th with Ryan Topper to discuss his new book Animist Poetics: Ancestral Trauma and Regeneration in African Literature
  • Women of Culture Celebration on Wednesday, March 4th. Vendor market from 10-2, top floor of the WUC. Dinner with a guest speaker, Makana Waikiki, 6-8 in the Columbia Room

4. Closing discussion items from the floor

NEW BUSINESS ITEMS

Please submit new business items using the following link: /facultysenate/submit-new-business/

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IMPORTANT DEADLINES THIS YEAR

Curriculum proposals

To provide sufficient time for all the review steps (committee and Faculty Senate), the deadline for submitting curriculum proposals for inclusion in the next academic catalog is the second Thursday of February for course proposals, program changes and new certificates. New programs take longer to process.

See wou.edu/curriculum and the Deadlines and timing page for more specific information.

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