UpDate - Vol. 14, No. 3, Page 5
September 15, 1994
Faculty Senate approves new program, committee

     A new interdisciplinary graduate program in biomechanics and
movement science was established Monday by the University Faculty
Senate.
     Expected to be limited to 10 students, the provisional program
will offer both master's and doctoral degrees and will be administered
by the Office of Graduate Studies. Students may pursue a range of
topics from designing robotics for the disabled, to microscopic bone
remodeling, to developing corrective devices needed for normal
movement.
     Courses will be taught by faculty from the departments of
Mechanical Engineering, Physical Therapy, Physical Education, Computer
and Information Sciences, and students will use the resources at the
Applied Sciences and Engineering Laboratory, the Sport Science
Laboratory and the Orthopedic and Biomechanic Engineering Center on
campus and at the A.I. duPont Institute in Wilmington.
     In other business, the senate revised the grades possible under
the credit by examination option to include "C-" or above. Previously
only three grades were possible, "A," "B" or "Pass." In addition,
credit by examination will no longer be allowed for experimental
courses, independent study courses or for University of Delaware
courses taken previously.
     A new minor in statistics also was approved by the senators,
along with slight revisions to the geology minor and the master's of
urban affairs and public policy.
     A new standing committee to offer faculty advice to the
University provost was created by the University Faculty Senate. The
new Academic Priorities Review Committee will be made up of five
members, including the present and three most recent former
chairpersons of the Senate Coordinating Committee on Education and one
winner of the Francis Alison Award.
     Harrison Hall, associate professor of philosophy, was chosen
president-elect of the faculty senate.
     In his first remarks to the senate, Provost Melvyn Schiavelli
said he expects to attend as many departmental meetings as possible to
meet the faculty and discuss successes, obstacles to success and plans
for future accomplishments. Schiavelli said he intends to ask
departments two rhetorical questions: How would they spend an
additional $50,000 added to their budgets? and If they were allowed to
keep budgeted money from one or more activities, which activity would
they stop doing?
                                                        -Cornelia Weil