Faculty Meeting

11:30 am            Faculty Meeting Begins.   Welcome.  Land acknowledgment.  We are Human: More than Kudos

Announcements

              Budget information and questions

              Promotion Policy and Procedures - Revisions for early review dates, formatting

Faculty Bylaws ratified in autumn 2025 

11:35 am           DECIDE: Consent agenda

• Approve February 6, 2026 Faculty Meeting Minutes
• Approve Promotion Policy and Procedures
• INFO
  • Add INFO 280 (4 cr) - This course will replace current requirement (INFO 290 1 cr); Focus on teamwork and communication earlier; Pilot in Spring 2026 (INFO 498F); Approved by Program Committee 1/30/26
  • Retire INFO 290 and INFO 386 - Requires program change (additional 3 credits)
• MLIS
  • MLIS Law Curriculum Revision proposal - Proposed curriculum revision right sizes the MLIS Law program to improve relevance, sequencing, and degree completion timing while preserving academic rigor and disciplinary breadth. Reducing the program from 41 to 36 credits lowers cost and time of completion without altering the balance between core and specialized coursework, which remains effectively unchanged. The curricular changes needed are below:
    • Reduce LIS 595: Research and Writing in Law Librarianship from 4 to 3 credits by removing the Autumn Quarter credit and offering the course as a Spring Quarter culminating experience (with a Summer offering only during the transition year).
    • Remove LIS 547: Design Methods for Librarianship (4 credits) from the required curriculum and retain a 3-credit elective requirement in its place.
  • Retire LIS 546: Data Curation II: Advanced Topics - No longer considered viable due to pattern of low enrollment and inconsistent faculty
  • Retitle LIS 545: Data Curation I: Fundamentals to Fundamentals of Data Curation - Adjusting title to remove reference of sequence. Faculty of 545 will be free to include advanced topics as deemed appropriate.
• MSIM
  • Retire IMT 546: Data Communications and Networking - being retired because the only instructor who taught the course since 2021 has retired.

11:40 am            Accessibility Advocacy from Our Student Accessibility Council 

12:25 pm            Supporting undocumented students

1:15 pm              Adjourn