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through. He is hoping that as we are doing that we treat this as our testing phase and actually get MagnusMart implemented right. Dr. Sridhar also had a conversation with one of the people in his Dean’s Office and she said that when using the online system, when it works, you get through the system fairly quickly except that the usability of the system is the corner case at this point. Hopefully, it will get resolved and we will be able to actually begin using it in full.

Dr. Sridhar reported that another item was a memo sent to all the department chairs just before the beginning of the semester concerning minimum class size caps for various kinds of classes that are GenEd classes. The memo was sent to department chairs for the spring semester. He discussed this with the Provost’s Office and now it has been referred back to the Admissions and Standards Committee for Faculty Senate to review it to ensure that there is governance participation. He noted that there are good points to be looked at but there are also concerns that Faculty Senate should address and we will do that this semester.

Dr. Sridhar said that he wanted to end with a quick report on the Path to 2020 Program. He noted that eighteen projects are all underway and progressing. There are faculty representatives on all of these projects. Throughout this semester we will have reports to Senate from individual projects. Today, we will have Senator Brian Ray talking about the Administrative and Institutional Support Processes project which is one that he knows that all faculty are eagerly awaiting to see the results. The 2020 team has drawn up a calendar for when each of these projects is to actually report to either the President’s Cabinet or to the Executive Committee. Some of these will make it into the FY17 budget, some of them will pass that and go into the summer. When it is appropriate for the proper governance committees to see these things, we will see them.

- IV. University Faculty Affairs Committee

## SEI Policy Changes/Updates (Report No. 23, 2015-2016)

Senator Allyson Robichaud, chair of the University Faculty Affairs Committee, stated that she has two items from the committee with respect to the SEI. She will start with the policy revisions and then will move on to talk about the data sharing. She referred to the section where people have campus access to the SEI data. She noted that in part b) under the heading, “Campus Access to SEI Data”, a very small correction was made – they removed “Information Services and Technology” because it is really Institutional Research that looks after this data and then Tom Geaghan, of Vice Provost Teresa LaGrange’s Office, Academic Planning, interfaces with IS&T.

Dr. Robichaud stated that the second item, under the heading of “Inclusions and Exclusions for SEI Data Collection,” is slightly more substantive. There is an added provision that allows there to be a way in which things that cannot currently be evaluated using Blue will be able to be evaluated and the language UFAC put in was: “Where Blue cannot perform evaluations for a particular academic activity due to current technical limitations, an alternative method will be used in a manner appropriate to that activity as determined by the unit’s Dean’s office and the College/School Faculty Affairs