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Faculty Senate Meeting

Harrison Hall 123

February 18, 2026

3:15pm-4:30pm

Webex: https://montana.webex.com/montana/j.php?MTID=mf961e11c6d694ca65d3349b049f2227d

 

  1. Call to Order
  2. Approval of FS Minutes from February 4, 2026
  • FYI Items
    1. MSU Outreach and Engagement Seed Grants Funding. Deadline for proposal submission April 5, 2026 (funding starts July 1)
    2. Presentation “How to succeed in the age of AI,” Philip Brittan, GSOC advisory board member, Feb. 18 (today), 5-7PM, Barnard 103.
    3. Students Against Genocide, Teach-In, Sunday, Feb. 22, 6PM Pilgrim UCC Church
    4. Strategic Plan Listening Session for faculty: Tues, March 10, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
  1. Undergraduate Courses and Programs
    1. New Courses-Second Read
      1. ACTG 493: Study Abroad
      2. EQUS 219: Foaling Management
    2. New Courses-First Read
      1. BMKT 480: Marketing Analytics & Consumer Insights
      2. CSCI 174: Artificial Intelligence for Everyone
      3. ECIV 467: Steel Bridge Design/Build
      4. EQUH 220: Yearling Training and Development
      5. MUSI 194: Musical Pathways
      6. SFBS 295: Practicum: Food Upcycling for Community Food Security
    3. Course Changes-Second Read
      1. AHMA 209: Patient Care Across the Lifespan: Aging, Disability, and Home Health
        1. Title change from Geriatric Care
      2. CHTH 443: Program Planning and Evaluation for Community Health
        1. Title change from Program Evaluation for Community Health
        2. Changes to learning outcomes
      3. COA 395: Practicum: Coaching Application
        1. Credit change from 1-2 to 1-3
      4. COA 405: Advanced Concepts in Coaching
        1. Changes to learning outcomes
      5. PHSX 499R: Senior Capstone Seminar
        1. Changes to learning outcomes
      6. Course changes-First Read
        1. ACT 282: Personal Trainer Certification
          1. Credit change from 2 to 1
        2. ARTH 302: Survey of Hellenistic Art
          1. Title change from Survey of Ancient Art
        3. CHTH 210: Foundations of Community and Public Health
          1. Title change from Foundations in Community Health
          2. New learning outcomes
        4. HTH 455: Ethics of Community Health
          1. Title change from The Ethic of Care
          2. Changes to learning outcomes
        5. HTR 298: Hospitality Management Internship
          1. New learning outcomes
          2. Change in mode of delivery
        6. MCH 103: Intro to Computer Aided Manufacturing
          1. Title change from Lvl 1 Level 1 Immerse 2Learn
          2. Change in credits from 2 to 3
  • New learning outcomes
  1. SFBS 429: Small Business and Entrepreneurship in Food and Health
    1. New learning outcomes

 

  1. Graduate Courses and Programs
    1. Course Changes-Second Read
      1. NUTR 528: Advanced Food Systems Management in Dietetics
        1. Credit change from 3 to 2
        2. Changes to learning outcomes
    1. Course Changes-First Read
  1. Rubric change from HDCO to COUN
    1. COUN 505: Professional Issues in School Counseling
    2. COUN 506: School Counseling Programs
  • COUN 524 : Crisis Counseling: Theory and Practice
  1. COUN 525: Counseling Children & Adolescents
  2. COUN 526: Adventure Counseling
  3. COUN 530: Mind-Body Well-Being Self-Care
  • COUN 540: Mental Health, Identity Development, and Understanding
  • COUN 550: Counseling Research and Evaluation
  1. COUN 551: Appraisal
  2. COUN 554: Develop Theory Across Lifespan
  3. COUN 558: Career Counseling
    1. New learning outcomes
  • COUN 564: Diagnosis and Mental Health
    1. Changes to learning outcome verbs
  1. ERTH 516: Geology of the Northern Rocky Mountains
    1. Title change from North Rocky Mtn Geology
    2. Changes to outcomes
  2. ERTH 524: K-14 Earth System Science
    1. Changes to learning outcomes
  3. FILM 512: SNHF Sound
    1. Change in number from 581
    2. Title change
  4. LRES 525 : Applied Remote Sensing
    1. Credit change from 2 to 1
  5. M 505: Principles of Mathematical Analysis
    1. New learning outcomes
  6. M 512: Geometry & Algebraic Topology
    1. New learning outcomes
  7. NUTR 540: Nutrition Education and Counseling
    1. New learning outcomes
  8. PHSX 511: Astronomy for Teachers
    1. Changes to learning outcomes
    2. Change in mode of delivery
  9. PHSX 571: Electric Circuits and Magnetism for Teachers
    1. Changes to learning outcomes
  10. PHSX 579: Special Relativity for Teachers
    1. Changes to learning outcomes
  11. PHSX 584: Physics by Inquiry: Light & Color for Teachers
    1. Changes to learning outcomes
  12. PHSX 597: Physics of Sustainable Energy for Teachers
    1. Title change from Physics of Renewable Energy for Teachers
  13. PSPP 521: Plant Science for Teachers: It Grows on You
    1. New learning outcomes
  14. SFBS 552: State of the Food Environment
    1. New learning outcomes
  15. STAT 536: Time Series Analysis
    1. New learning outcomes
    1. Course Inactivations-First Read
  1. MB 536 : Exploring Microbiology
    1. No longer taught due to lack of demand. Related programs are okay with the inactivation.
  2. Public Comment
  • Information Updates
    1. Strategic Planning Process – Kate Sutherland, Omar Shehryar, Sally Moyce
    2. Faculty Senate By-Laws revisions
    3. Council Updates (University Council, Grad Council, Research Council, ...)
    4. Policy revision process reminders
  • Senators’ Open Conversation
  1. Adjourn