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Cal Poly’s Academic Senate will debate the merits of and possibly vote on an engineering unit cap resolution Tuesday, which would create a 198-unit ceiling already approvedby the Academic Senate of the California State University system.
The vote would be advisory to the CSU system as a whole, and would forward the Academic Senate’s resolution to University President Jeffrey Armstrong and the systemwide Academic Senate.
According to Associate Vice Provost for Programs and Planning Mary Pedersen, there are two issues the senate will resolve. One is the debate of who — the administration or the faculty — controls such curriculum, and the other includes how high the engineering unit cap should be.
“The main point of the resolution is that curriculum is the purview of the faculty and that faculty doesn’t want the administration from the chancellor’s office directing curriculum,” she said. “So when the chancellor’s office is telling (faculty) you need to bring everything to a certain unit count, (faculty) perceive it as telling us what to do with our curriculum.”
The Academic Senate meets at 3:10 p.m. in Julian A. McPhee University Union (building 65), room 220.