Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities

Faculty Board

SSH07-A1

List of Agendas

 

NOTICE OF MEETING

A Meeting of the Faculty Board will take place on Tuesday 22 May 2007 at 9.30 am in the Council Chamber, Administration Building 2.

 

AGENDA

1.         Apologies for Absence

2.         Business of the Agenda

Any member wishing to unstar an item is asked to notify the Secretary by midday on Monday 21 May 2007. Starred items will otherwise be taken without discussion.

Please note that those papers for items in Section B and C which are not circulated with this agenda will be found on the University Web pages linked to the following URL:

http://www.lboro.ac.uk/admin/committees/ssh/index.html

3.         Minutes (previously circulated)

SSH06-M2

To confirm, subject to any amendment, the Minutes of the Meeting of the Social Sciences and Humanities Faculty Board held on 14 November 2006.

4.                  Matters Arising from the Minutes Not Appearing Elsewhere on this Agenda

4.1              National Student Survey (item 15.3 (iii) refers)

To note an update.

 

 

SECTION A  - Items for Discussion/Report

5.         Dean’s and Associate Dean’s Reports

To receive reports from:

5.1       The Dean

 


5.2       The Associate Dean (Teaching)

SSH07-P1 (to be electronically circulated)

5.3       The Associate Dean (Research)

SSH07-P2

6.         Award of degrees (to follow)
SSH07-P3

To award Higher Degrees to candidates whose examinations have been conducted since the last meeting of Senate.

7.         Destination statistics for 2006 Graduates (paper to be tabled)

To receive a report from David Lilley, Careers Service.

8.                  Changes to Ordinance XV, Study Leave

SSH07-P4

To note the recent decision of Council to make some amendments to the Ordinance, and to consider the implications of these changes in the implementation of the Ordinance within departments.

9.         Periodic Programme Review

To receive a verbal report on the Business School’s periodic programme review.

10.       Health and Life Sciences Research School

To receive a verbal report from Professor David Williams.

11.       Establishment of History at Loughborough

SSH07-P5 (to be electronically circulated)

To receive a proposal from Professor Dave Allen reintroducing History as an undergraduate subject at Loughborough University.

12.       University Strategic Plan (item 18 refers)

To receive a verbal report on progress of the University Strategic Plan.

 

SECTION B:  Formal ‘starred’ items for Approval

 

*13.      Associate Dean (Teaching) Action

To ratify actions taken by the Associate Dean (Teaching) in approving the following:

i.          Waivers of Programme Regulations

ii.          Appointment of Programme Boards

iii.         Credit Transfers

Further details of the actions are available from the Faculty Board Secretary upon request.

 

SECTION C:  Items for Information

*14.      Appointment of Examiners of the University, External Examiners and External Programme Assessors

To note details of appointments made by the AD(T) are available from the Faculty Board Secretary on request.

 


*15.      External Examiner Reports

To note that reports of External Examiner’s have been deposited with the Faculty Board Secretary and are available for consultation on request.

 

*16.      Personal Titles

To note the award of personal titles and to offer the Faculty’s congratulations:

Dr Michael Pickering (Social Sciences) - Personal Chair in Media and
Cultural Studies

Dr Phillip Hubbard (Geography) - Personal Chair in Human Geography

 

*17.      Curriculum Sub-Committee

17.1     Changes to Programme Title/Awards

To note that Curriculum Sub-Committee will be recommending the following proposed programme title changes to Learning and Teaching Committee, prior to their meeting on 7 June 2007 (effective date shown in brackets):

 

BSc Sport and Leisure Management to BSc Sport Management (October 2008 entry)

BSc Geography and Sport and Leisure Management to BSc Geography and Sport Management (October 2007 entry)

MSc Sport and Leisure Management to MSc Sport Management (October 2007 entry)

 

17.2     New Programme Proposals

 

To note that Curriculum Sub-Committee will be recommending to Learning and Teaching Committee prior to their meeting on 7 June 2007 a programme proposal from the Department of English and Drama for a new full-time/part-time MA in English with effect from October 2007.

 

*18.      Staff/Student Committees

 

To note that reports of Staff/Student Committee meetings have been deposited with the Faculty Board Secretary as follows:

 

Department

Level

Date

Business School

Postgraduate Diploma in Management: HEA

31 October 2006, 14 March 2007

 

 

 

Business School

MBA Semester One

28 November 2006

Business School

MSc Management/MSc International Management/MSc Marketing & Management/MSc Finance & Management

6 December 2006

Business School

MBA Semester Two

17 April 2007

Economics

UG

28 February 2007

English and Drama

All

6 December 2006, 14 March 2007

Geography

All

8 November 2006, 21 February 2007

 

*19.      Membership of Faculty Board

SSH07-P6

To note 7 vacancies for elected departmental representatives of the Faculty Board for the session 2007-2008:

Business School (1)

Department of Economics (1)

Department of Geography (2)

School of Sport and Exercise Science (1)

LUSAD (2)

 

20.       Any Other Business

 

*21.      Date of Next Meeting

The next Faculty Board meeting will take place prior to a Directorate meeting on Tuesday 13 November 2007.

 

Author – Ms S J McKinley
May 2007

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