Faculty
of Social Sciences and Humanities
Faculty
Board
SSH10-A2
List of Agendas
NOTICE
OF MEETING
A Meeting of the Faculty Board will take place on Tuesday 9 November
2010 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 8 November 2010. 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
(attached)
To
confirm and sign, subject to any amendment, the Minutes of the Meeting of the
Social Sciences and Humanities Faculty Board held on Tuesday 18 May 2010.
4. Matters
Arising from the Minutes Not Appearing Elsewhere on this
Agenda
4.1 Value for money
To receive
an update on value for money in the current economic climate.
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)
SSH10-P8
5.3 The Associate Dean (Research)
6. Periodic Programme Reviews
SSH010-P9
To
receive the periodic programme review report from Loughborough University
School of Art and Design on 20 May 2010 and to consider the Schools’ response.
SSH010-P10
To receive the periodic programme review report from the Department
of Design and Technology on 14 May 2010 and to consider the Departments’
response.
7. Award of degrees (tabled)
To award
Higher Degrees to candidates whose examinations have been conducted since the
last meeting of Senate.
8. Implications for the University of CSR
and the Browne Review
The Dean to report.
9. Future structure and organisation of
the University
To receive an update from the Dean.
10. The Students’ Union Internationalisation
Agenda
To receive an update on developments in the Students’ Union
encouraging home students to think more internationally. (Katie Halliday, SU President of Federation Societies, to attend for
this item).
11. Strategic
Implementation Plan for Advancement & Fundraising
To discuss development planning and alumni
activities made by departments and to share examples of good practice and case
studies. (Ron Gray, Director, DARO and Leah Graham, Senior Development Officer,
to attend for this item).
SECTION
B: Formal ‘starred’ items for Approval
*12. 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
*13. Personal Titles
To note the award of personal titles and to offer
the Faculty’s congratulations:
Professor David Deacon, Professor
Communications and Media Studies
Professor Sarah Holloway,
Professor Human Geography
*14. Curriculum
Sub-Committee
14.1 New
Programme Proposals
To note that Curriculum Sub-Committee will be
recommending to Learning and Teaching Committee (subject to any matters being
resolved to the satisfaction of the ADT) prior to their meeting on 4 November
2010, the award and title of the proposed new programme MA in Global Media and
Cultural Industries (a new pathway of the existing programme MA in Media and
Cultural Analysis) commencing October 2011.
14.2 Changes
in Titles or Awards of Programmes
To note
the that Curriculum Sub-Committee will be recommending to Learning and Teaching
Committee prior to their meeting on 4 November 2010, the change in the award
and titles of the following programmes:
(i) BA (Hons) English with a Minor in North
American Literature and Film to BA (Hons) English with a Minor in American
Literature and Film.
(ii) MRes
Art, Design and Performance by Practice to MA Arts Research by Practice.
14.3 Proposal to suspend a programme
To
note that Curriculum Sub-Committee will be recommending to Learning and
Teaching Committee prior to their meeting on 4 November 2010, the proposal to
suspend the Postgraduate Programmes in Strategic Automotive Dealership
Management (Malaysia).
*15. Staff/Student
Committees
To note that reports of the Staff/Student Committee meetings had been
deposited with the Faculty Board Secretary as follows:
|
Department
of Economics (Postgraduate) |
19
May 2010 |
|
Department of Economics (Undergraduate) |
12
May 2010 |
|
Department of Social Sciences (Undergraduate) |
18
Nov 2009, 17 March, 5 May 2010 |
|
Department
of Geography |
3
March 2010 |
|
MBA
(Business School) |
20
April 2010 |
|
MSc
Management/MSc International Management/MSc Marketing & Management/MSc
Finance & Management/MSc Business Analysis & Management |
5
May 2010 |
*16. University
Prizes
To note the following students from the Faculty of Social Sciences and
Humanities had been awarded prizes and to offer the Faculty’s congratulations:
Prize Name Winner Department
|
Dennis Holt
Travel Scholarship |
Amy Bear |
LUSAD |
|
Graduate School
Research Student |
Sally Little |
Geography |
|
Hannah Community Prize |
Angharad Salter |
LUSAD |
|
John Guest Phillips Memorial Travelling Scholarship |
Anne-Lise Montreuil Fangjin Zhang |
Geography Design &
Technology |
|
Loughborough
College of Education Commemorative Awards |
Jessica Williams |
English & Drama |
|
Loughborough
Experience Awards |
Alex Laybourne Ayesha Modi Mark Collett Elizabeth Miller Tasneem Siddeeque |
SSEHS PHIR Economics Social Sciences PHIR |
|
Mature Student Achievement Prizes (Awarded by SOAR) |
Carrie Lynn Dickens |
LUSAD |
|
Mavis Prize for Music (Awarded by the
Arts Centre) |
Chloe Rawson |
English & Drama |
|
Sir Robert Martin Faculty Prizes |
Mustafa Sarkar |
SSEHS |
|
T S Shipman Awards |
Elizabeth Miller |
Social Sciences |
|
Ursula Lockley Travel Bursary |
Chloe Pearce |
English & Drama |
|
Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Internationalisation |
Jon Allison |
PHIR |
17. Any Other Business
*18. Date of Next Meeting
The next Faculty Board meeting will take place prior to a Directorate
meeting on Tuesday 24 May 2011.
Author – Ms S J McKinley
October 2010
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