The UMass Faculty Senate vote to voice its disapproval of the football program’s recent move to the FBS fell short by one vote during its meeting on Thursday.
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UMass Faculty Senate vote falls shy on call for reversal of football program’s FBS move
Tags: Faculty Senate, FBS, UMass Faculty Senate, UMass Football, UMass Minutemen
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Committee to evaluate finances of football program next week
A committee formed to assess the costs associated with the football program’s move to the Football Bowl Subdivision will present a report to the University’s Faculty Senate next Tuesday.
Tags: Faculty Senate, FBS, finance, football team
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New political science class to tackle questions of democracy
A new political science course — recently approved by the Faculty Senate — will explore if democracy is possible everywhere.
Tags: Democracy, Faculty Senate, Frederic Schaffer, political science
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Faculty Senate discuss changes to campus master plan
At a recent Faculty Senate meeting, the future makeup of the campus was discussed, which received some criticism from the faculty.
Tags: Campus Master Plan, Criticism, Faculty Senate
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Caret underscores importance of higher education in address to Faculty Senate
UMass President Robert Caret highlighted the importance and priority of public higher education funding in an address to the UMass Faculty Senate yesterday.
Tags: Faculty Senate, Robert Caret
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Letters to the editor: 4-27-11
The Collegian’s readers respond to the most recent week’s news stories and articles.
Tags: college, Faculty Senate, letters to the editor, Stress, Tobacco
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Students should fume over smoking ban
SGA Senator Nathan Lamb believes that the Faculty Senate vote to ban smoking on campus is a major infringement upon students’ freedoms.
Tags: Faculty Senate, smoking, Tobacco Ban
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UMass Faculty Senate passes campus tobacco ban
Members of the UMass Faculty Senate yesterday passed a proposition that will implement a tobacco ban in 2013.
Tags: Faculty Senate, University Health Council
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The importance of Faculty Senate
Collegian columnist Dan Stratford touts the importance of both the graduate and undergraduate student body populations participating in student government. There is only so much UMass’ student elected officials can accomplish without student support.
Tags: Faculty Senate, SGA
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Holub speaks before Faculty Senate over budget woes
Facing an alarming budget shotfall for the upcoming fical year, UMass Chancellor Robert Holub spoke before the Faculty Senate Thursday afternoon to outline plans to weather the shortfall, partly through increased student fees and out-of-state student enrollment.
Tags: deficit, Faculty Senate, Robert Holub, stimulus, student fees, UMass
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