From: Price, Angie H
Sent: Wednesday, October 2, 2024 3:20 PM
To: President <president@tamu.edu>; Sams, Alan R <asams@tamu.edu>
Subject: Request regarding the current inactivation process- certiicates and minors

Dear President Welsh and Provost Sams,

I appreciate the recent opportunities to meet with each of you to share concerns about the current process for the inactivation of minors and certificates.  After hearing from many faculty, as well as administrators and students, the inescapable conclusion that I have come to is that the development of the process and its implementation were deeply flawed and lacked meaningful input from many stakeholders.

I am respectfully requesting, therefore, that the current process and resultant inactivation of the certificate and minors be completely abandoned, and those certificates and minors be allowed to continue and enroll students.  I also request that the Faculty Senate be allowed to work with the administration to develop a revised process with reasonable timelines and metrics, aligned with relevant state and federal requirements, which would be applied in a forward facing, not retroactive manner. This open and transparent process will enable the entire University community to understand the goals of such a process, and the metrics for assessment. Existing curricular processes and committees can then review all minors and certificates in an impartial manner, with no surprises to anyone.  Any department or program proposing a minor or certificate would, and should,  know in advance the timeline and clearly defined metrics on which each program will be assessed in order to be approved and to be allowed to continue.

I would welcome the opportunity to discuss this concept with you, or to provide any additional information.

My very best regards,

Angie Hill Price, PhD

Speaker of the Faculty Senate

Texas A&M University