Faculty Senate OK's deletion of programs

The University of Arizona had reviewed academic programs considered low-productivity disciplines at the regents' request.

Low-productivity disciplines are defined as those that have awarded 24 or fewer bachelor's degrees, nine or fewer master's degrees and six or fewer doctoral degrees in the past three years.

The programs recommended for deletion are:

• Master's of science programs in home economics education, food science and botany

• Master's of education programs in counseling and guidance, family and consumer resources, chemistry, communication, English, French, geography, German, mathematics, physics, political science, reading, Russian, Spanish and special education

• Doctoral programs in counseling and guidance, and botany

• The educational specialist program in educational media

• The educational doctoral program in counseling and guidance

The recommended consolidations are:

• To combine finance, management and policy and marketing into a management master's program

• To combine pharmacology and toxicology into pharmacology and toxicology master's and doctoral programs

• To combine jazz studies and composition into a performance bachelor's degree

The Senate also approved a new academic minors policy after the Instructional and Curriculum Policy Committee presented a proposal re-examining the requirements for minors.

The Committee on Academic Integrity also presented a revised Code of Academic Integrity, which the Senate approved.