The Faculty Senate will convene today to decide on a number of issues that include adding new programs, renaming old ones and rewording policy. Items that pass in the senate today will move up to the Arizona Board of Regents for final approval.

The meeting is open to the public and will take place at 3 p.m. in the College of Law building, Room 146.

Double Degree Ambiguity

The faculty senate is proposing to amend the general catalog's statement on second degrees and majors to make the language less open to interpretation.

"Students have been permitted to earn double BA or BS degrees with as few as nine to 12 'new units,' also different degrees using an identical major," according to the agenda.

If the policy revision is adopted, 30 additional units that were not used for the first degree would be needed for second concurrent degrees. For a sequential degree, 50 percent of all course work required by the major of the second degree would have to be completed after the first degree is awarded.

Part of the proposed revision reads, "Students may apply for a simultaneous or sequential degree only if the degree title and major differ from the first. Students pursuing another academic program that would lead to the same degree title as the primary program must declare that program as an additional major, not a second degree."

- Wells Brambl