The majority of the changes described below were approved by the Senate in Fall 2021. The items below related to the Lewis Honors College were approved in May 2019 but inadvertently not codified. See each item for effective dates.
- Changes to Senate Rules Related to Lewis Honors College ((see table) PDF, effective Fall 2019)
- The entries listed below were inadvertently not codified but still retain the status of a Senate-approved SR. They will be add to the SRs in Summer 2022.
- SR 3.1.3.1.3 (“Significant changes”) – update “Honors Program” to correct terminology
- SR 5.5.2.2 (”Conditions of Merit and Circumstance for Degree Honors”) – add new paragraph
- SR 5.5.2.2. (“Conditions of Merit and Circumstance for Degree Honors”) – remove deleted paragraph (would also remove instance of “Honors Program”)
- SR 3.1.1.5 (“Graduate Composition and Communication Requirement”) – remove deleted sentence
- SR. 5.5.3.1 (“Diplomas Issued to Graduated Students”) – update “Honors Program” to correct terminology
- The annual calendar that Senate approves describes the Saturday after Thanksgiving as an official academic holiday. However, prior to Senate's action, the Senate Rules did not explicitly describe that day as an academic holiday.
- The Registrar's office identified the need for a placeholder course for students with consortium agreements on file for a given semester. UK is required to have mechanism to track hours taken at the outside institution and apply them to the student’s UK record. The course will not appear on student transcripts and will be removed upon completion of the consortium agreement.
- There were two instances within this section where Law added "fall or spring" to modify "semester." These are both in subsection 3.a: "Must raise his or her grade point average as follows: a. In the first following fall or spring semester to 2.2 for that semester, and, by the end of the second following fall or spring semester, to a cumulative average of 2.2."
- At the beginning of the pandemic, SC promulgated an informal interpretation of the Senate Rules regarding excused absences. SC reauthorized use of the interpretation, again for a time-delimited period, however it appears this language will be needed more permanently.
- The Senate has approved a specific definition for an "online program." This new definition will be be codified in Section 3 ("Programs, Courses, and Curriculum Procedures") and also added to Section 9 ("Glossary of Terms").
- Latin honors for the JD program within the Rosenberg College of Law will be calculated differently than honors for an undergraduate or graduate degree. The language will not be codified in the location described in the PDF, but rather will be codified in a new section, specific to the JD.
- Latin Honors for the PharmD program within the College of Pharmacy will be calculated differently than honors for an undergraduate or graduate degree. The language will not be codified in the location described in the PDF, but rather will be codified in a new section, specific to the PharmD.
- New language will be added as a new SR 6.1.1.6 ("Regular and Substantive Interactions") to establish an instructor's responsibility to document RSI. The language will also be added to the Senate's Standard Academic Policies so that when instructors copy and paste the Standard Academic Policies, or link to them, the RSI language will automatically be present.