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Faculty Senate briefs

Thomas Moore

Support for new degree
The Faculty Senate on Wednesday unanimously added its backing to a new master's degree in international business. CBA Dean Thomas Moore, at right, told senators the new one-year M.S. would be "a way of reaching out to business minors," of whom there are about 600 in Northeastern's undergraduate population. The matter now goes to Northeastern's administration and to the trustees for final approval.

Proposal merits approval
Senators on Wednesday passed the first of seven resolutions regarding merit pay for professors. The resolution calls on academic units to "finalize their workload policies so as to rationalize their merit processes," and to separately evaluate teaching, research and scholarship, and service, combining those assessments into one weighted score. Consideration of the other six was postponed to a further meeting, pending provision of more information about current regulations to senators.

Applause for library 'Web'
As the Senate session broke up, Malcolm Hill, interim chair of earth and environmental sciences, offered congratulations to libraries dean Will Wakeling for introducing the Web of Science research tool to Northeastern's library system. Wakeling, in attendance, got a round of applause. Web of Science is a leading citation-analysis online tool that is expected to speed up and focus faculty and student research.