Decisions and announcements Faculty Board meetings of 6 and 20 November 2013
Decisions:
• The Board approved five applications for the Research Stimulation Fund, round October 2013.
• This academic year a pilot will run with ePass for writing assignments in the course Research and Writing II, BA AC/CW.
• In 2014, FASoS will celebrate its 20th anniversary. In due course the organising committee will inform you about the activities they are planning for this lustrum year.
• The Board approved the policy document ‘Assessment of Final Work’ by the Board of Examiners; this document will be distributed shortly to staff.
• At the request of the Faculty Council two proposals have been drafted: on exemptions to attendance regulations, and on time table preferences / requests for change. The Board approved both documents.
Announcements:
• FASoS has received two grants for the academic year 2014/2015, awarded by SWOL and by the Dr Ursula Glunk Fund (SBE), each for one scholarship for the master’s programmes Media Culture and Globalisation and Development Studies.
• The Faculty has appointed Prof. Paul Wouters chairman of the Onderzoekschool WTMC, from 1 January 2014.