At its November meeting, CWRU's Faculty Senate provided a second round of feedback on the draft of the University's vision statement, this time in response to the revised version.

Faculty, staff and students can review the new draft of the vision-statement-in-progress and provide comments at http://www.cwru.edu/menu/president/vision.htm.

In other business, the senate unanimously passed a resolution to establish CWRU's Center for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, which has existed at MetroHealth Medical Center since 1995, as a full academic department of physical medicine and rehabilitation at the medical school.

The Faculty Senate also voted unanimously to discontinue an interdisciplinary minor in human development and to create a minor in Judaic studies, both in the College of Arts and Sciences. The human development minor overlaps substantially with current minors in gerontological studies and child development, according to Richard Settersten Jr., associate professor of sociology, and Eva Kahana, the Pierce T. and Elizabeth D. Robson Professor of Humanities and chair of the sociology department.

The resolution on the new physical medicine and rehabilitation department must go before the CWRU Board of Trustees.