In its final meeting of the calendar year, the Faculty Senate voted to support the transfer of the Master of Science Program in Organizational Development and Analysis (MSODA) from the school of graduate studies to the executive education division of the Weatherhead School of Management.

Since the MSODA program has served primarily as a terminal, professional degree, the management school requested the transfer, with the support of Weatherhead Dean Mohsen Anvari and Dean of Graduate Studies Lenore Kola. The graduate studies committee of the senate also approved the proposal.

In 1975, the MSODA program was first placed in graduate studies because at that time mostly people with doctorates, usually scholars and academicians, practiced consulting in organizational development.

"Today the theory and technique of organization development (OD) has become so integral to modern management in the private as well as the public sector that the vast majority of OD specialists are employed outside academia," the proposal states.

The transfer must go before the Board of Trustees before becoming effective March 1.

In December, the Faculty Senate also received an update on technology-enhanced classrooms and replacement cycles for faculty computers and new resources for postdoctoral scholars, including the creation of a handbook and an Office of Postdoctoral Affairs in the school of graduate studies.

A full report from the senate committee on information resources is expected this semester. The resources for postdoctoral scholars are expected to be in place this fall.