Whereas,          the Department of Health, Nutrition, and Exercise Sciences has grown dramatically over the past 10 years, with undergraduate enrollment currently at approximately 1200 undergraduates and 120 graduate students, and

Whereas,          the Department includes eight undergraduate majors, five minors, and three graduate programs, with an additional graduate program and an additional minor currently proposed, and

Whereas,          faculty and administrators within the College of Health Sciences agree that the Department has become too broad to function effectively as a single academic unit, and

Whereas,          Department and College faculty have voted to approve the division of the existing department into two new academic departments, and

Whereas,          the new academic departments will be more strategically focused and more visible, and thus better able to recruit outstanding students and to provide a high-quality education for students, and

Whereas, the proposed new academic units are already physically separated on North and South campuses, and

Whereas,          faculty in the new department units have agreed upon new department names, be it therefore

Resolved, that the Faculty Senate recommends that the Department of Health, Nutrition, and Exercise Sciences be reformulated as two new departments, to be called the Department of Behavioral Health and Nutrition and the Department of Kinesiology and Applied Physiology.