The Baker University Faculty Senate met April 19 to finish business from the previous meeting April 5.

At the meeting, the interterm trip Social Justice and Service in Haiti, led by Assistant Professor of Sociology Jacob Bucher was approved.

“The idea is to take a look at issues of social justice and to do something about it,” Bucher said.

The trip to Haiti will be roughly two weeks long, and the group will stay in a compound. While there, students will be working to make a change in social issues in the country.

They will work to help with issues such as female empowerment and hunger. The students will get to work alongside locals and the trip will be very hands on.

“It is potentially a life-changing kind of thing,” Bucher said. “The work that we’re going to be doing and the experiences we’re going to be having are pretty powerful.”

Faculty Senate also voted to keep the phase-two math level proficiency in the new liberal studies program. Originally, the second phase was going to be eliminated from the program.

“I’m really concerned with taking this one out,” Professor of Biology Darcy Russell said.

Other faculty members agreed and showed concern of lowering standards for students.

“If quantitative reasoning doesn’t involve math, that is more the reason to put a math proficiency in the new program,” Ryan Beasley, associate professor of political science, said.

The new program will now include the second math phase for all students.