Some members of the Faculty Senate have expressed objections to the new name for the combination of the Colleges of Education and Family and Consumer Sciences — “Human Sciences” — which will be voted on at Tuesday’s senate meeting.

“It disenfranchises other departments that also do work in human sciences,” said Stephanie Madon, assistant professor of psychology and faculty senator.

Madon said the primary objection to the new name is that other departments, many of which are in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, also have human science programs, like psychology.

Sanjeev Agarwal, president of the Faculty Senate, said the planning committee for the college combination will push forth the name “Human Sciences” at the meeting.

Every department within the new college works to enhance the human condition, said Barbara Licklider, member of the college name and mission work group for the planning committee. Sciences refers to the discovering of knowledge, Licklider said.

The name “Education, Family and Consumer Sciences” was presented at the last Faculty Senate meeting as a possibility for discussion.

Licklider said combining the colleges’ names would not give the new college a separate identity — a distinction important to the planning committee.

Also, she said such a name would be longer and more complicated.

A concern with the name “Human Sciences” is that people may not know that it includes education or other departments that one may not first consider to be under that name, Licklider said.

She said the debate over the new name deals with how people define themselves.

“People get passionate about their identity,” Licklider said.

The college name and mission work group searched nationwide for different names of college combinations like the one at Iowa State, Licklider said, and the name human sciences was common among many of them.

Madon said the justification for the name “Human Sciences” presented by the committee put forth the evidence that was consistent with the committees’ and administration’s desires to keep that name.

Licklider said she can understand the concerns of the departments relating to human sciences, but hopes it will not hold back the combination from going forward.

The majority vote in Tuesday’s meeting will determine if the name “Human Sciences” will move forward.

“I fear that it will pass,” Madon said.

Further, she said ISU President Gregory Geoffroy has ordered the new college be called a combination rather than a merger.