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We are proposing a new general education program for undergraduates, and, having worked on this proposal for months are now worried that faculty will try to amend it from the floor with less than glorious results. Is there a parliamentary procedure that would allow us to present the program as a motion not open to amendment, to be voted up or down in its entirety?
No.
Assuming your group is an advisory/consultative body to something like a Faculty Senate or to an Academic Senate, it would be the "parent" body's right to deliberate upon your recommendation and to approve and/or amend it before it forwards its recommendation to the President (or Vice President--such arrangements vary from place to place).
The language and recommendations of your report itself cannot be amended by anyone but you. The Academic Senate would consider its own motion to adopt the report or to adopt it with amendments or with provisos, etc. However, the parent body's revisions do not change the original report which remains the property of your committee. What is done with it after you submit it is not in your authority.
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