Meeting Minutes - May 11, 2005
Members Attending:
Alice Trussell (AA), Julie Katz (AD), Kevin Donnelly (AG), Lynn Ewanow (AR), Diane Barker (AS), Ike Ehie
(BA), Betty Stevens (DCE), Mike Perl (ED), Ray Hightower (ENG), Karen Pence (HE), Carolyn Comiskey (NSE),
Al Cochran (PO), Monty Nielsen (RO), David Delker (TC), Michael Crow (LASER/RO)
Call to Order:
Ray Hightower called the meeting to order at 10:32am.
Announcements:
Ray Hightower introduced Professor Alice Trussell who is the 2005-2006 Chair of the Faculty Senate Academic
Affairs Committee (AAC) and will be representing AAC on CAPP.
Ray Hightower distributed the schedule for the rotation of officers on CAPP. Karen Pence will become the chair
and Alison Wheatley will be the secretary.
Approval of Minutes:
Minutes of the April 13 meeting were approved.
Standing Reports:
Julie Katz (for Larry Moeder) – Admission/Financial Aid
- Meetings on Oracle continue as necessary.
- Transfer students admitted for 1/06 will have the opportunity to enroll at KSU on the Monday and Tuesday
before Thanksgiving.
Monty Nielsen – Registrar
- Efforts are being made to improve communications with Oracle.
- It is anticipated that a demonstration of on-line submission of final grades will take place in late
summer or early fall.
- The automatic replacement of an unnamed instructor with the name of the department head will begin on the
20th day of fall 2005. CAPP members may want to alert the department heads in their college of this procedure.
Alice Trussell – Faculty Senate/Academic Affairs Committee
- Faculty affairs is working on the establishment of a clinical educator position. An individual with a clinical
educator designation could be promoted but not tenured.
- English language provisions (expectations) for international faculty is another agenda item for faculty senate.
- Bandwidth is “maxing out” between 10:00am and 3:00pm which is a serious challenge.
- Senior and alumni surveys are almost complete and will be sent to departments for review in fall 2005.
- There are issues to be resolved with regard to compensation for faculty who are leading summer study
abroad programs.
- Work with the university attorney on faculty rights in the classroom has resulted in a letter being sent to
the provost which will be distributed to the university community.
- A future project will be the alignment of the Honor council’s publicity and procedures with the Honor
Code published in the Faculty Handbook.
- In the process of creating a new academic program, the availability of library resources to support
the new program is overlooked. This problem could be better understood and strategically handled if the
library was one of the groups that “signs-off” on proposals for new programs. CAPP members
thought this was a good idea and suggested that Academic Affairs Committee request the library to be put
on the list.
Betty Stevens – Continuing Education
Reminded the members of CAPP that all courses in 2005-2006 are registered in the base count.
Mike Lynch – Education and Personal Development
No Report
Non-Standard Time Requests
Diane Barker –
ANTH 522 Topics in Anthropology – Digital Ethnography approved a non-standard class time for
spring 2006 only.
Old Business:
LASER Implementation Guide
- The LASER task force should continue to meet and Ray volunteered to serve as chair.
- There was considerable discussion about when a prerequisite change, being made to suit the language and
functions of LASER, would need to be channeled through the course and curriculum procedure. If the change was
to be a LASER – only change with no impact on other programs, departments, or college, members of CAPP
generally thought it would not be necessary to go through course and curriculum. However, if the change required
the catalog to be revised, approval through course and curriculum would be necessary. Questions about “who”
determined if the degree of change warranted proceeding through course and curriculum and how consistency in making
this decision between programs and departments would be achieved were raised. There was no conclusion to this
discussion and no motions or vote(s) taken. Consensus of CAPP members was that they would monitor this as they
monitor all other academic policies and procedures.
Basic Functions of LASER
- Ray distributed a new draft of the LASER student module course eligibility requirements basic functions to CAPP.
- The committee discussed the appropriate audience(s) for the document and changes that were necessary. Based on the
previous discussion, CAPP members suggested adding key illustrative examples before sharing the document with the
Council of Deans and the LASER Steering Committee. The Chair (Ray) will make appropriate changes requested and
forward to the Provost and Council of Deans, with copies to the LASER Steering Committee.
New Business:
Carolyn Cominsky – Enrolling National Student Exchange (NSE) Program Students at KSU
- Carolyn Cominsky handed out NSE materials and described the basic premise of the program placement procedures
etc. The seven KSU students participating in this program were also discussed.
- Julie Katz indicated that the Office of Admissions sees this program as an asset to recruiting students to KSU.
- Carolyn specifically came to CAPP to seek support for providing access for these students to enroll at
the same time as degree-seeking transfer students, and add a two day transfer session (including NSE) at the
end of the early spring enrollment occurring in the fall semester. CAPP members agreed they would enroll NSE
students in the same manner they now do for the transfer students living many miles from Manhattan. Materials
sent to these students, by KSU, will be sent to CAPP.
Ray Hightower – Certificate Program
Please review the document and be prepared to discuss it at the July 13 meeting.
AS |
ANTH 522 |
Spring 2006 |
Approved
One-time only
|
05/11/05 |
LAB MW
10:30- 11:45 |
Adjournment:
12:05pm
Next Meeting:
July 13, 2005 at 10:30am
Many thanks to Kevin Donnelly and Karen Pence for serving as CAPP Secretary in my absence.
Respectfully submitted by Lynn Ewanow