Doris Carroll (AA), Al Cochran (PO), David Delker (TC), Kevin Donnelly (AG), Lynn Ewanow (CAPD), Ike Ehie (BA), Mike Lynch (EPD), Monty Nielsen (RO), Karen Pence (HE), Mike Perl (ED), Larry Satzler (EN), Carol Shanklin (GS), Betty Stevens (DCE). Alison Wheatley (AS).
Larry Moeder (SFA), Melinda Wilkerson (VM).
Pat Bosco, Associate Vice-President for Institutional Advancement
Kevin Donnelly called the meeting to order at 10:35 a.m.
The minutes were approved as distributed.
Donnelly led a discussion regarding the new academic fresh start and academic forgiveness policies. They were approved by faculty senate and will replace the current fresh start grade point average (GPA) policy in the current catalog. The old rationale and accompanying footnotes will be removed. Faculty Senate changed the process for applying for academic fresh start and academic forgiveness. Those applications will now be made to the academic standards committees, or the equivalents, in each college. CAPP members agreed to inform the chairs of their academic standards committees of this change.
The members also agreed to bring copies of the forms they use for academic fresh start and reinstatement to share with the committee. These forms will be used to help create new fresh start and forgiveness forms. Students will be eligible to apply for fresh start and forgiveness under the new policies beginning fall 2008.
CAPP members engaged in considerable discussion concerning the electronic catalog (Acalog). A group of individuals directly involved with entering catalog content was formed and will meet on a regular basis to ensure that everyone is familiar with the process and that information is entered properly.
Ewanow expressed concern for staff working on iSIS and Acalog and the stress they are under. Shanklin stated that some form of appreciation needs to be shown to these workers. Cochran agreed to speak with the provost about this issue.
Pat Bosco presented information about K-State enrollment projections. It is the goal of Kansas State University to maintain the critical mass of approximately 23,000 students. In order to do this, the University changes its recruiting processes based on demographic data. For example it increased its efforts in Colorado and Texas a few years ago because high school graduation rates increased in those states. Opposite trends in states such as Iowa and Nebraska caused it to limit efforts in those states.
For the coming year K-State will have a record freshman enrollment. About 60% will be in-state students and 40% out-of-state students. The institution will be flat on transfer students. International undergraduate student enrollment will also be up in the fall of 2008.
Pat would like to have the input of CAPP members on the admissions calendar. He would like our ideas on the importance of the various events and who should attend each of the events.
Carroll announced that faculty senate spent considerable time discussing three proposals: the tuition proposal, the K-State union fund structure proposal, the school of leadership studies proposal.
She also announced that the academic calendar for 2010-2011 was approved. It provides for a weeklong break during the week of Thanksgiving. To accommodate this change the current one-day fall break will be eliminated and the fall semester will be shortened from 75 to 74 days.
Meeting adjourned at 12:21 p.m.
Submitted by Michael Perl