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Kansas State University

Minutes of April 9, 2009
113 Seaton Hall

 

Members Present:

Doris Carroll (AA), Al Cochran (PO), David Delker (TC), Anand Desai (BA), Lynn Ewanow (CAPD), Kevin Lease (GS), Mike Lynch (EPD),Monty Nielsen (RO), Karen Pence (HE), Mike Perl (ED), Larry Satzler (EN), Alison Wheatley (AS), Christine Wilson (AG).

Members Absent:

Larry Moeder (SFA), Melinda Wilkerson (VM).

Call to Order

Lynn Ewanow called the meeting to order at 10:30am.

The March minutes were approved.

Visitors: Kari Nap, Elizabeth Hansen-Devaux, Janie Sackrider

 

Non-standard Time Requests

None

 

Pending Unfinished Business:

Semester Honors (Al Cochran)

Existing language: “Students with 12 graded hours whose semester grade point average places them in the upper 10 percent academically of their classification and college will be awarded semester scholastic honors.”

Proposed language: “Students with at least 12 graded hours whose semester grade point average for a given semester is 3.75 or above will be awarded semester scholastic honors.”

Rationale: To make the semester and cumulative honors guidelines in accord with one another and to recognize appropriately student achievement.

Effective Fall 2009

Proposal is approved by CAPP, and we will send it to Academic Affairs for their consideration.

Update Term Final Exam Policies and Procedures:

The draft is almost complete.  This will take a significant time to go through.  We will have a meeting May 20th at 10:30 am to focus on this topic.

 

Review of Non-Standard Class Time

May 2007 was last time we did a review of the Non-standard classes.  The committee is supposed to annually review what was approved the previous year.  Are classes still using those times, have they worked, etc.?

Lynn will send us a list of courses for each College to follow up on at the regular May meeting.

 

New Business:

International and Study Abroad Transfer and Validation of Courses

Kari Nap, Elizabeth Hansen-Devaux, Janie Sackrider provided information on validation of international and study abroad courses.

Students are confused about where to start the validation process (Admissions or College Dean’s office, etc).  After much discussion about the process, it was decided to have the student start in the Admission’s Office.  Staff in Admissions and the Registrar’s Office will post the courses in iSIS and DARS.  Personnel in the Dean’s Offices in the Colleges will then apply the courses to degrees.  Admissions will work with the Colleges this summer to update databases to except automatic credit for courses from international universities that our students attend frequently.

We will discuss this more at the next meeting.

 

Standing Reports:

Academic Affairs

Faculty senate elections are over, and we will have a new group of senators.

The General Education policy will go to Faculty Senate next week.

Admissions/Financial Aid

No Report

Registrar

No Report

Provost’s Office

Requested input for Provost’s lecture

Continuing Education

Betty Stevens is retiring and there will be a reception for her May 5th 3:30-5:00 in the Union Sunflower room

Education and Personal Development

No Report 

 

Adjournment

The meeting adjourned at 12:00 pm.

The next meeting will be May 13, 2009 – Seaton 113 at 10:30 am. 
Move June 10th meeting to June 3rd at 10:30 am in Seaton 113.

Submitted by Larry Satzler.