Doris Carroll (AA), Al Cochran (PO), David Delker (TC), Lynn Ewanow (CAPD), Jeff Katz (BA), Kevin Lease (GS), Mike Lynch (EPD), Monty Nielsen (RO), Karen Pence (HE), Mike Perl (ED), Shanna Pumphrey (AS), Larry Satzler (EN), Betty Stevens (DCE), Melinda Wilkerson (VM), Christine Wilson (AG).
Members Absent:
Anand Desai (BA), Larry Moeder (SFA), Alison Wheatley (AS).
Loleta Sump
Lynn Ewanow called the meeting to order at 10:37 a.m.
The October minutes were approved.
The following requests for non-standard class meeting times were approved:
BAE 020. Engineering Assembly. The course will now meet Tuesday from 6:00-7:00 pm starting Spring 2009 and ongoing.
EDLST 350. Cult/Context of Leadership. The course will now meet MW from 3:30-4:45 for Spring 2009 only.
Each College is to review the letter prepared by admissions concerning the acceptance of AP, CLEP, etc. credit. Let Lynn know by November 19th if you would like different wording.
David Delker questioned whether the rule that 5/6 of a degree program must be graded applied to certificate programs. Betty Steven said that there was a policy concerning certificate programs—main requirement was that they be of value to the student in their profession in some way. She will look for the policy. David will check with Kelly Cox. No action taken.
Melinda Wilkerson had a question about contact hours. Would a class that had a 50 minute lecture 5 days a week plus a separate 1 hour exam time per week actually be a 6 hour class? There was some discussion. It was decided that there was no hard policy on this and no action was taken.
Loleta Sump was a guest invited to discuss the issue of setting final exam times for non-standard classes. The following is her synopsis of the problem and possible solutions.
In 2004, the Schedule 25/Resource 26 Committee looked at all the course meetings times occurring on campus. At that time, we could locate a course that had a start time about every five minutes between 7:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. The Non-Standard Course Meeting Time Policy helped this situation; however, neither this policy nor the final exam scheduling guidelines address non-standard course meeting times. For instance, these are a few of the approved non-standard course meeting times that are not addressed in the final exam scheduling guidelines:
| TU | 12:15 | MW | 1:15 |
| MW | 8:15 | TU | 10:55 |
| T | 9:00 | MTWU | 12:00 |
| T | 1:00 | TU | 11:00 |
| MW | 11:45 | W | 8:00 |
| W | 8:00 | W | 8:00 |
| MW | 9:45 | MW | 1:15 |
| TU | 8:45 | TU | 7:50 a.m. |
The final exam schedule applies to courses that meet in both department space and general use classrooms.
Doris Carroll reported that Academic Affairs is still discussing the new General Education policy. Arts and Science has approved the University Honors Program.
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Monty Nielsen reported that at the beginning of the semester we began running transcripts out of iSIS. We are preparing for electronic submission of grades in iSIS for Fall 08. Graduation is moving to iSIS, and we are working on Web enhancements. The Electronic Catalog will be updated next week with most of the changes behind the scenes. There is a catalog update page (left menu on the catalog home page “Catalog Updates”) that shows significant changes made to the catalog by month.
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The meeting adjourned at 12:00 p.m.
The next meeting will be December 10, 2008 – Seaton 113 at 10:30 a.m.
Following the meeting will be our annual Holiday luncheon in the Bluemont room at the Union!
Submitted by Larry Satzler