UCAP Meeting of 04/11/2002 2001-2002 agenda status: approved Agenda: Revised AGENDA University Committee on Academic PolicyMeeting of Thursday, April 11, 2002 10:15 a.m., Board Room, Administration Building 1. Approval of Agenda 2. Approval of Minutes of the March 28, 2002 meeting.......... (Attachment) 3. Comments from the Chairperson 4. Comments from the Assistant Provost 5. Request for Moratorium on Admission to the Bachelor of Science Degree.......... (Attachment)
6. Guidelines for Group Work: Completion 7. Guidelines for Documentation on Unit Changes: Completion.......... (Winston Wilkinson) 8. Importance of Instruction Subcommittee (continued prelim).......... (Rod Phillips) 9. Crises Response Subcommittee (first round).......... (Ryan Hedstrom) 10. Roundtable Attachment: March 28, 2002 Draft Minutes Manufacturing Engineering Materials Please phone or E-Mail Robin Pline (353-5380; pline@msu.edu) if you cannot be present. minutes status: not approved UCAP Minutes for meeting held on 04/11/2002 Members Present: Bridget Behe, George Cornell, James Gallagher, Ryan Hedstrom, Rod Phillips, Shaun Phillips, Jon Sticklen, Juli Wade, Jeanne Wald, Winston Wilkinson, Maija Zile Others Present: Barbara Steidle (Assistant Provost), Thomas Wolff (Associate Dean of Engineering) 1. Approval of Agenda: The agenda was approved with the following changes:
• To accommodate the schedule of one committee member, Item #8, the preliminary report from the “Importance of Instruction” subcommittee, was moved to an earlier position on the agenda. 3. Comments from the Chairperson: Jon Sticklen thanked members of UCAP for their timely action in voting via e-mail on the revised changes in admission requirements for the Advertising Department. He also noted that the issue of the proposed name change for the Telecommunications Department had been withdrawn from discussion before last month’s ECAC meeting. 4. Comments from the Assistant Provost: Barbara Steidle expressed her thanks to all who had participated in the MSU Bookstore Information Questionnaire and the Instructional Computing and Technology Committee (ICTC) Survey.
Feedback on the operation of the new SOCT website has been very positive. The only real problem reported so far has been the inadvertent inclusion of some graduate teaching assistants in the system. Corrections will be made next semester to correct this problem. The APERTIF Analysis Comparison – Fall 1996 vs. Fall 2001 Report was circulated to UCAP members. This analysis, which measures the academic preparedness of incoming freshman students in reference to courses specified for admission, is reviewed by UCAP every five years. Steidle asked the committee to examine the statistics for Fall 1996 in comparison with Fall 1991 to judge whether the figures indicate “we are on the right trajectory.” This issue will be discussed at the next meeting.
Discussion followed, mainly focusing on whether the moratorium should be granted for one year or for a longer period. A motion was made to allow a moratorium on admissions to the BS degree in Manufacturing Engineering for two years, or until program dissolution takes place. This motion passed unanimously. Discussion focusing on several questions followed: Does the University need something beyond these? Should we prepare a more generic crisis response website? How can we best get information out in the event of a crisis that renders the internet unusable? One suggestion was that the University put together for unit chairpersons a one page list of sources that would provide basic emergency contacts and connections. The committee agreed to return to this issue at a later date. Agenda items dealing with Guidelines for Group Work and Guidelines for Documentation on Unit Changes will be moved to the year’s final UCAP meeting on April 25. The meeting adjourned at 12:15. Respectfully submitted, Rod Phillips |
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