agenda status: approved Agenda:
b. Dean’s List Policy (Attachment) c. Religious Observance (update of subcommittee) d. Undergraduate Instructional Assistants (update of subcommittee) e. Fall Break (Attachment) f. CLEP (Attachment)
b. Course Repeat Policy c. Option of Declaring Major at 30 Credits Instead of the Current Junior Standing. d. Proposal to Change the Writing Requirement (Attachment) Phone or E-Mail Robin Pline (353-5380; pline@msu.edu) if you cannot be present. Please remember that you are asked to send a substitute from your college. Attachments: April 27, 2006 Draft Minutes Dean’s List Policy Fall Break CLEP College of Music Proposal Writing Requirement Change Proposal minutes status: approved approved at meeting of UCAP Minutes for meeting held on 08/31/2006 University Committee on Academic Policy Thursday August 31, 2006 Meeting Minutes Members Present: Dennis Banks, Renée Canady (Vice-Chair), R. Sekhar Chivukula, Peter Cobbett, Doug Estry, Richard Hallgren, Yen-Hwei Lin, Folke Lindahl, Helen Mayer, Philip Moon, Tony Nunez, Ralph Putnam (Chair), Brandon Sethi, Jon Sticklen, Bruce Vanden Bergh, Alex von Eye, Keri Zolman Members Absent: Edmund Outslay Others Present: Doug Estry (Acting Associate Provost and Dean) 1. The meeting was called to order at 10:20 am. Roundtable committee member introductions were done. 2. Agenda was approved. 3. Minutes from April 27, 2006 were approved 4. Comments from the Chairperson:
b) The charge of UCAP was described as consultative to the Provost, with the exception of grading issues, where the committee can make decisions. c) The officers of the committee were introduced: Ralph Putnam (Chair), Renée Canady (Vice-Chair), Dennis Banks (Athletic Council Rep), R. Sekhar Chivukala (Military Education Advisory Committee Rep), Yen-Hwei Lin (2nd Rep to Academic Council)
b) The dean’s list policy was revisited. The question that carried over from UCAP’s last term was whether performance in graduate courses should count toward the dean’s list award. Affected are students who are simultaneously enrolled in Bachelor’s and Master’s programs. The questions raised concerned (i) whether courses taken toward the master’s program should count for an undergraduate award, and (ii) whether a student can be considered for the dean’s list if his/her number of undergraduate credits in a semester is below 12. c) A new subcommittee was formed to discuss issues of religious observance. Members are Richard Hallgren, Folke Lindahl, Sekhar Chivukula, and Philip Moon. d) No policies are currently in place concerning Undergraduate Instructional Assistants (UIAs). Neither the UIAs nor the students they teach are protected. Recommendations for policies are needed. The subcommittee that had been formed in the last UCAP term (Philip Moon, Keri Zolman, Richard Hallgren, Bruce Vanden Bergh) will report at the next meeting. e) A Fall Break subcommittee was formed. Members are Renée Canady, Brandon Sethi, and Keri Zolman. f) MSU testing office administrator requested that the deadline for CLEP testing be waived. It was discussed that the implications of such a decision need to be made explicit, and it was asked whether policy changes are needed and who the decision makers for this request are. This issue will be taken up again in a future meeting.
b) The course repeat policy and providing students with the option of officially declaring their major at 30 credits rather than the current 56 needs to be discussed. One question is whether courses in which a student earned a 2.0 or better can be repeated. It was decided to ask the Undergraduate Associate Deans to prepare proposals. c) There was a motion to recommend the proposed changes to the Writing Requirement. The motion was supported.
b) Jon Sticklen noted that the new alias for the UCAP website is UCAP.MSU.EDU. c) Ralph Putnam indicated that an Angel option for the committee will be implemented soon. The meeting was adjourned at 11:58 a.m. Respectfully submitted by Alexander von Eye |
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