agenda status: approved

Agenda:

1. Approval of the Agenda
   
   
2. Approval of Minutes of the February 22, 2007 Meeting.
   
   
3. Comments from the Chairperson
   
   
4. Comments from the Associate Provost
   
   
5. Fall Break............................................................................................................................................................................(Attachment)
   
   
6. Academic Integrity
   
   
7. ECAC Request for Consultation:..................................................................................................................................(Attachment)
   Lyman Briggs School of Science to Return to College Status
   Guest: Elizabeth Simmons, Director, Lyman Briggs School
   
   
8. Roundtable

Phone or e-mail Sandra Walther (353-5380; swalther@msu.edu) if you cannot be present. Please remember that you are asked to send a substitute from your college.

Attachments: February 22, 2007 Minutes (Draft)
Fall Break Proposal
Request for Consultation: Lyman Briggs School of Science to Return to College Status

To be distributed separately: Academic Integrity Discussion Document

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minutes status: approved

approved at meeting of 03/29/2007

UCAP Minutes for meeting held on 03/15/2007

Members Present: Dennis Banks, Renée Canady, Sekhar Chivukula, Peter Cobbett, Doug Estry, Richard Hallgren, Yen-Hwei Lin, Helen Mayer, Philip Moon, Tony Nunez, Edmund Outslay, Ralph Putnam, Daniel Roth, Brandon Sethi, Jon Sticklen, Bruce Vanden Bergh, Amanda Venettis, Alex von Eye, Connie Zheng

Members Absent: Lauren Doherty, Colleen Tremonte

Guests: Elizabeth Simmons, Director, Steve Speas, Associate Director, Philip Strong, Assistant Director, Lyman Briggs School

The Agenda was approved.

The Minutes were approved.

Comments from the Chairperson

Professor Putnam encouraged UCAP members to attend the next meeting of the Faculty Council on March 27, 2007 and the Faculty Council Task Force which will meet in the near future to recommend changes to committee structures and names.

Prof Putnam reported that the UCAP recommendation to ECAC regarding Religious Observance has been provided to various campus committees for discussion at its meeting on April 3 where he will serve as the advocate for the proposed changes. He mentioned that it would be useful if student representatives to ECAC could be prepared to help respond to questions and concerns raised by committees and ECAC members.

Comments from the Associate Provost

No comments from the Associate Provost

Fall Break Discussion

A revised Fall Break Subcommittee recommendation to ECAC was distributed to the committee for discussion. The committee discussion centered on the best format in which to forward a Fall Break proposal to ECAC and if a suggested model and background research/discussion be provided along with a recommendation for policy change. Consensus was reached on the following points:

Separate the recommendation to ECAC for the establishment of Fall Study Break into two parts
Recommendation for policy
Recommendation for practice

Add discussion and research regarding implementation as an appendix to the recommendation to ECAC.

Motion made by Brandon Sethi passed unanimously.

UCAP recommends:

that a Fall Study Break be established;

that the Fall Study Break be implemented on a 5-year (from date of first implementation) trial basis to allow for subsequent evaluation of its impact. Continuation of the Fall Study Break beyond the 5-year period will require subsequent approval as a permanent change in the University calendar after an evaluation and review by UCAP during the fourth year of its enactment.

that this proposal be reviewed by University Graduate Council, University Committee on Student Affairs, and University Committee on Faculty Affairs, and then be forwarded to Faculty Council and Academic Council for consideration.

UCAP recommends that the following practices be adopted for implementing a Fall Study Break:

The Fall Study Break would occur Monday and Tuesday of the third week in October;

Fall Semester classes would begin on the Wednesday prior to the current first day of class (this shift will adjust for instructional days lost in accommodating for the Fall Study Break and other Fall Semester breaks);

Change order of Agenda items

Professor Putnam suggested moving directly to agenda item #7 to accommodate Dr. Simmon’s presentation to the committee.

ECAC Request for Consultation: Lyman Briggs School of Science to Return to College Status

Member Sekhar Chivukula offered to recuse himself from the discussion of this matter due to his spousal relationship to Dr. Simmons. No motion was made and the committee did not see the need for this. Dr. Chivukula participated in this portion of the meeting.

Elizabeth Simmons, Director, Lyman Briggs School delivered a slide overview of reasoning behind the request to return Lyman Briggs to College status. Steve Speas, Associate Director and founding faculty member and Philip Strong, Assistant Director answered questions from the committee members. After discussion, committee members asked to delay a decision in order to consult with their college constituents and to include final consideration in the next UCAP meeting agenda.

Academic Integrity

Professor Putnam distributed two documents for the committee to review for the next meeting.

Roundtable

No Roundtable comments.

Meeting adjourned at 11:52 am.

Respectfully submitted by Sandra Walther