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agenda status: approved

Agenda:

1. Approval of the Agenda
2. Approval of April 16, 2008 Minutes
3. Comments from the Vice Chair
4. Comments from the Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education
   
5. Election of 2009-10 UCAP Chairperson, Vice Chair and representatives to other University committees by 2009-10 UCAP members
   
   • UCAP Chairperson
     (one year term--also represents UCAP at Executive Committee of Academic Council [meets one Tuesday per month from 3:15 – 5 PM] and at Faculty Council [meets one Friday per month from 3:15 – 5 PM]
     
   • UCAP Vice Chair (one year term, represents UCAP at ECAC and Faculty Council if Chairperson is not available)
     
   • UCAP designated member to Academic Council
     [meets one Tuesday per month from 3:15 – 5 PM]
     
   • UCAP faculty liaison to Athletic Council
     [monthly meetings)
     
   • UCAP liaison to University Committee on Liberal Learning
     http://ucll.msu.edu/charter
     Nominee: Matt McKeon
     
   • UCAP liaison to Military Education Advisory Committee
     (meets once each semester, dates to be determined)
     
6. Course Repeat Policy Subcommittee - Discussion
   Dennis Banks, Subcommittee Chairperson
   Peter Cobbett, Brad McDonald, A. Mahdi Saeed, Subcommittee Members
7. Roundtable

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minutes status: approved

approved at meeting of 09/10/2009

UCAP Minutes for meeting held on 04/30/2009

Attendees: Mary Jo Arndt, Dennis Banks, Peter Cobbett, Marty Crimp, Doug Estry, Anita Ezzo, Fred Fico, Richard Hallgren, Caroline Hartig, Linda Jackson, Hovig Kouyoumdjian, Mike Lawrence, Carolyn Loeb, Brad McDonald, Malea Powell, Jerry Punch, Mahdi Saeed, Chris Scales, Michael Schechter, Mike Shields, Jim Smith, Tom Volkening

Not Attending: Gillian Bice, Mary Burleson, R. Sekhar Chivukula, Guiseppe Getto, John Gore, Mandalyn Griffin, Melanie Helton, Matt McKeon, Sharif Shakrani

The Agenda was approved.

The Minutes of the April 16, 2009 meeting were approved.

Comments from the Vice Chair, Jim Smith
Vice Chair Smith thanked the committee for a productive year and thanked Dr. Chivukula for his skillful leadership.

Comments from the Associate Provost
Associate Provost Estry expressed his appreciation to the committee members for their thoughtful, respectful, and evidenced-based approach to decisions.

Dr. Estry explained the Wednesday is Monday class schedule that will be used on the first day of classes in Fall 2009. He noted that announcements to the university community would be forthcoming.

Election of 2009-10 UCAP Chairperson, Vice Chair, and Representatives to Other University Committees by 2009-10 UCAP Members
It was determined that a quorum of 2009-10 members were present.
The results of the elections were:
Chairperson: Marty Crimp
Vice Chair: Jim Smith
Academic Council Designee: Mike Shields
University Committee on Liberal Learning Liaison: Matt McKeon
Military Education Advisory Council Liaison: Fred Fico

Absent nominations or volunteers, the position of UCAP liaison to the Athletic Council was not filled.
Vice Chair Smith suggested the committee work on filling this post via email over the summer break.

Course Repeat Policy Subcommittee – Discussion
Dennis Banks, Subcommittee Chairperson
Peter Cobbett, Brad McDonald, A. Mahdi Saeed, Subcommittee Members

Subcommittee Chairperson Banks provided two documents to the committee members intended to provide discussion points for:

1. Guidelines for committee use in handling requests for grade or gpa requirements in single courses, groups of courses, and admission to programs.
2. Revisions to Course Repeat Policy

Committee discussion centered on the following issues:

1. How the committee’s decisions on increased grade requirements impact course repeat policy.
2. Need to establish standard operating procedures for UCAP handling of requests for increased grade requirements.
3. Need to require strong statistical evidence/data from units requesting increased grade requirements.
4. Need to communicate to the academic community that UCAP will not pass anything in conflict with the course repeat policy.
5. Need for UCAP to present strong evidence that any change to the course repeat policy is necessary.
6. Need to bring this issue before Associate Deans group to seek their input.

Roundtable
Dr. Crimp reported that the NCAA has delayed a vote on proposals for non-traditional courses until next year. The Big 10 was the only conference that expressed concern with allowing athletes to take 100% of their courses in non-traditional ways.

The meeting Adjourned at 12:00 pm.

Respectfully submitted by
Sandra Walther

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