ACADEMIC, APPELLATE, AND SENATE COMMITTEE
ANNUAL REPORT, 2006-2007 Academic Year
Academic Standards Committee
1. Membership (including ex-officio members).
REGULAR MEMBERS (with vote)
Linda Wolfe, Chair; Tom
McConnell, Vice Chair; Mark Richardson, Secretary; Margaret Bauer, Lora
Smith-Canter, Javier Lorenzo, Joseph Thomas
EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS (with
vote)
Michael Brown, Rep. of
Chancellor; Linner Griffin, Rep. of Provost; George
Bailey, Rep. of Chair of the Faculty; Mark Sprague, Faculty Senator; Cole
Jones, Rep. of Student Government Association
2. Meeting Dates (include members present)
MEETING DATE: September
18, 2006
REGULAR MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE: Bauer,
McConnell, Smith-Canter, Richardson, Wolfe, Thomas
EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE: Brown,
Griffin, Bailey, and Sprague
MEETING DATE: October
23, 2006
PERSON PRESIDING: Linda
Wolfe
REGULAR MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE: Bauer,
McConnell, Smith-Canter, Richardson, Lorenzo, Thomas
EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE: Brown, Bailey,
and Sprague
MEETING DATE: November
20, 2006
PERSON PRESIDING: Linda
Wolfe
REGULAR MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE: Bauer,
McConnell, Richardson, Lorenzo
EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE: Brown,
Bailey, Griffin, and Sprague
MEETING DATE: January
22, 2007
PERSON PRESIDING: Linda
Wolfe
REGULAR MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE: Bauer,
McConnell, Smith-Canter, Lorenzo, Richardson, Thomas, Wolfe
EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE: Brown,
Bailey
MEETING DATE: February
19, 2007
PERSON PRESIDING: Linda
Wolfe
REGULAR MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE: Bauer,
McConnell, Richardson, Lorenzo, Thomas, Wolfe
EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE: Brown,
Bailey, Griffin, and Sprague
MEETING DATE: March
19, 2007
PERSON PRESIDING: Linda
Wolfe
REGULAR MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE: McConnell,
Lorenzo, Richardson, Thomas, Wolfe
EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE: Brown,
Bailey, and Sprague
3. Subcommittees established during the year
(include progress and/or completion of work)—None.
4. Accomplishments during the year, especially
as addressed through committee goals.
Please include recommendations made to any University agency other than
the Faculty Senate that will be noted under #5.
· Discussion regarding follow up on
experimental courses. Unless an
experimental course taught in the Spring 2006 semester has been submitted for
review as a regular course and passed by review, it can no longer be taught for
Foundations credit. It was agreed that
each experimental course would now need to be resubmitted for approval from our
committee and the UCC to be classified as a Foundations course.
· Discussion about the Continuing and Career
Education Committee’s request for our approval in proceeding with a Faculty and
Administrator Survey of DE course practices at ECU. They want to see how many variations are found
in practice. The information will be
summarized and used to make recommendations.
The ASC agreed it does not have any strong objections to the development
of a Faculty and Administrator Survey of DE courses, though everyone expressed
an interest in seeing the results of the survey and if the CCE committee would
reach any conclusions from these results.
· Discussion of the proposed policy on how to
handle classroom disruption drafted by Maggie Olszewska,
Office of Student Rights and Responsibilities.
The committee recommends that our committee should put forward a
recommendation to the faculty and administration that asks for their
consideration of the Policy on Academic Disruption.
· Approval of MATH 2151 (Engineering Calculus
I), MATH 2152 (Engineering Calculus II), and MATH 2153 (Engineering Calculus
III) for Mathematics Foundations Credit.
· Continued discussion of the revised Peer
Review of Teaching Instrument and Procedure with the results of statistics
compiled from each department regarding how often and in what manner the peer
review instrument is used by each department—this is in response to the faculty
senate resolution that requested a review of the use of the revised Peer Review
procedures and Peer Review instrument.
Action Taken: The committee
agreed that a subcommittee should be formed to review the issues. Linda Wolfe and Michael Brown volunteered to
study the issues and make a recommendation regarding what the Academic
Standards committee should review and recommend on this topic and these
recommendations could be discussed at our next meeting.
· Discussion of the proposed policy on how to
handle classroom disruption initiated by a draft of a Proposed Policy on
Disruptive Academic Behavior prepared by Dr. Michael Brown that condenses the
initial policy into a statement that could be included in the undergraduate
catalog as well as the Faculty manual (Part V, Section 1). The committee discussed some revisions of the
draft and following the revisions approved it.
The chair of Academic Standards and the Director of Student Life will
now take the policy to the Faculty Senate for discussion and approval.
· Discussion with Dr. Mike Poteat
on the assessment for Foundation courses based on an report (from the
University of Wisconsin) that outlines the direct and indirect methods for
assessing General Education over a five-year period. Dr. Bailey stated that our
committee is limited to recommendations concerning our Foundation courses; we
will recommend assessment by discipline and according to the three goals
established. We have to devise a
recommended schedule, and then establish that the results will be used to
assess and make changes. There will need
to be documentation to show the steps to be taken to improve things. Action
Taken: The committee will hear further
reports on assessment from Dr. Poteat at the next
scheduled meeting. In the meantime, Dr.
Bailey said that he is working on a draft of outcomes assessment to be used for
Foundation Credit courses.
5. Reports to
the Faculty Senate (include dates and resolution numbers).
11/7/06--Linda Wolfe (Anthropology), Chair of the
Committee, presented a recommendation about the Student Opinion of Instruction
Survey, then yielded the floor to Michael Poteat, Director of Institutional Effectiveness, to answer
questions. Following a lengthy
discussion, the Academic Standards Committee’s recommendation that the
Student Opinion of Instruction Survey (SOIS) for all courses be changed to an
Internet-based survey delivered in a manner similar to the surveys currently
administered to students in Distance Education courses was approved as
presented. RESOLUTION #06-28
12/5/06-- Linda Wolfe (Anthropology), Chair of the
Committee, presented a recommendation by the Committee to grant SECS 1000,
offered by the Department of Political Science, Social Science Foundation
Credit. There was no discussion and the recommendation was approved as
presented. RESOLUTION #06-31
6. Business
carried over to next year (list in priority order).
· Further
discussion regarding assessment of Foundation courses
7. Evaluation of the committee (include anything
that hindered or assisted the committee’s work during the year).
A. Charge:
OK
B. Personnel:
very good (those who attended)
C. Attendance:
OK
D. Responsibilities: OK
E. Activities: very good
8. Suggestion(s) to the Chair of the Faculty
and/or Faculty Senate for improving the effectiveness of the committee. None
9. Does the Committee’s organizational meeting
next year need to be earlier than the date set this year? No.
Signed: Chairperson, Linda Wolfe
Secretary, Mark Richardson