EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY FACULTY SENATE
ACADEMIC, APPELLATE, AND SENATE COMMITTEE
ANNUAL REPORT
2008-2009 Academic Year
COMMITTEE:
_Academic Standards Committee_____________________
1. Membership
(include ex-officio members).
Regular Members with vote:
Linda Wolfe, Chair
Stacey Altman, Secretary
Nancy Spalding, Vice Chair
Linda Mitchell
Karen Voytecki
Mark Sprague
Michael Brown
Ex-officio Members with vote:
Linner Griffin: Rep of Provost
George Bailey, Rep of chair of the Faculty
Michelle Eble, Faculty Senator
Steven Kresch, Rep of Student Government Association
2. Meeting
Dates (include members present*).
9/15/08: Wolfe, Altman, Spalding, Sprague, Brown,
10/20/08:
Wolfe, Altman, Spalding, Sprague, Brown,
11/17/08: Wolfe, Altman, Spalding, Sprague, Brown,
2/16/09: Wolfe, Altman, Spalding, Sprague, Brown,
3/16/09: Wolfe, Altman, Spalding, Sprague, Brown,
4/20/09: Wolfe, Altman, Spalding, Sprague, Brown,
Bailey, Mitchell,
3. Subcommittees
established during the year (include progress and/or completion of work).
Subcommittee (Bailey, Brown, Kresch, Wolfe) to consider the 2.8.1
to 2.8.8 part of the report from the Enrollment Task Force. Work was accepted by the ASC and reported to
the faculty senate.
4. Accomplishments
during the year, especially as addressed through committee goals. See Item #5
Please include recommendations made to any University
agency other than the
None
5. Reports
to the
·
#08-45 Service
Learning proposal presented at the 11/4/08
·
#08-58 Not
Reported or NR Grade presented at the 12-2-08
·
#09-10 Revised
Appendix C with regard to the SOIS at the 2-24-09
·
SEMTF
report. Report by Academic Standards Committee and Admissions and
Retention Policies Committee, Linda Wolfe and Wendy Sharer. Joint response to the Strategic Enrollment Management Task
Force recommendations on Academic Policy Changes (
section 2.8 of the SEMTF report). For
information only.
·
#08-49 ENGL 3920
Film Theory and Criticism for Humanities Foundation Curriculum Credit presented
at the 11-4-08
·
#08-59 8 RELI courses for
Humanities Foundation Curriculum Credit presented at the 2-24-08
·
#08-59 Geography 1300 for
Basic Science Foundation Curriculum Credit presented at the 12-2-08
·
#09-01 4 Great Books
courses for Humanities Foundation Curriculum Credit presented at the 1-27-09
·
#09-17 Request to reduce
number of courses with foundation curriculum credit from the
·
#09-23 ENGL 3290
for Humanities Foundation Curriculum Credit presented at the 4/21/09
6. Business
carried over to next year (list in priority order).
· Consider
proposals for new foundation curriculum courses.
·
The committee will
devise and implement procedures for identifying and assessing learning outcomes
for the Foundations program that cross cuts all disciplines.
·
According to ECU
tomorrow document, ASC will be considering course applications for certification
as a Global course.
·
Revisit the
place of the student opinion of instruction survey in the evaluation of
teaching effectiveness.
·
Revisit 3000 and
4000 level foundation courses that were grandfathered in following the
establishment of the 2005 foundation curriculum.
7. Evaluation
of the committee (include anything that hindered or assisted the
committee's work during the year).
A. Charge:
No changes.
B. Personnel:
Personnel did the work of the committee.
C. Attendance: Attendance was excellent.
D. Responsibilities: Members took their work seriously.
E. Activities: The committee had time for its activities
although meetings sometimes ran almost 2 hours.
8. Suggestion(s)
to the Chair of the Faculty and/or
The committee on committees should put faculty on
this committee that have some experience with foundation guidelines and courses
and have been employed at ECU for a few years.
9. Does
the Committee’s organizational meeting next year need to be earlier than the
date set this year?
If
yes, when do you prefer:_____
No, not at this time. If unusual
problems/project arise over the summer, an earlier
date may be required.__
Signed: Chairperson, Linda Wolfe
Secretary,
Stacy Altman