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, Griffin, Bailey, Jan Tovey

10/20/08:  Wolfe, Altman, Spalding, Sprague, Brown, Griffin, Bailey, Voytecki, Kresch

11/17/08: Wolfe, Altman, Spalding, Sprague, Brown, Griffin, Bailey, Mitchell, Elbe, Kresch

 

 

2/16/09: Wolfe, Altman, Spalding, Sprague, Brown, Griffin, Bailey, Mitchell, Elbe, Voytecki, Kresch

3/16/09: Wolfe, Altman, Spalding, Sprague, Brown, Griffin, Bailey, Mitchell, Elbe, Kresch

4/20/09: Wolfe, Altman, Spalding, Sprague, Brown, Bailey, Mitchell, Elbe, Kresch

 

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 Faculty Senate that will be noted under #5.

  None

 

5.       Reports to the Faculty Senate (include dates and resolution numbers).

 

·  #08-45 Service Learning proposal presented at the 11/4/08 Faculty Senate meeting.  The proposal set the Service Learning criteria, requested to have the “SL” designation included in the University Undergraduate Catalog for all courses approved by the Administrative Service Learning Committee, and a SL designation form in the Service Learning Course Submission Process.  Faculty Senate approve, Chancellor approved 12-3-08

 

·  #08-58 Not Reported or NR Grade presented at the 12-2-08 Faculty Senate meeting.  The policy was presented for the use of “NR” (Not Reported) for those courses for which the instructor/faculty member fails to turn in a grade.  The NR grade would be applied by the registrar’s office.  Approved by the faculty Senate, Approved by the Chancellor 12-12-08

 

·  #09-10 Revised Appendix C with regard to the SOIS at the 2-24-09 Faculty Senate meeting.  Approved by the Faculty Senate.  Denied by the Chancellor 3-17-09

 

·  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 Faculty Senate meeting.  Approved by the Faculty Senate, Chancellor approved 2-24-09

 

·  #08-59  8 RELI courses for Humanities Foundation Curriculum Credit presented at the 2-24-08 Faculty Senate meeting.  Approved by the Faculty Senate, (RELI 2693, 2694, 3694, 3700, 3800, 1000, 2695, and 2696).  Approved by the Chancellor 1-26-09

 

·  #08-59  Geography 1300 for Basic Science Foundation Curriculum Credit presented at the 12-2-08 Faculty Senate meeting.  Approved by the Faculty Senate. Approved by the Chancellor 1-26-09

 

·  #09-01  4 Great Books courses for Humanities Foundation Curriculum Credit presented at the 1-27-09 Faculty Senate meeting.  Approved by the Faculty Senate, Chancellor approved 3-25-09  (ASIA 2010/GRBK 2010, GRBK 2400, 2500, 2600).

 

·  #09-17  Request to reduce number of courses with foundation curriculum credit from the School of Theatre Arts and Dance presented to the Faculty Senate meeting 3-31-09.  Faculty Senate approved, Chancellor approved 4-30-09.

 

·  #09-23 ENGL 3290 for Humanities Foundation Curriculum Credit presented at the 4/21/09 Faculty Senate meeting.  Approved by the Faculty Senate, Approved by the Chancellor.

 

 

 

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 Faculty Senate for improving the effectiveness of the committee. 

 

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