EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY FACULTY SENATE

ACADEMIC, APPELLATE, AND SENATE COMMITTEE

 ANNUAL REPORT

 

2009-2010 Academic Year

 

COMMITTEE:  Academic Standards Committee

 

1.       Membership (include ex-officio members). Karen Voytecki, Nancy Saplding, Marck Sprague, Michael Brown, Andrew Morehead, Linda Wolfe, Michael Albers, Jan Tovey/Kirk St.Amant, Linner Griffin, George Bailey, Charles Hodson.

 

2.       Meeting Dates (include members present*). 
      * and members who contributed to committee action, but were not at the meeting.

          Sept 21, 2009: Voytecki, Spalding, Sprague, Brown, Wolfe, Albers, Tovey, Griffin, Bailey

          Oct 19, 2009: Voytecki, Spalding, Brown, Morehead, Wolfe, Tovey, Griffin, Bailey, Hodson

          Nov 16, 2009: Voytecki, Spalding, Sprague, Brown, Morehead, Wolfe, Albers, Griffin, Bailey, Hodson

          Dec 9, 2009: Spalding, Sprague, Brown, Morehead, Wolfe, Albers, Griffin, Bailey

          Jan 25, 2009: Voytecki, Spalding, Sprague, Brown, Morehead, Wolfe, Albers, Bailey, Hodson

          Feb 15, 2009: Voytecki, Spalding, Sprague, Brown, Morehead, Wolfe, Albers, Griffin, Bailey

          Mar 15, 2009: Voytecki, Spalding, Sprague, Brown, Morehead, Wolfe, Albers, Griffin, Bailey

          Apr 19, 2009: Voytecki, Spalding, Sprague, Brown, Wolfe, Albers, Griffin, Bailey, Hodson

 

3.      Subcommittees established during the year (include progress and/or completion of work). N/A

 

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.  None

 

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

Resolution #09-35, Approved by the Faculty Senate: October 6, 2009, Approved by the Chancellor: October 26, 2009, Reinstatement of Dance 1000 as a Foundation Curriculum course for the Arts

Resolution #09-36, Approved by the Faculty Senate: October 6, 2009, Approved by the Chancellor: October 26, 2009, Recommendation on the Student Opinion of Instruction Survey (SOIS)

Resolution #09-47, Approved by the Faculty Senate: December 1, 2009, Approved by the Chancellor: January 12, 2010, Approval of Foundation Curriculum Course for Arts, COMM 2020: Fundamentals of Speech Communication (FC:FA) and Approval of Foundation Curriculum Course for Science, BIOL 2110/2111: Fundamental of Microbiology (FC:SC)

Resolution #09-41, Approved by the Faculty Senate:  November 3, 2009, Approved by the Chancellor: November 24, 2009, Approval of Geography 1000 for Social Science Foundations Credit

Resolution #10-01, Approved by Faculty Senate: January 26, 2010, Accepted by the Chancellor: February 24, 2010, Formal faculty advice on the proposed administrative Policy on Gifts Affecting Curriculum.

Resolution #10-07, Approved by the Faculty Senate: February 23, 2010, Approved by the Chancellor: April 6, 2010, Foundation Curriculum Course for Social Science HIST 3669 History of the Middle East

Resolution #10-08, Approved by the Faculty Senate: February 23, 2010, Approved by the Chancellor: further revisions requested  (Later Action Taken, see #10-53), Proposed revisions to the ECU Faculty Manual, Part V. Academic Information, Section I. Academic Procedures and Policies were approved as amended with suggested modifications to subsections K. Office Hours and L. Ordering Textbooks and Collateral Material being returned to Academic Standards Committee for further review and consideration.

Resolution #10-25, Approved by the Faculty Senate: March 30, 2010, Approved by the Chancellor: pending, Foundation Curriculum Course for Basic Social Science, PSYC 2777 Ethnocultural Psychology

Resolution #10-26, Approved by the Faculty Senate: March 30, 2010, Approved by the Chancellor: pending, Foundation Curriculum Course for Basic Science, GEOL1800 Geology of the National Parks.

Resolution #10-27, Approved by the Faculty Senate:  March 30, 2010, Approved by the Chancellor:  pending, Revisions to the ECU Faculty Manual, Part V. Academic Information Section I. Academic Procedures and Policies, Subsection Y. Disruptive Academic Behavior

Resolution #10-28, Approved by the Faculty Senate:  March 30, 2010, Approved by the Chancellor:  pending, Revisions to the ECU Faculty Manual, Part V. Academic Information, Section I. Academic Procedures and Policies, Subsection I.W. Student Attendance Regulations

Resolution #10-29, Approved by Faculty Senate:  March 30, 2010, Approved by the Chancellor:  pending, Revisions to the University Undergraduate Catalog, Section 5. Academic Regulations, Class Attendance and Participation Regulations; IMPLEMENT FALL 2010

Resolution #10-50, Approved by Faculty Senate: Apr 20, 2010, Approved by Chancellor: pending

Approval of Foundation Curriculum Course for Arts, ART 1250: Digital Photography for Non-Art Majors.

Resolution #10-51, Approved by the Faculty Senate: April 20, 2010, Approved by the Chancellor: pending, Approval of Foundation Curriculum Course for Humanities, CLAS 1500

Resolution #10-52, Approved by the Faculty Senate: April 20, 2010, Approved by the Chancellor: pending, Additional Proposed Revisions to the ECU Faculty Manual, Part V. Academic Information, Section I. Academic Procedures and Policies, New Subsection: Final Examinations.

Resolution #10-53, Approved by the Faculty Senate: April 20, 2010, Approved by the Chancellor: pending, Proposed Revisions to the ECU Faculty Manual, Part V. Academic Information, Section I. Academic Procedures and Policies, Subsections K. Office Hours and L. Ordering Textbooks and Collateral Material.

Resolution #10-63, Approved by the Faculty Senate: April 20, 2010
Approved by the Chancellor: pending, Proposed Revisions to the ECU Faculty Manual, Part V. Academic Information, Section I. Academic Procedures and Policies, Subsections X. Student Conduct.

Resolution #10-64, Approved by the Faculty Senate; April 20, 2010
Approved by the Chancellor: pending

Proposed Revisions to the ECU Faculty Manual, Part V. Academic Information, Section I. Academic Procedures and Policies, Subsection V. Student Advising

 

6.       Business carried over to next year (list in priority order).

·    We need to bring to the faculty senate the graduate advising document.  The GSAB passed it in April 2010 and want it in the faculty manual with the undergraduate advising document.

·    Review other parts of Part V including Access to student Educatinal Records, application for Graduation, Certification, Privacy of Student Educational Records, Re-examination, Release of Directory Information, Resale of Complimentary Texbooks and Senior Summary Sheets.  Take recommendations on these items to the faculty senate. 

 

7.       Evaluation of the committee (include anything that hindered or assisted the

          committee's work during the year).

          A.      Charge:  No problem

          B.      Personnel:  No problems

          C.      Attendance:  Attendance was good, but no SGA rep.

          D.      Responsibilities:  No problems

          E.      Activities:  No problems

 

8.       Suggestion(s) to the Chair of the Faculty and/or Faculty Senate for improving the effectiveness of the committee.  No

 

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   __Nancy Spalding_________________