ACADEMIC,
APPELLATE, AND SENATE COMMITTEE
ANNUAL
REPORT
2009-2010
Academic Year
COMMITTEE: STUDENT
SCHOLARSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS,
AND FINANCIAL AID COMMITTEE
1. Membership (include ex-officio members). Hanna
Jubran, Punam Madhok
Jonathan Dembo, Alice Feret,
Richard Bamberg, Sarah Colby, Qun Lu, Austin
Bunch, Susie Harris, Hunt McKinnon, John Given and Travis Poole
2. Meeting
Dates (include members present*).
* and members who contributed
to committee action, but were not at the meeting.
September 28, 2009: Sarah
Colby, Jonathan Dembo, Alice Feret,
Qun Lu
October 26, 2009: Sarah
Colby, Jonathan Dembo, Alice Feret,
Hanna Jubran
November
22, 2009: Sarah Colby, Jonathan Dembo,
Alice Feret, Hanna Jubran, Qun
Lu
February 22, 2010: Sarah
Colby, Jonathan Dembo, Alice Feret,
Hanna Jubran,
Qun Lu, Punam Madhok
April 19, 2010: Jonathan Dembo, Alice Feret, Hanna Jubran,
Qun Lu, Punam Madhok
3. Subcommittees established during the year (include progress and/or
completion of work). John Given, Susie Harris, and Travis
Poole volunteered to form a subcommittee to review student GPA’s and
“satisfactory academic progress” in late December for Financial Aid.
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.
Appeals Charge
Decision on whether committee should take on the Financial Aid appeals process
was discussed. Concerns were voiced that if this appeal process became the
charge of this committee, then the committee would be in the situation of
writing the rules and then also enforcing them. There was thought that this may
appear to be a conflict of interest. Because there has never been a conflict
with the same student going through academic appeals and Financial Aid awards
appeals at the same time, it has been recommended that we report to Julie Poorman that the current charge is appropriate. Motion was made to report to Julie Poorman that this committee does not need to move forward
to change the current charge. Second made. Motion
Passed.
Jubran will communicate to Julie Poorman the possibility of Increasing
scholarship awards. Last time increases were made in the award amounts was in
1998. Increases will be recommended based on percent tuition increases since
1998. Cathy Laney will investigate the percent increases in tuition. Based on
the information the committee will recommend increases.
Jubran will then send the
recommendations to Lori Lee and Julie Poorman for
increases in awards.
Jeremy Jordan, Assistant Director
for Scholarships in the Office of Student Financial Scholarship has noted that the Eastern NC Foundation Scholarship was
unable to be awarded due to poor performance for the second consecutive year.
The
committee met to select recipients and alternates for the ECU Retired Faculty,
Andrews Scholarship, Chevrolet Scholarship:
By majority
vote, the SSC Committee recommended the following candidates for scholarships:
ECU Retired
Faculty Association Undergraduate Scholarship:
1st choice: Skylar Brooke Mills; 2nd
choice: S. Dellana; 3rd choice: P. Kayla
Andrews
Scholarship:
1st choice: A. Wittenauer; 2nd
choice: S. Westerman
Chevrolet
Scholarship:
1st choice: S. Haddock; 2nd choice: B. Widman
5. Reports
to the Faculty Senate (include dates and resolution numbers). None
6. Business
carried over to next year (list in priority order). None
7. Evaluation
of the committee (include anything that hindered or assisted the
Committee’s work during the year).
A. Charge: Appears Appropriate
B. Personnel: Committee worked well together
C. Attendance: Meeting times and days were
changed to accommodate as many committee members and EX –officio as possible
D. Responsibilities: The committee fulfilled
its responsibilities
E. Activities: the committee’s workload moderate,
but appropriate to its charge
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 ___Hanna Jubran____________________________
Secretary
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