COMMITTEE: Admission and Retention Committee
MEETING DATE & TIME: October 2nd of 2006 (4:00pm to 4:50pm)
PERSON RESIDING: Dr. Wendy Sharer
REGULAR MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE: Dr. Shahnaz Aziz, Dr. John Kerbs, Dr. Carol Nichols,
Dr. Natalie Stewart, Dr. Xiaoming Zeng,
and Dr. David Siegel
EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE: N/A
OTHERS IN ATTENDANCE: N/A
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ACTIONS
OF MEETING
Agenda
Item:
Approval of minutes from meeting on September 11th, 2006.
Discussion: None.
Action
Taken: Dr. Aziz made a motion to approve the
minutes. The motion was seconded by Dr. Zeng and unanimously approved without edits.
Assigned
Additional Duties To: Not applicable.
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ACTIONS
OF MEETING
Agenda
Item:
Part IV of the Academic Integrity Policy
Discussion: Dr. Kerbs
suggested that the operational definition of plagiarism needed to be clarified
in Part IV of the Academic Integrity Policy.
The Admissions and Retention Committee members agreed with the need to
include examples of plagiarism that involved the omission of quotation marks
when text is reproduced verbatim.
Action
Taken: None at this time.
Assigned
Additional Duties To: Dr. Sharer will
provide Maggie Olszewska with feedback and a more
specific/concrete definition of plagiarism.
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Admission and Retention
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ACTIONS
OF MEETING
Agenda
Item:
Examination of “Admission and Retention Policies Committee Report”
regarding proposed revisions to the ECU Undergraduate Catalogue (Section 2 - -
Admission and Readmission of Nontraditional Students).
Discussion: Dr. Don Joyner
has requested that the Admission and Retention Committee table this agenda item
until November.
Action
Taken: Dr. Kerbs
called for a motion to table the agenda item (the motion was seconded by Dr. Siegel
and anonymously passed).
Assigned
Additional Duties To: Not Applicable.
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ACTIONS OF MEETING
Agenda Item: Plus/Minus
Grading System
Discussion: Dr. Sharer
reviewed the grading systems used by universities that were comparable to
ECU. Dr. Sharer also provided the
Admission and Retention Committee with research on the effects of switching
grading systems and a proposal from Wake Forest University, which changed their
grading system to a plus/minus system in 1997.
Action Taken: Dr. Kerbs made a motion to have Dr. Sharer use her materials
and feedback from the Admission and Retention Committee to draft a proposal for
the conversion of ECU’s current grading system to a plus/minus system. The motion was seconded by Dr. Natalie
Stewart, and it unanimously passed.
Assigned Additional Duties
To:
Dr. Sharer will draft a proposal and request that Dr. Angela Anderson
attend the next meeting of the Admission and Retention Committee.
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ACTIONS OF MEETING
Agenda Item: Adjournment
Discussion: None.
Action Taken: Dr. Natalie
Stewart made a motion to close the meeting, and Dr. Kerbs seconded the motion. The motion was unanimously passed to end the
meeting at 4:50pm.
Assigned Additional Duties
To:
Not Applicable.
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