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 Committee Meeting Minutes__________________________________

 

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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