COMMITTEE: Admission and Retention Committee
MEETING DATE & TIME: January 22nd of 2007 (4:00pm to 4:25pm)
PERSON RESIDING: Wendy Sharer
REGULAR MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE: Shahnaz Aziz, John Kerbs, Carol Nichols, Natalie
Stewart, Xiaoming Zeng, and David Siegel
EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE: Lee
Grubbs
OTHERS IN ATTENDANCE: N/A
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ACTIONS
OF MEETING
Agenda
Item:
Approval of minutes from meeting on November 6th, 2006.
Discussion: None.
Action
Taken: John Kerbs made a motion to approve the
minutes. The motion was seconded by Lee Grubbs
and unanimously approved without edits.
Assigned
Additional Duties To: Not applicable.
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ACTIONS
OF MEETING
Agenda
Item:
Forgiveness Policy.
Discussion: The current
Forgiveness Policy forgives a “D” or “F”.
The committee discussed whether or not that policy should be modified to
include grades below C-.
Action
Taken: Lee Grubbs made the motion to include grades
below C-minus in the Forgiveness Policy.
John Kerbs seconded the motion.
It passed unanimously.
Assigned
Additional Duties To: Wendy Sharer will add the following text to
the proposal for the Faculty Senate’s review.
“…Subsequent GPAs of students readmitted under this
policy will be computed without inclusion of previous coursework in which a
grade below C-minus was received; credit toward graduation will not be allowed
for such course work. However, this work
will be included in calculations for consideration for degrees with
distinction…”
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ACTIONS
OF MEETING
Agenda
Item:
Proposal for Faculty Senate for Revisions to the ECU Undergraduate
Catalog, Section 5 - - Academic Regulations
Discussion: Shahnaz Aziz asked that two typographical errors be
corrected; she also requested that we add the paragraph noted above for the
Forgiveness Policy.
Action
Taken: John Kerbs made a motion to approve the corrections
as described by Shahnaz Aziz. The motion
was seconded by Lee Grubbs and unanimously approved.
Assigned
Additional Duties To: Wendy Sharer will revise the proposal for
dissemination to the Faculty Senate.
ACTIONS
OF MEETING
Agenda Item: Adjournment.
Discussion: None.
Action Taken: Lee Grubbs
made a motion to adjourn the meeting.
John Kerbs seconded the motion, which was passed unanimously. The meeting was adjourned at 4:25pm.
Assigned Additional Duties
To:
Wendy Sharer will be in contact with all committee members to determine
if the next meeting on February 5th of 2007 will be needed. Two additional issues remain: 1) The
Non-Traditional Student Policy; and 2) The Academic Integrity Policy.
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