COMMITTEE:  ADMISSION AND RETENTION POLICIES COMMITTEE   

MEETING DATE:   Nov. 3, 2008                

PERSON PRESIDING: Wendy Sharer

REGULAR MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE: Gary Levine, David Siegel, Natalie Stewart, Baohong Zhang, Xiaoming Zeng

EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE: Anthony Britt, David Kemble, Shahna Arps, Mechael Swanner

OTHERS IN ATTENDANCE: N/A

ACTIONS OF MEETING

Agenda Item: Approval of minutes for previous meeting

Discussion: N/A

Action Taken: The 10.10 meeting minutes were approved with minor revisions.

Assigned additional duties to: N/A

 

Agenda Item: Discussion of the Class Attendance issue raised by the Registrar Office

Discussion:  The committee members revisited the Class Attendance proposal by the Registrar’s office. Several options were discussed to make the twice-a-semester census practical if implemented. The members agreed to look up similar policies from other comparable institutions in the UNC system – NCSU, UNCG, UNCC, UNC-CH, and Appalachian State University.

Action Taken: The committee will look up policies on checking class attendance from other universities in the UNC system

Assigned additional duties to: Wendy Sharer will look up the policies from other Universities.

 

Agenda Item: Election of Co-Chair

 

Discussion: N/A

 

Action Taken: Dr. Gary Levine was unanimously elected as the Co-Chair of the committee

 

Assigned additional duties to: N/A

 

 

Agenda Item: Discussion of Request from Faculty Chair Jan Tovey

Discussion: Wendy Sharer shared with the committee a document from the Strategic Enrollment Management Task Force at ECU. The task force suggested to change nine admission and retention policies. The committee members discussed the priorities of individual policies and their interrelationship. The policies can be grouped into three categories: 1) suspension policy, readmission criteria, and off campus course policy, 2) forgiveness policy, academic “no penalty” drop date, and number of allowed grade replacement and limit course repetition, and 3) minimum freshman academic standards for online classes, academic retention standards, and trimester calendar systems. The committee members agreed to work on the policies in group 1 as the starting point.

 Action Taken:  The committee will study the current policies in the faculty manual and course catalog.

Assigned additional duties to: Anthony Britt will search other universities for similar policies.

 

Agenda Items: Discussion of revised Academic Integrity Policy from the Judicial Process Task Force

Discussion: The committee members discussed the proposed revision to Academic Integrity Policy in Faculty Manual. Methods of distributing the revised policy to the faculty members were discussed.

Action Taken: The committee members will provide feedbacks to Wendy Sharer. Ask Maggie Olszewska about the means of distributing the document to the faculty members. 

Assigned additional duties to: The committee members will provide feedbacks to Wendy Sharer.

 

Agenda Items: Adjournment of the Meeting

 

Discussion: N/A

 

Action Taken: The meeting was adjourned at 5:05 PM. 

 

Assigned additional duties to: N/A