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.
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