COMMITTEE:
ADMISSION AND RETENTION POLICIES COMMITTEE
MEETING
DATE: Dec 1st, 2008
PERSON
PRESIDING: Wendy Sharer, Gary Levine
REGULAR
MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE: Gary Levine, David Siegel, Natalie Stewart,
Xiaoming Zeng
EX-OFFICIO
MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE: Anthony Britt, David Kemble, Shahna Arps, Michael
Swanner
OTHERS IN ATTENDANCE: N/A
ACTIONS
OF MEETING
Agenda Item: Approval of minutes
for previous meeting
Discussion: N/A
Action Taken: The 11.3
meeting minutes were approved with minor revisions.
Agenda Item: Discussion of the Class Attendance issue raised by the
Registrar Office
Discussion: Wendy Sharer
reported synthesized results from reviewing class attendance policy from other
comparable institutions in the UNC system – NCSU, UNCG, UNCC, UNC-CH, and
Appalachian State University. None of the school has policy
that explicitly mandate faculty members taking attendances. Committee
members discussed solutions to improving faculty members’ compliance with
reporting class attendances to the Registrar Office. It was suggested that ITCS
should get involved to improve the reporting rate. Committee members agreed
that current faculty manual needs to be updated to include the text of
reporting class attendances twice a year – one before the census day and the
other during the midpoint of the semester.
Action Taken: The part in the
faculty manual pertinent to reporting attendances to registrar office will be
revised to explicitly list taking class attendances twice a semester. A memo
will be compiled and sent to Judi Bailey regarding the changes.
Assigned additional duties to: Wendy Sharer will revise the faculty manual. Gary Levine
will draft the memo.
Agenda Item: Discussion of
Proposal of Not Including Replaced F in Calculating Cumulative GPA
Discussion: Representatives from Undergraduate Student
Senate presented a proposal that excludes F from calculating cumulative GPA when
determining honors at the graduation. The current method includes the replaced
Fs in the calculation that may cause confusion and discontent from students.
The committee members discussed the advantages and disadvantages of the
proposal. A key issue of the proposal is that it is unfair to students who
don’t have chance to replace their unsatisfied scores because they did not fail
the course. Another issue is how fast the new calculation can be implemented.
Action Taken: The representatives from the undergraduate
student senate were asked to find more information from National Honor Society
and other universities related to the issues.
Agenda Item: Discussion of
Readmission Policies
Discussion: Anthony Britt reported the
results from reviewing readmission policies from other Universities in the UNC
system. Committee members agreed that the Readmission Policy in the Undergraduate
catalog need to be modified to allow students transfer credits from other
institutions when readmitted to ECU.
Action Taken: The committee will discuss the changes to the undergraduate
catalog in the next meeting.
Agenda Items: Discussion
of revised Academic Integrity Policy from the Judicial Process Task Force
Discussion: Shahna Arps
reported feedbacks from her department. The committee members discussed the
proposed revision to Academic Integrity Policy in Faculty Manual.
Action Taken: A series of
open forums will be held at the end of Jan, 2009.The committee members will provide
dates of availability to Wendy Sharer
Assigned additional duties to: Wendy Sharer
will plan open forums with faculty senate.
Agenda
Items: Adjournment
of the Meeting
Discussion: N/A
Action
Taken: The meeting
was adjourned at 5:20 PM.