COMMITTEE: Admission and Retention Committee
MEETING DATE & TIME: March 3rd of 2008 (4:00PM to 5:00pm)
PERSON RESIDING: Wendy Sharer
REGULAR MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE: John Kerbs, David Siegel, Natalie Stewart, Xiaoming
Zeng
EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE: Lee Grubb
OTHERS IN ATTENDANCE:
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ACTIONS
OF MEETING
Agenda
Item: Approval of minutes from
meeting on Feb 4th of 2008.
Discussion: None
Action
Taken: The minutes were unanimously approved without
minor edits.
Assigned
Additional Duties To: N/A
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ACTIONS
OF MEETING
Agenda
Item:
Discussion of the Responses to UNC Tomorrow Report
Discussion: Wendy Sharer briefly described the UNC Tomorrow
Initiative and the need to provide responses to section 4.2 of the report from
the committee. The committee members discussed the prospective responses to
individual points in the section. These responses include mandatory learning
skills training, involvement of parents, additional student support on campus, root
cause analysis of dropouts, monitoring student academic performance,
collaboration with community college system, establishing education quality
feedback at the University level.
Action
Taken: The committee will provide responses to
section 4.2 of the UNC Tomorrow report.
Assigned
Additional Duties To: Wendy Sharer will present the responses to the
University ad-hoc committee.
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ACTIONS
OF MEETING
Agenda
Item:
Discussion of the Committee Resolution.
Discussion: The committee members discussed the updated
resolution provided by John Kerbs. The committee members deemed that “first day
attendance” policy should be implemented at unit level. References are needed
to support some of the statements in the resolution.
Action
Taken: The item related to “first day
attendance” need to be removed from the final resolution. John Kerbs will add
relevant references to the final version.
Assigned
Additional Duties To: John Kerbs will revise the resolution and
present it to the Faculty Senate once it is approved by the committee.
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ACTIONS
OF MEETING
Agenda
Item:
Adjournment
Discussion: N/A
Action Taken: The members of
the Admission and Retention Committee unanimously voted to adjourn the meeting at
5:00PM. .
Assigned
Additional Duties To: N/A
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