Academic Policies Committee

October 14, 2003

Minutes

In attendance: David Buckley (representing AAUP), Paul Eloe, Jim Farrelly (representing the Faculty Board) Linda Hartley, Pat Johnson, Tom Lasley, John Rapp, Nicole Vitale

The meeting was called to order at 1:30 p.m. by John Rapp, committee chair.

1.__Revised general education goals

The revised general education goals were unanimously approved by the committee, and the document is now ready to pass to the full senate for approval.

2.__Recommendations of select calendar committee

The APC approved in concept the first five recommendations of the select calendar committee, with the following suggestions:

Point number one is too wordy and should be simplified.

In the second point, the words "or culminating learning experience" should be added following the phrase ". . . all students will sit for a final examination . . ."

In the fourth point, some sentence should be added as a justification for study days--e.g. The purpose of this recommendation is to underscore the seriousness of exam week--or something like that.

The APC favors the last two points about the library and the alcohol issues, but there was some real concern that this was not appropriate to the calendar issue since neither is really an "academic" policy--especially the alcohol issue. The APC thought perhaps these recommendations should be sent to appropriate administrators separately from the other academic recommendations.

The committee will consider any revisions to these recommendations at its next meeting.

3.__Last day to add courses

A brief initial discussion was held on the request to consider the policy about the last day to add classes. John Rapp will obtain some additional information, and the issue will be considered at a subsequent APC meeting.

The meeting was adjourned at 2:30 p.m.

JR

10/14/03