Summary of Activity
for the Student Academic Policies Committee, Winter 2004
The Student Academic Policies Committee is responsible for
the submission of one proposal to the
1. Final Examination Schedule for Evening Classes. The proposal to revise the University’s final examination schedule is to be submitted at today’s April 23rd Academic Senate meeting. The proposal offers a viable alternative to the current final examination schedule that would allow for evening classes to offer two-hour final exams instead of the 75-minute ones to which they are currently restricted.
The SAPC also considered a number of other issues throughout the semester, including:
1.
Student
Assessment of Instruction forms. The
committee worked to determine how student assessments could best be used to
improve the classroom experience. It was
agreed upon that the written comments are the only part of the current
evaluation forms useful for this purpose, and hopes that future efforts to
address the inadequacies of these forms will take the committee’s conclusions
into consideration.
2.
Policy for
students with three or more final exams on one day. Language in the Student Handbook and the
course composite encourages faculty to accommodate students who have three or
more final exams scheduled in a single day.
The SAPC reviewed this recommendation and elected to keep it as is
rather than formalizing it into a policy that requires faculty to accommodate.
In keeping with this decision, the committee will submit a proposal in
the fall introducing the recommendation into the University Bulletin as a final
examination guideline.
3.
Changes to
withdrawal policy. The committee was
charged with examining the withdrawal policy to see if any changes were
warranted. Specifically, the committee
was to consider the idea of moving up the withdrawal date in the interest of
improving academic rigor and instituting a WP and WF that
would reflect the student’s grade at the time of the drop. The SAPC decided that no action was warranted
in either case.
4.
Changes to
evening class schedule. The
committee considered a proposal to increase the amount of time in between
evening class. Again, no action was
taken on this issue.
Respectfully Submitted,
Adam Kocoloski
Chair, Student Academic Policies
Committee