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The Curriculum Committee met on May 18 and conducted the following business: Present: Jean Edwards (for Susan Carrafiello), Candace Cherrington, Jeanne Fraker, Roger Fulk, Qingbo Huang, Nathan Klingbeil, Joe Law, Tom Sav, David Seitz, Carol Wagner-Williams.Jointly Meeting with Student Affairs Committee: Maher Amer (Chair, Student Affairs Committee), Larry Weinstein, Amanda Thompson (Student Government, Director of Student Affairs). Jointly Meeting with Student Government: Ed Gemin (Vice President), Shean Graves (Director of Academic Affairs), Amanda Thompson (also Student Affairs Committee above). Guests: Carol Holdcraft (CONH) Approved Minutes of April 20, 2007. UCAPC Subcommittee Reports Writing
Across the Curriculum
Committee (WAC) -- Joe Law, Chair, reported per his
WAC Newsletter that Toby Fulwiler, Emeritus Professor of English,
will join WSU to help celebrate 10+ years of WAC at
WSU. Toby will be conducting a two-part workshop on May 23 and
May 24 in the Berry Room in the Nutter Center (lunch is provided for
participants both
days). To take part in the workshop contact Tamarus Stokes at
775-3740 or
tamarus.stokes@wright.edu.
University General Education Committee (UGEC) -- Jean Edwards, Coordinator of General Education (for Susan Carrafiello, Chair), reported on the committee's activities per the UGEC meeting of April 2 as follows Undergraduate Academic Program Review Committee (UAPRC) -- Rudy Fichtenbaum, Chair, reported (via Tom Sav) that the committee is continuing to meet to review academic programs scheduled for this year and hopes to complete all scheduled reviews before the end of the Spring Quarter. Some programs reviewed to date needed additional work, editing, and/or modification. All programs reviewed this year will be posted on the UAPRC website upon receipt of such by the committee. Course Inventory and Modification Requests COLA
Program ChangesApproved Inventories: URS 401
(one-time
offering)
CONH
While the committee was
supportive of the proposal it could not approve it until the proposed
General Education changes including specific Course Inventory proposals
were created and submitted for review and approval by UGEC for review
by UCAPC and for forwarding to the Faculty Senate for review and
approval. It was the committee's hope that such
could be
developed, submitted, and processed for committee reviews and
approvals for submission to the Faculty Senate at its
October 2007 meeting.
B.S. Nursing
New Programs LC
Academic Policy Grading System Policy: Plus-Minus
Letter Grading System
Proposed by
Student Affairs Committee (April 2 Faculty Senate Meeting).
Recommitted by the Faculty Senate (May 7 Meeting) to both UCAPC & Student Affairs Committee. Per the request of the Faculty President there was a joint meeting of both committees at this session. The UCAPC chair presented a brief
history of events leading to the proposal through the Student Affairs
Committee up through and including the Faculty Senate meetings and
discussion therein at both the April 2 and May 7 meetings, including
the
April 20 meeting of UCAPC wherein the committee unanimously voted to
reject any move to a plus-minus grading system. Per the Faculty Senate
Meeting of May 7 it was reported that at a CONH Faculty Meeting, 36 out
of 40 (90%) CONH faculty were against a plus-minus grading system. At
the present UCAPC meeting it was reported that at a CECS Faculty
Meeting
the faculty were overwhelming against a plus-minus grading system (it
was confirmed that on the order of 80% or more were against). In
addition, at the
present meeting, the Student Government (officers in attendance as
noted above) reported that at their meeting they voted against and were
opposed to a plus-minus grading system. Upon such reporting, it became
apparent that there was a breakdown in communication throughout the
entire process of consideration of a plus-minus grading system among
the Student Affairs Committee, Student Government, UCAPC, and Faculty
Senate -- as was concluded this was unfortunate but given all the
levels involved before the Faculty Senate it was
understandable, especially
given all took place within only a two month time frame,. After
additional discussion, of the 15 in attendance at
this joint committee meeting of UCAPC, Student Affairs Committee,
and Student Government, there were "0 votes (1 abstention) in support
of a plus-minus grading system".
Announcements The chair gave a brief summary of
the current status of moving to course enrollment prerequisite
enforcement using Banner via a May report titled "University Systems
Replacement, Situational Analysis Paper-Prerequisite Enforcement".
Using the Winter 2007 enrollments as a TEST, it was reported that "out
of 12,356 undergraduate students enrolled in winter term, 4078 (33%)
had at least one course blocked due to prerequisite enforcement ...".
It was also reported that "Of the 4078 students who had at least one
course blocked due to prerequisite enforcement, 75% received grades of
A or B ...". The full report is available as follows (note this pdf
file is not the exact formatting of the original word.doc file -- e.g.,
where "bullets" were to appear there may be instead a "?", and other
differences, etc.)
Adjourned for the 2006-07 Academic Year: Fall 2007-08 Fall Quarter Meetings and other Schedules as follows: Adjourned for the 2006-07 Academic Year: Next meeting September TBA. Fall 2007-08 Fall Quarter Meetings and other Schedules as follows:
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