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The Curriculum Committee held its first meeting of the academic year on September 17. The committee conducted the following business: Following introductions of committee members and a review of the committee's responsibilities as defined by the Faculty Constitution:Approved Minutes of May 18, 2007. UCAPC Subcommittee ReportsWriting Across the Curriculum Committee (WAC): Joe Law, WAC Chair, reported that the committee will be meeting September 26 to conduct additional discussion of faculty and student recognition in WAC. Also, the Writing Across the Curriculum Newsletter (Number 34, Fall 2007) has been distributed to all faculty and staff and includes, among other valuable information, the list of WAC Faculty and WAC Student Recognition's for the 2006-07 academic year. University General Education Committee( UGEC): Jean Edwards, UGEC Chair, reported that the committee has developed a General Education Handbook that will shortly be distributed to the university community and will schedule its first committee meeting in the upcoming weeks. Undergraduate Academic Program Review Committee (UAPRC): A 2005-07 summary report of
program reviews and program requests for additional resources was
submitted by Rudy Fichtenbaum, UAPRC Chair 2005-07, to Provost Angle on
June 20, 2007. The report to the Provost is as follows
Susan
Carrafiello, UAPRC Chair 2007-08, will oversee the review of
programs this
academic year. The undergraduate programs scheduled for the 2007-08
review and the deadline for submission by departments follow:
2007-08 Program Reviews: All
Submissions are DUE before
February 1, 2008
College
of Engineering—all degree programs
General Education English (B.A.) English: Integrated Language Arts (B.A.) Chemistry (B.S., B.A.) Chemistry Education (B.S.) Chemistry (A.S., Lake Campus) Geological Sciences (B.S., B.A.) Geological Sciences Education (B.A.) Mathematics (B.S., B.A.) Mathematics Education (B.S.) Physics (B.S., B.A.) Physics Education (B.A.) The UAPRC polices and procedures,
as well as templates, and links to
the complete academic program reviews submitted by departmental/college
programs to date are available at the UAPRC website as follows
UAPRC Website Course Inventory and Modification Requests CECS
Inventory: EGR 100 (Tabled at the
April 2007 UCAPC meeting the proposal is resubmitted).
Following a lengthy and very
productive
discussion, the committee decided that the complexity of the proposal
required additional coordination and communication between the CECS and
the COSM. After such, UCAPC would welcome a review and discussion of
the results of that coordination . To date the committee has
received
and has reviewed the following written communications between the
colleges (noting that the EGR 100 proposal is presently being offered
under EGR 199 as a variable topics course):
Academic Policy Matters Status of Banner Course
Prerequisite Checking and Enforcement -- Marian Hogue, WSU Registrar,
gave an update as a FYI to UCAPC as summarized as follows:
As
presented to the Executive Steering Committee last May, the Registrar's
Office
will conduct a pilot of prerequisite checking with a few departments in
the
Fall 2008 quarter to assess the impact on the registration process for
students. This will also include analysis of the
department/college
impact and various groups of students (undergraduate, graduate,
transfer,
international, etc.). This timeline was developed after
conducting a
review of Winter 2007 enrollment data to assess the impact of blocking
registration for students who lacked one or more prerequisites.
This
testing identified 33% of undergraduate students as having at least one
course
blocked due to prerequisite enforcement (many students had multiple
courses
blocked due to prerequisite enforcement) and 18% of graduate students
had at
least one course blocked. A random sample group was further
analyzed,
which showed that 57% of the students were appropriately blocked as
they did
not meet the prerequisite; 24% were blocked as the prerequisite was not
fully
defined in Banner (curricular changes which did not include the 'old'
and 'new'
prerequisites, etc.); 14% were transfer students with course work that
had not
yet been posted in DARS or the course work did not articulate to a
Wright State
course. (Note that there were 1047 new transfer students in Fall
2006 and
more than 350 for Winter and Spring 2007 for a total of 1765 for the
year.) Comparing final grades achieved by students lacking the
prerequisites to those meeting the prerequisites, demonstrated equal
achievement (or better in the case of undergraduates earning grades of
A or B). Change in Authority for Ohio Approval Process for Program Requests Eric
D. Fingerhut, Chancellor, sent a memorandum to all College
and University Presidents, Public and Independent in Ohio stating that
"We
are revisiting many of our policies, practices and procedures as a
result of
the change in authority of the Ohio Board of Regents that was mandated
in H.B.
2. The review of academic programs is one of the primary areas
that will
require revision. Prior to the change in authority, review and
action on
program approval requests was within the Board of Regents
purview. This
authority is now with the Chancellor."
The full text of the Chancellor's
Memorandum is available as followsThe Chancellor also states that "We are obviously in a transition period as new practices and rules are developed to carry out my duties and responsibilities. In the interim, we want to move current requests forward as quickly as possible and provide a sufficient period for public comment. To this end, we will be posting a list of all pending degree requests on the Ohio Board of Regents website:" The referenced website is as follows UCAPC encourages all WSU faculty and staff involved in degree program requests to visit the above website and to keep abreast of changes on a continuing basis. As this transition unfolds and additional new policies and procedures are implemented and required, UCAPC will keep all informed of changes in any necessary WSU internal processes and procedures required to conform to the external changes mandated by the Chancellor. University College Student
Entrance & Exit
A two or more year charge to
UCAPC that was
delayed due a Provost search, a President search, and reorganization of
the UC, the chair will contact the Dean of UC to provide updated
information for UCAPC review prior to submission to the Faculty Senate.
Fall meetings and deadlines for submission as well as Senate approvals as follows:
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