Pendulous Items
B. Blauvelt
Call to Order Silver brought the third meeting of the academic year
to order at 9something a.m. in ET 206, following
relocation because of a bomb threat in the
Extinguished Alumni Room. Other members present:
Argast, De Fonso, English, Hollander, Tierney, and
Wright-Bower; member absent: P. Lane. Guests present:
B. Groff and M. O'Hear.
Refreshments Silver provided birthday sweets.
Approval of Minutes The minutes of the meeting of 10/3/97 were approved
after Hollander noted that M. Stockstill had been
added to the list of recipients.
Chair's Business Silver brought 4 thingies to the Committee's
attention:
Out-of-Block Scheduling A Steffy e-mail of 10/15/97, requesting permission to
for Summer I EDUC begin Summer I EDUC graduate courses at 4:30 and 7:00
Graduate Courses p.m. instead of at approved block times gained
apparently unanimous approval. The Committee
recommended to the VCAA that he authorize this
deviation.
Abandonment of Guided A Bruening e-mail suggestion that the Guided Studies
Studies Program program be abandoned in favor of admitting its
students directly into academic units was added to the
list of Pendulous Items.
Campuswide Acceptance An English suggestion that credit for satisfactory
of CLEP Credit performance on CLEP tests be awarded in all subjects
was added to the list of Pendulous Items.
Committee Report on The Blauvelt/Hollander request for a report to the
"Documents under Senate on "Documents under Deliberation" elicited the
Deliberation" suggestion that the list of Pendulous Items form the
basis of the Committee's report.
English as a Second An Era of Good Feeling commenced as the 2 guests
Language presented their views on proposed changes to policies
and procedures governing the admission, testing, and
placement of students for whom English is a second
language. The controversy appeared to have been
reduced to the following issues:
Whether to decouple the question of admission to an
academic unit from the question of TOEFL scores
mandating participation in the ESL program
Whether the TOEFL score necessary for admission to an
academic unit (rather than to Transitional Studies)
should be 550 rather than 575
Whether to authorize a one-school pilot program to
test possible amendments to the academic regulations
before widespread implementation
Whether to amend the academic regulations immediately
in ways that appear to be universally acceptable.
The Committee decided with apparent unanimity to
continue this discussion at the start of its next
meeting, and to reinvite the guests to react to
Committee proposals at 9:45 on Oct. 31.
Adjournment Adjournment occurred at 10:37 a.m.-prior, alas, to any
member's or guest's being importuned to supply
refreshments for the next meeting.
Distribution: Members
B. Bruening
B. Groff
M. O'Hear
[G.] A. Pugh
B. Steffy
Call to Order The second meeting of the academic year came to order
at 9 a.m. in KT 101, the Extinguished Alumni Room.
Members present: Argast, De Fonso, English, Hollander,
Silver, Tierney, and Wright-Bower; member absent: P.
Lane.
Refreshments, Part 1 Hollander provided challah for Rosh Hashanah.
Approval of Minutes The minutes of the meeting of 9/15/97 were approved as
distributed.
Chair's Business Silver reviewed 2 actions he'd taken at the
Committee's request:
Continuing Education The Continuing Education Subcommittee has been asked
Subcommittee whether policies governing continuing-education
offerings are being followed and whether they should
be updated. English announced he had met with CE
Director Stockstill and Vice Chancellor Branson about
these concerns, and that Stockstill has subsequently
met with Fine and Performing Arts Dean Christy, who
has agreed to adhere to the policies.
Distance Education The Distance Education Subcommittee has been asked to
Subcommittee respond to the Committee's concerns.
English as a Second At considerable length, the Committee reviewed the
Language continuing debate over admission, testing, and
placement policies and procedures for students for
whom English is a second language, and reviewed
relevant documents submitted by O'Hear and Kendall.
The Committee decided to invite O'Hear and Pugh to the
next meeting in an attempt to effect a resolution,
including, perhaps, amendments to the academic
regulations.
Academic Advising The Committee discussed the charge and composition of
the Academic Advising Subcommittee, proposed last year
in Senate Document SD 9615. English promised to
distribute a draft bylaws amendment defining the
proposed subcommittee's charge and composition [,
which he has subsequently done].
FERPA Hollander noted that last year's discussion of
compliance with the Family Educational Rights and
Privacy Act (FERPA) had not yet resulted in the
promised changes in SIS, the associated appendix to
the academic regulations, or the Schedule of Classes.
Further consideration of this subject was deferred in
the absence of the registrar.
Refreshments, Part 2 Silver unwisely admitted that the next Committee
meeting is scheduled for his birthday. The Committee
prevailed upon him to mark the occasion with exquisite
refreshments.
Authorization for The Committee discussed the notion of requiring
Assignment of department chairs' approval for the assignment of
Incompletes Incompletes. Various alternatives, including the
development of procedures for enforcing the current
policies, were examined; no resolution was
forthcoming.
Adjournment Adjournment occurred at 10:18 a.m.
Minutes of the Meeting of September 15, 1997
Call to Order The first meeting of the academic year came to order
at noon in KT 140. Members present: Argast, De Fonso,
English, Hollander, P. Lane, Silver, Tierney, and
Wright-Bower; nobody absent!
Refreshments! First-in-the-alphabet and convener Argast provided
light refreshments.
Election of Chair, Etc. Silver was elected chair, and Hollander, secretary.
Meeting Days/Times After considerable consultation of members' bizarre
schedules, the Committee agreed to meet on alternate
Fridays at 9 a.m., starting October 3. The chair will
reserve an appropriately lavish room.
Review of Pendulous The Committee compiled a list of business items known
Items to pend:
Subcommittee Oversight The chair agreed to solicit minutes of the Committee's
numerous subcommittees and to bring to the Committee's
attention items of likely interest.
English-as-a-Second Copies of ISL-related materials prepared for the
Language Students Committee by O'Hear were distributed; the chair agreed
to duplicate and distribute copies of materials
prepared for the Committee by Kendall.
Sponsorship of In light of evidence that Senate policies governing
Continuing-Education sponsorship of continuing-education programs may not
Programs reflect current practice, the chair agreed to request
that the Continuing Education Subcommittee review
these policies.
Distance-Education Members became aware of certain problems associated
Problems with televised courses, focusing on (1) an apparent
policy vacuum governing the scheduling and offering of
courses sponsored by other campuses, (2) the
scheduling of IPFW television studios, (3) the
collection of course fees, (4) the awarding of degrees
to students in distance-education programs, and (5)
the apparent limiting of videotape-based enrollments
to 5 per course solely because of inadequate capacity
to copy videotapes. The chair agreed to request that
the Distance Education Subcommittee undertake a study
of these concerns.
Semester Honors for The registrar agreed to collect data which will assist
Students with the Committee in determining whether students with
Incompletes incompletes should be permitted to receive semester
honors and, if not, whether such honors can be
conferred retroactively, where appropriate, upon
removal of the incompletes.
Other Members noted that the Purdue registrar continues to
Incomplete-Related apply "system" rules about incompletes-in some cases
Concerns allowing IPFW students more time than is permitted
under IPFW academic regulations and in some cases,
less. In addition, members noted that incompletes are
not being changed by the IPFW registrar upon their
expiration, as required by IPFW academic regulations.
The registrar agreed to study these concerns and
report back.
One member restated his interest, carried over from
the previous year, in having the Committee discuss
whether the department chair's (or equivalent's)
approval should be required for the "award" of
incompletes.
IPFW/ITSC Articulation The Committee discussed 2 matters related to IPFW
articulation with Ivy Tech State College: (1) the need
for a mechanism for faculty to participate in the
ongoing maintenance of such agreements, and (2) the
need to enable students and the IPFW admissions staff
to distinguish between courses transferable from any
ITSC site and courses transferable only from ITSC Fort
Wayne as a result of special, local arrangements.
Adjournment Adjournment occurred at 12:49 p.m.
Pendulous Items
Distribution: Members
B. Blauvelt
R. Kendall
M. O'Hear
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