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September 27

Present: R. Tierney, K. Browne, S. Hannah, L. Wright-Bower (Chair), L. DeFonso.

Also present (after agenda item 2): M. Downs.

Absent: D. Oberstar (class), I. Hack

1. S. Hannah brought up several corrections to the minutes of the January 31, 2000, meeting. The corrections were unanimously approved. The minutes will be re-typed and distributed.
2. L. Wright-Bower presented a re-worded version of a proposed change in the Academic Regulations 5.5, Grade Reports. Several additional changes were suggested; all present approved the final version.
3. There was some discussion of the update of SD 91-6, the IPFW mission and goal statement. The document was considered to be a great improvement over the previous version, and the section on the goals of the university was considered to be particularly well done. All present approved the updated document.
4. Two new members will be added to the DECCO committee, plus George Bullion in his capacity as Chair of the Distance Education Subcommittee. S. Hannah explained the status of the committee as an administrative policy committee, and also reviewed the operating principles formulated by DECCO, which came from a set of recommendations made by a 1996-1997 task force on distance education. All EPC members present approved the DECCO vision statement and operating principles. Susan will put the approval document into the proper format for consideration by the Senate.
5. The Continuing Education Compensation Document was presented to the committee. Since this is not a policy document, it did not require EPC approval and will be sent to the Senate for information only. It was suggested that Mike Stockstill, Director of Continuing Education, be invited to the Senate meeting and given speaking privileges.
6. New Business:

1. L. Wright-Bower reported that the General Education Subcommittee’s revisions will probably not come before EPC until March 13, which will give EPC two weeks to consider it before the April Senate document deadline. Most of the revisions concern the definitions of the Gen.Ed. areas. The Gen.Ed. Subcommittee is working on consistent statements of content and methods of teaching for each area.
2. The Calendar Subcommittee will be presenting 3 alternate proposals for the 2002-2003 academic calendar. They will be considered at the next meeting on February 28, for possible inclusion on the March Senate agenda.
3. Also to be considered at the next meeting is a proposed FN grade.
4. EPC will meet next on February 28, and again on March 13 and March 20.

R. Tierney

Call to Order – 1:35 PM

Minutes of the November 29, 1999 Meeting were accepted as submitted

Spring 2000 Meetings dates were discussed and the agreed time was 2:30 – 4:00 on Mondays, however no meeting scheduled for 2/7/00. It was also agreed to always to hold the meetings in KT 178.

There was considerable discussion on Section 5.5 Grade Reports of Senate Document SD 85-18 (Academic Regulations). After this discussion there was a motion and it was accepted to changed the language of Section 5.5:

Existing Language

5.5 Grade reports. Course grades are to be delivered to the Registrar's Office as completed, but not later than 5 p.m. on the second day after the last scheduled examination, excluding Sundays and holidays.

New Language

5.5 Grade reports. Course grades are to be delivered to the Registrar's Office as completed, but not later than 5 p.m. on the second day after the last scheduled examination, excluding Sundays and holidays.
 
 

There was brief discussion on Honor’s Status of Graduate Students. S. Hannah gave a brief report saying that there was a request from a group of students that the university grant Honor’s status on the diploma and transcripts for appropriate students. However the matter was tabled until there was some research to determine if there are other institutions that grant such status.

K. Brown gave a brief report regarding the Application for Graduation that has been placed on the WEB to aid in identifying students intending to graduate prior to final advising session. The committee determined that this was an administrative task and not a policy issue. Thus, there was no need for approval from the committee.
 
 

The Academic Advising Subcommittee sent to the committee a copy of a proposed "Advisor Evaluation Form" for information only. There was a brief discussion during which it was decided that L. Wright-Bower and S. Hannah were going to send some comments to the committee as comments from individuals, but the committee did not need to take any action. However, it was noted that the committee fully endorsed the subcommittee’s work and encouraged further work on this issue.

The revised Mission and Purpose Statement was presented to the committee with the understanding to review prior to the next meeting.

DECCO was discussed briefly with the matter tabled until the next meeting.

The meeting was adjourned at 2:35 PM

Respectfully submitted,

1. Hack

Present         Browne, DeFonso, Downs, Hack, Hannah (secretary), Oberstar, Tierney, Wright-Bower
                        (chair)

Guest             Jeanette Clausen for the General Education Subcommittee (GES)

Minutes of     The minutes were accepted as presented.
9/27/99

GES Report    Jeanette Clausen presented a progress report from the General Education
                        Subcommittee.     She distributed packets including the report and a matrix describing
                        each of the proposed GE revisions.

Next Meeting The next meeting of the EPC will be November 29 at 1:30 p.m. in Room 102 of the Fine Arts Building. DeFonso will bring treats and Hack will take minutes.