Report from Executive Committee Meeting
1.
Meeting of
Attending:
Reeves, Tippett, Boyd, Franz, Gaede, Radonovich, Newman, Lawson
1.1 Faculty Senate President’s report:
No Report.
1.2 Reports from Administration
Dr. Radonovich and Dr. Franz reported regarding the QEP. It is in the final stages. The general overview of the plan is that there will be an Academic Resource Center (ARC) established with a Coordinator with at least a master’s degree in the educational field, answering to the Associate Provost for Undergraduate Studies, and with an Oversight Committee, and an Assessment Committee. There will be peer tutors and peer mentors for freshmen in freshmen classes. The tutors will be juniors and seniors assigned to about twenty key classes and sections. They will be selected by the ARC coordinator and the faculty of the participating department. They will be trained and they will be paid. They will attend lectures in the course to which they are assigned and offer group sessions using the supplemental instruction model, offer individual tutoring sessions for the students in the course as needed, keep records of their contacts and meet regularly with the course instructor to discuss issues regarding student learning in the course and to plan group sessions with students.
The peer mentors will be assigned to groups of approximately 10 entering freshmen. There will be about 20 groups for a total of about 200 freshmen. The peer mentor will have a major the same as or similar to that of the freshmen. They will be juniors or seniors. They will be trained and will work with students on study skills, time management, stress management, and note taking skills. The small group sessions addressing the above issues will take place the first four weeks of the fall semester and the mentors will maintain contact throughout the semester. This approach provides additional ties to UAH.
Dr. Franz reported the Legislative session is starting and it will be interesting.
Dr. Franz gave accolades to the faculty for the response in getting the grades in for fall semester.
Dr. Radonovich reported there has been work on the calendar and addressing some concerns the faculty had. The 2007-08 calendar is proposed and the fall break is currently TBA in that calendar to address one of the concerns the faculty had. The Senate Executive Committee reminded Dr. Radonovich that one of their concerns was a Calendar Committee and faculty input to the Calendar decisions. He will work on addressing this and perhaps reestablish a Calendar Committee with the Senate Governance Committee as faculty representation on that Committee.
There was some discussion regarding Fall Commencement 2007.
Dr. Radonovich reported that ACHE granted the requested waivers for the nonviable core Liberal Arts programs.
Dr. Radonovich reported that the equipment and software have been updated in Testing Services and they are the official test site for TOEFEL, GED, and GRE.
1.3 Committee Items and Chair Reports
1.3.1 Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (Rhonda Gaede and Kathy Newman).
No Report.
1.3.2
Personnel
(Lynn Boyd).
Dr. Boyd distributed the recommendations resulting from the OSP Survey. Dr. Franz will discuss the recommendations with the VP group and inform Dr. Boyd so that the Committee can close the loop by reporting by to the faculty the results of the survey and the recommendations and actions taken.
1.3.3 Governance and Operations (Donald Tippett).
Dr. Tippett reported a problem encountered with grades at the end of the fall semester specifically relating to graduate students in distance learning courses. The way the grades were rolled and the deadline set for doing so created graduate students in distance learning courses receiving an incomplete unnecessarily. Students should only receive an "I" when they have extenuating circumstances that preclude them from finishing the work during the semester. He suggested there should be a better or another solution for these students to allow a supplemental submission of grades or the removal of the "I" from the student’s record. Dr. Radonovich recommended Dr. Tippett write a memo listing the students and get the Chair and Dean to sign it and send it to him and he will give specific instruction to the Registrar. There will have to be work on a long term solution.
1.3.4 Faculty and Student Development (Harry Delugach).
No Report.
1.3.5 Finance and Resources (Melinda Lawson).
No Report.
1.3.6 Undergraduate Scholastic Affairs (Jeffrey Neuschatz).
No Report.
1.4 Agenda
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