2012 Minutes

September 21, 2012

PRESENT (voting): Tom Banning (Faculty Senate), Chuck Camp (Civil Engr), Jasbir Dhaliwal, (Business), Linda Finch (Nursing), Deborah Hochstein (EngineeringJim Lukawitz (Accounting), Broderick Nichols (University College), Susan Popham (English), Helen Sable (Psychology), Laurie Snyder (Comm and Fine Arts), Barbara Taller (Biology), William Thompson (Arts and Sciences), Sandy Utt (Journalism), Stan Walls (HSS).

PRESENT (ex officio): Shannon Blanton (Academic Aff), Carl Chando (Academic Counseling Ctr), Melinda Jones (Honors), ), Steven Knowlton (Library), Dan Poje (Academic Aff), Cathy Serex (Academic Aff), Donna Van Canneyt (Registrar).

ABSENT: Sutton Flynt (CEHHS)

The meeting was called to order by Dr. Blanton at 1:05 p.m. when a quorum was achieved.

Dr. Blanton welcomed everyone to the first meeting of the new year and asked everyone to introduce themselves.

The first item for discussion on the agenda was the removal of W, C & I designations on courses. These designations were dropped in 2004, but were kept in the catalog for those students graduating under an older catalog. Now that the seven years has passed, Dr. Serex feels, and Dr. Blanton agrees, that the designation in the catalog should be dropped effective fall 2012.

Next was the suggestion by Dr. Blanton that the previous course or subject area designations be dropped from the catalog because it can be confusing for students. Donna Van Canneyt felt strongly that her staff needs this information, and it needs to be kept up to date. Tom Banning felt that it should be available somewhere that advisors would be able to refer to it. Several suggested that a web page be created similar to the Transfer Equivalency Tables. Dr. Serex said that she would request that a report be written.

Dr. Blanton then asked the Council for feedback concerning the added statement regarding repetition of courses. Discussion followed concerning repeats and Stan Wall questioned why the last rather than the highest grade counts. Helen Sable said that if this policy were not in place, there would be a serious backlog of students registering for courses in order to attempt to earn a higher grade, and this would put a burden on departments to provide enough sections/seats. Everyone agreed that the revised statement helped clarify the policy and should be added.

Jim Lukawitz made the motion to approve the three changes, and Tom Banning seconded. The motion passed.

The next item on the agenda was a reminder from Dr. Blanton that the time is at hand to start planning accelerated undergraduate/master's programs (to be referred to as ABMs) because the approval process is rather lengthy, needing approval of, not only the college, but also the undergraduate and graduate Councils and TBR. Barbara Taller raised the question of whether a 5 year plan is needed for these programs, and whether it should be included in the catalog. Dr. Blanton felt it probably would be helpful for students to have a 5 year plan, and Tom Banning suggested this might be a good recruiting tool.

John Hochstein, Engineering, presented his college's proposal for the requirement of "computer resources" with required capabilities and specifications. Dr. Blanton wanted assurance that, if required, the computers would be put to good use, and Dr. Hochstein reviewed the many Engineering courses that would benefit from computers in the classroom. Deborah Hochstein said that the library loans laptops at no charge to students.

Jasbir Dhaliwal made the motion to approve, and Jim Lukawitz seconded. The catalog entry was approved.

The Council was reminded that General Education Assessments in the areas of math, oral communication, and English will be due November 9. If available, these can possibly be reviewed at the October UUC.

Also, curriculum revisions are due October 26, and Dr. Serex has a folder on umDrive for each college for the upload of the revisions. Pages requiring signatures can be scanned and uploaded to the file as well. Questions about the process were raised, and some discussion followed about the need for changes to curriculum to be populated into UMDegree.

The meeting adjourned at 2:10 pm.

Respectfully submitted,

Barbara Kyker

October 12, 2012

PRESENT (voting): Chuck Camp (Civil Engr), Linda Finch (Nursing), Sutton Flynt (CEHHS), Jim Lukawitz (Accounting), Broderick Nichols (University College), Helen Sable (Psychology), Laurie Snyder (Comm and Fine Arts), Barbara Taller (Biology), William Thompson (Arts and Sciences), Stan Walls (HSS).

PRESENT (ex officio): Carl Chando (AAC), Melinda Jones (Honors), Steven Knowlton (Library), Glenn Munson ( Registrar's office), Dan Poje (Academic Aff), Cathy Serex (Academic Aff)

ABSENT: Tom Banning (Faculty Senate), Shannon Blanton (Academic Aff), Jasbir Dhaliwal, (Business), Deborah Hochstein (Engineering), Susan Popham (English), Sandy Utt (Journalism), Donna Van Canneyt (Registrar).

The meeting was called to order by Cathy Serex at 1:05 p.m. when a quorum was achieved.

September 21, 2012 Minutes: Barbara Taller said that the description in the Undergraduate Catalog to the Accelerated B.A./M.A. program (formerly Combination Senior) need more clarity and cohesion. She also said that the Graduate School has a separate application for the program.

Steve Knowlton said that he's an ex officio member. This has been corrected in the minutes.

The minutes were approved.

TBR Assessment of General Education Courses: Cathy said that we haven't received the assessment for MATH 1420 yet.

ENGL 1020: There were a few non-substantive suggestions to the document that will be sent to Joseph Jones.

COMM 2381: There were no suggestions. The document is clear.

Announcements:

The W,C,I designations have been removed from the course descriptions effective fall 2012. Cathy asked to be contacted if she missed any.A course equivalent report is being developed. It was suggested that the report be on both the Registrar's and Admission's website. The Engineering computer requirement will be uploaded to the Undergraduate Catalog when the corresponding page is ready in the college.UUC members have been sent the link to umDrive for curriculum revisions upload.

The meeting adjourned at 1:30 pm.

Respectfully submitted,

Cathy Serex

November 30, 2012

PRESENT (voting): Chuck Camp (Civil Engr), Carolyn Speros for Linda Finch (Nursing), Sutton Flynt (CEHHS), Deborah Hochstein (Engineering), Jim Lukawitz (Accounting), Broderick Nichols (University College), Susan Popham (English), Helen Sable (Psychology), Laurie Snyder (Comm and Fine Arts), Barbara Taller (Biology), William Thompson (Arts and Sciences), Stan Walls (HSS)

PRESENT (ex officio): Shannon Blanton (Academic Aff), Carl Chando (AAC), Steven Knowlton (Library), Dan Poje (Academic Aff), Cathy Serex (Academic Aff), Donna Van Canneyt (Registrar)

ABSENT: Tom Banning (Faculty Senate), Jasbir Dhaliwal, (Business), Melinda Jones (Honors), Barbara Kyker (Recorder), Sandy Utt (Journalism)

Guest: Diana Hale (Registrar's office), Marla Stafford (Marketing and Supply Chain Management)

The meeting was called to order by Shannon Blanton at 1:05 p.m. when a quorum was achieved.

Course ID Changes: Diana Hale (Registrar's office) distributed a document that outlines issues associated with changes a course's subject area and/or course number. There are problems with students taking the same class under different course identifiers that may replace a passing grade with a failing grade. The repeat mod in Banner is not reliable to catch all repeats, so much of this function is manual. Shannon Blanton said course ID stability has a lot of value for students, faculty and advisors in order to accurately advise students.

Business and Economics: Marla Stafford gave reasons for the proposed subject area changes of all the ISDS and 5 MKTG courses to SCMS. Sutton Flynt questioned why the MKTG courses should be changed. Barbara Taller suggested changing the ISDS courses, not the MKTG courses.

Jim Lukawitz presented the curriculum proposals from the college. All proposals, including the subject area changes, were approved.

Communication and Fine Arts: Laurie Snyder presented the curriculum proposals for the college. The revision to Music Industry should say "preferred Physics." Two Journalism proposals, CFA 43 and CFA 46 were tabled pending additional justification for changing the course number within the upper-division level. All other proposals were approved.

Education: Sutton Flynt withdrew the GPA requirement in the proposal to ED 27 B.S.Ed. Non-Licensure statement.

The following proposals were also withdrawn:

ED 20 Change all SLS subject areas to SLM

ED 23 Change SLS 3650 to SLS 4550

ED 23B Health Services Management concentration until faculty are hired to develop the program.

With the exception of the withdrawn items, all other proposals were approved.

Engineering: Debbie Hochstein presented the curriculum proposals for the college. EN 10, 13, and 15 will remain open for a couple terms in order for students who need to repeat the lab and not the lecture can still do so. With these exceptions, all other curriculum proposals were approved.

University College: Broderick Nichols presented the curriculum proposals for the college. UNIV 11 Termination of Health Services Administration concentration has been withdrawn until the new concentration in HSS is developed. A revision to the Admission statement (UNIV 1) was made. All other curriculum proposals were approved.

Nursing: Carolyn Speros presented the curriculum proposals for the school. Barbara Taller suggested a few minor revisions to the program: Adding an asterisk (*) to the Anatomy and Physiology courses that would designate them as General Education requirements; removing PSYC 3001, that is being closed out, from the Statistics options. All other curriculum proposals were approved.

Arts and Sciences: Will Thompson presented the curriculum proposals for the college. Included in the proposals were the revisions to the B.A. and B.S. College and Degree Requirements. AS 9 B.S. revisions to the Chemistry major was tabled pending revision to the catalog statement. All other curriculum proposals were approved.

Meeting was adjourned at 3:20pm.

Submitted by Cathy Serex.

February 8, 2013

PRESENT (voting): Chuck Camp (CIVL), Linda Finch (NURS), Jennifer Nelson (for Sutton Flynt) (CEHHS), Deborah Hochstein (ENGR), Jim Lukawitz (ACCT), Broderick Nichols (UCOL), Susan Popham (ENGL), Helen Sable (PSYC), Laurie Snyder (CCFA), Barbara Taller (BIOL), William Thompson (A&S), Stan Walls (HSS), Tom Banning (Faculty Senate), Jasbir Dhaliwal, (B&E), Melinda Jones (Honors), Sandy Utt (JOUR)

PRESENT (ex officio): Shannon Blanton (Academic Aff), Carl Chando (AAC), Steven Knowlton (Library), Donna Van Canneyt (Registrar), Cathy Serex (Academic Aff), Barbara Kyker (Recorder)

Guest: Gary Schneider (Social Work), Stan Franklin (SUAPP), Gerise Guy (CARES)

The meeting was called to order by Shannon Blanton at 1:05 p.m. when a quorum was achieved.

The November 30, 2012 minutes were approved.

Social Work: Gary Schneider presented a proposal that students who have not successfully completed SWRK 2010 (2910) and SWRK 2911 would be coded "Pre-Social Work." This proposal is in response to their accrediting agency's recommendation that the faculty/student ratio be 1/25. The Pre-Social Work students would be advised in the Department of Social Work. Once they have completed both SWRK 2010 and 2911, the students would be coded as Social Work majors. The proposal passed.

Tabled Issues from the November 30, 2012 meeting:

The deleted sentence from the Chemistry requirements was approved.

Sandy Utt presented the proposal to change JOUR 4420 to JOUR 3409, and JOUR 3410 to JOUR 4410. There was discussion, as there usually is, as to the problems with number changes, especially within the same level (upper-division in this case). The proposal passed.

Late Registration Policy: Gerise Guy presented a new policy regarding late registration for students on academic probation or returning from suspension. The policy states that these students must register for classes before the first day of classes. The policy will be added to the Undergraduate Catalog. The policy will be in effect immediately. The proposal passed.

Accelerated Bachelor/Master: The ABM proposals have been sent to TBR for approval. The Graduate School is working on an application process for the ABM, as well as the application process for the Combination Senior. The Combination Senior catalog text may need revision.

29 ACT Subscore Update: Shannon Blanton was happy to announce that the pilot program to allow students with a 29 ACT subscore to opt out of ENGL 1010 has been successful. Since fall 2010, all these students who have chosen not to take ENGL 1010 have passed ENGL 1020. Therefore this policy will continue.

Nursing: Linda Finch presented revisions to credit hours, making them variable credit, to 4 Nursing courses: NURS 3129, 3219, 3230, 4129. The proposal passed.

4-year Sequence Process Improvement: Cathy Serex reminded the members that the department and college websites shouldn't reproduce the Undergraduate Catalog. Instead, the websites should link to the academic programs in the UG Catalog. Also, the departments and colleges should remove old degree sheets, advising information, etc. UMdegree should be used when advising students, and if needed, degree sheets with current and approved information should be handed to the students.

Meeting was adjourned at 2:30pm.

Submitted by Cathy Serex.

April 12, 2013

PRESENT (voting): Chuck Camp (Civil Engr), Jasbir Dhaliwal, (Business), Jill Dapremont for Linda Finch (Nursing), Deborah Hochstein (Engineering), Sutton Flynt (Education), Steven Knowlton (Library), Jim Lukawitz (Accounting), Dixie Crase (University College), Susan Popham (English), Helen Sable (Psychology), Laurie Snyder (Comm and Fine Arts), Barbara Taller (Biology), William Thompson (Arts and Sciences), Sandy Utt (Journalism), Stan Walls (HSS).

PRESENT (ex officio): Shannon Blanton (Academic Aff), Carl Chando (AAC), Dan Poje (Academic Aff), Cathy Serex (Academic Aff), Donna Van Canneyt (Registrar).

ABSENT: Melinda Jones (Honors)

GUEST: Karen Weddle-West

The meeting was called to order by Shannon Blanton at 1:00 p.m. when a quorum was achieved.

The February 9, 2013 minutes were approved.

Accelerated Bachelor/Masters Programs – ABMs

Shannon Blanton announced that all ABMs submitted to TBR had been approved, so she encouraged all to promote the program within their areas.

Karen Weddle-West, Vice Provost for Graduate Programs was invited to review the process and answer questions about the procedure to apply to the program and to review the differences between Combination Senior status and ABM status. In the past, TBR has not permitted "double –dipping" – allowing a course to count for both undergraduate and graduate credit. So, combination seniors are still required to take 120 hours of undergraduate work to graduate, but may, with approval, take graduate level courses. The new ABM program, approved by TBR, allows students to take up to 9 hours of graduate coursework which will count toward the undergraduate and graduate degree. Discussion followed about the specifics of applying to the ABM program. Updated websites and promotional materials should be out soon.

Non-Payment of Fees and Dropped Classes

Donna VanCanneyt, Registrar, reviewed the new policies regarding "non-payment of fees, which are the result of an audit by the Federal Financial Aid office. Beginning with Summer 2013, students who have not satisfied all financial obligations by the night preceding the first day of class will be purged, and their schedules will be forfeited. They may register again on the first day of classes, but a late registration fee will be assessed. Also, since all students may add classes during the late registration period, those purged students may or may not be able to get back into the classes for which they were registered. There will be a second purge on the night after the last day to add. Donna reminded the Council that students should never be told "you don't need to drop you classes because you will be purged anyway." They may or may not be purged, and later, adjustments may be necessary.

SACS Reaffirmation of Accreditation

Dan Poje announced that the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges reaccreditation report from the University of Memphis will be due September 2014, and the visiting committee will be on campus during the spring of 2015. Dan said that departments are developing learning outcomes, assessment measures and benchmarks for all their programs.

Prior Learning Assessments

Following a meeting in Nashville with the THEC Prior Learning Assessment [PLA] Task Force, Will Thompson said that there is much interest in PLAs. The various means of earning college credit, including CLEP, IB, and Advanced Placement were discussed. Measuring competencies to ensure academic integrity is an issue that will need to be addressed. Dr. Thompson suggested that it is time to take another look at our minimum scores for the CLEP and AP credit to be sure we are in line with other TBR schools.

Wrapping up, Dr. Blanton reviewed the accomplishments of the UUC for the past year, and asked everyone to please keep in mind that curriculum revisions will not be accepted until next October. Also, she announced that the Summer Scholars program for undergraduate research, funded by the Helen Hardin Foundation endowment, will grant ten scholarships this summer.

Dr. Blanton said that a meeting in May is unlikely, and she thanked the Council for its work

The meeting was adjourned at 2:20 p.m.

Respectfully submitted by Barbara Kyker