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Academic Council Minutes, February 24, 2003
I. General Agenda
--PeopleSoft:
The “business process options review” (BPOR) for PeopleSoft has
been postponed. It has been
proposed that UHCL be brought up to speed before proceeding further with
the other institutions on the student records system implementation. --Data imaging project:
1,837 records have been scanned, about one-tenth of those that are
in the registrar’s office. Some
400 have been scanned in Education. --A bill has been filed, HB 1026, to do away
with the use of social security numbers for student identification
purposes.
--Chari Norgard met with UH’s Betty Roberts
on WebCT Vista. It will take
about a year to develop through the project’s eight stages.
Implementation will probably be in fall 04.
Chari will attend two scheduled four-day sessions, and faculty will
need to be trained to use the added potential of Vista. In her Distance Education role, Chari had
looked into bookstore issues at the off-campus centers.
She concluded that MBS does not appear to be the problem, insofar
as student complaints go. Many
students shop for the lowest priced books and may be late in ordering
their texts. She reported that VC will start doing the
quick TASP; thus, demand should decrease at the Academic Center. She has been working on an online graduate
student orientation. This
will be ready by the time SACS comes.
--Policy on proctoring at the centers was
discussed. It needs to be
better communicated that the centers cannot provide proctoring for courses
not offered through the centers. Also,
the impact on proctoring was discussed, given consideration of whether to
close the centers on Saturdays as a cost-saving measure. --Dick Phillips noted that people from his staff and possibly others will be meeting with Cinco Ranch staff to prepare them for the SACS visiting team. II. Specific Agenda
-- The appeal of a student to participate in commencement ceremonies before having completed the requirements for the degree was denied.
--Approved the request of Dr. Joseph Ben-Ur,
for a publication recognition fee ($600) for a publication in Psychology
and Marketing. --Approved the request of Dr. Yung-Ho Chang,
for a travel grant ($640) to present at the 52nd Annual Meeting
of the Midwest Finance Association, in St. Louis, MO, in March. --Approved the requests of Dr. Yong Glasure,
for travel grants to present at the Southwest Economic Association
Conference, in San Antonio, TX, in April ($300) and to also present at the
International Conference of the Global Business Development Institute, in
Maui, HI, in May ($600). --Approved the request of Dr. Donald Loffredo,
for a research grant ($400) to complete the third in a series of three
research studies to demonstrate the reliability and validity of the
Ego-State Questionnaire. --Approved the request of Dr. Diane Prince,
for a travel grant ($890) to present at the 2003 Professional Development
School National Conference, in Orlando, FL, in March. --Approved the request of Dr. Jifu Wang, for a
research grant ($1,500) to conduct research involving both qualitative and
quantitative data from 40 organizations in major cities in China.
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