Academic Council Meeting Minutes, August 2, 2004
Academic Council met on Monday, August 02, 2004, from
9:30 am until noon in Conference Room A.
Attending were Mary Natividad, Charles Bullock, Dick Phillips,
Elois Kraatz (guest), Yolanda Gonzalez (guest), Joe Ferguson, Liz Branch
(guest), Chari Norgard, Joe Dahlstrom, and Dan Jaeckle.
Minutes follow.
I. Guests
--Yolanda brought a petition from a student
for exemption from math requirements.
The Council asked Yolanda to ask her to speak with Dan about the
matter.
--Elois brought us an example of a
three-year bachelor’s student application.
The Council agreed to discuss this matter at the retreat on
August 11.
--Liz spoke to us about PeopleSoft,
particularly the hiring of a consultant to work through the fall, the
prospect of phases of implementation (with which we had general
agreement under certain conditions), and the prospect of going live
before UH (with which we had general agreement under certain
conditions).
II.
Minutes
--Minutes of the July 6 meeting were
approved as written.
III.
General
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Data Collection
--Trudy spoke about
the prospect of withholding degrees or diplomas, in addition to
transcripts, for graduates with financial obligations to the university.
Because this issue came from Finance, the Provost will speak with
Mr. Beran about it.
--Trudy and Elois
spoke about formats for articulation agreements.
Charles will review the agreement that led to this discussion.
Generally, however, the Council agreed that agreements in standard
form need not come to the Council, while agreements in different forms
should.
·
Instructional Technology/Online Issues and Updates
--Joe Ferguson addressed four issues:
online training for faculty, about which he will bring back more
information; allowing Victoria-based faculty to choose between desktop
and laptop computers, which the Provost will take to the Budget
Committee; moving from 17” to 19” screens, which the Council thought
would be a good idea; and ergonomic training scheduled for September.
--Chari brought up two
issues: the purchase of
Breeze and training to take place; and the shutdown of Vista on August
18-20 for upgrading to 3.0. The
Provost will invite Chari to the meeting on small classes on the 23rd
to see how the loading of students has gone.
IV. Fort
Bend Issues and Updates
--The Council spoke briefly about the
bookstore in Sugar Land and about proctoring.
Proctoring issues in all locations will be an agenda item at the
retreat.
V. Specific
--The Council approved the appeal of a
student to graduate under a 1999-2000 degree plan, approved an appeal
for admission after 4 suspensions at another institution, denied an
appeal for admission without TOEFL, referred an appeal for admission
without TOEFL back to Admissions for further information, conditionally
approved an appeal for admission of a student with a 1.96 GPA, approved
an appeal for admission without TOEFL, conditionally approved an appeal
for admission without TOEFL, denied an appeal for graduate admission of
a student with an index below 1300, and approved an appeal to accept
1997 GRE scores.
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Faculty Development Requests and Reports
--Approved a FY 2005 development grant for
conference presentation ($1,000) to Dr. Peggy Cloninger to the
International Academy of Business and Economics 2004 Annual Conference,
in Las Vegas, NV in October.
--Approved a FY 2005 development grant for
conference presentation ($738) to Dr. Jeffrey Di Leo to the Southern
Comparative Literature Association Conference, in Columbia, SC, in
October.
--Approved early a FY 2005 development
grant for conference presentation ($524) to Dr. Harold Smith to the
Teaching of History Conference, in Denton, TX, in September.
--Accepted grant
funded conference travel reports (2) from Dr. Mel Damodaran.
--Accepted a grant
funded research report from Dr. Nagarajan Ramamoorthy.
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