Academic Council Minutes, August 16, 2006

I.  Minutes

--Approved as circulated 

II. General Agenda 

• Data Collection

--Trudy Wortham reported UHV had experienced a problem receiving applications due to the current system of assigning the 6-digit student ID numbers.  Once PeopleSoft has been implemented, this will not be an issue since student id numbers will be assigned sequentially. 

She also provided a statistical application breakdown by schools on applied and accepted student count, as well as a paid and unpaid enrollment count. 

The Council agreed on a PeopleSoft business process of a placeholder grade of “NG” for instructors that do not enter their grades online by the deadline.  The “NG” grade will remain until a grade change form has been submitted for each student.  

PeopleSoft will allow graduate credit for undergraduate students within 12 hours of graduation but the student will not get graduate credit until they have earned their degree.    

• Instructional Technology/Online Issues

--Joe Ferguson reported that phone registration will be phased out as of Fall semester 06. 

• Fort Bend Issues & Updates

--Chari Norgard announced that the Sugar Land Advising Specialist position had been filled. 

--Jeffrey Di Leo noted Arts and Sciences had hired a recruiter for the UHSSL campus. 

--Joe Dahlstrom said the Fort Bend Branch Library passed the bond issue for a 45,000 square foot library at the UHSSL site with construction to start in a few months.   

--Margaret Rice reported she had visited with both the Fort Bend campuses and discussed their enrollments.   

She also noted the UHV fall commencement ceremony will be held on December 9 at the Merrell Center in Katy. 

III. Specific Agenda

• Student Issues

--Two academic dishonesty issues were brought to the Council for review. One student received a suspension of one year and the other a suspension of two years. 

• Faculty Development Requests and Reports

--Approved a development grant for conference presentation ($1,300), pending proof of conference participation and receipt of a FY 06 conference report, to Dr. Meledath Damodaran to attend the International Association for Computer Information Systems 2006 Conference, in Reno, NV, in October. 

--Approved a request of Dr. Jeffrey Di Leo for a research grant ($550), pending receipt of a FY 06 conference report, to prepare a manuscript titled Fictions Present:  Situating Contemporary Innovative Narrative that has been accepted for publication. 

--Accepted grant funded conference travel reports from Drs. Richard Gunasekera and Yong G. Lee. 

--Accepted grant funded research reports from Drs. Richard Gunasekera and Yong G. Lee. 

As recorded by,
Kathy Walton
8/17/06