The August 2, 2006 meeting of the University Committee was called to order by Doug DeVinny, Chair, at 2:35 P.M. in Moln D135.  Also attending were members Chris Evans, Fran Kavenik, Mary Lenard, and Anne Statham; guests Cheryl Gunderson and Vice Chancellor William Streeter; and Secretary of the Faculty Evelyn Zepp.

 

1) The minutes of the meeting of June 27, 2006 were approved.

 

2) There were no announcements.

 

3) Unfinished Business:

              a) Prof. DeVinny will follow up on the Secretary of the Faculty's report to Ann Marie Durso sent after the June 27, 2006 U.C. meeting re: the new Governance list.  The Secretary of the Faculty will send a reminder to Classified Staff about getting on the new Governance list (before the Dec. deadline). 

              b) Re: a previous discussion with the Campus Police Chief, it was noted that the use of tasers had resulted in a death recently in Wisconsin.

 

4) New Business:

              a) Discussion with Ms. Gunderson and V.C. Streeter about administrative drops.

              Students who do not pay their tuition are automatically dropped.

              Students who sign up but never attend are supposed to receive a "FN" for non-attendance and be charged 20% of tuition.  In some cases, these students are receiving a string of "F" grades, which discourages them from ever coming to Parkside.

              A drop or a withdrawal is better than an "F."  A student who never attended class can appeal.  However, the people who need the information are not being notified, in some cases, that students have not attended their class(es).

              Possible remedies suggested included: re-instituting print-out class sheets (day 1, day 5, end of 2nd week), adding a N/A (never attended) option to the final grade sheet, sending administrative drop sheets with class print-outs, communicating the process to new faculty.  It was also noted that if someone needs to know if a given student was attending a class or not, he/she could e-mail or otherwise contact the person teaching that class directly.

              Ms. Gunderson and V.C. Streeter left the meeting at 3:10 P.M.

              b) The Board of Regents want comments on the suggested revisions to UWS Ch. 2, 7, 11 by Sept. 30.  This will be placed on the agenda for the first U.C. meeting in September.

 

5) There was no miscellaneous business.

 

6) The meeting was adjourned at 3:20 P.M.

 

Bonnie Peterson, Chair of the Academic Staff Committee joined the U.C. at 3:30 P.M. for the informal discussion with Chancellor Keating of the administrator evaluations.  The discussion ended at 4:35 P.M.

 

Submitted by Evelyn Zepp, Secretary of the Faculty