Undergraduate Program Team Meeting Report


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Report for Meeting Scheduled:
Tuesday, November 30, 1999 at 01:00 PM

  1. Called to Order: 1:00 pm

  2. Special Orders:
    1- Name change approved for the Technical & Professional Communication Course to "Technical Communications for Information Services". 2- Policy for outside courses for elective credit. Discussion on this subject to be continued on future meetings. 3- Policy on Late Drops. For future review of this subject, Mr. T. Wagar will gather policies and guideline examples from other FSU departments. This will be presented on a future meeting. 4- Policy on Reinstatements. Dr. D. Latham will gather related documentation on reinstatements to present and consider on a future meeting.

  3. Reports of Sub-Teams:
    1- Update on overlapping classes. Mr. M. Karl reported on his research on this matter. He reviewed the syllabus of 4 undergraduate courses thinking that some overlap occurred between them, but after the review, he concluded that any overlap seem to have changed and at this time overlap is not a problem on undergraduate courses.

  4. Reports of Special Teams and other Team Business:
    1- Update on Limited Access. The presented statistics and profile of students that would be affected by such policy indicate an unfavorable background for its implementation. A preferable alternative was recommended at the faculty retreat. It includes: · Accept all students who apply to the program. · Enforce prerequisites before they come to the SIS. · Support small size classes. · Raise expectations and standards in the first few courses students take (make more strict). · Raise the actual grading system. · Implement a tutoring program to support courses. · Implement more professional advising for undergraduate students.

  5. Unfinished Business:

  6. New Business:

  7. Announcements:
    Issues for next meeting and/or semester: 1. Scheduling 2. Publicity & outreach 3. Policy for outside courses as elective credit 4. Policy for Late Drops 5. Policy on Reinstatements 6. SIS building expansion

  8. Adjourned: 2:10 pm

Agenda Posted by Howard Rodriguez (hrr4803@garnet.acns.fsu.edu) on 12/12/1999 at 18:17:00