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            "text": "Academic Policies Committee Meeting (August 29, 2016)",
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            "text": "Members Present: Joe Moffett (Chair), Ashok Kumar (Vice Chair), Ibukun Amusan (Secretary), Nancy Capriles, Maheteme Gebremedhin, Nkechi Amadife"
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            "text": "The meeting was called to order at 3:13pm in HH 314."
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            "text": "Members introduced themselves."
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            "text": "The agenda was approved after ‘Other Business’ was added."
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            "text": "An overview of work for the year was discussed as follows:"
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            "text": "Admission policy may be revisited. Some faculty have expressed concerns about some freshmen having very low ACT scores. It was noted though that there are also some students that have very high scores."
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            "text": "The Registry group that came during spring 2016 said they would put the academic policies in one place. APC members now have the document and they are to go over it to see if there is anything that should be changed. It is not clear if the Registry people are still around."
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            "text": "Senate president would like committees to work together. APC will likely be paired with PCC to work on faculty handbook. The handbook was previously worked on a few years ago by a committee but there was no feedback from the then administration. APC will try to get what was done before and work on it."
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            "text": "KSU is preparing for another 5 years SACS accreditation. Administration may bring something for APC to work on. Last spring, Mark Shale advised it was good to have a statement about programs accreditation."
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            "text": "APC will work on 2018/2019 academic calendar. The 2016/2017 calendar online looks like the one proposed. During summer 2016, VPAA wanted the dates when midterm grades are due to be changed for 2016/2017 calendar. The changes were made by the executive committee. It was mentioned during the meeting that some schools have their fall break the week of Thanksgiving, and maybe this is something that can be considered for KSU, but it would mean not having any break for a long time after Labor Day."
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            "text": "Online program proposal for freshmen: Last academic year, administration did not want freshmen to take online classes. Some concerns that were expressed by faculty included the following – there may be some freshmen that are high achieving students, some may have previously taken online classes successfully, and online classes may benefit athletes that travel a lot."
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            "text": "There was some discussion about online course and face-to-face course merits."
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            "text": "The online program proposal that was passed through senate last spring was sent back with some changes and suggestions made by VPAA and/or Jennifer Miles. Some of the changes are the following:"
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            "text": "The number of face-to-face meetings for Hybrid (also known as Blended) courses should be 3 sessions if the course meets once per week, 6 sessions if course meets twice weekly and 9 sessions if course meets thrice weekly."
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            "text": "The policies should apply to dual credit courses offered online or as hybrid."
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            "text": "The degree and certifications of an appointed director of online programs should comply with national standards."
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