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The Academic Affairs Committee Chair, Regent James Obielodan, called the meeting to order at 11:10 a.m.

Regent Obielodan asked for a motion to approve the agenda. Chair Dukes

Dr. Dailey said they have a bachelor's in public policy that is going to be released this fall and a bachelor's in aquatic sciences as well.

He mentioned mini-homecoming and the previous night's event.

He said they are trying to automate and improve efficiencies for student registration.

They are eliciting the help of the student government association president to do little video chats informing them it's time to register for classes through automation. He gave additional information on the automation and how that information will be used.

Dr. Dailey said at the previous full board meeting, he presented several academic policies including online as well as residential policies. He said the board wanted to ensure that the GPA for graduate and undergraduate was clearly articulated. He said there is a 2.0 for undergraduate and graduate school has their policy referencing the GPA.

He mentioned the reference to students in academic bankruptcy when they are coming back after a period of time and they waive what they owe. He has made changes in those policies in that they make sure those students remain current and that they have to pay their balances, especially in the first qualifying semester. Those policies are to be submitted to the full board on February 13.

Regent Hatchett had a question on the definition of subject matter expert. Dr. Dailey answered the question.

Regent Hatchett asked Dr. Dailey to define the 4 plus 1 academic program. Regent Fields and Regent Obielodan had questions on the program and Dr. Dailey responded. There was a discussion on this program.

Dr. Tierra Freeman-Taylor also discussed the duel-degree program at length. Regent Obielodan had questions on it and Dr. Taylor-Freeman and Dr. Dailey responded.

Dr. Dailey briefly discussed the online program and there will be an additional part of the overview on Feb. 13.

The online program is a little over a year and a half old.

He included excerpts from their webpage and gave a brief overview of the program and student and profession engagement.

He said there are nine programs up and running in the undergraduate level and three additional certificates at the undergraduate level.

Regent Obielodan had a question on three of the programs and Dr. Dailey responded and said they offer unique experiences in the online space that you may not get in the residential campus. They try to keep the campuses as two separate pathways through KYSU.

Regent Obielodan asked an additional question on ACBSP and accreditation and Dr. Dailey responded with a summary.

Regent Dukes said we have a separate whole cybersecurity and is that out of technology versus the business admin cybersecurity. Dr. Dailey responded yes and elaborated further. Regent Obielodan asked if the chair of the school of business was aware of this and Dr. Dailey said he should be and further elaborated. Regent Obielodan asked an additional question that Dr. Dailey responded to.

Dr. Dailey discussed the master degree programs online. He said there are almost 50 students in social work and close to 60 in masters of business. They have the doctor of nursing practice and in the fall there will be a master's in public health and a master's in exercise science.

Dr. Dailey said in 2025 they had 174 graduate students and 1,900 undergraduate students. Before KYSU Global launched, there were 74 students. When launched, there were 106 graduate students and 149 undergraduate students. This spring, there were 2,877 students of which 159 were graduate students on campus and 2,100 undergraduate students. Online there are 207 graduate students and 405 undergraduate students for a total of 612. He further discussed enrollment numbers for the C-term.

This will be the first cohorts to graduate from KYSU through the completely online pathway with 31 students at the undergraduate level and 16 graduate students.

Regent Fields asked about the online participating in graduation ceremonies.

Regent Obielodan asked about the two online graduate programs for the fall and Dr. Dailey responded to his questions.

Regent Hatchett said when the program is reported, they need to have a financial component to the report. Dr. Dailey responded to the comment. He said tomorrow they will be sharing the online program updates and today was an overview.

Dr. Dailey said the command certificate was championed by Dr. Frederick Williams, the chair of the school of criminal justice and political science.

Dr. Freeman-Taylor said this was an industry-based request to have some additional training for their officers in the command path.

She said this is 100% new content so in addition to CPE approval, they have to go through a SACCLC prospectus. It will have a $500 fee attached to it.

Regent Fields asked what is a command certificate. Dr. Dailey responded that it was additional training for officers and this is for officers in the field already. He further expanded on the training.

Regent Obielodan asked if it was in the board book and Dr. Dailey said because it was an action item, there should be an attached program description and if not, he would get that to him tomorrow.

Regent Obielodan asked if it went through the faculty and Dr. Dailey and Dr. Freeman-Taylor said yes and further discussed the online approval process.

Regent Obielodan asked for a motion to adjourn the meeting. Motion to adjourn meeting was made by Regent Fields and motion seconded by Chair Dukes.

Meeting was adjourned.