KENTUCKY STATE UNIVERSITY Regular Meeting of the Board of Regents Academic Affairs Committee April 21, 2016 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Cooperative Extension Building, Conference Room Frankfort, Kentucky

MINUTES *****

Regent Elaine Farris, Chairperson, called the Academic Affairs Committee meeting of the Kentucky State University Board of Regents to order at 10:00 a.m. on April 21, 2016. Regent Farris asked the secretary to call roll:

Elaine Farris Present Mindy Barfield Present Ellie McFavden Present

Syamala Reddy Not Present Diamond Gordon Present

Eigie McFayden

Present

A quorum was declared.

Minutes of the January 21, 2016, meeting were approved. Motion was made by Regent Barfield and seconded by Regent McFayden.

Dr. Lynda Brown-Wright began the meeting by giving an update to the inquiries that were made at the January 21, 2016, Board of Regents meeting. Dr. Brown-Wright stated that curriculum changes would include more service learning to engage students in more meaningful ways. The University will align major classes with experiential learning activities that will be more beneficial to the students. More focus will also be on students in the sophomore year. Also, one dedicated instructor will teach all UNV classes and organize service learning activities to ensure that students are more connected to the community as well as the institution.

Questions were asked about students failing grades and if the failures were due to absenteeism. Dr. Brown-Wright stated we had not correlated attendance to grades but we are working on improving student attendance. Dr. Wheeler and Student Success, with commitments from the Faculty Senate, are working to implement an attendance software in the fall. This software will be aligned with the attendance policy, and faculty will be able to submit attendance and performance reports. Once the software is in place, we will be able to gather better data to improve attendance.

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