Forde, Bruce Griffiths, Kristopher Grimes, James Obielodan, Sheila Stuckey, Gavin Washington and Keith Wicker.
A senator asked the provost what could be done about poor attendance at face-to-face classes. He replied that faculty should follow policy. Students who miss 20 percent of class meetings fail.
The survey on the four-day class schedule is at Institutional Research. Responses will be in by December 14.
APC discussed concerns about faculty elections and agreed that those should go to professional concerns committee. Attendance policy is on the agenda for the next committee meeting.
The provost commented that he will support applying the existing attendance policy.
Senator Grimes thanked him and noted that previous administrations were not always supportive.
A senator commented that we should also look at the number of excused absences for athletics and other activities.
The provost stated that he will meet with the athletics director and other student activities staff about this.
A senator reported that the policy regarding attendance has fallen out of the university catalogue. Another senator noted that conflicting catalogues point to the bigger problem of consistency in policies and procedures.
The provost said that the policy should be in the syllabus template.
Dr. Schneller is coming to meetings as academic affairs liaison in place of Dr. Graves. At its last meeting the committee considered proposals from the business program and sent them back for revisions.
The provost commented that we needed to fill the gap in assessment and Institutional Effectiveness left by Dr. Graves' departure.
The EPAF resolution has been submitted for required approvals. The committee is now working on issues regarding the election process, tightening up those procedures. This started at the November 19 meeting, and an action item will be coming next semester.
Budget and Academic Support Committee Jennifer Ballard-Kang
The committee received an encouraging response from Travis Powell regarding our message about faculty salaries. We will get the new CFO in for a committee meeting ASAP to make sure