300 level or higher. These classes are not required at a number of other institutions and it will bring our curriculum more in line with current trends. The proposal passed unanimously with voice vote.
CC15/16-04 requires completion of BIO 410: Special Problems in Biology (2 credit hours), for students in the B.S. in Biology with Teacher Certification (8-12) option. The proposal passed unanimously with voice vote.
CC15/16-03 requires completion of PHY 207: Physics for the Biological Sciences I (4 credit hours and PHY 208: Physics for the Biological Sciences II (4 credit hours) for students in the B.S. in Biology with Teacher Certification (8-12) option. It passed unanimously.
Chair Andries pointed out that the Curriculum Committee will still receive curriculum action items but they will not be completed and through Senate for the Spring 2016 semester.
Chair Moffett informed the Senate that there has been discussion with the Registrar to design a ‘waitlist” for overenrolled classes, such as English core curriculum classes, and the APP presented an Action Item for this initiative to be implemented Fall 2016. This process would help maintain course caps and let students get in line for a course rather than have to seek a faculty member to inquire about a class. Currently students are being added to full classes despite a procedure by which faculty should be consulted before overenrolling courses. This change in policy would eliminate that problem. One Senator said that she has had success calling the Registrar’s office to have student dropped who were added over cap without her signature and that students will routinely fill out add/drop slips and forge the faculty member’s signature.
One Senator asked if a student will be waitlisted for one particular section or all sections, and another asked if Seniors will have priority. Senator Moffett said those details will be worked out by the Registrar. Two Senators pointed out that Banner has a feature to accomplish this but it has never been turned on, and the new system will have such a feature as well.
The Action Item passed unanimously.
The committee discussed the fact that the degree audit form is out of date and was last revised in 1998. A Senator pointed out that an audit is “a process” and the document in question is the “Application for Degree”.
Dean Shaw informed the committee that she needed all of the work they have done to date on the issue of Freshmen and on-line courses. She asked for this information, and their research, last week and it is on the agenda for the next Board of Regents meeting. She wants any data specific to KSU such as the number of Freshmen taking online classes and their success relative to upperclassmen.
A Senator pointed out the mandate from Chairs to list no on-line 100 level classes for Spring 2016 and raised the question of how this can be enforced when a policy has not been developed to deal with all of the identified issues and exception cases that will have to be addressed. Discussion brought out other