rationale for our Gen Ed core, so that we’re not just saying, “take one of everything.” Griffiths presented a table onscreen which mapped out this plan. The table included the minimum CPE ad SACS core requirements. He noted that KSU is higher than the minimum for Written/Oral Communications courses because of our 4-unit ENG 101 requirement. We also currently are high in the Arts/Humanities courses because of our Composition, Foreign Language and IGS requirements. So the issue is, how do we slim the core down and get in the BREDS orientation courses and the new QEP courses? This is a complicated task, but the deadline is ASAP. The new EDU courses under discussion in Curriculum Committee are the QEP, which has not been officially approved.

• Moffett asked about EDU 118: will it be an orientation class? Griffiths replied, yes, this course will replace BREDS 101/102. A related part of the plan is to have the orientation class as mandatory for fall, and then the next class would be the second EDU course [EDU 186] in the spring. But for some majors, like Biology for instance, those students would have to take the second course another semester.
• A Senator asked, what is meant by the “Quantitative Reasoning” category? Griffiths answered, Statistics and Math courses.
• A Senator asked, will the new EDU186 fit under the Arts/Humanities category? Griffiths answered, in looking at the overall statewide SLO’s for each category, they seem close to what we saw of the SLO’s in the proposed course.
• A Senator asked if ENG 101, ENG 102 and SPE 103 would stay in the core. He replied, yes.
• A Senator asked Griffiths if he could share this document under discussion with the full Senate. Griffiths replied that he would send it to Moffett to forward on.
• Moffett asked Senators to email Griffiths with any comments and suggestions about this core-reduction by the end of the week.

6. Executive Committee Action Item: Moffett presented an APC item regarding an issue that University President Brown had asked Senate to consider: what does a student have to complete to walk for commencement? This has been a topic of longtime discussion at the university, and there is currently no written policy on the issue. The Senate Executive Committee discussed, drafted and voted on this item:

• Students taking part in the spring commencement should have either completed all their graduation requirements by the end of the spring term or need no more than six credit hours for which they are enrolled in the summer.
• Students taking part in the fall commencement must have all their graduation requirements completed by the end of the fall semester.
• Final awarding of the degree is contingent on all grades, including those from the final semester of work, meeting graduation requirements.

Moffett explained, if students are missing a course or two, they can take it during the summer. For fall graduation, the student should be completely finished. The language about the final awarding of degrees was added for clarity.

• A Senator asked, if they have six credits or less to go, they can walk in the commencement ceremony? Moffett answered, yes, and he added that ExComm did consider an option whereby students must be completely done, but they also wanted to give students a bit of leeway. He noted that at his former institution, students had to be completely finished before they could walk.
• A Guest asked, why did you allow two courses? Moffett replied, we thought more than two classes would be too much for a student to complete over the summer.
• The Guest noted that at his former institution, many of those students who walked with units remaining left and never graduated. What about having students sign a contract that they will return if they graduate without