A Senator said that he took approved vacation time during Fall Commencement and still received a letter of reprimand for non-attendance. Dr. Kumar suggested that he write a letter of appeal.

Secretary Rye said that she was a few minutes late to Fall Commencement and was not allowed to enter the auditorium by University Police. She signed the attendance list and waited outside to congratulate students.

Chair Bigdeli suggested that if a faculty member knows they will not be able to attend to send a curtesy email to the Chair and VPAA.

A guest faculty member asked if there has been a response from administration to the recommendations from PCC and Senate on on-line courses. Chair Moffett reported that it was sent but there has been no response. The faculty member said that his divisional chair will not allow any on-line classes to be scheduled and was told this was a directive from the VPAA. Secretary Rye said this is a problem because it appears that Chairs are administering the on-line policy differently and Senate needs clarification.

Chair Freeman informed the Senate that at the Board Meeting last week it was determined to kick back the report/recommendations to Senate for changes.

Regent McFayden reported that in the Board report it was indicated that no Freshmen will be allowed to take online classes. He had argued the conflict of this policy with KSU's advertised 'all on-line' degrees.

A faculty non-senator asked if Regent McFayden's understanding is that lower level on-line classes can be offered but just that Freshmen cannot take them. The response was, yes. That was the Board's determination.

A Senator expressed frustration with the contradiction of a previous administration encouraging us to develop online courses and then they are summarily, without review of available data, dropped by the current administration after the semester started.

A Senator recommended that ‘with consent of Department Chair’ should be added to our recommendations on on-line courses.

Chair Bigdeli said that it is the on-campus students that the Board wants to target and that Freshmen are not necessarily good candidates for on-line classes.

A faculty non-senator once again pointed out that the vast majority of students in his online 100-level course were not Freshmen (only 1 or 2 were Freshmen from his roster) and now he is not allowed to even offer that class on-line. He pointed out that even some Freshmen living on campus have jobs off-campus, some two, and they need to be able to use the on-line option. He said that the Community College system offers on-line to freshmen, so does that mean that their students are better prepared than ours? Chair Bigdeli replied that the Community College system is not a good comparison since they have students spread around the state and no dormitories and that, besides, KSU does not have to follow a bad model.

It was reported that the Board looked at, “percentages numbers, data, percentage off campus who are in online classes.” The problem raised by a Senator is that the Board did not look at relevant data of pass-fail rate of on-line vs traditional classes. He said that when the administration changed schedules