Student Engagement - Dr. Charles Holloway
Next week is campaign week for the Student Government Association. KSU's Honda Campus All Star Challenge team has made it to the final eight in the national tournament.
Career Services – Associate Vice-President Daryl Love
Next week, Tuesday March 29, 2022, is State Government Day at KSU. From 11:30 to 1:30, ten of the state cabinets will be participating to make our students aware of the plethora of opportunities for internships and post-graduation employment in those agencies.
Dual Credit – Dr. Kristopher Grimes
Dual Credit is still working with partner high schools on fall schedules, consulting with KSU chairs to make sure we are compliant with SACSCOC guidelines and so on. Also, we are working on improving the pathway for dual credit students to become degree-seeking KSU students.
Faculty Senate Committee Reports
Academic Policy Committee – Senator Kristopher Grimes
The committee is working on an attendance to policy to go in the catalogue. They hope to finalize it at the next meeting. This will cover in-person and hybrid classes, as well as asynchronous and synchronous online offerings. APC is also following up on the “Incomplete” grade policy and revising it.
In addition, the committee is looking at revisions to the Internship Policy handbooks that have come from Career Services. The most significant change is to lower the GPA requirement for an internship from 3.0 to 2.5. There is also amended language regarding faculty supervision of internships for academic credit. Those Handbooks, with the revisions, will be in the APC section of Microsoft Teams for faculty to review before they are approved.
Curriculum Committee – Senator Changzheng Wang
The committee brought forward two action items from the School of Behavioral and Social Sciences (BSS). The first was a course change proposal to change all existing IGS (Integrative Studies) courses to BSS courses so that academic planning, assessment and reporting would come under the School of Behavioral and Social Sciences. BSS Chair, Dr. Tierra Freeman-Taylor, noted that this is needed due to the departure of Dr. Erin Gilliam and the resulting absence of any designated faculty for the Honors program, which had previously been responsible for these classes.
Senator Danny Collum, representing the Division of Literature, Languages and Philosophy voiced a concern that LLP had not been consulted regarding this action since LLP faculty most frequently taught the IGS classes. He was learning of the proposal for the first time today, and