Academic Deans Council Minutes : December 16, 2009

Abstract

Timothy Francisco, Department of English, was servings as YSU's representative to the Ohio Leadership Academy. Three CLASS students won Gilman scholarships. Hojjat Mehri was serving as a representative to the Ohio Steel Industry Advisory Council. Roughly 400 Girard Middle School students toured the STEM facilities. A study group was established to look at the possibility of a clinical designation for certain faculty in the Nursing area. Dr. Mosca, chair of the study group, formulated recommendations and was to present a model at the next Deans Council meeting. Professors Lenhoff and Francisco reported on a student news bureau project they have been working on. Dr. Khawaja said that as guidebook policies were tagged to be reviewed, the Provost's executive staff look at policies in terms of their relevance to the deans, colleges or departments, and pass them down to the deans whey they believed the deans could provide input. Academic Division issues considered at the BOT Finance and Facilities meeting were college fees and the M-2 parking deck demolition that was spurred by deliberations over the last year by the Alternative Transport Committee. Paul Kobulnicky brought up the issue of a current scam by a student who registers each term and then withdraws, solely to get ysu.edu network identity that does not cease when the student withdraws. Dr. Singler said that the Academic Standards Committee adopted 2 changes that are proposed to be effective fall semester 2010, and the committee wanted to bring this issue to the Academic Senate for adoption in February 2010. The 1st issue was that the last day to drop a class will be the 8th calendar day of classes, and the last day to add a class would be the 9th calendar day. The 2nd issue pertained to multiple majors and degrees with a second major requiring at least 50% of the credits different than those of the first major.