MINUTES FROM 

ACADEMIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE MEETING 

December 3, 1980 

3:00 p.m. 
Present: Dr. Baldino Prof. Kimbrough 
Dr. Gill is Dr. Lateef 
Dr. Hahn Dr. Munro 
Dr. Khawaja Prof. Simmons 
Guests: Members of the Ad Hoc Committee on General Educational Requirements 
Mr. Hugh Earnhart (History) 
Dr. Ronald Gould (Music) 
Previous 
Minutes: 	 Regarding the minutes of November 19, 1980~ the following 
changes were made: 
On page 2, under Labor Relations, the sentence beginning with 
"A well-found program
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was changed to "A well-founded program". 
In' the following sentence, themselves was changed to itself. 
In the fo;Jilowing sentence the word Iinot" was changed to "nor". 
The first sentence under Committee Guidel ines was modified to 
read:"Becausethere has been a lack of communication between 
departments, . 
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Prof. Kimbrough moved, seconded by Dr. Munro to approve' the 
amended m i nu tes of November 19,1980. The vote to approve the 
a me nded minutes was unanimous. 
Approval of the minutes from November 26, 1980 were postponed 
unt i 1 the next meet i ng. 
Ad Hoc 
Comm i tt ee on 
General 
Educationsl 
Requirements:The purpose of this subcommittee is to review the general 
education requirements and submit its report to the Academic 
Affairs Committee. The committee is at a standstill as to 
whether they should develop a proposal encompassing all 
requirements or review and modify just segments of the 
genera 1 requ i rements. 
Dr. Gould brought up the following questions and topics: 
(1) 	 Should the Ad Hoc Committee limit their investigations 
at the onset to the areas of Mathematics and 
Commun ica t ions 1 
(2) 	 In the Math area a basic level of competency is suggested 
by the subcommittee. To that end a test is suggested. 
This test is simple algebra and arithmetic. 
(3) 	 Some Subcommittee problems: 
A} 	 It is easy to talk about the philosophical position on 
a subject but the mechanics a ,re hard to establ ish 
(the mechanics must be accompl ished otherwise 
we cannot achieve our objective). 
correc ted 
Acad mic Affairs Meeting 
Minutes - page 2 
B) 	 Some departments are not will ing to accept additional work. 
Although the departments all feel a need for the 
changes, they would I ike someone else to enfolrce these 
changes. 
It was stated that the Ad Hoc Committee should not design its 
proposals to provide remedial work to the stude~ The 
subcommittee felt that remedial work and general requirements could 
not be seperated. 
It was also stated that students are permitted to postpone the 
taking of a specific course that should be taken during the 
students first 2 or 3 quarters. 
In order for a student to register for a particular subject he 
should pass a test which is given to the student while he/she 
is still in high school. (This test is along the same I ine as the 
test for Basic Composition 550). 
Finally this question was raised, "Should the subcommittee set 
minimum standards on general requirements?" 
If they did set standards, each school could add on to this 
minimum, if they felt the student is required to have more 
knowledge in a specific subject area. 
It was suggested that the subcommittee should continue to work 
on a proposal deal ing with all general education requirements. 
The subcommittee need not concern itself with the degree of 
difficulty any particular proposal may have in securing Senate 
approval, that ought to concern the Academic Affairs Committee. 
Adjournment: Meeting adjourned at 4:00.