Minutes from ASC mtg. on 9/20/13
Secretary: Gary McCall
Attendance: Martins Linauts, Karl Fields, Jill Nealey-Moore,
Landon Wade, Debbie Chee, Drew Anderson, Brad Tomhave, Danny Laesch, Jim
Jasinski, Don Share, Ken Clark, Sunil Kukreja, Kristin Johnson
(NOTE: Individuals are referred to by their initials in the minutes below)
Approval of 9/6/13 minutes:
 Corrections were submitted and noted
 Minutes approved
Petitions sub-committee report and issues (B.T.)
Petitions Report for the Period 09/06/2013 – 09/17/2013
During the dates covered by this report, the following actions were taken on
petitions submitted to the Academic Standards Committee:
2
4
2
1
Approved Late Adds
Approved Registrations with a Schedule Conflict
Denied Registrations with a Schedule Conflict.
Approval to transfer Community College credit for an upper-class student.
9 Total Petitions
Registrar Approved:
Preview Team Approved:
Sub-Committee Approved:
2
2
3
Total Approved:
7
Sub-Committee Denied:
2
Total Petitions:
9
Of particular interest was the petition submitted by the student with junior class
standing asking for permission to transfer community college credit. The petition
posed an interesting question regarding the faculty’s policy which restricts
transfer credit from a community college to either students transferring to Puget
Sound or to Puget Sound students with freshman or sophomore class standing.
As the circumstance presented by the student was not necessarily specific to the
student in question, the Committee may wish to review the policy to determine if
it still reflects the will of the faculty.

Does sub-committee’s practice on awarding/denying transfer credit from certain
other scenarios reflect the desires of the faculty and should this be discussed
further by ASC?
o e.g. challenge to Running Start policy is pending. Running Start is a WA
state program which generally involves a HS student that takes a CC
course for HS credit (and student desires or expects to earn college credit
as well)
o UPS has been more selective in what we accept as transfer credit
compared to other colleges in WA state
o BT brought up the issue of a relatively new high school program being
piloted at Federal Way School District (University of Cambridge
Advanced International Certificate of Education). FWSD has approached
Tomhave asking if we will recognize their Advanced Certificate. We
currently have no policy regarding this program.
o M. L. will forward our concern to Senate ASC rep. (Leslie Saucedo) to ask
for a charge that ASC further explore this issue and policy as well as other
transfer credit issues that arise

Some discussion and explanations of how we currently award non-graded course
transfer credits
Charges from the senate were reviewed and prioritized
 #1 Common hour and alternative schedules charge was postponed from
Spring ’13 due to PeopleSoft implementation barriers to achieve data analyses
o B.T. reviewed the history of the desire for alternative schedules that would
make efficient use of our classrooms and include a common hour
 #2 earning two Baccalaureate degrees concurrently similar as #1 in terms of why
it could not be addressed
 #3- the W policy during weeks 7-12 and privacy issues in terms of what a faculty
requires as “exceptional circumstances” and/or documentation
o discussion of under what scenarios these privacy issues may occur, or has
occurred; do we even need policy, or is our existing structure and policies
meeting the needs for situations that arise?
o This seems to be a priority for discussion
 #4- academic credit for international students
B.T.: we should also address the 2nd baccalaureate degree issue in collaboration with the
Curriculum Committee as a priority
S.K.: B.T. had brought up a charge related to hearing boards for 2nd incidents
 issue is that 1st dishonesty issue is only issued to Registrar, and should this
info be disseminated to, e.g. parents, who might be able to facilitate a better
outcome
o question is whether the institution should act more proactively,
strongly, etc. and if we need a universal policy that promotes faculty to
act in similar ways
o S.K. notes that we have a more documented approach to academic
incidents, but we don’t raise as much awareness as to the seriousness
of the plagiarism/academic dishonesty incident
o Consensus is that this should be a charge request to Senate and M.L.
will proceed with request
Minutes submitted by Gary McCall