ASCRC Minutes 4/21/15
GBB 205, 2:10 p.m.
Call to Order
Members Present: D. Coffin J. Deboer, L. Gillison, B. Hillman, A. Lawrence, T. Thibeau, E. Uchimoto, G.G.
Weix
Ex-Officio Present: M. Filer, B. Howard
Members Excused: M. Boller, C. Chestnut, J. Hickman, B. Hollzworth, N. Lindsay T. Manuel, C. Meixner,
N. Vonessen, J. Zink
Minutes: The minutes from 4/7/15 were approved.
Communication
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Members were sent the request from ECOS to reconsider the crosslisting appeal from African
American Studies.
Business items:
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ASCRC reconsidered the appeal. After some discussion, the six courses listed below were
approved to be crosslisted with AAST, a new rubric. Crosslisting should not be used primarily as
a means to make programs more visible to students. In this particular case the faculty member
has a dual appointment in History and African American Studies and again the implementation
of common course numbering has created difficulties. It seems that these courses should have
been flocked into AAS rather than History. An argument was made that this particular rubric
provides more visibility for diversity, which is something the Diversity Advisory Committee
advocates.
Parent course
Title
Sibling course
HSTA 262
Abolitionism: The First Civil Rights Movement
AAST 262
HSTA 342 H
African- American History to 1865
AAST 342H
HSTA 343H
African- American History since 1865
AAST 343H
HSTA 347
Voodoo, Muslim, Church: Black Religion
AAST 347
HSTA 415
The Black Radical Tradition
AAST 415
HSTA 417
Prayer and Civil Rights
AAST 417

After meeting again with a representative from Resource Conservation, the General Education
Committee approved the revised proposal to grant an exemption to the language requirement.
ASCRC considered the language below and also approved. This language will be inserted into
the program modification. The requirement will be reviewed again in four years during the
rolling review.

Chair DeBoer briefly summarized the Graduation Appeals Annual report. It will be attached to
the ASCRC annual report. Members wondered whether there was a way the institution could
address difficulties with language and symbolic systems for students with disabilities. This is a
sensitive issue because students are disinclined to be diagnosed and creating a separate
category for these students would be in violation of ADA. Chair DeBoer will look into the legal
issues.
It was noted that many of the appeals are related to General Education Courses. The report will
be shared with the General Education Committee.

Members were provided with the draft annual report to review. It will be finalized at the next
meeting.
It seems ASCRC could streamline the curriculum review so that it is not necessary to review all
changes to courses. Technical changes such as course number, title, and description changes
could be reviewed by the Registrar’s Office and if necessary sent to ASCRC if there are questions.
ASCRC should use its time doing more important work such as program review. Graduate
Council reviews graduate programs. In 2010 the committee was asked to consider program
review by the Faculty Senate Chair. At the time, ASCRC did not believe its review would add
value given the time and effort it would take. Camie will send the excerpt of the minutes when
this was discussed.
The Registrar’s Office is looking into purchasing curriculum management software that has a
workflow and would upload directly into Banner. CourseLeaf , one of the software platforms
was demonstrated last Friday. This would be a good time for the curriculum committees to
evaluate how they do their work. There is some interest by the Deans for more responsive
review schedule. MSU has a rolling review. However, the Provost’s Office is responsible for
their curriculum review

Chair DeBoer summarized the changes he made to the draft Dual Enrollment policy per
comments from ECOS. He suggested that Section II not be included in the policy, but could be
sent to the Senate in the form of a resolution and would then be maintained as a working
manual by the Missoula College, who would be responsible for updates. The draft should be
sent to the members of the workgroup from Missoula College as a courtesy. A final draft will be
reviewed at next week’s meeting. He hopes this will go to the Faculty Senate for a first reading
in May. Chair DeBoer was thanked for the effort that went into the revision.
Adjournment
The meeting was adjourned at 3:30 p.m.