ASCRC Minutes 1/31/12
GBB 202, 2:10
Members Present: B. Borrie, D. Dalenberg, N. Greymorning, M. Grimes C. Henderson, L. Tangedahl
Members Absent/Excused: M. Beebe-Frankenberger, W. Davies, C. Knight, D. Stolle, J. Staub
Ex-Officio Present: B. Holzworth, E. Johnson, S. O’Hare, A. Walker-Andrews
Chair Tangedahl called the meeting to order at 2:10 p.m.
The minutes from 12/6/11were approved.
Communication Items:
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The AA in Police Science was tabled at the Faculty Senate meeting. The College of Technology is working on a memorandum of
understanding.
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After ASCRC’s last meeting, the General Education Committee voted electronically to approve BADM 191, Doing the Right Thing:
A Global Strategy for Good Business for a one-time-only ethics designation. Chair Tangedahl granted the approval given there was not time
to convene ASCRC and students were registering for the course offered this semester.
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The Prerequisite workgroup presented the fall results to the Provost and received approval to expand the prerequisite enforcement pilot for next fall.
Students who did not pass the prerequisite were notified several times about losing course registration. In the future, students will be evacuated from
the course and then informed. One problematic issue is different prerequisites on COT sections of courses with common course numbers. The
Working group will meet next Wednesday and will consider standardizing the waiver form. There are three staff members in the Registrar’s office
working on the data entry and testing.
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The Registrar’s Office has an updated common course number list. Members suggested that this be made available to the campus community.
Business Items:
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According to Procedure 202.30 one-time-only general education courses are approved by ASCRC after review by the General
Education Committee. Although not required according to the procedure, one-time-only courses have been on the consent agenda
for the Faculty Senate. This process was questioned when it was discovered that the Global Leadership Courses were inadvertantly
absent from the consent agenda this fall. ASCRC discussed the issue and suggests that ECOS be consulted. It was suggested that
the current procedure remain in place and be re-visited in the fall during the annual review required by the Faculty Senate bylaws.
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There are 133 prerequiste revision forms. Members of ASCRC were devided into the following three workgroups to review the
forms for clarity.
Group 1
10 Business & Journalism,
2 Education, 33 Forestry
Bill Borrie
Darrell Stolle
Wade Davies
Lee Tangedahl
Group 2
42 Science
Group 3
42 Social Science
Colin Henderson
Mark Grimes
James Staub
Doug Dalenberg
Margaret Beebe-Frankenberger
Neyooxet Gremorning
Chris Knight
Professor Tangedahl, Grimes, and Dalenberg were given the originals and will check for signatures of other affected programs. In
order to expedite the condensed review, electronic approvals will be accepted. ASCRC agreed that a rationale is useful for
archival purposes. Follow-up correspondence will be routed through Camie. The review must be completed by next week in order
to be presented at the February Faculty Senate meeting.
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Two late curriculum items were considered. Liberal Studies advised students to take an experimental course offered this spring to
satisfy the upper-division writing requirement. The instructor is also planing to offer the course in the fall with a semenar 494
course number. The Writng Committee reviewed the course and approved it for the upper-division writing designation. ASCRC
concured. However, the fall offering will need to retain the experimental number in order to have the writing designation. The
instructor will be informed to submit a course form and upper-division writing course form to designate the course as a permanent
upper-division writing course.
Computer science request a title change (Robots, Genetic Engineering, and Ethics) to an existing course (CSCI 216E) that will be
included in the Global Leadership offerings next fall. ASCRC approved.
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ASCRC will need to consider establishing a procedure for creating a rubric. An issue occurred over the break regarding a rubric
for Central Southwest Asian Studies. The proposal to establish the program did not include a new rubric. All the courses exist in
other departments. Establishing rubrics for a cross-disciplinary program when the future of crosslisting is unknown due to
common course numbering is complicated. The Central and Southwest Asian Studies program is offering a study abroad course,
but wanted to use a CSWA, which has not been established. The Chair of the Anthropology department would not approve the use
of the ANTY rubric until the Anthropology faculty had an opportunity to meet. Rubrics no longer belong to departments, even
though departments’ retain a sense of ownership. This issue will require further deliberation to assure faculty ownership and
oversight of the curriculum and consideration of long term consequences.
The meeting was adjourned at 4:00 p.m.