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Index of Topics 2/31/2006 |
For Approval 2/14/06 – to Faculty Senate 3/8/06 |
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COAST Committee (Committee on Alpha Suffix Tenets) Monahan Rule – see page 19 of ACC Handbook |
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“Cyber” meetings – referred to the Senate |
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WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
ACADEMIC COORDINATING COMMISSION MINUTES
Regular Meeting -- January 31, 2006
Chair Tom Downing called the meeting of the Academic Coordinating Commission to order on January 31, 2006 in OM340 at 4:03 p.m. There were seventeen (17) members present, one (1) guest, one (1) recorder, and the Registrar for a total of twenty. (20). (See attached roster).
Approval of ACC minutes
Commissioners approved the Minutes of January 17 with one minor correction.
AGENDA ITEMS
Item from the Chair:
Chair Downing suggested that an ad hoc committee of the ACC be formed to propose policies for the use of alpha subscripts in the Bulletin. The current use of these suffixes is incoherent and contributes to making degree auditing difficult. Some examples: a) some departments and programs use suffixes to differentiate courses which would better be distinguished by the use of different numbers; b) other departments use suffixes to distinguish different sections of the same course, which is unnecessary; and c) still others use suffixes to indicate the quarter a section is offered, which is also unnecessary. The committee will strive to establish policies that will permit the use of alpha suffixes only when there is no reasonable alternative.
Joe St. Hilaire, Registrar; Karen Perry, Catalog Coordinator; Marie Eaton, Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies; Chiho Lai, Student Representative to the ACC; Rose Marie Norton-Nader, ACC Recorder; K. Kitto, Associate Dean, College of Sciences and Technology, and Chair Downing agreed to serve on this committee (COAST – Committee On Alpha Suffix Tenets).
READING of Curricular Minutes
The following minutes were reviewed or re-reviewed by the Commissioners:
College Curricular or Standing Cte |
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Items for ACC Review
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College of Business and Economic |
11/29/05 |
Accepted except for ECON 315: Admission to Fairhaven must be clarified.
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College of Fine & Performing Arts |
11/28/05 |
Accepted. |
Graduate School |
11/22/05 |
Accepted
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Graduate School |
11/29/2005 1/10/2005 |
Accepted. 11/29/05. Please use a different number and title and a different description if BIOL 598 is a different course. (Numbers of discontinued courses cannot be used for 7 years). Questions arose as to why PSY528 and PSY531 changed., but Commissioner Thorndike provided an “explanation” which was more or less satisfying. Accepted. 1/10/05. IT544a, and b, same subscript problem. Please use 545 or 546 if available. |
General Education Requirements |
1/5/2006 |
Accepted. Commissioners request that minutes identify course titles
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International Programs Advisory Cte |
12/1/2005 |
Accepted Commissioners discussed the areas to be included in a proposed “Center for International and Cultural Studies.” The idea is not yet fleshed out or ready to be presented to the campus. |
Teacher Curricula and Certification Council |
1/10/06 |
Accepted |
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Items for ACC Review
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Woodring College of Education |
11/4/05 |
Accepted. Commissioners request the use of strike-outs and underlining. (See sample curriculum minutes on the ACC website). |
FROM PREVIOUS MEETING: |
No problem with BIO348 as a prerequisite for several other courses. |
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Monahan Rule: (from page 19 of the ACC Handbook:
Councils, commissions, colleges, departments, and programs considering actions, which will impinge upon courses or programs offered by another unit of Western Washington University, must give written notification to the unit involved two weeks in advance of the action. Failure to do so will void the action. The purpose of this regulation is to allow an opportunity for input by the affected unit of WWU.
“Cyber” Meetings
The Chair observed that the TCCC minutes of 1/10/06 were characterized as “Minutes of Cyber Meeting.” Apparently the “meeting was conducted by email (not by teleconferencing or chat room). The Chair and others thought that there might be problems of fairness and legality with such meetings. Do they, for example, observe Sturgis? The ACC permits the use of email for the purposes of approval of minutes, because not doing so would delay implementation of actions for a number of months for committees that meet infrequently. But this is very different from conducting a whole meeting electronically. Because the same issue arises with regard to all committees on campus, not just those that report to the ACC, the Commission elected to pass the matter to the Senate for consideration rather than endeavor to establish policies of its own.
Adjournment
Commissioners adjourned at 5:47 pm.
Rose Marie Norton-Nader, Recorder, January 31, 2005
ACADEMIC COORDINATING COMMISSION 2005-2006 ROSTER
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Membership (term ending 2007) |
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Chair – Tom Downing – 2004-2005 |
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A - James Hearne, Computer Science, CST |
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Vice Chair – Jim Hearne |
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Ex-Officio |
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Bodman, Andrew (Provost) |
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A – Michael Meehan, Senator (thru 2006) |
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F -- Marie Eaton, Fairhaven |
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Perry, Karen (Catalog Coordinator) |
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G – David Wallin, Huxley |
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H – Marsha Riddle Buly, Teacher Ed, Woodring |
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Registrar, Recorder |
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Joe St. Hilaire, Registrar |
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Membership (term ending 2006) |
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Rose Marie Norton-Nader, Recorder |
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B – *Robert Thorndike, Psychology, CHSS |
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AL – Linda Kimball, AT-LARGE (rep to GER) |
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C - *Thomas Downing, Chair, (UPC, EESP) |
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Guests |
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I – Jeff Purdue, Library |
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Student Senator |
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S - James Sanders, ASVP-Academics, 2005-2006 |
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Registrar, Recorder |
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S - Chiho Lai, 2005-06 |
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S- Lauren Balisky, 2004-06 |
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*Not Eligible for Re-election (served 4 yrs) |
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Members (18) |
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12 faculty (2yr terms) rep each area. Provost, Catalog Coordinator (ex officio) 4 students (1 ASVP), 2 faculty Senators. ACC reps: to UPC, to GUR, to SenLegislCte. Guests: Registrar, Recorder |
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