April 6, 2009

To: Larry Spurgeon, Faculty Senate President, and the Executive Council of the Faculty Senate

RE: Academic Affairs Committee Report, 2008-09

The Academic Affairs committee consisted of: Elizabeth Behrman; Cindy Craig, Robert Feleppa, Fritz Hemans (chair), Krishna Krishnan, Nancy McCarthy Snyder, Jeffrey Quirin, and Brad Uhing. Student representative was Zachary Gearhart.

The committee met early in Fall 08 to review a proposal for a Bachelor of Science in Health Science in the College of Health Professions. This proposal was approved by the faculty senate at the meeting of September 22^nd.

In the spring, work concentrated on the proposal to create an XF policy. The work was based on a draft policy created in summer 2008 by Provost Miller, Dean Adams, and Ted Ayers. The course of our work, after meeting with Dean Cheryl Adams, expanded to include a review of the policy on academic misconduct (section 8.05 of the Policies and Procedures). The proposal as forwarded to the senate on March 9^th included suggested revisions to the definitions of academic misconduct, to the composition of the Hearing Board, and changes to the purview of the Court of Student Academic Appeals.

There is no further business pending for the committee as of this date. A new chair will need to be elected at the next meeting.

Respectfully submitted,

Frederick Hemans