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Minutes
March 23, 2004
Present: Catherine Larson (chair), Anthony Ardizzone, Cynthia Bannon, Allan Edmonds, Walter Gantz, Mike
Gasser, Catharine Hoff, Robert Ivie, Daniel O'Neill, Catherine Pilachowski, Georgia Strange
Ex Officio: Kirstine Lindemann, David Halloran
Policy Committee representative: Al Ruesink
Absent: Mellonee Burnim, Olivia Snyder
ACTION
- Approved minutes of February 24, 2004 meeting.
RECOMMENDATION
Recommended that students be allowed up to three "Ws" during their undergraduate academic career (with an
exclusion of the freshman year from this cap). Exceptions could be reviewed by petition to the dean of the
student's school. Recommended that the dates currently associated with withdrawals be kept as is. These
recommendations are to be conveyed in the current campus discussion of the issue.
DISCUSSION
Minutes The minutes of the February 24, 2004 meeting were approved.
Withdrawal Date Discussion continued from last meeting. Dean Lindemann presented information regarding
student withdrawals from classes at other CIC institutions. The Committee discussed effects of the current
system and discussed such possible alternatives as changing the date for an "Automatic W" or capping the
number of withdrawals that an individual student could receive. After discussing the dates currently used
in allowing withdrawals (for example, that students are allowed an "automatic W" roughly through the first
half of a semester or term), Committee members found these dates appropriate. After extensive discussion of
different proposals regarding limitations on withdrawals, the Committee members agreed to the
recommendations listed above.
Overlap Issues Discussion continued from last meeting. Included in the discussion were such questions as
whether there should be a "unique core" for each "credential" that the student earns, or whether the student
should receive each credential for which the student has satisfied the requirements even if there is
substantial (or even total) overlap in coursework. Other issues mentioned included the development of
interdisciplinary programs that cross departmental boundaries, and the perceptions of the meanings of majors
and degrees and credentials by those outside academia. Dean Hoff will request information from CIC
institutions about similar policies, and the discussion will be continued at the next meeting.
Other items were tabled for the next meeting.
The next meeting is scheduled for April 20, 2004 in Kirkwood Hall 007.
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