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Icc Academic Policy Group

ICC Academic Policy Group

Minutes

February 22, 2002

Members Present: Javaune Adams (UMCP), Sandra Cohea-Weible (SU), Lynne Dowell (Towson), Jackie Knight (Coppin), Eric Lampe (UMBC), Sara Sides (TU).

Advising Report

Teri Hollander and the committee discussed several items related to the upcoming submission of the institutional advising reports.

Probation and Dismissal Policies

Once again, there was a lively discussion about procedures for academic actions at the various institutions. The goal is to see if there is a common way of handling the admission of students who have been dismissed from another institution in the USM system. It was decided that in order to pursue the goal further, there needed to be a common understanding of the terminology being used by the various institutions. In order to accomplish this, the committee will complete a "Terminology Chart". Sandra Weible will forward the chart to the members electronically; each institution will enter the information on the chart appropriate for their institution and send it back to Sandra electronically (by April 8). Sandra will distribute the completed chart to the members prior to the next meeting on May 3rd and possible ways of using common language will be explored at that meeting.

The committee will continue to pursue the completion of the "Standards Governing Academic Probation and Dismissal" chart. All members who did not bring their institutional information to the meeting were encouraged to enter their information into the established chart and send it electronically to Mary Gartner (Frostburg) so she might bring the completed chart to the May 3rd meeting for discussion.

The members also agreed to bring 8 copies of the academic action letters from their institutions to the next meeting for distribution to the other committee members.

Deficit Points

The use of deficit points to explain academic status and academic goals was explained and information distributed by Sandra Weible.

Next Meeting

The next meeting will be held on Friday, May 3rd at Salisbury University. Agenda items will include:

All members are asked to bring:

 

Chair/Recorder: Sandra Cohea-Weible

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