Academic Support Committee
The Faculty Handbook Committee has reviewed a proposed revision of Section 2.2.7 - Academic Support Committee submitted to it by this year's Academic Support Committee. Members of the Handbook Committee met with the Academic Support Committee on Monday, February 9, to discuss ASC's revision efforts. After consulting several members of the administration, we developed a set of recommendations for the Academic Support Committee to consider as part of the revision process. (Please click here for a discussion about our recommendations.)
make explicit the objective to review these offices' policies to ensure consistency with the University's mission
create a review system very similar to that of the program review system of the Educational Policies Committee, including a five-year cycle with a written review by the office and a presentation to the ASC
reviews presented to the ASC would become part of the institutional assessment data collected by the administration for use by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association and other external accrediting agencies for individual academic departments and programs
a set of procedures for such reviews would be prepared by ASC and recorded on the Academic Vice-President's website (just as EPC's procedures are published on this website)
We submitted a proposed revision of Section 2.2.7 to the Academic Support Committee. You may find this proposal here. This proposal made its way to the Faculty Assembly agenda for March 18, 2004, and the motion to approve the handbook description of the Academic Support Committee was approved unanimously. There will be a second reading of the proposal in April 2004.
We thank our colleagues for their comments and their support.
(Updated: 3/18/04)