{"id":1461,"date":"2013-11-18T17:35:33","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T22:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/?p=1461"},"modified":"2013-11-18T17:35:33","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T22:35:33","slug":"10-03-2012-academic-affairs-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/10-03-2012-academic-affairs-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"10-03-2012 Academic Affairs Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ACADEMIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE MINUTES \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a010, 03, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>MEETING START TIME:<\/strong> 05:30pm<br \/>\n<strong>ATTENDANCE:<\/strong> Zawatsky, Dionne, Knoph<br \/>\n<strong>COMMITTEE DISCUSSION:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Exam Rights\/Academic complaints flyer\n<ul>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Still working on these<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Contacted Liaisons\n<ul>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Ethan sent out an e-mail to the liaisons w\/ information about how and what to discuss with their respective deans<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Drop Period Survey\n<ul>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Decided best way to poll student body is a survey monkey<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Last year Caisse did a survey monkey, but only held a booth to spread its word<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">We need to get the survey monkey out to more students- thousands of students<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Caisse\u2019s survey monkey had alternative options \u2013 we don\u2019t want to pose options, we just want to know whether or not the students agree with the new policy<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">If we get a large negative response- we can use this to back up arguments and take them to the Faculty Senate<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Kristen met with College of Pharmacy dean- he believes 3 weeks is a generous drop period<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Field research- go to local employers, asking them how they would view a \u201cW\u201d on a transcript<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Ethan\u2019s proposal- not going from 9 week period to 3 week period, argue the point of the \u201cW\u201d, fight for a 6 week policy<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Research drop period\/second grade option at other similar institutions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>MEETING ADJOURNMENT TIME:<\/strong> 5:50 pm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACADEMIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE MINUTES \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a010, 03, 2012 MEETING START TIME: 05:30pm ATTENDANCE: Zawatsky, Dionne, Knoph [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[21,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-affairs-minutes","category-academic-2012"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}