{"id":5793,"date":"2016-09-29T10:28:56","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T14:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/?p=5793"},"modified":"2016-09-29T10:28:56","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T14:28:56","slug":"academic-4-27-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/academic-4-27-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic 4-27-16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MEETING START TIME: 5:31<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>ATTENDANCE: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Committee: Chairperson Garcia, Senator Temple, Senator Porter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Absent:<\/strong> Senator Curtis,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Non-Committee: Natalie Garcia, Book Store Worker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>COMMITTEE DISCUSSION:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong> Bookstore survey<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Over 1000 surveys taken, only 600 originally predicted<\/li>\n<li>Going to close the survey by end of the week<\/li>\n<li>Going to share the information next semester<\/li>\n<li>After briefly viewing responses, Paul said that they are not going to like some of the feedback given<\/li>\n<li>Recently finished speaking with different college officials, and they are trying to get professors to provide their necessary textbook information to the bookstore earlier. Only 50 done so far.<\/li>\n<li>Meetings starting next month with deans. Want Deans\u2019 feedback from knowing a survey has been taken and if they are open to change their policies.<\/li>\n<li>Can\u2019t force faculty to provide their required texts sooner because it is not written in their job descriptions<\/li>\n<li>Hope to start a constant communication between senate and the bookstore in the future.<\/li>\n<li><strong> Academic Complaints<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Complaint against Chemistry TA for inconsistent grading policy<\/li>\n<li>Final Exam Schedule<\/li>\n<li>Final Exam Question<\/li>\n<li>URI Tours-Tours are disruptive<\/li>\n<li>Discrimination Complaint- Happened in academic setting from an advisor<\/li>\n<li>Pass information on to campus committee and Bias Response Team under student affairs so that they can assess student discrimination cases based on their job description.<\/li>\n<li><strong> Academic Rights<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>DOC Posting to it online<\/li>\n<li>Sent information to all residence halls, liaisons, and organizations<\/li>\n<li>Changes to Final Exam rights will not go into effect until next year<\/li>\n<li><strong> Next Steps<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Chairperson will send a doodle poll to see what time works best next semester for committee meetings<\/li>\n<li>Chairperson will assign a Summer assignment. Binders for liaisons, already ordered<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>MEETING ADJOURNMENT TIME:<\/strong> 6:02<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEETING START TIME: 5:31 ATTENDANCE: Committee: Chairperson Garcia, Senator Temple, Senator Porter Absent: Senator Curtis, Non-Committee: Natalie Garcia, Book Store Worker COMMITTEE DISCUSSION: Bookstore survey Over 1000 surveys taken, only 600 originally predicted Going to close the survey by end of the week Going to share the information next semester After briefly viewing responses, Paul [&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":[21,26,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-affairs-minutes","category-academic-affairs-minutes-2016","category-minutes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5793","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=5793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}