Academic Affairs Committee Meeting (HAB 802)

March 4, 2003

Present: Debra Miller, Lisa Chase, Wilma Feliciano, Yoav Kaddar,

Glenn Geher (Chair), David Blankenship, Chih-Yang Tsai, Greg Wirszyla,

Jim Dembowski, Cindy McCormick, Robin Smith, Matt Schwartz (Student Representative)

· Minutes: Minutes from 2/18/03 were approved. Minutes from 2/25/03 were approved, pending changing "observance" to "observation" on the second page.

· Announcements: Glenn Geher passed out a copy of the Academic Affairs Committee report that he will be presenting to the Academic Senate on 3/7/03 and the full faculty on 3/14/03. It can be located on the Acad. Affairs Committee website. On page 5 of that report, which discusses the Academic Calendar for 2004-2005, he will include the following:

"Thus, we recommend a calendar that does NOT include these holidays: Yom Kippur, Rosh Hoshana, Good Friday, or Passover."

· Next meeting will be held Tuesday, March 11 from 11:30 to 12:25 in

HUM 120.

· Discussion of Academic Calendar for 2004-2005:

Deb Miller was asked during this meeting to re-configure the academic calendar with the following requirements:

-classes start on August 30th

-two days off for Columbus Day holiday (looking at both a Friday and Monday and a Monday and Tuesday configuration)

-no substitution days

With this configuration, it was determined that classes would end on Monday, Dec. 13, Common Exam Day would be 12/15, and exams would be scheduled from 12/16 - 12/22. Grades would then be due on 12/24.

A motion was made to keep the Fall 2004 Draft that Glenn Geher plans to present at the two meetings mentioned above. Voting resulted in: 8 in favor

3 against

1 abstention

The committee did not vote on the Spring 2005 calendar, due to time restraints.

Respectfully submitted by

Cynthia A. McCormick (Communication Disorders)