Academic Affairs Committee

Minutes from committee meeting

October 22, 2002

Present: David Blankenship, Lisa Chase, Jim Dembowski, Glenn Geher (Chair), Yoav Kaddar, Debra Miller, Robin Smith, Jaime Uhlenbrock

Martin Lodge (Observer), Matthew Schwartz (student representative)

I Minutes from 10/8/02 were unanimously approved

II. Announcements:

Continued discussion on the subject of the academic calendar

A review of the procedure for the final approval of the calendar was clarified to the

committee. After a final discussion in the committee its recommendation is then passed to the Academic Senate which then brings it to the faculty body for a final approval.

III. Old Business:

A new draft of the calendar was put down on paper. This new draft called “2A” was the main topic of discussion. It would basically consist of the observance of all religious and federal holidays as observed in the current 2002/2003 calendar. The main exception would be the mid-semester fall break. This break would be one week earlier and would include the observance of the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur (see calendar draft 2A for further details).

With these adjustments 2A would also push the calendar one-day longer than the original draft that includes the observance of all religious and federal holidays as is (also known as draft “2”).

Substitution days in draft 2A would consist of one in the fall semester and 2 days in the spring.

One committee member made a motion that draft “2A” should be accepted.

This was seconded, further discussion was made and a vote was taken.

The results of the vote are as follows:

In favor = 7 members

Opposed = 2 members

Abstained = none

The Chair will forward the recommendation of the committee to the Academic Senate together with the results of the voting.

Before adjournment members agreed that during the next meeting there should be time allotted to hearing the various reasons behind member’s voting.

The meeting was adjourned at 12:25pm.

Respectfully submitted,

Yoav Kaddar