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 College Senate Meeting: October 2, 2000
Agenda Item: 7a
Description: Report of the Academic Affairs Committee

Minutes for September 2000
Academic Affairs Committee

Time: 2:00 PM
Location: Education conference room - Thompson W256
Present: D. Ludlam - chair, G. Lash, T. Steinberg, J. Straight

The following new courses were approved with noted stipulations:

ED 571 Seminar & Practicum for Education of LEP Students - Approved

EN103 Intro. To English Education - Approved but must go through Professional Education Council where course number and credit need to be discussed

EN 104 Readings & Observations in English Education - Approved but must go through Professional Education Council

EN378 Advanced Writing I : The Essay - Approved

IS100 Intro. To American Studies - Approved but should be given a course number other that 100

IS305 Latina Literary & Cultural Studies - Approved

The directive from College Senate regarding SUNY Fredonia Cheating, Plagiarism & Collusion Policy was discussed. It was decided that the AAC members will individually review the college catalog entries regarding plagiarism and cheating before the next AAC meeting. At that time the committee will draft an expanded policy defining and clarifying plagiarism and cheating. In addition, Joe Straight will take a request to the Chairs & Directors asking them to create addenda to specifically define individual department policy related to cheating and plagiarism. The AAC will then review the procedure for handling incidents of cheating and plagiarism, and bring its suggestions to the Senate by December. Among our concerns will be establishing a records file in the office of the Academic VP to centralize occurrences of plagiarism and cheating, as well as recording the individual department policies.

For future discussion and review, the AAC will suggest that an Ad Hoc committee be established to study the feasibility of an Honor or Ethics Code.

New Business:

It was suggested that the AAC look into the current policy of accepting 5, 4 and 3 as transfer scores for AP courses. Possibly the 3 should be reconsidered?

In addition, there is a concern about the acceptance of some high school courses for college credit when Fredonia is not the accrediting institution.

Meeting adjourned at 3:00 PM

Next meeting on Friday, October 6 at 2:00 PM

Submitted by David Ludlam

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