Therese McCarty announced the agenda of the meeting which included the Middle States Self Study, and three reports on student affairs which were being made in response to faculty requests for information. Middle States was the first item on the Agenda, and Linda Cool reported that fully one quarter of the faculty is currently serving on a committee for the Middle States review. She strongly urged the entire faculty to cooperate with the committees by filling out a questionnaire about to be circulated to all faculty members. Steve Leavitt, who designed the survey, was introduced. He described it in detail, and showed how it was to be filled out electronically, although for those who objected to this method, he said a hard copy would be made available.
Anonymity is guaranteed.
Roger introduced Brad Lewis for a report from the Committee on Standing. All students whose GPA falls below 2.0 are reviewed by the Committee. Brad emphasized that the Committee found the yellow cards to be a very important part of the decision process and thanked the faculty for their cooperation in turning them in. Fifteen percent of the student body, generally speaking, find themselves on academic warning. A copy of these data is available from Brad's office.