So we see a net increase of 7.5 faculty lines as compared to last year. Thus, the Dean has reduced the search list for next year by authorizing only 16.5 lines. Erich Goode summarized the kinds of cases that this Committee handles. If this continues for two consecutive or three semesters total, they can appeal. The Committee makes a decision as to whether or not their appeal has sufficient merit to waive the academic dismissal.
Students also petition to receive late or retroactive withdrawal or cancellation of courses.
This entails, for instance, one semester in which they might have received a B, a C, and two F's. If they show documentation that these F's involve selected problems, they are permitted to keep only the grades in the courses they passed. Lastly, there is termination of academic dismissal. The same was true for retroactive withdrawal from a course and cancellation of a course from the record. But CASA approved most of the cases involving termination of academic dismissal.