The meeting was called to order at 12:00 with the following members present:
Mark Snavely, Alan Wallace, Rick Matthews, Barbara Short, Anne Cassidy, Ed Montanaro, Michelle Bonn, Jean Preston

The agenda was then addressed.

1. Proposals

The following WI proposals were approved:
Jeff Roberg – POLS 400
Elaine Radwanski – BIOL 251

The following WI proposals received retroactive approval:
Dan Miller – NEUR 250 for 2007-2008

WI status was removed from Cynthia Allen’s EXSS 235 course, now taught by Steve Domin.

2. Waiver Requests

There were no Waiver Requests

3. August Workshop

The workshop will be held on August 26, 27, and 28.

Marty Townsend will present for one day of the three-day workshop.

Please give some thought to the schedule of events and ideas for the workshop before the next WAC Committee meeting.

Along with this discussion, two issues were raised:
1) Must both faculty members of a team-taught WI course be certified for WI?
2) How will the committee deal with students in a WI course who must take the course to fulfill a minor requirement but are not ready for/do not need the course to be WI?

4. The International WAC Conference will be held in Austin, TX on May 28, 29 and 30th. Rich Matthews will attend, as well as another committee member and an additional faculty member not on the committee. Aaron Trautwein and Jacqueline Easley were suggested as possible choices for the non-committee attendee. Jean Preston offered to attend if no other committee member can attend.

The meeting was adjourned at 1:00 p.m. The next meeting will be held on April 9th.

WAC Committee
Minutes of 3/6/08

Present: Bonn, Cassidy, Matthews, Preston, Snavely, Short Wallace,

Waiver Petitions Passed: Kaminski, Xu (tabled from last meeting)

Waiver Petition Denied: Huczla

Waiver Petition Tabled: Diaz (Pending more information)

The committee discussed sending representatives to the International WAC Conference in Austin, TX in late May. Matthews and Preston will go from the committee. We are still considering another person, likely someone outside the committee who is committed to WAC and has been at the fore of teaching WI courses.

The WAC workshop will be August 26, 27 and 28 this year. Wallace and Matthews agreed to begin outlining the workshop and then bring a draft to the committee.

Courses

Faculty Member Course Action

Dan Miller Neroscience 250 Passed
Ellen Hauser Sociology 271 (Women in Developing Countries) Passed
Ellen Hauser Sociology 271 (African Transitions) Passed*
Schlack Economics 450 Passed

Meeting Adjourned at 1:00

*Passed pending Wallace discussing with Hauser the use of a mid-term exam as part of the writing assignments in the course, the committee felt the mid-term, as presented, was not process writing.

WAC Committee Minutes
2/20/08

Present: Bonn, Cassidy, Matthews, Preston, Snavely, Wallace

Several courses were brought by the committee:

Instructor Course & Number Action

Cynthia Allen Methods and Materials EXSS 420 passed
Mark Petering Music Technology & Industry MUS 117 provisional pass
Brian Schwartz Experimental Physics PHYS 406 passed
Aaron Trautwein Linear Algerbra MATH 200 renewed
Ellen Hauser SOCI 271 tabled
Ellen Hauser SOCI 271 tabled

The committee discussed what to do in the event the course caps are violated. Consensus was that the committee should send a letter to the faculty member, copied to the department chair, division chair and Dean of the College reminding about the importance of maintaining the integrity of the 22 student limit on WI course enrollments.

The committee reviewed petitions by students requesting exemption from WI:

Student Reason Action

Xuelean Peak no course offered before graduation granted
Yuen Shing Ka unclear tabled for clarification

Two other petitions were distributed to committee members to be voted on by email (Joanna Huszla and Kevin Kaminski).

Meeting adjourned at 2:20