WAC Meeting Agenda

Tuesday, September 15th

Attendance: Mark Snavely, David Steege, Abby Hanna, Rick Matthews, Ed Montanaro, Jonathan Marshall, Barb Short, Jean Preston, Anne Cassidy

I. Approval of minutes from May 11th: approved

https://wac.carthage.edu/)

II. New Course Proposals: Barb will send emails.

Joe Walls MGMT XXX: International and Cultural Finances of the United Kingdom; approved

Mark will take care of documenting email approvals.

Add Stephanie Mitchell to the senior seminar on Steve Udry’s proposal for fall.

III. Waiver Requests

Emily Royals, Graphic Design: Does she have room to take a WI class sometime this year? Doesn’t fit with the consequences. She was put on alert with a request last May. Denied.

Nicole Newton, Education: Can’t accept retroactive credit for a WI credit; denied.

Matthews Tokarz, Broad Field Social Science: Denied substitution of Classics 300, but waived the requirement due to circumstances beyond his control.

Discussion about classes being specific to instructor in a dept. and not all sections being designated WI.

Abby will contact the students. Rick will contact Dennis Munk.

IV. Waiver Policy after this year

Waivers (petitions) will be handed by SAAR. After the SAAR meeting, Rick, Mark, Abby, and David will meet with the committee to go over guidelines.

V. Unfinished Business

VI. New Business

Meeting time: Keep Tuesday at 8:30am-9:30am once a month. Second Tues. Oct. 13th.

Updates for current classes: we need to find a way to do this and have it on file.

Start thinking long term and more strategic; assessment issues.