WAC Minutes
February 22nd, 2010
Present: Abigail Hanna, David Steege, Mark Snavely, Ron Cronovich, Ed Montanaro, Barbara Short, Rick Matthews.
The minutes from the November meetings were approved.
We discussed the issue of deadlines for WI courses submitted on the schedule for next fall.
The following action will be taken:
Around March 4th, Abigail will send Mark and Rick a copy of all WI courses and instructors on the fall schedule.
Rick and Mark will check that list against the list of approved WI courses and instructors, and notify departments of any inconsistencies.
The deadline for course proposals will be March 11th.
The committee will meet to approve course proposals before advising begins on March 21st.
Any courses that are not approved by WAC by March 21st will have their WI status removed for fall term.
We will meet on 3/15/11 and 4/12/11, from noon to 1:00. Committee members agreed that Tuesdays, 12-1:00 are a good time to meet. Other meetings, if necessary, will be scheduled at this time.
We discussed creating a course renewal process. Major questions and concerns that were discussed were:
The spirit of the renewal is to have people look at their original submission and take note of changes they have made, ostensibly based on whether particular assignments met course goals and objectives (which is a crucial component of assessment).
Time: three year renewal cycle seems most reasonable.
Enforcement and verification. What to do with courses that aren’t renewed? Consensus seems to be to remove WI status.
Whether a syllabus should be included with the renewal: consensus seems to be yes.
Old data base needs to be migrated to the new form. If someone needs the old information, Mark has it. Anything new should be stored.
Can we make this really easy? i.e., just click on a button and submit a syllabus and note significant changes to the course? We don’t want to make this onerous.
We agreed to continue this discussion at our next meeting.
Meeting adjourned at 1:00