Provost's Task Force on the Academic Progress of Undergraduates

Meeting Notes

May 18, 2004

Agenda

• Enrollment Management
• A&S Allocations Summary
• Review Recommendations and Comments

Enrollment Management

• Improve access to classes
• Ensure funds are available for sufficient staff
• Enrollment projections for critical gateway courses
• Adjust projections based upon the size of the incoming class
• Assignment of classes to classrooms - effective utilization of classrooms
• These are temporary funds, need permanent funds to fix
• If necessary open freshman (& possibly sophomore) only courses in Autumn & Winter quarters.
  - Consider limiting the lower level courses that juniors and seniors can take to fulfill UW General Education requirements?

A&S Allocations Summary

• Breakdown of permanent and temporary TA funds broken down by dept.
• Snapshot of how we are staffing undergraduate courses
• Allocation of additional temporary funds to high demand courses to afford greater course access for gateway courses and some upper division courses.

Review Recommendations & Comments

• #1 Approval Process for Multiple Majors / Degrees
  - Course plan completes majors within 210 or degrees within 240
  - Petition process if plan requires additional credits.
  
  
• #2 - Approval to change majors after 135 credits
  - Specific departments could set a lower limit
  - Maintain completion of major within 210 credits.
  
  
• #3 - Create "satisfactory progress credit total" that excludes certain credits
  - Develop consistent rationale for exclusion of certain credits from Academic Progress
  - Needs More discussion
  - Include FIGs and Individual Study?
  
  
• #4 - Electronic process to monitor progress to degree
  - Leave as is to put out
  - Lists provided consistently each year
  
  
• #5 - Improve Advising Resources
  A - needs more discussion, should this be a credit class?
  B - ok as is
  C- clarify - process is not electronic, only submission of form. Still work face to face with an advisor.
  
  
• #6 - Mandatory Advising
  - Low quarterly GPA in addition to cum GPA would trigger. Quarter GPA:1.9 freshman,1.5 others
  - Change to students who withdrew from the UW in the prior two quarters.

Review Process

- Post to web
- Send e-mail to students, staff, faculty, advisors and ask for comments
- Incorporate comments in final report
- Have final recommendation that talks about funding with rough estimate for implementation
- Meet in 3 weeks?