Provost's Task Force on the Academic Progress of Undergraduates
Meeting Notes
July 22, 2003
- Charge
- Need f6r working principles on academic progress
- Need to focus on what's best for students
- Need to build a base of information to inform understandings
Policies Group
- Advisor's Information File
- 105 Rule
- 210 Rule
- Low Scholarship
- Issues:
- Financial Aid Limitations/Policies
- How are decisions made to extend pre-majors
- Who is doing academic advising?
- What are the mechanisms enabling change
- Departmental differences
- Enforcement of policies is an issue
- Barriers Group
- Need for data on course access and denial
- Need for data on CC courses taken
- Field-specific bottlenecks
- See attached notes
- Data Group
- See attached document
- A focus on students heading into trouble in terms of academic progress
prior to encountering 210 rule
- Collect information on 210 filings and the reasons they have exceeded
210 credits.
- Characteristics Group
- Strategies Group
- Policies from 25 universities
- Implementation practices
- Spreadsheet online
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