Curriculum Council

Pending:

Degree Proposals

• International Agricultural Development Graduate Minor – CM #60

Policies

• Credits/Contact Hours
  • Students earning 4 credits for 3 contact hours – Rebecca Mathern; See background information. 
  • On April 10, 2020, Takata requested from Mathern for more information/clarification about the contact hour definition for waivers, specifically by sharing the Federal policy/agreement on contact hours that OSU signs off.
  • SWLF waiver of 1 cr when courses moved from 3 to 4 credits due to lack of classroom space. 3/2/20
  • SWLF MOU

• Accreditation Standards
  • 11/1/19 – Registrar’s Office annually runs a credit-hour review report to identify discrepancies between a course’s hours and credits. Registrar requests that the CC members review the identified discrepancies. Following review, CC, members to decide if J. Bunnage from accreditation should come to a CC meeting to discuss the discrepancies and possible resolutions.

• Definitions (lab, recitations, etc.)  – issue raised about the definitions Bacc Core is using and how they are interpreting the definitions with regards to Ecampus courses
  • See Policies -  Schedule Type (APA site)  

• Ecampus – Delivery of Instruction
• Hybrid Courses – G. Beach requested to revise based on 4/17/18 CC comments; req 4/26/18
  • 9/24/19 – Cub Kahn, Shannon Riggs and Gary Beach reviewing the final draft
  • 11/1/19 – Tentatively scheduled to be discussed
  • 11/?/19 – A. Gitelman & L. Templeton to review – no review mtg scheduled
  • 2/26/2020 – R. Mathern will talk with her team, A. Gitelman, Financial Aid and J. Bunnage to determine what it would take to implement the policy; she will then review with Curriculum Council within a month.
  • 2/26/2020 – Once the Hybrid Course Policy is approved, discuss the issues related to a course designated as face-to-face, but the instructor chooses to place a large amount of the course material online, is this allowed? Is there a policy that addresses this situation? C. McKiel is communicating concerns to R. Mathern.

• Learning Outcomes – 2/29/2020 – A. Gitelman and R. Mathern to draft a policy regarding submitting a change course proposal to CIM when a course’s learning outcomes are changed.
• Course Specific Measurable Student Learning Outcomes: See Student Learning Outcomes for a definition and instructions 
• Majors – 5/23/2018 – Action: Tabled – R. Mathern will resolve some of the CIM issues; needs to relate to Academic Regulations; CC will review after revised
  • Not approved in 2017-2018 ~VN
  • 2/26/19 – to be finalized after the CIM rollout

• Minimum Class Size – 5/23/2018 – Action: R. Mathern will work over the 2018 summer to create a more coherent policy
  • 1/18/2019 – Mathern will determine from Gitelman if review needed prior to accreditation
  • 2/26/2019 – per RM and A. Gitelman – HOLD – will not be reviewed prior to accreditation visit

• Minors – 5/23/2018 – Action: R. Mathern and M. Ossiander will review over the 2018 summer and propose combining Minors and Options
  • Review on 2/22/19 with Options (tentative)

• Non-credit Coursework Policy – Prem Mathew is requesting review
  • 2/1/19 – subcommittee of P. Mathew, P. Diebel, R. Mathern, R. Garagnani, L. Shirley will draft a structure for the CC to review

• Options – 5/9/2018 – Tabled until recommendations from Rebecca and Mina are brought forward for consideration – this likely won’t occur until Fall 2018s
  • Review on 2/22/2019 with, or after, Minors (tentative)
    • Revisions made to policies by other entities, but not reviewed or approved by the Curriculum Council.
    • Syllabus – Minimum Requirements: Syllabi

  • Although recent revisions were approved by the Curriculum Council, originators felt that sentence 1 seemed to contradict sentences 2 and 3 and interpreting the language as being required to submit all syllabi versions regardless of whether it’s a Baccalaureate Core course.
  • 5/29/2020 – additional revisions, appearing in blue were approved.

Undergraduate Academic Program Reviews

• Dept. of Ag Ed & Ag Science – early to mid-April 2020
• American Studies B.S. – Reviewers: Candice Clark, Allen Thompson – this is an OSU-Cascades-only degree, and the site visit will take place at OSU-Cascades April 21-23, 2019 – Discuss on 11/18/2020
• Environmental Sciences B.S. (tentatively scheduled week of February 3-8 March 18-20, 2019 – Rebecca Mathern, Carol McKiel Terry Rooker

Course Designators

• None pending

Miscellaneous

• Discuss review and approval of Ecampus proposals
• Professional Degrees Workgroup appointed during 2/22/2019 CC meeting
  • Members: Gary Beach, Theresa Filtz, Lisa Ganio, Rosemary Garagnani, Rebecca Mathern, Ann Zweber

• Undergraduate Academic Program Review/Unit Review Discussion
  • The January 15 discussion summary is in BOX.  

Note: blue, bolded text indicates dates items were approved or dispensed with.