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Undergraduate Curriculum Forum (UCF)

Minutes 12/3/98

Present: G. Gurka, C. Serchuk, D. Levine, G. Puerschner, S. Martinelli, P. Cascella, J. Stenzel, B. Farley-Lucas, R. Workman, J. Fopiano, J. Tait, C. Gilmore, J. Ensign, M. Hamilton-Lee, M. Macomber, M. Shea, P. Palma, P. Beals, P. Kelton, F. Harris, A. Bielefield, M. Bunco, J. McGivney-Burelle, P. Brandes, D. Chevan, B. Madara, J. Hauselt, C. Mindell, P. Gallup, J. Granfield, C. McDaniels, E. Budris, L. Lancor, R. Cretella, K. Mauro, M. Heidmann

I.    Call to Order: The meeting was called to order by C. Serchuk at 9:35 am.

II.    Announcements:

  • There will be a holiday AAUP party on 12/10/98.
  • There will be an Art Department holiday party on 12/9/98.
  • It was announced that Women's Studies 400 is crosslisted as GEO 498.
  • The second series on financial planning will be Friday, 12/4/98.
  • There will be a lecture today on the contemporary situation in Burma, sponsored by SCORE and East Asian Studies.
  • It was announced that changes to the course catalogue should be brought to Bob Drobish directly.
  • The date of the first Spring, 1999 UCF meeting is 2/4/99.
  • Departments that have concerns about UCF practices and procedures are encouraged to talk with C. Serchuk directly.

III.    Approval of Meeting Minutes: The minutes of the previous UCF meeting (11/19/98) were approved with no revisions. Paperwork for today's meeting included:

  • NMC minutes 11/12/98
  • Comments about remediation, dated 11/30/98 & 12/3/98

IV.    Committee Reports:

Notifications Management: (see minutes 11/12/98). P. Gallup (chair) highlighted these minutes, and two minor corrections were noted. The minutes were accepted.

University Wide Impact: There was no report from this committee.

New Programs and Innovations: There was no report from this committee.

Program Review & Assessment: There was no report from this committee.

V.    Remediation: (see comments, dated 11/30/98 & 12/3/98). C. Serchuk introduced discussion about remediation and outlined six common themes which emerged: diagnostics (i.e., how well do we know these students?), cost (i.e., the balance between admission and raising standards; costs to faculty), the role of the high schools, admission standards (i.e., regular vs. provisional admission), and incentives (i.e., how do we get students to do this?).

Discussion occurred among UCF members regarding the initial theme (diagnostics) and comments about remedial courses and the placement exam. Discussion included the following topics:

what does it mean to pass the placement exam?

can the placement exam be the final exam in remedial courses?

can we get the high schoolers who are coming to SCSU before they graduate so as to identify students who will need remedial work?

how can the placement exam be better publicized?

how can the placement exam be better coordinated with Summer advising and the New Student Orientation program?

what is the correlation of the SAT to the placement exam?

96% of incoming students take ENG 100 or 98; 4% take ENG 101

how do we address remedial issues for transfer students?

do students need remediation in all subject areas?

what resources already exist? what resources would be needed?

relative benchmarks of ENG 98, 100, 101

ENG 98 write the sentence to the paragraph

ENG 100 write the paragraph to the argument

ENG 101 write the argument to the research paper is ENG 101 a better example of an L course prerequisite than ENG 100?

Motion 1: a motion was made, seconded and tabled to make ENG 101 a prerequisite for L courses

VI.    Adjournment:

  1. A motion to adjourn the meeting was made, seconded and passed unanimously.
  2. The meeting was adjourned at 10:50 am.

Minutes recorded by:

Paul W. Cascella

Department of Communication Disorders