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ADVISING COORDINATING COMMITTEE
Thursday, April 5, 2007 11:00 a.m. - SCI Tech Library 421
CONDUCTING: Stephanie Hamblin
EXCUSED: Danene Dustin, Karalee Ransom, Beth Walden, Eric Worthen
ATTENDING:
College of Agriculture: Lisa Allen, Juanita Hunting, Marlene Israelsen, Cathy Myers-Roche, Tami Spackman
College of Business: Katrina Nye
College of Education & Human Services: Dawn Black, Melanie Jones, Marilyn Kruse, Darcie Peterson, Denise Taylor
College of Engineering: Mary Lee Anderson, Isobel Roskelley, Joan Smith
College of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences : Reid Furniss, Susan Parkinson
College of Natural Resources: Kristy Hodson , Maureen Wagner
College of Science: Myra Cook, Janalee Johnson, Peter Kolesar, Dennis Welker
Disability Resource Center: Christine Lord
Distance Education: Logan (Vince Lafferty, Heather Thomas) Brigham, Moab, Tooele
Intensive English: Margaret Garr
Multicultural Student Services: Cynthia Arocha, Sam Curley
Registrar’s Office: John Mortensen
Retention-First-Year Experience: Krystin Deschamps, Lisa Hancock
Student Athletic Services: Shukria King
University Advising: Michelle Bogdan, Susan Haddock, Stephanie Hamblin, Steve Johnson, Megen Ralphs, Deborah Reece,
Other: Marion Jensen (open courseware)
MINUTES
1. Transcript Update – John Mortensen
Our official transcripts have the courses from other schools articulated to our courses, often showing ELEC 1XXX. National and other state schools list transfer work as a summary with total credits. If students need official transcripts of their transfer work for graduate school, etc., they can get official transcripts from each school they attended. The unofficial transcripts in SSB will still list the courses as they are articulated to our courses. If a student retakes a course at USU from a transfer school, the GPA will still be adjusted.
2. Clusters – John Mortensen Currently we 60 more students than last year have registered for a cluster. Math 1010 is down because of the math placement requirement, but overall 650-700 more classes are being filled than last year at this time and 62 courses have been closed because of cluster registration. Classes have been capped for clusters allowing space for other students to register for those courses April 9th, for example, Engl 1010 has left 5 spaces open in each class in order to allow current students to take the class. 3. Math Placement Demo – Linda Skabelund If students or advisors have questions about the Placement Exam, please call the Math Department. There is an Elementary Math exam for Math 0900 and 1010 and a College Algebra exam for Math 1010 and above. As a students answers the questions, if they get them correct, they are asked questions at a higher level to place them in the correct math class. The fee is $10, which is charged to the student’s account, and he/she can take the class as many times as they want to pay for it. Math has some materials to provide to students as well as using a math book and the internet to study before taking the exam. The exam is given in Geol 310 and students need to call Linda between 7:30 and 10:30 to schedule a time to take the exam. Students only need a student ID when they come. There are ways to accommodate DRC students; however, a student must take the test in English without a dictionary or explanation. The class is taught in English and so the student must take the test in English. The Math Department is also working on some things online for students. Linda demonstrated the exam. The exam is good for one year. 4. Connections 2007 – Noelle Call There will be 60 sections of Connections, capped at 25 students this year. In the past the sections were major/interest specific which worked well in theory but not in practice. If a certain area’s class was filled, students would then think they could not register for another Connections section. There are a few (Engineering, Theatre Arts, Agriculture, Honors) that are major specific, but the majority are hybrid. The common literature experience is a book titled “Complications” and is written by a practicing physician. He will also be our Convocations speaker. All are invited and encouraged to participate. A few reason the book was chosen is that it models excellent essay writing and the learning/decision making process and is interesting. 5. Retention Symposium – Noelle Call A University Retention Symposium is being planned with more details to come. The First-year Experience/Retention office is also working on an Early Alert task force. The goal is to identify at-risk students as early in the semester as possible in order to provide resources that will help them be successful. Connections grades are an early indicator of academic difficulty. Approximately 78% of students whose Connections grades are a B or higher stay in good standing; about 47% of those with a B- or lower so not. Connections grades are due in October and the First-year Experience/Retention office will notify advisors of students who are at risk. There are also eight professors on campus who will pilot an Early Alert program, indicating students who are not attending class and/or did not do well on their first exam. They are also collecting a large amount of data that can be shared with other departments in their retention initiatives.
- On-Course – Marion Jensen, Director of Utah State Open-courseware. Universities have a large amount of content that is available only for students who are registered for a on-line specific class. Open Courseware puts that information on a website for others to access. Hundreds of universities across the world are participating, and Utah State is a leader in
