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Education Policy Committee
Goals for 2007-2008
Deadline for student handbook: first week of February
Deadline for Fall 2008 Time Schedule Friday Feb 1
Deadline for 2008/2009 Catalog Friday May 2
Deadline for Faculty Handbook: ?
1. Revise student handbook and college catalog language for course repetition and Ws, as well as grade alleviation, to reflect compliance with new Title 5 Ed Code regulations. Make sure that all changes in GPA and calculations and academic renewal have been accurately updated.
2. Include mention of the Federal Educational Rights to Privacy Act (FERPA) in the Skyline Faculty Handbook and include directions to faculty for how to comply.
3. Continue to support the honors statistics class in measuring the campus climate. Possible new topic: security.
4. Continue to support the revision on the DSPS form and procedures for filing initial grievances and subsequent appeals of a grievance decision. Explore ways to streamline the current accommodations request procedures from the faculty perspective.
5. Ask the VP of Student Services to draft language to repair previously identified weaknesses in the student grievance and appeals form.
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Policy Committee
Accomplishments
for 2006-2007
On December 5, 2006, convened as Matriculation Advisory Committee
Committee approved easing of restrictions on placement tests from the previous 21-day wait for retest to a new wait of 14 days.
Approved district standardization of GPA calculation, a necessary condition for degree audit.
Carried forward to Senate for approval the easing of restrictions on academic renewal
Identified areas to be revised in student grievances and appeals forms
Monitored studies on cheating and plagiarism