From Elizabeth.Bradley@Colorado.EDU Mon Nov 17 20:31:03 2008 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.4 (2008-01-01) on research.cs.colorado.edu X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.4 Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:31:03 -0700 From: Liz Bradley To: Karl.Mueller@Colorado.EDU, Martha.Hanna@Colorado.EDU, e.scott.adler@Colorado.EDU, helen.norton@Colorado.EDU, Joseph.Jupille@Colorado.EDU, Bob.Sievers@Colorado.EDU, Stephen.Jones@Colorado.EDU, lizb@research.cs.colorado.edu, David.Clough@Colorado.EDU, tsnow@origins.Colorado.edu, Michael.Bohn@Colorado.EDU, Cecelia.Barry@Colorado.EDU, Barbara.Bintliff@Colorado.EDU, Andrew.Poppe@Colorado.EDU, george.hypolite@Colorado.EDU, kathleen.majewski@Colorado.EDU, dustin.farivar@Colorado.EDU, theodore.snow@Colorado.EDU, Gail.Pederson@Colorado.EDU, Maureen.Ryan@Colorado.EDU, Rosella.Chavez@Colorado.EDU Subject: BFA IAC matters Reply-to: lizb@cs.colorado.edu Dear All: This message combines follow-up from our last meeting (October 29) with the agenda for our next, which will take place this wednesday, November 17, from 1-2pm in Ekeley S274. At the last meeting, we began by discussing the COIA bylaws and the 2008 NCAA proposals, both of which looked generally fine to us. One matter did come out of the COIA bylaw review: the fact that we've never actually *decided*, as a committee or as a faculty senate, to be a COIA member. I've put that on the agenda for the April meeting. We then revisited the summer bridge program. The student-athletes are a bit leery of this program, but understand that it's a good idea. I can't remember if we took a formal vote about supporting this, but I do remember that there was a general consensus in the committee agreeing with this assessment: smoothing the transition to college is important, but the possibility of losing one's eligibility right off the bat is scary. I reported on the status of the new BFA COIA motion, which was stalled because of our concerns about the makeup of the scholarship appeals committee (three people: two administrators from the office of financial aid (OFA) and the AVC for ugrad education). The committee felt strongly that that was not enough faculty representation, and that the OFA dominance of this committee was not appropriate. My conversations with Gwen Pomper - the director of financial aid, who chairs this committee - had elicited some movement in that direction, but not enough. We'll talk a bit about this at the November meeting. We then started talking about the BFA interaction memo, which began in 2003 (Ted?) as a "missed class" policy and then grew to encompass a broader range of faculty/student-athlete interactions. The committee agreed that this document needed an update, and felt that its scope should be narrowed to focus simply on athletics-induced class absences. Helen and Ceal took on the rewrite; we'll discuss their results and decide how to finalize the new motion at the November meeting. Here is the agenda for the upcoming meeting. Supporting materials and homework are, as always, posted on the committee webpage. ------------ Chair's Items: - BFA motion on COIA - Graduation rate update - Texas/Facebook issue Missed Class Policy Priority Registration UWV Game Post-Processing [if time] Homework: old & new interaction memos, faculty engagement article, etc. SEE THE WEBPAGE.