From Elizabeth.Bradley@Colorado.EDU Mon Sep 29 14:28:31 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, 29 Sep 2008 14:28:31 -0600 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: IAC follow-up notes Reply-to: lizb@cs.colorado.edu Dear All: A bunch of people had conflicts with last week's meeting of the intercollegiate athletics committee, so I will try to make these notes better than usual. Please chime in if you were there and you see something that needs correcting, adding, etc. 1. Several new people turned up - most importantly, students from UGGS, UCSU and athletics. Welcome to Kathleen Majewski (heptathlete, I think?) and Dustin Farivar, who is one of the tri-execs. 2. Dave Clough told us that the 2010 Big 12 golf tournament is scheduled so as to collide with our final exams. The committee agreed to send its strong disapproval of this conflict to the Big 12 FARs meeting with him, and urge them to reschedule. 3. We began a discussion of a proposed summer bridge program that would require MBB freshmen to take 3 credits during the summer before their first year, by way of smoothing the transition to college. We will discuss this at more length in October. In the meantime, Kathleen is gathering some feedback from among the student-athletes. 4. We finished (!) COIA. This involved three dangling issues: o We agreed to push back on the BFA about their removal of "by sport" from the part of the motion that addressed proposal 1.1.2, with the aid of Greg Carey, who can explain why doing so would have the opposite of the desired effect upon the power of the statistics o We concocted language for Uriel to suggest to Bud for the membership section of the BAB charge, per COIA proposal 3.1 -- which it passed as written. We worked from the existing BAB charge and stole some words from the BCPC membership rules, producing this new draft: --------------------- Membership of the CU-BAB shall be as follows: - at least seven faculty members, of whom four shall serve on both the CU-BAB and the BFA IAC; - at least two student representatives, including at least one student-athlete; - one or more administrators, including an administrator from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs; - one or more administrators from the Athletic Deparment, preferably including a head coach for a varsity sport; Faculty representatives to the BAB will be appointed by the Chancellor, in consultation with academic leaders, including the BFA chair. Student representatives will be appointed by the Chancellor, in consultation with student government leaders and the SAAC. (Ed note: I hope I didn't mess up here and record the wrong verdict. We *did* agree on "in consultation with" rather than "solicit recommendations from," right???) --------------------- o We decided that it was not humanly possible to put together language that captured the subtleties of when it was or was not OK to pull scholarships (i.e., to recraft COIA proposal 2.1.1). We decided to recommend that the BFA pass 2.1.1 as written, but add a request for an annual review from the AD regarding this matter. This report would include statistics about revoked scholarships, including reasons, but obviously not names. We also suggested some changes in the makeup of the appeals committee: -------------------- 1. Consists of faculty and staff outside the Athletic Department 2. Committee members: a. Director, Financial Aid (chair) b. Associate Director, Financial Aid c. Associate Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Education d. A faculty member appointed by the BFA Substitute members can be appointed by the chair of the committee and the chair of the BFA. -------------------- Note: the document that defines the composition of this appeals committee is an athletics department document. These changes are fine with Mike, but they need to get institutionalized, lest they get lost in some later shuffle, so I will add a sentence about this committee and its composition to the version of proposal 2.1.1 that I put in the motion. I am taking this revised version of our motion to the BFA excomm this afternoon, in preparation for presenting it in the form of a "notice of motion" at the full BFA meeting on thursday, which sets up a discussion and vote at the 11/6 full BFA meeting. I will also take a copy of the letter that student-athletes receive when a scholarship is reduced. 5. In the last seven minutes of the meeting, Mike Bohn gave us a very useful budget update. (sorry about crunching your time, Mike!) Our next meeting will take place on weds October 29th from 1-2pm in Ekeley S274. (That's the room we met in back in August.) In preparation for that meeting, please read BFA Motion #BFA-M-2-0301, entitled ``Interaction between athletics and academics,'' which is listed on the committee webpage. Liz