From Elizabeth.Bradley@Colorado.EDU Thu Dec 1 12:42:21 2011 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on research.cs.colorado.edu X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 12:42:21 -0700 From: Liz Bradley To: Martha.Hanna@Colorado.EDU, e.scott.adler@Colorado.EDU, helen.norton@Colorado.EDU, dduncan@Colorado.EDU, Bob.Sievers@Colorado.EDU, Stephen.Jones@Colorado.EDU, isaac.reed@Colorado.EDU, lizb@research.cs.colorado.edu, David.Clough@Colorado.EDU, tsnow@casa.Colorado.edu, Michael.Bohn@Colorado.EDU, Cecelia.Barry@Colorado.EDU, Julie.Manning@Colorado.EDU, Joseph.Jupille@Colorado.EDU, niklas.maccarter@Colorado.EDU, Katlyn.Hartman@Colorado.EDU cc: sierra.swearingen@Colorado.EDU, kris.livingston@Colorado.EDU Subject: BFA IAC November meeting minutes Reply-to: lizb@cs.colorado.edu Due to a variety of conflicts and emergencies, attendance at the IAC meeting on tuesday was again small, but (as always) enthusiastic. The friday football game went remarkably smoothly. Phil got =!zero!= email complaints about it, and only one committee member even remembered hearing any grumbling (and that grumbling was clearly uninformed by reading any of the email that went out). We discussed the prospect of future weekday home MFB games, more of which appear to be in the planning stages than the "once every 2-3 years" that we remembered being told. The committee feels VERY STRONGLY that these games should be scheduled on fridays - that the impact on thursdays would be vastly greater. Kris Livingston joined us to talk about final exam conflicts and a few issues that have come up with the class-absence letters. - Two skiiers wish to compete in high-level by-qualification-only meets during finals; both are good students and have worked out arrangements with their profs, so we approved both. - In a few cases, competitions came up that weren't on the class-absence letters that were given to the students at the beginning of the semester: 1. elite athletes who qualified for national/world level meets 2. freshmen MFB players who burned their redshirts 3. cross country runners whose qualification rules changed with the move to the PAC-12 These situations left Kris scrambling to generate new letters with new "I can't attend on..." dates, which were presented to instructors in the middle of the semester. The third is a temporary problem resulting from the Big 12-PAC12 transition and will not recur. The second will be addressed in the future by giving MFB letters that say "I'm on the FB team and I probably won't play, but if I burn my redshirt I would miss...." We could modify the letters to address the first kind of situation (i.e., in *every* student-athlete's letter, put in *every possible* competition that they might possibly qualify for), but that would be so ponderous as to negate the effectiveness of these letters. The committee feels that these situations should be addressed on a case-by-case basis, and that the IAC chair be involved - by co-signing the letter and/or by contacting the faculty member (and being cc'ed on it either way). We asked Kris about several other things: the AAA committee (which appears to be working well though there's a bit of pushback from some coaches) and the MFB class attendance monitoring project (which was a pilot and has not been continued, and is hopefully moot because of cultural changes that came with the new coaches). [Again, thanks for coming, Kris!] I then reported on the meeting of the Regents' subcommittee on intercollegiate athletics, which took place on 11/9. (Mike invited me to tell them what the IAC does.) The chair of this subcommittee opened the meeting with this quote: "Our purpose as a committee is to put athletics back on the pedestal where it deserves to be at the University of Colorado." I pointed out that the primary business of the university is academics and research. Oddly enough, I got a lot of positive feedback about that. We finished up by talking a bit about the NCAA legislative changes, some of which were pretty radical: partial qualifiers not playing freshman year, institutions making up all or part of the gap between scholarships and real cost of living, four-year scholarships, 930 APR being required for postseason play. When we last talked about this, Dave told us that the process was being pushed through very rapidly, and without much input from coaches and ADs. The FARs were pushing for a postponement of their adoption, but Kris thought that most, but not all, of these had been passed and were now in play. Our next meeting will be 30 January at 4pm. In the meantime, good luck surviving the end of the semester and happy holidays. Liz