Meeting Date: 
October 10, 2016
Date: 
10/10/2011 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Location: 
109 Gilkey Hall
Event Description: 

A PDF if the agenda can be found here.

A PDF of the minutes can be found here.

Agenda: 
  1. Review our mission as defined by Faculty Senate Standing Rules and suggest revisions, if needed: http://oregonstate.edu/senate/committees/uhcc/sr/index.html

 

  1. Review demographic questions on SET to see if they allow faculty to identify specific UH students (due to small class sizes)

 

  1. Discuss the Honors Thesis (how to improve the process) and alternate forms that might be equally appropriate (e.g. performance recitals)

 

  1. Review and provide input into the admissions essay topics

 

  1. Discuss whether UHC should consciously try to increase enrollment. Is bigger better?

 

  1. Create a more direct tie between UHCC and BCC? (since BCC decisions affect UHC students and policies)
Minutes: 

Members Attending: Ed Jensen (Chair), Jessina McGregor (via phone), Richard Cuenca, Mark Daeschel, Dan Arp (ex-officio)

Members Absent: Susie Brubaker-Cole, Patti Duncan, Claire Rogan (student member)

Membership Listing: http://oregonstate.edu/senate/committees/uhcc/member/2011-2012.html

 

  1. Introductions

 

  1. Review known agenda items for the year
    1. Review Faculty Senate Standing Rules
    2. Review changes to the Honors College SET form proposed by Toni Doolen (carryover from last term)
    3. Discuss Honors thesis — specifically alternate forms and barriers to completion
    4. Review and provide input into HC admissions questions and scoring rubric
    5. Discuss desirability of increasing size of HC
    6. Create more direct tie between BCC and HCCC (since BCC decisions often affect HC students)
    7. Consider why more academically capable students don’t choose  to enroll in HC (identify some limiting factors and discuss possible solutions)

 

  1. Action Items:
  1. Review Standing Rules at http://oregonstate.edu/senate/committees/uhcc/sr/index. We reviewed and discussed various aspects, including the distinction between UHCC overseeing policies and procedures and the Dean and Associate Dean of the HC being responsible for implementing same. Action: We approved the standing rules as written.
  2. Reviewed proposal to eliminate demographic questions about Class Standing and Major from the HC SET form. Action: proposal to remove approved. 
  3. Honors thesis: Dan provided some background information and the Council raised some questions. Action: we agreed that this should be the focus of several meetings (in the future) and that we should begin with Dan/Toni providing some background information and data about rates of completion, support currently provided to students, how often thesis is a barrier to completing HC, etc. 
  4. Admission essays and scoring criteria. Action: Ed will collect questions and scoring criteria for future meeting.
  5. Increasing size of HC (not only in absolute numbers but also in percentage of OSU students enrolled). Dan provided background that this is not only a goal of the Provost, but also of Dan. Action: we decided that this should be the next agenda item tackled this year and should occur at next meeting. Dan/Toni will provide background at the next meeting.
  6. Create better tie between BCC and UHCC. Action: Ed should play this role.
  7. Why don’t more academically capable students choose HC? Action: postpone until after discussing if HC should increase in size.
  8. Student members: We should strive to have two (as per standing rules), but will continue to conduct business with fewer. Appointing students is up to ASOSU. Action: Claire Rogan (FE/CE) has volunteered but has not yet been formally accepted by ASOSU. Dan will advertise in HC newsletter.
  9. Future meetings: Ed and Vickie Nunnemaker will conduct Doodle polls and strive to be as inclusive as possible. Meeting length will be set at 90 minutes, but with assumption that not all need to run that long.