Policy

Academic Policies and Standards Committee (CAPS) meets the Wednesday before classes start each semester (Fall and Spring) in GMH 325. During the Fall and Spring semesters CAPS meets on selected by the committee Friday's from 2:15 - 3:30 pm in GMH 325.

2024-2025 Membership

Undergraduate Student Representative

Duties and Responsibilities

• Formulating and reviewing local policies and standards concerning admissions, advising, retention, advanced standing, probation, dismissal, readmission, the grading system, and graduation honors for undergraduate students. 
• Ensuring equitable application of standards by the undergraduate schools and colleges. A voting member has the responsibility to recuse themself if they are unable to ensure equitable application of standards due to a conflict of interest. 
• Supervising the administration of these standards and formulating procedures for hearing student appeals and petitions on academic matters not resolved by administrative offices of the university. 

Charge Letter

Meeting Minutes

Committee Documents

Click here for previous academic year committee membership, meeting minutes, charge letters, final reports and committee documents for the Academic Policies & Standards Committee.

The Graduate Council meets on 1^st/3^rd Friday’s of each month during the Fall and Spring semesters, from 10:00 – 11:30 am in GMH 325

2024-2025 Membership

Graduate Student Representatives

Duties and Responsibilities

• In partnership with programs, departments, schools, and colleges, regularly establishing, monitoring, and revising academic policies pertaining to graduate education, including policies for graduate student admission, honors recognition, retention, probation, dismissal, and readmission, and reviewing those policies at least every five years. 

• In partnership with the Director of Graduate Studies, sharing responsibility for graduate education strategic planning to ensure: 
  • on-going review, assessment, and revision of the strategic plan; and 
  • implementation of recommendations resulting from strategic planning activities. 
• Overseeing membership in the graduate faculty. 
  • Determine procedures and criteria for selecting members of the graduate faculty. 
  • Review new graduate faculty applications through a standing subcommittee. 
  • Periodically approve and updated roster of members of the graduate faculty. 
• Formulating procedures for hearing graduate student appeals and petitions on academic policy matters not resolved by administrative offices of the university. 

• Reviewing Research, Service, and Education Leadership (RSEL) grant applications through a standing subcommittee. 

Charge Letter

Meeting Minutes

Committee Documents

Click here for previous academic year committee membership, meeting minutes, charge letters, final reports and committee documents for the Graduate Council Committee.

2024-2025 Membership

Student Representative

Duties and Responsibilities

• Study and report to the senate on university budget decisions that affect instruction and research. 

• Review annual budgets and report to the senate on trends in support for instruction. 

Committee Documents

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2024-2025 Membership

Duties and Responsibilities

• Studying, developing, and recommending policies and procedures used in the university concerning salary, position types and titles, promotion, workload, and general working conditions for Instructional Academic Staff. 

• Studying, developing, and making recommendations regarding the implementation in the university of such policies and procedures. 

• Collecting and disseminating information on such policies and procedures and their implementation in the university. 

Charge Letter

Meeting Minutes

Committee Documents

Click here for previous academic year committee membership, meeting minutes, charge letters, final reports and committee documents for the Instructional Academic Staff Committee.

2023-2024 Membership

Duties and Responsibilities

• Studying and recommending policies and procedures used in the university concerning salary, promotion, and tenure. 

• Collecting and disseminating information on procedures employed within the university in matters concerning promotion, tenure, and salary. 

Charge Letter

Meeting Minutes

Committee Documents

Click here for previous academic year committee membership, meeting minutes, charge letters, final reports and committee documents for the Promotion, Tenure & Salary Committee.

2024-2025 Membership

Duties and Responsibilities

• Consulting with the chancellor on financial emergencies in which faculty layoffs are anticipated as prescribed in UWS 5. 

• Participating in any decision regarding potential program curtailment, in accordance with UWL 5.05 - 5.08. 

• Representing the faculty before the board of regents if a state of financial emergency is declared, as detailed in UWS 5.04 - 5.06. 

Charge Letter

Meeting Minutes

Committee Documents

Click here for previous academic year committee membership, meeting minutes, charge letters, final reports and committee documents for the Consultative Layoff Committee.