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Show Committees form to rule on grading A footnote has been added to the Student Code of University Regulations creating an Academic Evaluation Appeals Committee in each college to rule on grading complaints made by students. The code says, "Any student claiming he has been improperly dismissed from a class or graded inconsistently with the standards set forth . . . may appeal to a committee com-mittee comprised of students and faculty designed to hear such appeals ap-peals by the department or college involved." (Chapter X, Article III, Section 3.04). Until this footnote no committee existed to comply with this regulation. The committees, according to the report made to University (Faculty) (Fac-ulty) Senate Monday, will consist of at least three faculty members and two students in each college. Students desiring to appeal dismissal dis-missal from further attendance or participation in a course or the grade he received from a course may appeal to these bodies. According to regulations, the committees may force the instructor instruc-tor to rescind the dismissal or pre- pare a new grade or appeal to the department chairman and dean involved in-volved if it finds the criteria for the instructor's action was "prejudicial, "preju-dicial, capricious or not consistent with previously announced criteria of evaluation." The senate was also informed of a special meeting to be held Oct. 16 at which the senate will vote on new promotions and tenure provisions. J. Boyer Jarvis, associate academic aca-demic vice president and acting chairman of the Promotions and Tenure Advisory Committee, pointed point-ed out that four major changes in tenure will be made by the adoption adop-tion of the provisions along with several minor changes. The changes are: "1) service in any faculty rank, including the rank of instructor, shall be counted as part of the pretenure probationary period, but an individual cannot achieve tenure in the rank of instructor, in-structor, 2) the pretenure probationary probation-ary period for assistant professors is increased from five to seven years, 3) an individual cannot be promoted to the rank of associate professor or professor without simultaneously sim-ultaneously achieving tenure and 4) each department will be required to distribute written statements of the criteria upon which faculty members will be considered for retention, re-tention, tenure or promotion." Faculty members are encouraged encour-aged to read the 42-page amendment amend-ment which is in the hands of all members of University Senate, department de-partment chairmen, college deans and at the reserve desk in the Marriott Mar-riott Library. |