The University Senate’s Educational Policy Committee on Oct. 13 saw Amanda Godley, vice provost for graduate studies and interim vice provost for undergraduate studies, provide a brief preview of upcoming events designed to assist faculty through changes underway:
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The provost’s office will be offering two workshops on ways to maintain “equity in graduate admissions,” Godley said, in light of the recent Supreme Court ruling prohibiting affirmative action — essentially taking race into account — when making admissions decisions.
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The provost’s office also is working on making undergraduate transfer credit equivalencies “more transparent” across the University, she said, and will hold an event focused on that issue in the spring. At the graduate and professional level, she noted, acceptance of transfer credits is up to individual schools and units, apart from adherence to two University-wide regulations: a limit on the number of credits that may be transferred, and a requirement that credits are only eligible for transfer if earned with a grade of B or better.
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Godley said she was meeting with Dawn McCormick, director of the English Language Institute (which had been given a year’s reprieve on its closure, as announced by the previous provost), and others at ELI to discuss its administration of the standardized Test of English as a Foreign Language and other ELI-overseen testing. She is consulting with individual schools, she reported, about the specific testing and instructional support that their multilingual students require.
The committee’s next meeting is set for Nov. 17.
— Marty Levine
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