The following policy is under review for the review period which began September 25 and runs through October 22. Feedback can be directed to the policy custodian or the policy administrator, mcnabb@mnstate.edu.
The review period on these policies below ended on September 26. Final drafts will be reviewed at the October 13 Meet and Confer meetings.
- Committees and Task Forces Policy
The proposed changes are shown using the track changes feature in Word.
- Course Placement Policy Draft
This draft represents significant changes to the cut scores representing the state's new multiple measures for course placement.
- Credit for Prior Learning Draft
The draft represented here is a major overhaul to this policy.
- Alcohol and Other Drug Policy
Revisions being proposed are noted in the document comments.
- Undergraduate Graduation Requirements Draft
The proposed changes are at the bottom of the document where it details using graduate course credit toward completion of an undergraduate degree.
- Weather Short Term Emergency Closings Draft
The proposed changes are shown using the track changes feature in Word.
- Graduate Studies Policies
- Graduate Courses Taken by Undergraduate Students Draft
- Graduate Credit for Non Academic Experience Draft
- Graduate Residence and Transfer of Credit
- Graduate Time Limitation on Program Completion Draft
- Goals of revising the four above listed Graduate Studies policies:
- Offer more flexibility within our undergraduate and graduate programs to do accelerated programming such as 3+2, 4+1 to meet new market demands and package it for recruitment purposes to attract prospective students and parents.
- Offer more options and flexibility to our students to take graduate level courses and have them count for their undergraduate degrees, where it has been approved by their undergraduate advisor and graduate program coordinator.
- Removing the CPL current policy will allow graduate faculty “ to provide students with opportunities to demonstrate competence at the college- and university-level from learning gained through learning experiences outside of a college or university credit-bearing course and to establish consistent practices among colleges and universities for evaluating and awarding undergraduate or graduate credit for prior learning.” System Policy 3.35 Credit for Prior Learning.
- Military or Emergency Declaration Withdrawal Policy
This is an existing policy which is being modified to incorporate the following items. Expanded the “purpose” statement to include the Emergency Declaration case. Added the last sentence to the “applicability” part to include the Emergency Declaration case. Added information about full-time service in response to an Emergency Declaration.