http://www.rit.edu/conversion/
September 20, 2010 to September 24, 2010
Semester Conversion Office - Weekly Update
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We are not changing the NYSED program form or the Course Outline form… however, a typo was
noticed on the Course Outline form, so this message was added on the packet menu page
Section 4: TYPO ALERT: instruction paragraph should say “semesters offered” not “quarters offered”
INCOMING Q & A:
Q: Is it required to include the conversion checklist with the program document(s) as it makes its way
through governance?
A: The checklist is required to accompany program documents to college curriculum committee, ICC
and/or GC, and they can edit if necessary. Coordinators should not include the checklist within the PDF
file; instead, include it as a separate document in its native format (excel) with the same name as the
program it goes along with. E.g. If the program pdf file is ABCDEF.pdf then the accompanying checklist
is ABCDEF.xls When both files get uploaded or moved w/in myCourses, this naming will keep them
listed together.
Q: Coordinators can’t actually enter the College Curriculum Committee approval dates on the course
outline form once the PDF has been made. Will they just change automatically when moved them from
the “ready for review module” to the “approved by committee module”? Or is that assumed if they are
moved?
A: No they don’t change automatically. The PDF doesn’t get created until after it passes from the
academic unit to the curriculum committee. So, entering approval date info there is possible.
Unfortunately regarding the College Curriculum Committee approval date, this is correct you can’t. We
determined that the absence of this date is a small problem at this point that we will live with it. It is
assumed however that movement [by the coordinator] means it has been approved by the CCC and the
move was requested by the Chair.
Q: Who is on the Intersession Committee?
A: Chair - Kit Mayberry (President’s Office); Dr. Dan Phillips (KGCOE); Dr. David S. Barth-Hart (COS); Dr.
Gabrielle Gaustad (GIS); Dr. John Edlund (COLA); Dr. James Vallino (GCCIS); Prof. Maureen Valentine, PE,
Associate Dean (CAST); Dr. Richard DeMartino (SCB); Dr. Stephen Aldersley (NTID); Dr. Zerbe Sodervick
(CIAS)
Q: What is the Honors course criteria?
A: The committee will be meeting soon. Honors courses currently will follow the existing procedure of
approval at the departmental level, then the college level. So the individual colleges are determining
their honors curriculum - Danielle Smith.
Q: What is a “New” course according to NYSED’s view of our quarter to semester conversion project?
Table 1 “New” column interpretation is that this is similar to Table 2 in that only “true” new courses (not
SE/SR) should be checked. However, this is contradictory to other claims earlier in the process that this is
the NYSED form, and in NYS’s eyes, all courses (and programs) are “new” due to our process…..
(clarification?)
A:
N= entirely new course - Any course that is a SE or SR would not be considered NEW by NYSED.
RECENT CHANGES
Packet Menu https://www.rit.edu/conversion/facstaff_program_conversion_packet.php
9.22.10 – Mac version of all checklists added
9.21.10 – Course Discipline codes updated
9.17.10 – Courses Naming convention document: course #’s revised
CONVERSION RELATED MEETINGS
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Fernando Naveda presented a Conversion Project update at the Academic Senate mtg on
9/23/10
Fernando Naveda, Charlie Border (ICC Chair) and Ag Crassidis (Grad Council Chair) met with the
College Curriculum Committees from GCCIS and KGCOE
The Cross-Disciplinary Committee met 9/21/10.
The Intersession Committee met this week.
The Calendar Conversion Steering Committee meeting is 9/27/10.
Comments or questions can be directed to the Academic Calendar Conversion Office [email protected]