EDITORIAL CHANGES TO THE CODE and /USRR

9/29/09mm

UNIVERSITY SENATE CODE

RATIONALE:   Removed outdated reference to the Graduate School since it no longer exists.

ARTICLE     XII.   STANDING COMMITTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY SENATE

Section 2.  Membership

The University Committee on Libraries shall be composed of thirteen faculty members serving staggered three-year terms, including one representative each from the schools of Architecture and Urban Design, Business, Education, Engineering, Journalism and Mass Communications, Music, Pharmacy, and Social Welfare, and five representatives from the College (representing Natural and Mathematical Sciences, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Humanities, School of the Arts, and International Studies). In addition, there shall be four student members serving one-year terms and two staff members appointed by the Provost and serving staggered three-year terms. and one representative from the Graduate School appointed by the Dean of Graduate Studies.  ….

UNIVERSITY SENATE RULES AND REGULATIONS

RATIONALE:  Text needs to be updated to be consistent with the new rules on Incomplete Grades in USRR 2.2.3.

2.3.3 In the most extreme and unusual circumstances a student may petition to either:

a)  withdraw from all the courses in which he/she was enrolled.  In this case a properly constituted committee from the school or College in which he/she was enrolled may assign the letter W in all courses of that semester.  The faculty members (s) in charge of the course(s) need not be consulted. Or, b) if the student is asking for selective relief in a course in which he/she was enrolled, a properly constituted committee from the school or College in which the course was taken may assign, after consultation/concurrence with the faculty member in charge of the course, the letter I, incomplete, or W, withdrawal.  If the incomplete is assigned, it is to be completed in the next semester in which the student is enrolled at the University in accordance with University Senate Rule 2.2.3.  The work necessary to complete the course and remove the incomplete is to be determined by the faculty member in charge of the course.  If the faculty member in charge of the course is unavailable or otherwise unable to provide a regime of work to complete the course, the department will take responsibility to determine the required work. 

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