R 66, First Year Course Repeat Expansion Act

First Year Course Repeat Expansion Act

R 66, 86th Session

Version Info:

1-30-2007, as initially introduced: HTML

2-7-2007, as amended by Senate: HTML

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Basic Information:

Primary Sponsor(s):

Alston, Cash, Doucette (Corresponding), Hughes, Lassiter, M. Potter, and Tart

Current Status:

Enrolled

Report(s):

AC-14

Long Title:

AN ACT SUPPORTING THE EXPANSION OF THE UNIVERSITY'S FIRST YEAR COURSE REPEAT POLICY TO INCLUDE 300- AND 400-LEVEL COURSES

Summary of Purpose:

Endorses the repeal of university academic Regulation 02.20.6, Section 2.3.3

Consideration History:

1-23-2007:

Filed for introduction

1-24-2007 Senate:

First Reading

1-31-2007 Committee:

Academics Committee Consideration
The Academics Committee reported the bill to Senate by counted vote, 5-0, AC-14

2-7-2007 Senate:

Second Reading
Adopted by consent

Online Text

(as of 2-7-2007, as amended by Senate)

RESOLUTION 66

A RESOLUTION TO BE ENTITLED

An act SUPPORTING THE EXPANSION OF THE UNIVERSITY'S FIRST YEAR COURSE REPEAT POLICY TO INCLUDE 300- and 400-LEVEL COURSES

Short Title: First Year Course Repeat Expansion Act (Public)

Sponsored by: Senators DOUCETTE (corresponding), ALSTON, POTTER, HOUSTON, HUGHES, CASH, LASSITER and TART

First Reading: January 24, 2007 Version Date: January 22, 2007

Referred to: Committee on Academics

Section 1. Statutory Authority. This resolution is adopted pursuant to the provisions of Article II, Sections 5(d) of the Student Body Constitution, and Chapter 2, Rule 17(c) of the Student Body Statutes.

Section 2. The North Carolina State University Student Senate hereby adopts the following Resolution:

WHEREAS, in the Fall of 1998, North Carolina State University amended academic Regulation 02.20.6, "Course Repeat Regulation" to include section 2 entitled "First Year Course Repeat"; and,

WHEREAS, the First Year Course Repeat policy states, in part, "[t]he first-year course repeat policy is a policy of forgiveness that helps new NCSU undergraduate students maintain good academic standing" by allowing eligible students to re-take up to two courses in which they have received a grade below C- and removing the original grade from the computation of the student's grade point average; and,

WHEREAS, the policy states as its rationale that "[t]he policy is necessary because new students lack familiarity with the University, and as a result, they are more likely to make errors in their choice of courses and total course load"; and,

WHEREAS, despite this rationale, the policy includes a restriction that only allows courses to be repeated that are at the 100- or 200-level; and,

WHEREAS, it is not uncommon for freshmen or eligible transfer students to take 300- or 400-level classes within their first 12 months of enrollment at N.C. State, particularly in humanities and related curricula where prerequisites for these higher level courses are either nonexistent or have been met with credit from high school Advanced Placement exams; and,

WHEREAS, in light of this fact and in keeping with the policy's stated rationale, expanding the First Year Course Repeat policy to include 300- and 400- level courses is both justified and desirable; and,

WHEREAS, retaining the current policy as written discourages incoming students from pursuing the academic excellence and intensity that the University should instead be encouraging; now, therefore be it

RESOLVED, that the North Carolina State University Student Senate supports expanding the First Year Course Repeat policy to include 300- and 400-level courses, by striking §2.3.3 of academic Regulation 02.20.6; and be it further,

RESOLVED, the Student Senate petitions the Faculty Senate to join it in endorsing these changes.

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