1/14/93  
                           January 14, 1993
                          Regents' Board Room
 
                               Minutes
Members Present: 
  
      Dr. Maurice Townsend, Chair
      Dr. Wayne Bell
      Dr. Ernest Benson
      Dr. Barry Goldstein
      Dr. Harrison Carter
      Dr. Thomas LaBelle
      Mr. Larry Peevy
      Dr. Michael Thomas
      Dr. Edwin Thompson
      Dr. Robert Trammell
      Dr. Jerry Williams
  
Members Absent: 
  
      Dr. Hugh Bailey
      Dr. William Prokasy
  
Also Present: 
  
      Dr. Gordon Finnie, West Georgia College
      Dr. David Morgan, Central Office
      Ms. Diane Burns, Graduate Student, Georgia State University
  
Chairman Townsend convened the meeting at 1:00 p.m.  The minutes of the
October 15, 1992 meeting were adopted with one revision: the spelling of
Dr.Goldstein's representative was corrected to read Mr. Jimmy McLeod.
  
The Chair then introduced Dr. Gordon Finnie, Registrar of West Georgia
College, who represented the Administrative Committee on Records and
Admissions.  Dr. Finnie supported a recommendation of his committee that
the policy on the acceptance for transfer credit of "D" grades in Core
Curriculum courses be modified to indicate that such hours must "meet 
the receiving institution's minimum cumulative grade point average for 
transfer students."  Points which were made in favor of this proposal 
were: 1) Many institutions have had a policy that transfer students must 
have a 2.0 cumulative average in courses accepted for transfer credit. 
2) Transfer students in some cases would benefit from non-acceptance of 
Core "D" grades because their previous poor performance at another 
institution would be wiped away. 3) This proposal would treat transfer 
students equitably with native students who are required to have a 
cumulative 2.0 GPA for graduation.  On the other hand, members pointed 
out that the proposal would allow native but not transfer students to 
apply Core Curriculum "D" grades to their academic programs.  Further, 
some members stated that it is not equitable to require transfer 
students to achieve a 2.0 cumulative grade point average at the point of 
transfer, while native students do not have to achieve this standard 
until the point of graduation.
  
The Committee expressed its thanks to the Administrative Committee on
Records and Admissions for its work in addressing this issue.  It voted 
to maintain current System policy and to indicate to institutions which 
had not revised their policies that there were several different 
approaches institutions could take to implement this policy.
  
The Committee then reviewed the January 7, 1993 report of the Ad Hoc
Interdisciplinary Subcommittee.  The Committee approved the addition of 
the following two interdisciplinary courses to the Core Curriculum.  
(Both courses were to be added to a new section of the Academic 
Discipline Guidelines titled "Interdisciplinary Courses.")
  
      General Technology - Approved as an Area II elective beyond the
                           ten hour laboratory science sequence.
  
      Energy Use and the Environment - Approved as an Area II elective
                                       beyond the ten hour laboratory 
                                       sequence.
  
Next the Committee considered a proposal from Georgia State University 
to add to Area III an elective course titled "African and African-
American History and Culture."  There was disagreement whether this 
course had been approved by the Academic Committee on History.  The 
Committee voted to approve the course contingent on the determination 
that it had received the endorsement of the History Committee.
  
Dr. Goldstein requested further consideration of the position taken at 
the Committee's last meeting that completion of history/government 
legislative exemption tests could satisfy Core requirements in history 
and government.  The Committee agreed to reconsider this issue at its 
next meeting, scheduled for April 15.
  
There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 3:00 p.m.