FSD 17-01 Drop Dates

May 17, 2017

Purdue University Northwest Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Document 17-01

Submission Date: 7/5/2017 (Executive Committee)

Senate Action and Date:

For Discussion, 8/25/2017;
Approved, 9/8/2017;

Whereas: The Bylaws give the Executive Committee the authority to act on Senate business over the summer, (Bylaws C.4.c.ii), and

Whereas: The drop dates for Purdue Northwest courses during the 2016-17 Fall and Spring semesters were at the end of the twelfth week, and

Whereas: It is in the best interests of students to have as much feedback from their instructors as possible before having to decide whether to drop a course,

Therefore, be it resolved that the drop dates for all Purdue Northwest regular semester sixteen (16) week long courses shall continue to be at the end of the twelfth week, and at a proportional time (12/16) for all other non-sixteen week (16) long courses during the regular academic semesters and summer.

This policy is to go into effect immediately upon adoption.

Approved:

A. Angriawan (Assessment Steering)
S. Smithson (Assessment Steering)
D. Whitten (Curriculum)
C. Viswanathan (Curriculum)
F. Wang (Educational Policy)
M. Block (Faculty Affairs)
J. Pula (Faculty Affairs)
P. Hecht (General Education)
R. Rupp (General Education)
A. Elmendorf (Student Affairs)
G. Schultz (Senate Vice Chair)
D. Wilbur (Senate Chair)

Disapproved:

None