The following material arises from the University of Oregon's productivity planning process and is made available here in the hope of engaging the whole university community in that process. This material contains the conclusions of one of the nine productivity working groups; it does NOT represent official university policy.

We solicit your responses and suggestions. Please direct them to the chair of the working group or to Charles Wright, Department of Mathematics.

November 19, 1993

TO: Charley Wright, Chair, Productivity Steering Committee

FROM: James L. Boren, Chair, UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION AND POLICY COORDINATING COUNCIL

RE: UEPCC Response to Charges from Productivity Steering Committee

The UEPCC forwards the following recommendations to the Productivity Steering Committee for consideration.

UEPPC members are: Herb Chereck, Alan Dickman, Tim Gleason, Michael Hibbard, David Hubin, Cheryl Kern-Simirenko, Anne Dhu McLucas, Gerard Moseley, Kwangjai Park, Donald Peting, Deborah Simmons, Joe Wade, Zachary Kelton (student), John Nicols (ex officio)

COURSE AVAILABILITY BARRIERS AND PROPOSED REMEDIES.

• A. Access To Ba/Bs General Education Classes (Writing, Mathematics, Foreign Languages)
 
• 1. Goal - Students complete in the first 45 hours the writing requirement and begin work in language and/or math requirement. Means - Preregister students in either a language or mathematics class and as early as possible in their composition class. Means - Mandatory advising at 30 hours for those who have not begun work in composition, language or mathematics.
• 2. Goal - 90 hours - significant progress toward completing remaining group requirements as determined by the department/school/college. Means - Blocks on registration past 90 credit hours to be achieved by "school/college/department hold" for all those who have not made satisfactory progress.
• 3. Goal - more general education courses available during the summer Means - Take serious steps to expand general education courses offered during summer as intermediate step toward going to full year scheduling, with appropriate salary and financial aid restructuring.
• B. Availability Of Major Courses
 1. Goal - 90 hours - Declaration of major for u
• ndeclared Means - Block registration past 90 hours
• 2. Goal - 90 hours - Clarification of major for premajors Means - Block registration past 90 hours
• 3. Goal - Mandatory major advising at 90 hours to construct plan of study to graduation. Means - Departments should be allowed to set means of how to do this.
• 4. Goal - Guarantee course availability to senior majors (135 credits) Means - Departments should be allowed to set means of how to do this.
• 5. Goal - more gateway courses to majors available during the summer Means - Take serious steps to expand gateway courses to majors offered during summer as intermediate step toward going to full year scheduling, with appropriate salary and financial aid restructuring.
• C. Enhanced Authority And Accountability Rests With Deans For Enrollment Management And The Courses Should Be Evenly Distributed Over The Teaching Day.

•  A. Access To Majors
•  1. Goal - To provide access to majors and to create majors responsive to new student interests and demands. Means - Develop additional major program options in Humanities, Science, and Social Science which utilize both professional school and College of Arts and Sciences curriculum and faculty. (It is understood that this proposal would require the departments to allow access for program majors in advanced classes and would require advisors for the students in the program majors.)

•  A. Exit Requirements
•  1. Goal - To provide alternative exit strategies Means - Internship programs incorporated into major program. Means - Wherever possible departments construct two linked courses as an exit learning experience to include proseminar to be carried under the 406 number. Successful completion of independent reading in the proseminar will be prerequisite for admission into 407 seminar. Departments may be encouraged to use alternative pedagogical methods in establishing proseminar.