April 22, 1998
1. Minutes of April 17, 1998 were amended to change the year in item #3
to the class of 2003 and then approved.
2. Kimmo Rosenthal discussed the report of the Liberal Arts &
Technology Committee.
3. Hilary Tann, chair of Performing Arts; Penny Adey, registrar; and
Judy Peck, assistant registrar, discussed the problems associated with allocation of
credit for practica. Hilary Tann presented the problem she perceives in allowing only two
academic credits for practica regardless of the number of practica taken. The second
problem is one of record keeping. There was much discussion of how many practica it is
appropriate to count toward graduation in a liberal arts curriculum. There is an
additional issue of flagging the transcripts after they received two credits.
The AAC decided it did not want, at this time, to review the policy that
grants up to two credits toward graduation from practica.
Dean Lewis, Professor Tann, Registrar Adey and Asst. Registrar Peck were
asked to devise a system to easily accumulate practica appropriately and add them to the
transcript. They will report to the AAC at its next meeting.