SETEs are supposed to be in students’ hands two weeks before the end of the term, but this year due to early end of semester and late Thanksgiving, there must be an adjustment of the schedule. They will go out the end of the week before Thanksgiving, Friday, 20 November.
President Sakaki announced a CSU forum on “interdisciplinary responses to the Covid pandemic”.
Admissions for the next academic year are crucial to the fiscal health of the University, but applications are down. We need 15K to 20K applications to reasonably guarantee a sufficiently large entering class. Admissions will remain open through the end of the calendar year.
November has been declared Native American Heritage Month. There is information available on the University’s web-site,
http://hub.sonoma.edu/native-american-heritage-month-2020 and http://hub.sonoma.edu/sites/hub/files/images/_native_american_heritage_month_calendar-2020_.pdf
The Provost announced that there is a more lenient CR/NC policy in place on a temporary basis during the pandemic. The students believe it should be made permanent.
The EPC introduced a policy change for Field Trips. Students would be required to sign a lability waiver. Senators believe the policy needs more work. For example, what about the Wine Business Program taking under-age students to wineries. And there was concern about one of the reasons a student could opt out of signing: “unwillingness” – too broad.
Student Affairs gave an update on the number of students housed in the residence halls, given Covid restrictions. And noted that the University offered voting assistance to students (largely first-time voters) who needed help figuring it all out.
FSAC reported still working on revisions to the URTP guidelines.
>> Submitted by Rick Luttmann, Senate Representative for SSU-ERFSA