Student Intervention Strategies Committee

Agenda, Nov. 11, 2005

1.  Table of resources and consequences. List of resources / consequences | table
Mary Parker will hand out hard copies, without the "checks" to indicate when students should be told what.  The committee will fill in checks at the meeting to indicate what we think students should be told when. We'll start by filling out what students should be told AT THE TIME of withdrawal.

2.  What practicalities need to be dealt with in order to tell the students the things we just agreed they should be told?
a.  at online withdrawal
b.  at phone withdrawal
c.  at in-person withdrawal

3.  Are there recommendations that this committee wants to make to some other group about what students should be told at OTHER TIMES besides the actual time of withdrawal?

4.  Shall we make a recommendation that instructors be allowed to use online withdrawal as soon as it can be implemented?

5.  Shall we make a recommendation that online withdrawal for students not be implemented until we can distinguish between at-risk students and those not at risk? (Because, when online withdrawal is implemented, we will want to treat at-risk students differently from non-at-risk students – possibly by not having at–risk students be allowed to do on-line withdrawal.)

6. Should/can we change in-person withdrawal this spring to include instructor sign-off?     
Sub-question:  If so, what will we do on the last day to withdraw with students who can't find their instructor at that moment? Or students who don’t want to talk to their instructor?

7.  Can we start changing in-person withdrawal this spring by at least requiring that students be handed a piece of paper with some discussion of resources/consequences?

Sub-question: Should we start writing some different discussions so that students could be given a different piece of paper depending on their stated reason for withdrawal?

8.  Agenda for the next meeting.