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Presented to the M膩noa Faculty Senate by the Committee on Academic Policy and Planning (CAPP) for a vote of the full Senate on February 20, 2019, a resolution supporting the proposal聽 to revise the undergraduate academic actions policy.聽 Approved by the M膩noa Faculty Senate on February 20, 2019 with 40 votes in support of approval; 2 votes opposing; and 3 abstentions.

RESOLUTION SUPPORTING THE PROPOSAL TO REVISE THE UNDERGRADUATE ACADEMIC ACTIONS POLICY

WHEREAS, the current policy allows undergraduate students鈥� poor academic performance to extend over multiple semesters without an official action, making it difficult for the students to make an academic comeback; and

WHEREAS, the current 鈥淒irect to Suspension鈥� policy means that students can be suspended without any warning action such as being put on probation or having any intervention; and

WHEREAS, academic units have inconsistently enforced the 鈥淒irect to Suspension鈥� policy because the stop-out rate for students suspended in their first year is above 80%; and

WHEREAS, academic units have inconsistently implemented internal notifications for students facing serious academic difficulty; and

WHEREAS, the reason for the 2012 decision to take suspension and dismissal actions only at the end of the Spring semester no longer exists because the academic actions process is now electronic and notifications can be delivered quickly; and

WHEREAS, the proposal provides a formal warning action for students in their first semester; and

WHEREAS, the proposal enables formal academic actions to take place at the end of Fall and Spring semesters for all undergraduate students; and

WHEREAS, the proposal requires academic units to provide interventions for students with academic actions to help them improve their academic performance; and

WHEREAS, the proposal enables academic actions to be applied in a consistent order for all students in the Fall and Spring semesters; therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED, that the M膩noa Faculty Senate recommends approval of the proposal to revise the Academic Actions policy for undergraduates at the University of Hawai鈥榠 at M膩noa.