UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION POLICY COMMITTEE ATTACHMENT B Resolution to Recommend the Approval of Changes to Honors Day Policy WHEREAS Honors Day is a special occasion each year in April to recognize the academic achievement of undergraduate students; and WHEREAS the Faculty Senate has framed the Honors Day policy in the Undergraduate Catalog (2004-05, p. 48) to include identifiable benchmarks which make possible the recognition of the achievement of non-traditional, part-time students as well as our more traditional, full-time undergraduates; and WHEREAS the mechanism for this policy has been the number of credit hours (12, 45, or 75) a student needs to have successfully completed with a 3.5 or higher g.p.a. to be recognized each April; and WHEREAS the only opportunity for Honors Day recognition under the current policy is to graduate in May, which unfairly precludes timely recognition of students graduating in August or December in the same calendar year; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that Faculty Senate approve a modification in the final benchmark defining undergraduate student eligibility for Honors Day recognition to include all students with a 3.5 or higher g.p.a. who are graduating in any calendar year, by adopting the following changes in the Undergraduate Catalog: Delete: "If, at that time, a full- or part-time student has attained an undergraduate grade point average at SIUC of 3.50 or better and, if applicable, a 3.50 average or better in all work (including transferred) credit hours, and the student has reached the benchmarks of 12, 45, or 75 credit hours of coursework or is graduating, Scholastic Honors will be awarded and the student will be invited...." Add: "Recognition at that time will be accorded to a full- or part-time student who has (1) attained an undergraduate grade point average at SIUC of 3.50 or better and, if applicable, a 3.50 average or better in all undergraduate work (including transfer credit) recognized by SIUC; and (2) reached the benchmarks of 12, 45, 75, or 105 credit hours of coursework. Such a Scholastic Honors student will be invited...." FS0510 Return to September 14, 2004, Agenda