DOCUMENTS
OF THE GENERAL FACULTY
TWO-TRIES
POLICY IN THE COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING CHAPTER OF THE
UNDERGRADUATE CATALOG, 2000-2002
Dean Ben G. Streetman of the College
of Engineering filed with the secretary of the Faculty Council the proposed
two-tries policy below. The edited proposal was received from the Office
of Official Publications on April 20, 2001. The secretary has classified
this proposal as legislation of exclusive application and primary interest
to a single college or school.
If no objection is filed with the Office
of the General Faculty by the date specified below, the legislation
will be held to have been approved by the Faculty Council. If objection
is filed within the prescribed period, the legislation will be presented
to the Faculty Council at its next meeting. The objection, with reasons,
must be signed by a member of the Faculty Council.
To be counted, a protest must be received
in the Office of the General Faculty by May 4, 2001.
<signed>
John R. Durbin, Secretary
The Faculty Council
This legislation was posted on the Faculty
Council web site (http://www.utexas.edu/faculty/council/)
on April 20, 2001. Paper copies are available on request from the Office
of the General Faculty, FAC 22, F9500.
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TWO-TRIES
POLICY IN THE COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING CHAPTER OF THE
UNDERGRADUATE CATALOG, 2000-2002
The change set forth below is proposed
for the College of Engineering chapter in The Undergraduate Catalog,
2000-2002, of The University of Texas at Austin.
| On page 133 of The Undergraduate Catalog, 2000-2002,
at the end of the section REPETITION
OF A COURSE, please make the following change: |
TWO-TRIES POLICY
An undergraduate in the College of
Engineering may not enroll in any course required in his or her engineering
degree plan more than once without written consent of an adviser in
his or her major department. [No student may enroll in any such
course more than twice.]1
Rationale:
The proposed legislation is modeled
after the statement approved for the Department of Computer Science
in the College of Natural Sciences. It appears in the 2000-2002 Undergraduate
Catalog under SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS on page 417.
The College of Engineering's proposed
Two-Tries Policy has been developed to provide early intervention and
advising to engineering students that are experiencing academic difficulty.
These students may not be on probation but may not be eligible for
admission
to major sequence (upper division) courses. It will affect the advising
of engineering students. It will affect those students that attempt
a course more than twice. The proposed change appears to limit the
student
to one attempt. However, the College of Engineering requires advisor
approval each registration and the proposed change will simply require
the advisor to address the issues of reasonable progress toward a degree.
The second attempt will be virtually automatic. Hence the title "Two-Tries." It
will apply to all courses applicable to the degree because many of
the courses in the first three semesters are in colleges other than
engineering.
1 As amended and approved by the Faculty Council on May 7,
2001.
