S87-10 EXCEPTIONAL (SPECIAL) ADMISSION REPORTS

Legislative History:

Document dated May 26, 1987.

At its meeting of May 11, 1987, the Academic Senate approved the following Policy Recommendation presented by Theodore Norton for the Organization and Government Committee.

ACTION BY THE UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT:

"Accepted and Approved as University Policy with the understanding that all exceptional admissions be included in the report and that wherever possible the report include comparisons to the total student cohort. (E.g. that the percentage of students completing degrees who were special or exceptional admissions be compared to the percentage of all students admitted in the same term who have completed degrees .) Effective Fall, 1987 Admission cycle." Signed: Gail Fullerton, May 21, 1987.

EXCEPTIONAL ADMISSION REPORTS

S 87-10

RESOLVED

1. That the Associate Executive Vice President/Admissions and Records (or other appropriate administrator) shall report to the Academic Senate in March of every year the number of exceptional admissions to this University under Administrative Code, Title V, section 40900, in the preceding twelve months. The report shall show the number of students admitted in each of the categories provided for by section 40900 and also list them (so far as the information is available from Admissions Office records) by gender, ethnicity, and class level and grade-point average at entrance.

2. The report shall also include measures of academic performance of students admitted under section 40900 for the six years following admission or until a degree program is completed, whichever is the shorter time. Measures of academic performance include totals for semester-by-semester retention, cumulative SJSU grade-point averages, numbers of academic probation or disqualified (and percentages within each special-admission category) and numbers who have completed degree programs (and percentages within each special-admission category). Individual students shall not be identified.

3. A copy of the report shall also be sent to the Admissions Advisory Committee.

4. If computer programming necessary for preparation of that part of the report called for by paragraph 2, above, is not yet available, that information may be omitted until such programs are prepared.