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SAC supports degree conferral
by Richard Ayoub
At its Dec. 4 meeting, the council made degree conferral one of
its priorities by giving SA Internal Affairs Vice President Luz
Villegas and council member Kathy Patrick the go-ahead to con-
duct additional research and planning to make degree conferral a
reality.
The unanimous “vote of confidence,” was viewed by some as a
gesture to show the faculty that the entire Student Association
favors degree conferral. But council member, Leslie Morgan, said
that the best vote of confidence the council could give Villegas and
Patrick would be attendance at the Faculty Senate Ad Hoc Com-
mittee on Commencement.
Villegas told the council, “I promise you when we go back, we
are not going empty-handed.”
The issue, that has been seesawing back and forth, could change
at the next Faculty Senate meeting. Last month the.senate voted
against a proposal allowing the early submission of candidates’
grades to make way for conferral by graduation.
The Faculty Senate will meet today and the issue may once again
come up for debate.
In other council business, the council heard reports on student-
faculty committees and SA Council projects.
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The committee is the outlet established by Senate Chairperson
Lawrence Ellzey to investigate the issue of several commencements
each year and the possibility of having degree conferral and honor
presentations at commencement.
After making plans for its Christmas party, the Student Associa-
tion Council discussed the degree conferral at graduation.
Degree conferral calls for the recording and submitting of can-
didates' grades one week earlier than it is now. The process of
checking degree plans and requirements for a specific degree takes
about a week, and if students and faculty want to retain the date
for graduation that process must be done one week earlier.
The issue of degree conferral at graduation has caused con-
siderable debate for several months. Faculty members argue that
requiring early grades would require early tests and will deprive
non-candidates of some learning time, thus, “compromising
academics.”
Many students such as council member Patrick have taken issue
with the faculty’s reasoning. “It seems to me that the faculty owes
us this (degree conferral) if anything.”
Many of the council members agreed that it a group of students
would attend the committee meeting and rally for conferral, it
would have a better chance of being passed. The ad hoc committee
is comprised of six faculty members and one student.
Besides attendance at the committee meeting, Patrick said
students will be lobbying with Faculty Senate members for the
passage of the proposal.
Villegas, who contacted the chairpersons of each student-faculty
committee and asked them to send agendas, gave a summary of
each committee’s agenda. The council is keeping tabs on the com-
mittees and is attending some meetings lobbying for proposals and
programs that it would like to see implemented.
SA President Luis Patino, in his presidential address, gave a
report on the troublesome File-a-Book project. The project cur-
rently does not have a coordinator and needs to be rejuvenated for
the spring semester, Patino said. So, the president said, he will be
talking to members from the Administrative Management Society
and the Accounting Society about putting together a book pro-
gram. Patino along with Villegas and Juan Garcia, executive assis-
tant to Patino, will appoint a new coordinator with permission
from the council.
Also Garcia reported on the problems of the Share-A-Ride pro-
gram. The program, started in the fall, never got off to a start
because of computer and application form problems. But the com-
puter cards now have been processed and the information on car
pooling is available. The students who applied for the program will
be sent a list of names of persons living in their general area who
also are interested in car pooling.
Finally, Patino said that when the Union is expanded, the SAC
might be able to have a typing room with typewriters available to
students free or for a nominal fee. Patino and Director of Alumni
and Development Jim Peak are looking into the possibility of the
donation of, discounts on or leasing of typewriters.
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University of Texas at El Paso. The Prospector (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 29, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 9, 1980, newspaper, December 9, 1980; El Paso, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1625710/m1/4/: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting University of Texas at El Paso.