Papers & Statements

Papers and Statements

White Papers and Reports

Governance Committee, April 2025. "Academic Freedom Resource Guide 2025"
Graduate & Research Committee, April 2025. "Inter Institution Graduate Programs Best Practices"
Student Life Committee, April 2025: "Cultivating Interpersonal Skills in College Students: A Pathway to Success in a Complex World", Bilas Paul
Undergraduate Academic Programs and Policies Committee, April 2024: "Internships and Co-ops: A Guide for Planning, Implementation, and Assessment"
- Applied learning has been well documented as part of a successful educational process. Many degree programs include internships as electives or as required courses. The purpose of this Guide is to identify the major factors that might be considered for successful design, implementation, instruction, supervision and assessment of internships.
Ethics and Institutional Integrity Committee, January 2023: "Academic Panopticon? The Ethics of Proctoring Technologies."
- Online learning has become an integral part of our higher-learning education system. In recent years, Higher education has increasingly made online courses available to its students. Even a decade ago, Adkins (2011) indicated that more than 1.25 million students took online courses. In 2018, a Babson Survey Research Group report indicated that between 2015 and 2016, 30% of post-secondary students had taken at least one online course (Seaman et al., 2018; Woldeab and Brothen, 2019). With the limited in-person opportunities during the COVID-19 pandemic, higher-learning institutions rushed to convert their in-person courses to an online format. In doing so, many of its students were introduced to remote proctoring and algorithmic test-proctoring software (Barrett, 2021). Traditional testing was usually conducted in a controlled setting, where instructors monitored their students in classrooms. However, with in-person limitations of the COVID-19 pandemic, instructors were asked to give their exams online and thus gravitated to using some form of remote proctoring technology (Bergmans et al., 2021). Remotely proctored exams attempt to reproduce face-to-face exam conditions in the online environment, involving a combination of software lockdown, student authentication, and active monitoring for the exam duration (live or recorded; Dawson et al., 2020)."
Ethics and Institutional Integrity Committee, April 2020: "Fair Access? White paper on Ethics and Open Educational Resources"
- "As awareness and funding for open educational resources (OER) has proliferated, many ethical issues regarding the adoption, adaption, and creation of OER have arisen. This white paper neither advocates nor opposes the use of OER; rather, it attempts to articulate and provide guidance with regard to addressing these issues."
Undergraduate Academic Programs and Policies Committee, Fall 2020: Building Individualized Course Outcome Models to Enhance Student Success: A Primer
- "A step-by-step guide describing how to use commonly available data analytic tools to identify at-risk students in courses."