THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT ASHEVILLE
                         FACULTY SENATE 

                                                             
Senate Document Number   4496S
Date of Senate Approval  3/28/96

Statement of Faculty Senate Action:

   APC Document 41: Catalog Changes Related to Academic Honors


Effective Date: August 1996

Add: In Catalog 1995-96, page 41, at the end of the entry under
Quality Points, the following:

Grades of H, G, P, F received prior to 1978 are also used in
calculating grade point averages for students currently enrolled. 
Grading symbols used are: H-Honors (4 quality points); G-Good (3
quality points); P-Pass (2 quality points); and F-Fail (0 quality
points).  

Delete: In Catalog 1995-96, page 59, at the beginning of the
first paragraph under Academic Honors, the following:

     The University awards four kinds of academic honors.  The
University-wide honors of cum laude, magna cum laude, and summa
cum laude are granted for outstanding University-wide
performance.  These honors are granted on the basis of grade
point average.

Add: In place of the deleted entry:

     The University awards four kinds of academic honors:
University-wide honors of cum laude, magna cum laude, and summa
cum laude; Departmental Distinction; University Research Scholar;
and University Scholar.  
     University-wide honors are granted on the basis of grade
point average on all courses taken at UNCA (original grades of
courses which have had grades replaced by the Registrar are
excluded) using the method described under Quality Points;
students who are readmitted to UNCA under the Conditional
Readmission policy, which removes poor academic work from
their Grade Point Average calculation, are not eligible
for University-wide honors.

Note: The remainder of the altered paragraph, which begins "Only
UNCA grades count toward the GPA used for the determination of
honors . . ." follows immediately after the added entry without
starting a new paragraph.

Add: In Catalog 1995-96, page 5, at the end of the entry under
Conditional Readmission Policy, the following:
Students who are readmitted to UNCA under this Policy are not
eligible for University-wide honors.

Impact: These changes will ensure that the grade point averages
shown on student grade reports will be the same as the grade
point averages used in the computation of academic honors,
thereby eliminating an inconsistency in present UNCA practice.

In addition, University-wide honors will now be based upon all
courses taken at UNCA, rather than all work excluding the last
semester.  Presumably such honors reflect a studentūs entire
experience at UNCA, not just a part of it.

Finally, some students currently enrolled with HGPF grades on
their transcripts will see upward or downward shifts in their
GPA.

In order to enable these changes to take place the spring faculty
meeting--beginning in spring 1997--will have to move to the exam
week, rather than the last week of classes, and the Honors
Committee will have to meet at a different time in making their
decisions.

Rationale: These changes make UNCAūs practices more consistent
and comprehensive, thereby eliminating a source of confusion and
a significant omission from academic honors considerations.

Recommendation: Since some students will see shifts in their GPA,
all currently enrolled students with HGPF grades on their
transcripts should be notified by letter before this change takes
effect.  Furthermore, for the 1996-97 transition year, no one
will be automatically suspended because of the change in
calculating GPA.