BFP, Office of Student Financial Services, Bridging Disciplines, and Signature Course Office.

1. ACA Monthly Meeting
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
8:15-10:00am
SSB Glenn Maloney Room
8:15 Breakfast and Social Time
(Sponsored by the Business Foundations Program)
8:30 Business Foundations Program (BFP)
(Regina Hughes)
Regina thanked the membership for promoting BFP to students and gave ACA
members tool boxes as gifts. She distributed a brochure for the HaliburtonBFP
program and gave an overview of the curriculum and application process. The BFP
office is willing to speak to FIGs, student groups, or other interested organizations
about BFP and the Halliburtonprogram. Interested parties can contact the BFP
office.
BFP Trivia
How many students take BFP courses in any given year? 4,000
What is the total seat count for BFP classes? 10,000
How many students actually complete the BFP certificate? 1,000
(They have increased from 900 last year)
What year did BFP start? 1993
BFP has two tracks: General and Global. With the Global track, the student must
study abroad and achieve fourth-semester proficiency in a foreign language (note:
the study abroad experience and language do not have to be related). In order to
complete the certificate,students must achieve a 2.0 overall GPA in all of their BFP
courses. (An “F” grade in a BFP course does not affect theoverall BFP GPA, but the
student must repeat the course for credit).
Students can begin taking BFP courses at any point in their undergraduate career
and may complete the certificate up to one year after graduation. Certification
must be completed through UT, and not many courses transfer to UT that are
equivalent to the BFP courses. In a study abroad situation, the BFP office may
evaluate the course to determine if the course fits the program.

2. Regina invited ACA members to considering serving on a committee that would
evaluate courses currently on the equivalency lists for the MIS302F and statistics
BFP requirements. She shared that many departments offer courses that can fulfill
these requirements, but that the current list is outdated due torecentchanges.
Business Summer Enhancement Program
Traditional business courses are open to non-business majors for summer only.
Note that regular business courses do not replace any of the BFP courses, with the
exception of ACC 311 and 312, which together can be substituted for ACC 310F.
http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/BBA/Summer-Courses.aspx
Haliburton Business Foundations Summer Institute
The Summer Institute is a rigorous program where students take 15 hours of BFP
coursework over an 8-week period.
Students need an overall GPA of a 3.0 in order to apply.
The summer program includes IB 320F instead of the LEB 320F, so students may
choose the global or general track option. LEB faculty serve as guest lectures in IB
320F, so students are still exposed to some business law.
The program has a strong focus on career development and features guests from
Google, Microsoft, and other companies to conduct mock interviews with students.
Cost: $4,500 (includes textbooks) and is financial aid eligible, but all of the classes
in the summer institute are considered out of residence since they are taken
through University Extension.
Currently taking applications and deposit is due in February.
http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/BBA/Summer-Courses.aspx
Regina would like anyone who is interested in being involved on the equivalency
committee to contact her!
8:50 Office of Student Financial Services
(Veronica Castro)
Veronica covered the updates to the Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) policies
in the Office of Student Financial Services. The OSFS PowerPointis available on the
ACA slideshare account. Changes to SAP took effect July 1, 2011 and were initiated
by the Federal government to prevent ensure that students being awarded financial
aidaremaking adequate academic progress. SAP will now be measured by looking
at a student’s GPA and hours, as well as adhering to a maximum timeframe.
The required GPA did not change, students still must achieve a 2.0 or above. OSFS
is no longer utilizing the strike system regarding students who fall below full time.
OSFS will now monitor students’ academic progress by calculating “pace.”A
student’s pace can be calculated by dividing a student’s cumulative number of
hours successfully completed by the cumulative number ofhours a student has
attempted, to come up with a percent. To be making satisfactory academic
progress, current students should have 67% or better. Cumulative number of hours
successfully completed includes claimed credit by exam credits, transfer courses,
UT Extension courses, passing grades in courses at UT, CR courses, and courses
completed while studying abroad. Cumulative number of hours attempted includes
Q drops, failed courses, Incompletes, temporary delay of completion (X), No Credit
course (NC), and withdrawals. Remedial coursework does not count toward pace.

3. Maximum timeframe: Current students get 180 hours to complete undergraduate
program. Students will have to appeal if they go over this total number and want to
receive financial aid. Incoming freshmen have a maximum timeframe of 160 hours.
SAP will be evaluated at the end of each semester starting Fall 2011.
If students are not meeting pace then they will be placed on one of the following
financial aid statuses:warning, probation, probation with academic plan, and
suspension. If students are not meeting pace requirements of a 2.0 and 67% or
better, then they will receive a financial aid warning. The warning lasts one
semester, during which students have the opportunity to raise their GPA and hours
percentage to meet pace. Students are then reevaluated at the end of the warning
semester, and if they still do not meet pace, then they may appeal to be placed on
financial aid probation and continue to receive aid. If appeal is approved, then
students may continue with a plan to receive aid for a semester but they are
expected to attempt to meet pace by the end of the semester. If students do not
meet pace requirements at the end of the semester, theywill be placed on financial
aid suspension. Studentsmay notapply to receive aid until they meet pace. If and
when they do meet pace, then they may apply for financial aid.
For more details: Office of Student Financial Services Contacts (SAP committee):
Veronica Castro (presenter, and Financial Aid Officer), Saje Johnson (Assistant
Director), and Lauren Moore (Financial aid Officer)
9:20 Bridging Disciplines Program
(Lauren Campbell)
Lauren introduced all the BDP team members: Christine Anderson, Lauren
Campbell, Erin Thomas, Rose Mastrangelo, and Katie Mateson
All BDP areas are 19 credit hours each, and students may apply to do more than
one.Students may participate in a BDP and the Business Foundations Program.
Some BDP 101 forum seminars are onlyoffered once a year, so if a student doesn’t
see the one they want on the course schedule, then it will typically be offered the
next semester. Students do not have to be a BDP student to take a BDP 101
course, however if they are not 1st or 2nd year, or a BDP student, they will be asked
why they are taking it.These seminars are for students pursuing the BDP program,
and are not intended to be used to fulfill certain hour requirements (like for
graduation purposes).
http://www.utexas.edu/ugs/bdp/courses
Apply to BDP: extended deadline is October 17th at 5pm.
9:35 Updates from the First-Year Experience Office
(Patty Micks)
Announcement for FIG mentor applications and flyer:November 7 at 5pm is the
deadline.
There are certain Signature Courses (UGS 302/303) for transfer students and
students with upper division standingand Patty will be sending a PDF with the
details to the ACA membership. A total of 3,000 seats are being held for this
student population and they must call the signature course office (471-4421)
during their registration access time to be hand-added to the signature course. It is
highly recommended these students call during their first registration access
period. Otherwise, they could risk the course closing. Signature Course advisors

4. cannot add a student to a closed course. The courses are restricted to “true
freshmen” and first-year UT students. Several signature courses will be offered in
the summer and many will contain writing flag.
According to surveys, students mostly enjoy the UGS signature courses, but there
are some who assume the signature courses are going to be easy. The signature
course office requests the help of advisors on campus to educate students about
signature courses and explained that they are not easy, but rather are demanding
college level classes that aim to prepare them to succeed at the college academic
level.
Reminder: Petitions for core requirements should be directed to the Center for
Strategic Advising in FAC 32
A new course UGS 303 “The Ethics of Art and Giving” will be offered in the spring
and student are encouraged to apply for it. Made possible by an anonymous
100,000 donation to help students learn the ways of giving.
http://www.utexas.edu/ugs/sig/ethics-art-giving
9:45 Announcements
The Professional Development Day will be held February 9, 2012 in the Student
Activity Center.
A survey is being sent to the ACA membership regarding the 4-year graduation
rates. The ACA executives are meeting with the provost on November 1st and need
to collect important information for the meeting.
FUNdraising Committee will be doing goodie bags for the November meeting.
Next ACA meeting will be in the TX Union and will be sponsored by the Study
Abroad office. Please RSVP below.
Next Meeting: November 9th 8:15-10:15 am, Union 3.304, Quadrangle Room
This meeting is sponsored by the Study Abroad Office as a part of a full day of
events with the UT Study Abroad Symposium. Please rsvp by October 24th at:
https://surveystation.austin.utexas.edu/TakeSurvey.aspx?SurveyID=78039lm3
You will be given the option on the RSVP to indicate which sessions you will be
attending.
Descriptions of all sessions can be found here:
http://world.utexas.edu/abroad/vision/globalaccess/sao