EPPC Gets More Time to Plan by Jacob Kramer-Duffield At Tuesday’s College Faculty meeting, a substitute motion passed which will delay for a year the consideration of a proposal to change the course credit-hour system, and requirements for graduation and modify the grading and Credit/No-Entry system. Introduced by Educational Plans and Policies Committee co-Chair and History Department Chair Steven Volk, the motion reflected the considerable discord between divisions of the College over the original motion at the previous week’s faculty meeting. “It seems that if EPPC is given another year to work on this it will solve the problem from the ground up, not the top down,” Professor of Politics Ron Kahn said. Some skepticism remained. Professor of Rhetoric and Composition Jan Cooper posited, “What do members of EPPC think that they can do that they haven’t already done?” According to Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Bob Geitz, even if the original EPPC proposal had been approved, it would not have taken effect until the 2003-4 school year, at the earliest. Any changes offered next year would now probably not take effect until every student currently at Oberlin has graduated. The measure as passed included an amendment offered by Professor of Politics Eve Sandberg that mandated EPPC report back to the College Faculty during the 2002-03 school year.

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