The Faculty Senate Executive Committee approved a motion to recommend to the Academic Policy Committee that Associated Students Inc. no longer choose the student representatives involved in the grade appeals committee process on Tuesday, Sept. 26.

Citing slow responses from ASI, government professor Bill Dillon originally proposed an amendment that would have given ASI 15 business days to select a student member following the selection of faculty members of the panel.

“ASI is not acting in a timely manner to produce students,” Dillion said. “This makes it difficult to fill the student position.”

The amendment claims that it “saves the student power of appointment but sets limit to their deleteriousness by letting them have three more weeks to appoint than it takes the department head to get the faculty members appointed.”

According to the proposed amendment, if ASI has not produced the student members within the prescribed time frame, a faculty member would have to be chosen to complete the panel. ASI President Jason Bryant responded to the amendment with an executive order from the vice chancellor stating that grade appeal committees, “shall include student membership.”

CSU chancellor, Charles B. Reed was unaware of the issue at hand when asked to discuss it in his teleconference on Sept. 26.

“I do not know anything about this at this time,” Reed said. “When I find out what is going on I assure you I will look out for the best interest of the students.”

According to Executive Order 320, Section 4, which was made effective Jan. 18, 1980, “such committees shall include student membership.”

Therefore, ASI says that any attempt to exclude students from the grade appeals process would not reflect the principles outlined within Executive Order 320.

Committee member Sylvia Navari then proposed a motion to take the responsibility of choosing a student member of the panel from ASI and give it to the department chair in which the grade dispute was involved.

The motion was then changed to a recommendation to the APC, which will take up the issue in its Friday, Oct. 6 meeting.