The Faculty Senate passed an amendment to the Grade Appeals Process at its Oct. 19 meeting.

The process has undergone amendments in the Faculty Executive Committee as well as in the Academic Policies Committee.

Tom Krabacher, chair of the Academic Policies Committee, brought the amendment to the floor at the Faculty Senate.

“This calls for Anita Hall?s office, instead of Associated Students, Inc., to generate the list, and when the department needs it, to take random names,” Krabacher said.

With this new amendment, University Admissions and Records will produce a list of 200 randomly-identified upper division students and 200 randomly-identified graduate students in each college department.

When it is necessary to process grade appeals, the department chair will randomly select four prospective student panel members from the appropriate list and inform the student and the faculty member of the names of the potential panel members.

The faculty member and the student will then have 48 hours to challenge any one name on the list for any reason.

The first unchallenged name will be the student panel member and the other unchallenged students will be alternates.

This amendment takes the selection process out of the hands of ASI, which until recently took part in the process.

California State Student Association Chair Shaun Lumachi and ASI President Jason Bryant said that ASI “supports the motion.”

“We hope that this will streamline the process,” Krabacher said.