Controversy arose at the Baker University Faculty Senate meeting Tuesday when members engaged in discussion about graded interterm options.

The senate unanimously passed the copyright policy submitted by the University Academic Council, and moved to postpone the GET 3 proposal until the November meeting, but the motions regarding interterm sparked greater dialogue.

“Interterm represents a value that’s really close to the hearts of the faculty, but sometimes you have to check whether your delivery system matches your ideals,” Wendi Born, psychology department representative, said.

When the senate was asked to determine whether two courses originally offered for graded credit should be allowed to remain that way, Born moved to make an amendment to strike all graded interterm options from the course list.

Although her amendment was not adopted, Born hoped the discussion “sparked willingness to devote energy to the problem.”

"I have sympathies and empathies for every side," Born said. "If there was an easy solution, we would have found it long ago."<br/>