The Council on Academic Affairs will take a first look today at offering a guaranteed four-year graduation program at Eastern.

The program, which would only be applicable for particular majors, would be somewhat similar to a program currently implemented at Western Illinois University.

The council is also expected to look at changing the admission requirements for the Lumpkin College of Business and Applied Sciences. Currently, students must receive a C in MAT 1271, Algebra II. The proposed revision would change that requirement to MAT 2120G, Finite Mathematics.

The CAA is also expected to review best practices for senior seminar courses. In addition, the council is expected to update one senior seminar courses.

The seminar, EIU 4118G, Sociobiology: The Biological Origins of Social Practices, is up for revision. Kip Kruse, biological sciences department chair, said the revision is only a minor change that will make the course worth three credit hours instead of two. This is in accordance with university policy, in that all senior seminars will count for three credit hours beginning next semester.

“It’s a review of an existing senior seminar,” Kruse said. “So there’s no major subject matter change.”

The CAA’s 2 p.m. meeting will be held in the Kansas Room of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union, not the Arcola/Tuscola Room, the council’s usual meeting place.