The family and consumer sciences department has requested a change in admission standards and degree requirements that will be discussed by the Council on Academic Affairs Thursday.

If CAA passes the request, admission standards would require that a student have 15 semester hours completed with a grade point average of 2.0. Once admitted, the student must complete the courses a set number of courses with a grade of C or better.

Although no one from the family and consumer sciences department was available for comment, Andrew Methven, CAA chair and biological sciences professor, said that lack of departmental academic advisors has led to the proposed admission upgrades.

“Currently, the department has somewhere around 500 major students and one person who does advisement,” Methven said.

Students that are in the major all receive advisement from the department, Methven said, and students that have not declared a major are advised by university academic advisors. If students were required to complete 15 semester hours in order to be accepted into the major, then university academic advisement would advise the students instead of the departmental advisor, he said.

“It is a matter of just not having enough people,” Methven said.

The department is also requesting that a grade requirement of C or better be imposed on the major’s core classes.

This is to provide students with better qualifications that would meet the standards of future employers, Methven said.