GRADUATE COUNCIL MINUTES
Friday, April 8 – 10:00 am
325 Graff Main Hall
Members Present: Carol Angell, Bob Krajewski, Bernadette Taylor, Anton Sanderfoot,
Melissa Bingham, Glenn Wright, Jodi Rindt
Members Excused: Kasi Peryasamy
Consultants Present: Bruce May, Chris Bakkum
1. Agenda items were unanimously approved.
2. Announcements
a. The slash course policy passed UCC.
b. The Celebration of Research is on 4-15-11. There will be 35 graduate presentations.
3. Consent Agenda
a. A Recreation Therapy graduate student time extension appeal was accepted.
b. Two SAH graduate students were awarded Academic Achievement Awards for 2011.
4. Business of the Day
a. Special business
Graduate Faculty Status reviews will be conducted by Glenn Wright and Anton Sanderfoot
for SAH faculty, and by Bob Krajeweski and Carol Angell for CLS faculty. The reviewers will
use the old rules.
M/S/P to award student 1 the Graduate Student Thesis Award for 2011.
b. General Business
i) Graduate Council Bylaws language changes - second reading.
M/S/P to make a friendly amendment to the Graduate Council Bylaws section (5) stating
that Graduate Council business may be conducted via e-mail when such business is not
constrained by open meeting rules.
M/S/P to discuss with the chair of Faculty Senate the idea of having a Graduate Council
member act as a liaison/consultant by attending Faculty Senate meetings and Joint
Planning and Budget Committee meetings.
ii) Graduate student appeals process – second reading
Faculty Senate is seeking to make undergraduate and graduate student appeal
processes consistent, but due to the need for graduate program committees to make
decisions regarding graduate student performance and eligibility the two processes
cannot be made identical. Discussion tabled for further consultation.

iii) Graduate student full-time status policy – first reading.
Business and other graduate programs need to have pass/fail class credits count
toward full-time status because such classes are core program requirements, or they
count for elective credits toward the degree. Sometimes nine credits-worth of graded
classes are not available for students to take in these programs.
The Financial Aid Office will be consulted regarding Federal full-time status
requirements for students receiving financial aid. The rationale for full-time status
requirements, the frequency with which students run into difficulty with the current
requirements, and the number of credits considered by program directors to be
appropriate for full-time status all need to be addressed.
This discussion was tabled pending further consultation with Financial Aid and graduate
program directors.
Adjourned 11:08 a.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Bernadette Taylor