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Graduate Council Minutes 10/23/13
GBB 205, 12:10-1:00 p.m.
Members Present: M. Alwell, L. Gray, D. Biehl, D. Campbell, N. Hassanein, A. Kinch, B.
Klaasen, J. Johnson, A. McKeown, S. Sprang, E. Stone
Members Absent/Excused: B. Brown, I. Crummy, L. Frey, N. Hinman, S. Ross, K. Swift
Ex Officio Members Present: R. Arouca, J. Laine
The 10/2/13 minutes were approved.
Business Items
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The Humanities items below were approved. CRWR 425 UG Storeytelling was
withdrawn.
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The Science items below were approved. The Subcommittee still needs to review the
forms from the College of Forestry and Conservation. Follow-up is required for
CSCI 412 with regards to the graduate increment and learning goals on the syllabus.
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A level 1 and program modification reviewed by the Social Science Subcommittee
were also approved.
Intercultural Youth and Family Development
Level I
Change Name
Journalism
Program Modification
Environmental Science and
Natural Resource
Journalism
Global Youth Development
add portfolio option
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The GSA should have the scoping document available for review in a few weeks.
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The B-Med program review will be available to review next week. The Math program
review document should be available the following week. The other reviews will
likely be later. The Council was reminded that they should be completed by
Thanksgiving.
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Members were asked to review the revised Master in Applied Online Technologies
Proposal. The proposers would like to meet with the Council to discuss the proposal.
They will be invited to next week’s meeting.
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There was a brief discussion regarding the reports for the President’s Advisory Groups
that met over the summer. It seems that the Council should be consulted with regards to
several recommendations given its charge (below). The Planning and Budgeting
Committees will now make recommendations to the President with regard to the
information in the reports. The revised budget model will likely be controversial.
Graduate Council Responsibilities
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Promote, review, and evaluate graduate programs to ensure vitality, currency, and
quality;
Review and make recommendations on all requests for new programs, for
deletions of programs, and for curriculum additions or changes by departments
and schools;
Consider suggested changes in Graduate School regulations;
Consider issues raised by graduate students relating to regulations of specific
graduate programs or their welfare;
Initiate and supervise interdisciplinary graduate programs in response to national,
regional, or state needs, or to the desires and needs of sufficient numbers of
graduate students;
Decide on substantive matters relating to graduate programs, curricula, general
Graduate School regulations, awards and scholarships, etc., and forward decisions
to the Graduate School, Faculty Senate, and the Provost and Vice President for
Academic Affairs as appropriate.
Chair Sprang will notify the Faculty Senate Chair that it should be consulted with regard
to any recommendation that impacts graduate programs.
The meeting was adjourned at 1:00 p.m.
Humanities Consent Agenda
LSH 415 UG
LSH 416 UG
Liberal Studies
Same Sex Unions Literature
The Bhagavad Gita
New course
New course
Media Arts
MART 578 G
Film Projects
MART 687 G
MART 688 G
Final Portfolio Production
Production Lab
Change description, repeatability,
title
Change credits
Change credits, repeatability
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MART 699 G
MART 515 G
Final Portfolio Post-Prod
Dig. Post-Prod.
Change credits
Change title
Science Consent Agenda
CSCI 543 G
BIOM 535 G
BIOB 410 UG
Level I
Computer Science
Human-Computer Interaction
Change number
Division of Biological Sciences
Adv. Virol.
New course / co-convene
Immunology
Change prereqs
Graduate Program in Cellular,
Retitling MS & PhD in CMMB
Molecular and Microbial
Biology
Forestry
LEVEL I
PhD in Forestry
Retitle to PhD in Forestry &
Conservation Science