Graduate Council Meeting Minutes 9/26/12
GBB 202, 12:10-1:00 p.m.
Members Present: M. Alwell, R. Arouca, A. Borgmann, J. Campana, D. Campbell, J.
Johnson, N. Hassanein, J. Hunt, M. Mayer, H. Naughton, E. Stone, K. Swift
Members Absent/Excused: S. Sprang
Ex-officio members Present: B. Brown, P. Miller, S. Ross, J. Zink
The meeting was called to order by Chair Borgmann.
The 9/12/12 minutes were amended and approved.
Communication Items
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Professor Sprang, DBS, agreed to serve on Graduate Council and chair the science
subcommittee. He had off-campus business the day of the meeting.
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Dean Comer will meet with Graduate Council next week to discuss the allocation of
TAs, specifically those that in the past had been allocated by the Graduate School for
building programs. According to Dean Ross new programs negotiate directly with
the Provost for funding TA positions.
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The revised self-study requirements and the position description for the Associate
Provost for Dynamic Learning were sent to the Council electronically for review.
Business Items
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The Professional Schools and Sciences have considerably more curriculum proposals
to review than Humanities and Social Sciences. To even out the workload,
Journalism proposals will be reviewed by the Humanities subcommittee, and
Counselor Education and Physical Therapy proposal will be reviewed by Social
Sciences. It may be necessary to redistribute proposals each year depending on the
distribution. [After proposal distribution was recalculated consent agenda dates were
sent according to workload.]
Presentation date
10/17
10/24
10/31
11/7
Subcommittee
Humanities
Science
Social Science
Professional Schools
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The Council discussed Professor Hassanein’s draft proposal to create a fund for
promoting graduated programs. She will do some additional research and refine the
proposal to include guidelines to apply for the funds. This should include a
justification of why the particular form of advertising will be successful. It would be
helpful for the campus to share expertise with regard to successful recruiting
strategies.
The meeting was adjourned at 1:00 PM.