Graduate Council Meeting Minutes
February 3, 2010
GBB 202, 12:10-1:00 p.m.
Members Present: C. Anderson, R. Bolton, D. Erickson, L. Frey, J. Hirstein, J. Hunt, E.
Hurd, M. McGuirl, N. Moisey, C. Palmer, G. Quintero, C. VonReichert
Members Absent/Excused: C. Winkler
Ex-officio members Present: P. Brown, S. Ross
The meeting was called to order at 12:10 p.m.
The 12/2/09 minutes were approved.
Communications
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Subcommittee chairs returned the curriculum forms to Camie for filing.
Professors McGuirl, Hunt, and Frey will be on sabbatical next year so it is hoped
that the co-convening recommendations will be implemented this year.
Business Items
Curriculum Follow-up
Humanities
 MAR 456 UG was approved.
Professional Schools
 The items appended below were approved.
Science and Social Science
 Revised graduate increments were received for the courses included in the
Bioethics Certificate proposal. These still need to be reviewed by the Social
Science Subcommittee. There should be two separate certificates--one for
undergraduate students and one for graduate students. The Science Subcommittee
Chair Hirstein will communicate with the requestors.
Program Review
 The Social Science Subcommittee reviewed the program review information for
Social Work. The document appended below was approved. It will be sent to the
department chair and Associate Provost Walker-Andrews.
Bertha Morton scoring/ranking language
 The revised procedure will be reviewed by the Council and voted on next week.
Camie will send the document electronically.
The deadline for Bertha Morton scholarship applications is March 4th.
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Dormant Course List
The Council reviewed the dormant course list. The list was generated by the
Registrar’s Office. Courses that are not offered for three years are deleted from
the catalog unless departments request that they be retained and can assure that
the course will be taught within the next year. The Council requested that the list
be presented to the Faculty Senate as information and that the Registrar’s Office
complete a crosscheck to make sure none of the courses listed were offered last
semester.
Dual Listing Recommendations
The Council discussed the following recommendations from the Dual Listing
Workgroup. Initially both co-convening and UG courses would exist. Voting on
the recommendations was postponed due to time constraints.
1. Develop guidelines for co-convening courses
 Develop annual assessment process for UG4XX and co-convening courses
 Revise course forms to indicate co-convening status
2. Change all UG3XX courses to U3XX listing
3. Discuss the future of the UG system (next week). We propose to:
 Continue to accept both UG and co-convening proposals
 Annually assess both systems
 Annually assess whether maintaining both system is good for UM and act
accordingly if and when a clear vision emerges
The meeting was adjourned at 1.05 p.m.
Professional Schools Consent Agenda
Theatre
THTRE 577
THTRE 578
Program Modification
Directing IV
Change title from Directing III
Directing V
Change title from Directing IV,
change description
Update course numbers to be consistent with common course
numbering
Law
LAW 613-FOR/EVST
513
Foundations of Natural
Resources Conflict
Change description
Resolution
LAW 679-FOR/EVST
579
Practicum in Natural
Resources Conflict
Resolution
Change description
32 Campus Drive, University Hall 221
Missoula, MT 59812
December 17, 2009
Graduate Council Program Review
School of Social Work
The School of Social Work at The University of Montana offers a graduate
program, the Masters in Social Work (MSW), which is accredited by the Council on
Social Work Education (CSWE). This program has 11 full-time and 3 part-time faculty
members, along with 17 part-time adjunct instructors. Six of the 11 FTE's commit a
majority of their time to the MSW program, seven faculty members hold PhDs and all
possess a MSW degree from an accredited school of social work. The program had 54
full time students in the fall semester of 2007.
Program goals focus on preparing competent social work professionals to make
practical contributions to the field. These include: integrating and evaluating various
levels of practice and utilizing substantive knowledge, skills, values/ethics base, and
critical thinking necessary for effective social work practice in both rural and global
contexts. These goals support the program’s mission to promote understanding of rural
and global contexts, to assume leadership roles in the community and state, and to
collaborate with others to achieve the aims of social justice.
A site visit conducted in February 2009 focused on several accreditation
standards. These included: 1) Questions regarding whether or not the assigned course
release time of the chief administrator of the social work program was adequate; 2) the
presence of sufficient and stable financial resources to support program planning and
achievement of program goals and objectives; 3) diversity issues; and 4) assessment
procedures for evaluating program objectives and outcomes. This program satisfactorily
addressed these issues and was judged to meet these standards as well as others.
The program exhibits several key strengths. It provides a competency based
curriculum that makes use of generalist and integrative models that is considered
appropriate for a rural state. The program’s quality faculty is highly accessible to
students. Other strengths include the program’s assessment model, especially the MSW
portfolio project, as well as the support given the unit from central administration at the
University and College levels.