BSU Graduate Committee Meeting
Wednesday - October 17, 2012
10:00-10:50am
314 Sattgast Hall
Committee Website: http://faculty.bemidjistate.edu/ckippenhan/BSUGradCom/
Members Present: Tammy Bobrowsky, Joan Miller, Christel Kippenhan, Carla Norris-Raynbird,
Richard Koch, Patricia Hartshorn
Members Absent: John Gonzalez, Virgil Bakken, Mark Christensen, Heidi Hansen, James
McCracken, Michael Urban, Patricia Rogers
Guests:
Quorum not met….
I.
II.
III.
Approval of the Minutes of 3 October 2012 (Document #1, 10/3/2012) [see committee website listed
above if this direct link doesn’t work].
Announcements/FYI
1. Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools 68th Annual Meeting scheduled for April 10-12, 2013
in Minneapolis. http://www.uwlax.edu/conted/mags/index.htm
Business
1. Graduate student mini grants….probability will be funded, however, no dollar figure
may be given at this time; Joan will notify the student.
2. Curriculum proposal PEHS 11-12 #19: Discussed PEHS curriculum proposal….several items
that need to be clarified….Christel will take back to department.
3. Graduate Faculty Representative.
Should we revisit the ‘role of the graduate faculty representative”? Chair received the following
email from the Center for Environmental, Earth and Space Studies, Economics, and
Sociology:
"CEESSES advises the graduate committee to revise the role of the graduate representative to be
an active part on the thesis, that graduate representatives must be asked to participate one
semester prior to the final defense, and that the graduate representative would be identified on
the proposal form. " (CEESSES Dept. Meeting Minutes, 4/16/2012)
Currently, the position description of the graduate faculty representative reads in the graduate
catalog as “A member of the graduate faculty-at-large (graduate faculty representative) will be
appointed by the Dean, School of Graduate Studies, to serve as a procedural observer and a nonvoting participant in the oral examination.”
Current information on Graduate Faculty Representative can be found at
http://faculty.bemidjistate.edu/ckippenhan/BSUGradCom/MockOrientation/GradRep.htm
4. 3rd member of advisory committee for Masters’ Degrees.
Should we require that this 3rd member be from outside the major department?
If so, could this 3rd member also serve as the graduate faculty rep.?
5. Graduate Faculty Orientation
Adjourned at 10:32 a.m.
Next meeting will be Oct. 24, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. in Sattgast 314.
Joan Miller, Reporting Secretary