BSU Graduate Committee
Meeting MINUTES
Wednesday - October 24, 2012
10:00-10:50am
314 Sattgast Hall
Committee Website: http://faculty.bemidjistate.edu/ckippenhan/BSUGradCom/
Members Present: Tammy Bobrowski, Joan Miller, Michael Urban, Richard Koch, Virgil Bakken,
Christel Kippenhan, Michael Murray
Members Absent: Carla Norris-Raynbird, Mark Christensen, Heidi Hansen, Jim McCracken, John
Gonzalez, Patricia Rogers
I.
Approval of the Minutes of 3 October 2012 (Document #1, 10/24/2012) [see committee website listed
above if this direct link doesn’t work]. Christel moved (Tammy 2nd) to approve the minutes.
Motion carried.
II.
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 : Dr. Rogers and Joan will be
attending.
III.
Business
1. Curriculum proposal PEHS 11-12 #19; Graduate component was submitted for Health 3/5710.
Christel explained that the content that the major change to the legal aspects course was that
it was a course for two majors…hlth aspects were already included in the legal aspects
course; content of the dropped course was already addressed in the legal aspect of hlth course.
Changed title to reflect both legal and health course title. Clears up the issue of course title on
the transcript. Michael M. moved (Virgil 2nd) to accept the curriculum proposals. Motion
carried and Rick will notify Wendy.
2. 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
Joan will revise cover letter to Grad Rep to incorporate revisions/clarification as to
responsibilities, etc. Will send to entire committee when revisions have been made.
3. 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.?
Discuss ensued concerning this issue. It was determined that individual departments are to
determine if they want the 3rd member of the committee to be from outside the department.
4. Graduate Faculty Orientation
Someone needs to take the lead on the completion of this project so that it can go live. It was
determined that the next meeting will focus on the Graduate Faculty Orientation.
Meeting was adjourned at 11:00 a.m.; next meeting will be Wednesday, October 31 at 10:00 a.m.
in Sattgast 314.
Joan Miller, Reporting Secretary