BSU Graduate Committee Meeting -MINUTES
Tuesday – December 18, 2012
1:00-1:50pm
314 Sattgast Hall
Committee Website: http://faculty.bemidjistate.edu/ckippenhan/BSUGradCom/
Members Present: Richard Koch, Christel Kippenhan, Mark Christensen, Heidi Hansen, Virgil
Bakken, Michael Murray, Joan Miller
Members Absent: Jim McCracken, Carla Norris-Raynbird, Tammy Bobrowsky
I.
Approval of the Minutes of 12 December 2012 (Document #1, 12/18/2012) [see committee website
listed above if this direct link doesn’t work]. Christel moved (Heidi 2nd) to accept minutes as
presented. 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
III.
Business
1. Biology curriculum proposal (BIOL 12-13 #5). (Wendy Larson emailed this to us on M 12/10)
Mark moved (Michael M. 2nd) to accept proposal. Note the following comments:
 mostly undergraduate changes…there were some syllabi where pre-reqs on form do not
match with the syllabus…ie. Wild Life Mgmt Techniques
 one syllabus has no pre-reqs listed, but they are listed on the form;
 Biology 4360/5360 on the form, however, an experimental # is on syllabus
 attendance grade…thought we could not grade on attendance but only on participation.
Student handbook states that as long as it’s in the syllabus, faculty may use attendance as
part of the grade. It was suggested that active participation be used rather than
attendance for grading.
 Pre-Professional students are those going into pre-med….this statement is
confusing…needs clarification prior to submitting as approved. Consistency, not quality
of proposal.
 Richard will talk to the author concerning revisions. Changes will be made and sent on to
Wendy for review by the BSU Curriculum Committee. Motion carried.
2. Selection of new committee chair for Spring 2013. Rick will be on sabbatical.
Mark C. moved (Michael M. 2nd) to nominate Virgil Bakken as the Chair for spring term in Rick
Koch’s absence. Motion carried. Virgil will send a Doodle to find a time that works for all.
3. Electronic copies of master’s degree papers
Joan talked about ImageNow and how research papers/theses/projects may be scanned in the
student record system and linked directly to the student. Good for HLC access to papers, etc. All
agreed this is a good idea.
4. Revised MBA proposal from BUAD…tabled till spring semester.
5. Graduate Faculty Orientation tabled till spring semester.
Meeting adjourned at 1:55 p.m. Next meeting to be determined (spring semester)
Joan Miller, Reporting Secretary