Graduate Council Minutes
Thursday, 3:15 pm, November 12, 2015
Present:
Steven Banks, Francesco Barioli, Beth Crawford, Christopher Cunningham, David Edwards,
Kevin Ford, Tammy Garland, June Hanks, Dan Hollingsworth, Michael Jones, Barry Kamrath, Theresa
Liedtka, James Newman, Elizabeth O’Brien, Abdul Ofoli, Brad Reynolds, Carolyn Schreeder, Randy
Walker
Members Absent:Marisa Colston, Morgan Cooley, Jessica Edwards, Jan Edwards, Joanie Jackson,
Rebecca Jones, Susan McDonald, Dana Moody, Shikha Patel, Dalei Wu
Guest: Jennifer Boyd, Britt Cusack, Chris Smith
Summary
I.
Welcome: Tammy Garland called meeting to order at 3:15.
 Approval of minutes for previous meeting 10-8-15. The minutes
were approved.
 Reminder that the minutes are posted on the Graduate School
website.
II.
Old Business:
 No old business
III.
New Business:
1. Curriculum Committee
Carolyn Schreeder
 There are 18 proposals total. All were approved by the
Curriculum Committee 5-0
PHYT 7333
PHYT 7316
Nursing
NursingNURS 5710
NURS 5720
NURS 5730
Licensure Preparation II
Licensure Preparation I
Add MSN ACNP Adult
Gero Concentration
Change title of PMC FNP
Certificate
Acute Diagnostic Reasoning
Advanced Acute Care
Advanced Acute Care
Practicum
16-0-0 approved
16-0-0 approved
16-0-0 approved
16-0-0 approved
16-0-0 approved
16-0-0 approved
16-0-0 approved
NURS 5740
NURS 5750
NURS 5760
Nursing
MGT 5290
ETR 5880
FIN 5400
FIN 5460
ACC 4+1
ESC 5460
MATH 5250
MATH 5640
Advanced Critical Care
Advanced Critical Care
Practicum
Adult Gerontology Acute
Care Nurse Practitioner
Practicum
Add PMC ACNP Adult
Gero Certificate
EEO Management
Entrepreneurship and New
Ventures
Problem in Finance
Investments
Program Change Admission
Global Change Biology
Course Addition
Modified prerequisites
Deactivate course
16-0-0 approved
16-0-0 approved
16-0-0 approved
16-0-0 approved
16-0-0 approved
16-0-0 approved
16-0-0 approved
16-0-0 approved
16-0-0 approved
16-0-0 approved
Did not move forward
16-0-0 approved
2. Best Practice
Elizabeth O’Brien
 Best Practice is in the process of working on changing the
candidacy form that students fill out for graduation to become a
Graduation Audit form, as this more clearly describes the intent of
this form. This topic will be brought to the Council soon for action.
 We are still looking at the accelerated graduate programs for
undergraduate students, and r revising the admission guidelines
and form. We will bring this to council for further discussion.
3. At our next meeting, we are going to review the policy lists on the
graduate school website,
4. Change in Add a Course template
Dr. Randy Walker
 There is a new template for the curriculum proposal to add a
course. The grading mode and teaching mode must now be
specified.
1. NEW LISTING IN CATALOG
Prefix:Click here to
enter text.
Credit Hours (Click
here to enter text.)
Co-requisite(s):
Click here to enter
text.
Grade Mode (Letter
or S/NC): Click here
to enter text.
Number:Click
Title:Click here to enter text.
here to enter
text.
Pre-requisites:Click here to enter text.
Teaching Mode:Choose an item.
 We need to start thinking about the Outstanding Graduate
Student Awards. We will have these awards in the spring,
typically towards the end of March. The UTC Research Days,
which is a 2 day event, and is in the time frame that we would
like to have this reception. We are working towards making
this a dinner event instead of just a reception.

5. Graduate Student Association
Shikha Patel, President
 Shikha was not present at this meeting, no report.
IV.
Announcements:
 Recently there have been several student complaints. One of
these complaints went to the Dean of Students Office, but it
would have been more appropriate to have gone to the Dean of
the Graduate School. The student wanted to get a refund in
tuition because they felt like they had been treated unfairly. We
may consider a policy that will automatically send these
complaints/issues to the Graduate School for graduate students.
For graduate students, these issues tend to get misplaced and the
student is unaware of what steps to take.
 Also, we have had 3 students go before the Honor Court over the
past two semesters; the Graduate School was not notified of the
outcome. The decision directly impacts how we manage students.
We need to better manage this process.
 We also need an International Graduate Student orientation to
make sure we get appropriate information to them to make them
feel more welcome. This would also facilitate advising them of
university and academic integrity policies.
 How do you feel about us meeting only once a month? We will
give it a try and see how we manage all of our agenda. We can
have the option to call a meeting if need be. We will met the 2nd
Thursday of the month for December and January.
 Next Graduate Council Meeting is December 10th ,3:15 in the
Signal Mountain Room, University Center.