Draft Agenda - Graduate Programs Committee
February 7, 2013
LRC 311, 2:00-4:20 PM
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Approval of Agenda
Approval of minutes – November , 2012
Assistant Provost’s Report (Brian Cherry)
Chair’s Report (David Rayome)
Graduate Student Association Report (Aaron Elam)
New Business
a. Applications for Graduate Faculty Status
(also on SHARE)
Last
Name
First
Name
Allen
Arenillas
Carlson
Jonathan
Maria
Breanne
Mary
(Mollie)
Brian
Hsin-Ling
Mark
John
Amy
Alisha
Jennifer
Matthew
Jessica
Freier
Gaudreau
Hsieh
Jacobs
Lehtinen
Orf
Plescher
Sansom
Songer
Thompson
Department
Level Term Begins Expires
Political Science
Modern Lang & Lit
HPER
Level 2 3 years
Level 3 5 years
Level 1 1 year
08/01/12
08/01/12
08/01/12
08/01/15
08/01/17
08/01/13
AIS
HPER
Economics
Physics
HPER
Modern Lang & Lit
Education
HPER
College of Business
CAPS
Level 3
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Level 1
Level 2
Level 1
Level 1
Level 1
Level 2
08/01/12
08/01/12
08/01/12
08/01/12
08/01/12
08/01/12
08/01/12
08/01/12
08/01/12
08/01/12
08/01/17
08/01/13
08/01/15
08/01/17
08/01/13
08/01/15
08/01/15
08/01/13
08/01/15
08/01/15
5 years
1 year
3 years
5 years
1 year
3 years
3 years
1 year
3 years
3 years
b. Proposed Changes in the Criminal Justice Masters of Science Program
(Document on SHARE)
c. Academic Standards and Retention (attached to the end of the agenda)
“My question is if what if they only take 1 2-credit class each semester, do they still only get 2
semesters? That is a lot different than a full-time student. What if they have incomplete grades
in those two semesters?
I also would like the language to state that while they are on probation, they must have
SEMESTER GPA’s of at least 3.0 or they will be dismissed so that they can’t have the first
semester on probation below 3.0 and expect to have a second semester to raise their GPA.
The language might be ok, but sometimes I run into knowing exactly how to handle odd
situations. I can keep managing as best I can with the current guidelines.”
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Academic and Retention Standards
To obtain a graduate degree, a student must achieve a cumulative graduate grade point average (GPA) of 3.0 (B). If a student’s cumulative
GPA drops below 3.0 in any semester, or if a student earns less than a B in two or more courses, the student will be placed on probation.
The College of Graduate Studies will notify the student and the relevant department of this action.
If a student succeeds in raising his/her cumulative GPA to 3.0 or higher in the first semester after being placed on probation he/she will be
removed from probation. The College of Graduate Studies will notify the student and the relevant department of this action.
If, at the end of the first semester after being placed on probation, a student earns a semester GPA of 3.0 or higher but the cumulative GPA
is still below 3.0, the student will be allowed a second semester to raise the cumulative GPA to at least 3.0, but the student will remain on
probation. The College of Graduate Studies will notify the student and relevant department of this action.
If at the end of the first semester after being placed on probation, a student in a degree program does not earn a GPA of 3.0 or higher, the
Dean of Graduate Studies will ask the department to make a recommendation as to whether the student should be allowed a second
semester to raise his/her cumulative GPA to a minimum of 3.0. The dean will notify the student of the decision. If the student is a nondegree student, then he/she must petition the Dean of Graduate Studies to be allowed to continue taking graduate classes. The dean will
make a decision on whether or not to extend probation and will notify the student.
All students are expected to raise their cumulative GPA to 3.0 within two semesters of being placed on probation. If they do this, they will
be removed from probation and be notified by the College of Graduate Studies. If a student does not raise his/her cumulative GPA to a
minimum of 3.0 within two semesters of being placed on probation, the student will be dismissed from the College of Graduate Studies and
not be allowed to register for graduate courses.
In addition to the 3.0 cumulative grade point average requirement, graduate students must not earn less than a 3.0 in more than two courses.
Students are not allowed to repeat more than two graduate courses. A course may be repeated only once.
Revised language (effective August 23, 2010): In addition to the 3.0 cumulative grade point average requirement, graduate students must
not earn more than 6 credits below a grade of 3.0. Students are not allowed to repeat more than two graduate courses. A course may be
repeated only once.
Given the time it takes to implement these review procedures, it is possible that a student could be dismissed after he/she has registered for
classes and perhaps started attending them. If that is the case, the student will be dropped from the classes with a full refund.
Students who do not meet the professional standards established by their department may be dismissed from their graduate program. In
cases where a student fails to satisfy departmental program requirements, the Dean of Graduate Studies, upon the recommendation of the
adviser and the department head or the college dean, may dismiss the student from the College of Graduate Studies.
Students dismissed from a specific graduate program or the College of Graduate Studies may petition for readmission no sooner than one
academic year after the semester in which they were dismissed. Decisions regarding a student’s dismissal may be appealed to the Graduate
Programs Committee.
7. Old Business
a. Psychology Program rationale (Jim Suksi)
“The psychology department’s graduate programs committee recommends that the PYTD prefix
be dropped and replaced with the more recognizable PY prefix to make it easier for students and
potential students to locate the Training and Performance Improvement program information in
university publications. To comply with the committee’s recommendation the program’s course
prefix and numbers have been changed and minor modifications have been made to strengthen
the curriculum.”
b. Current GPC sub-committee assignments Assignments for GPC:
Faculty: R. Prather, M. Romero
Course & Programs: M. Strahan, A. Valentine
Policy: P. Watts, E. Mackey
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c. Outcomes Assessment –
“Recommendation: Revise GPC criteria for approval of new programs or major curriculum
revisions, and five-year re-evaluation of existing program, to require inclusion of an assessment
of learning outcomes plan acknowledged by the Assessment of Learning Coordinator as
sufficiently complete for subsequent submission of Learning Committee for approval
consideration” – from Sandra Poindexter, AQIP and Assessment Coordinator
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