Graduate Committee Summary Notes
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Called to order: 11:15am
Present: B. Flynn
Absent: R. Savich
V. Johar
M. Stull
F. Lin
J. Wu
T. Yang
L. Estrada (summary notes)
Guests: D. Kim
Review of Summary Notes from March 9, 2009 (Flynn)
 Approved
2009/2010 Graduate Courses Request form (Kim)
 Dr. Kim is suggesting that a new form be used to simply help clarify whether faculty want to use
their re-assigned time or not, after an approved publication.
 It will also be helpful for the College office to officially keep track of faculty re-assigned time.
Diana prefers this type of request in writing.
 The section for “graduate course preference” should be removed from the form.
 The use of this form must be approved by the CBPA ADMN Team via the Department Chair.
CBPA Criteria for Faculty Teaching Graduate Courses (Yang)
 Currently 100% of faculty teaching graduate courses are AQ (spring 2009). Once we institute the
new criteria it is only 67%. We have a 2-year grace period, however it is suggested that faculty
start thinking about their research now.
 We need suggestions to help encourage faculty members with their research, such as the use of
Graduate Assistants and writing articles with a colleague.
 A change in culture along with supporting resources such as re-assigned time and/or travel
funds.
 Encourage faculty to attend conferences and collaborate with other faculty from other
campuses. This could create research partnerships.
 Need a system to notify faculty of their standing. Who is responsible for this task, Dean,
Associate Dean or Department Chairs?
 The money used for research support is generated from off-campus MBA Programs. If we do not
have enough AQ faculty for both on and off-campus MBA programs then we cannot generate
the needed funds.
Assurance of Learning (Yang)
 New request from AACSB visitation team – The portfolios for all of the MBA Programs (oncampus, Professional and Executive) must be assessed separately. This may require more
assistance from faculty as portfolio reviewers. The sampling method cannot be used for the offcampus programs (Professionals and Executives) because the sample pool is not large enough.
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Even if we do not have any off-campus portfolios reviewed this year (January 09-December 09)
the assessment must continue for the MBA Learning goals for these programs (currently MBA
for Professionals.)
Use of Comprehensive Exam as part of the assessment of learning goals: We recommend that
the comp exam committee chairs turn in a one page report which will contain information about
their specific comp exam and the results for the current academic year (2008-2009 fall, winter,
and spring quarters). The report should include what discipline specific areas were covered on
the exam as related to curriculum, the exam results, and improvements taken as needed
(closing the loop.) The MBA office has all the pass/fail statistics and copies of exams if needed.
Purpose is to assess the student’s general knowledge in their discipline (Assurance of Learning.)
This is a quick way to close the loop in one area by the end of this calendar year. Yang will take
this idea forward to the ADMN Team.
Annual evaluations of oral communication skills: During the fall 2009 quarter three random
graduate classes will be chosen to evaluate oral presentation skills (two year cycle in order to
evaluate different students).
Evaluations of written communication skills:
o Yang’s Power point is attached.
o Grammar, punctuation, sentence structure, etc. are being reviewed.
o Weaknesses found, reviewing portfolios from fall 2008 and winter 2009:
 Most students are confused as to what the portfolios purpose is for and what is
being measured. Yang will meet with Huh to stress what needs to be covered at
the first ADMN 995 portfolio class.
 Students are not sure what to do for the Information Technology system. They
usually pick just any kind of case or report involving IT and place it in their
portfolio, using little or no explanation as to why they chose that report.
 More ethical reasoning cases need to be used in our curriculum.
 Faculty members should be reminded about which courses will be used to
evaluate the learning goals.
 Hanson/Flynn will be going over a possible increase in the admissions standards
to the MBA Program at the next ADMN Team meeting, in an effort to improve
the quality of students in our MBA Program.
 Policy for student enrollment in ADMN 995 Graduate Portfolio course is the
completion of at least 32 graduate units. However in some cases, of the 32
units, students may have only covered 8 units of core courses and the balance in
concentration classes, therefore missing courses primarily focused on for
successful completion of the portfolio. Do we need to change requirements for
enrollment in the portfolio? Such as the completion of a certain number of core
courses as opposed to number of units required to take the portfolio course. If
students are required to complete all 12 graduate classes before sitting for the
comp exam and writing their portfolio it will add at least one quarter to every
student’s time here at CSUSB.
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Closing the loop results by the end of the year:
o Yang will make a presentation the next ADMN Team meeting promoting the one page
comp exam report idea which can be completed by fall 2009.
o Yang will speak with Huh before the first ADMN 995 Graduate Portfolio course (5/1)
regarding more detailed instructions for writing the essay. We should have immediate
results for the spring quarter.
Next Graduate Committee Meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, June 3, 2009, 11am to
12noon in JB-278
Adjourned: 12:20pm