GRADUATE COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES


December 14, 2000
PRESENT: Paul Adogamhe, Mohammad Ahmadi, Marshall Anderson, William Blankenau, Randy Busse, Will Drago, Edward Drexler, Zohreh Ghavamshahidi, Rick Lombard, Brenda O'Beirne, Manuel Ossers, John Patterson, David Porter,  Elizabeth Shadel, Bambi Statz, and Anthony Truog.
ABSENT: Rick Adams, Janet Barrett, Scott Bradley, Wade Dazey, Robin Farrell, Dianne Jones, Steven Karges, Fredrik'a Lambert, Dan McGuire, Susan Michaud, Lanny Neider, Star Olderman, *Jimmy Peltier, Paul Rybski, Patricia Shaw, Alvaro Taveira, *Wilfred Tremblay, and Roy Weatherwax.
GUESTS: John Stone, Robin Warden and Don Zahn.


*Previously notified.


The meeting was called to order at 2:20 p.m. by Richard Lee. Randy Busse moved, and David Porter seconded, to approve the minutes of the November 9, 2000, meeting. The motion carried. Richard asked the Council to note that the Graduate Council meetings for spring semester 2001 will be held in McGraw Auditorium.


Announcements

  1. The fall 2000 graduate enrollment is up 47 FTE over last year, due mostly to the on-line MBA program. We are still approximately 400 FTE from THE GOAL.
  2. John reminded the Council that graduate research grant proposals are due to the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs by February 16, 2001. These awards can be as much as $500 and are usually used to help defray the costs of presenting at conferences. There were ten awards given last year.
  3. Included with the agenda was a report from the Graduate Office listing three kinds of information; namely, requests for program information by department, completed applications received by the Graduate Office, and the number of applicants actually accepted to programs by department. The report showed the number of students requesting information on a monthly basis and, of those requests, the number that actually followed through and were accepted/admitted to a degree program. Ninety-eight percent of all requests are received electronically in the Graduate Office. Program coordinators should use this report as a snapshot to see if those students requesting information from their program actually are following through to program admission.

Information Only Items

Manuel Ossers moved to Receive and Record all the Information Items listed on the agenda. Rick Lombard seconded the motion, which passed unanimously. Items included:

  1. Deletion of Course from Department of Special Education: 480-721, The Exceptional Child.
  2. Deletion of Course from Department of Special Education: 480-772, Lifespan Issues in Special Education. Deletion of Course from Department of Special Education: 480-773, Consultation Techniques for Special Education.
  3. Deletion of Course from Department of Special Education: 480-780, Survey of Research Literature in Severe Disabilities.
  4. Deletion of Course from Department of Special Education: 480-782, Survey of Research Literature in Mild Disabilities.
  5. Change in Course Number from Department of Special Education: Reflective Practice and Action Research From: 480/430-717 To: 480/430-702.
  6. Change in Course Title and Content Change: 480-781, From: Programming for the Transition of Youth With Disabilities-DVI To: School-to-Work Transitional Program.

Business Items

Randy Busse made a joint motion to consider and approve all the Business Items in Section IV of the agenda. Tony Truog seconded the motion. John Stone commended the Special Education Department and, more specifically, Robin Warden on the impressive work they did revising the Graduate Special Education Degree Program. Robin gave a brief overview of the evolution of this new program from conception to completion. The Department had included an advisory committee from area school districts in the area to help with the design of the new program which will include summer institutes that can be used for staff development and will be open to anyone to attend. The Department is hoping to attract between two and three hundred students this summer by bringing in nationally known speakers. The program will tie into the National Board Teacher Certification. Hearing no discussion of the proposals after Robin’s presentation, the Council passed the motion unanimously. The Business Items included:

  1. Curricular Action: Change in Requirements of Major from the Department of Special Educations: Master of Science in Education Degree Program in Special Education.
  2. Curricular Action: Creation of New Course from Department of Special Education: 480-700, Theoretical Foundations of Contemporary Practices in Special Education.
  3. Curricular Action: Creation of New Course in Special Education: 480-701, Advanced Methodology and Practices in Special Education.
  4. Curricular Action: Creation of a New Course from the Special Education: 480-702, Promoting Reform through Collaborative Leadership.
  5. Curricular Action: Creation of New Course in Special Education: 480-703 Promoting Reform through Collaborative Leadership.
  6. Curricular Action: Creation of New Course from the Department of Special Education: 489-704, Field Action Research in Special Education.
  7. Curricular Action: Creation of New Course from the Department of Special Education: 480-705, Professional Portfolio Development in Special Education.
  8. Curricular Action: Creation of Graduate Certificate in Transition Specialist Program from the Department of Special Education Department.

With no other business to attend to, the meeting was adjourned at 2:30 p.m. on a Ghavamshihidi/Blankenau motion.

Respectfully submitted,
Sally Lange
Secretary