GRADUATE COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES


December 12, 2002
PRESENT: Paul Adogamhe, Mohammad Ahmadi, Tom Ainscough (for Yushan Zhao), Marshall Anderson, Scott Bradley, Steven Havlovic,Jeffrey Heinrich, Andrew Kapp, Leda Nath, Manuel Ossers,John Patterson, Barbara Penington, Tim Reutebuch, Steven Sahyun, Bambi Statz, Tony Truog, and Jianzhou Zhu (for John Aulerich).
ABSENT: Kathy Asala, *Janet Barrett, *Randy Busse, *Ni Chang, Wade Dazey, Zoreh Ghavamshahidi, Robert Gruber, Dianne Jones, Steven Karges, Richard Lombard, *Pete Mesner, Dan McGuire, Brenda O'Beirne, Julimar Rivera, and Dan Wangerin.
GUESTS: Prateek Saraswat, John Stone, Don Zahn, and John Zbikowski.


*Previously notified.


Richard Lee called the meeting to order at 2:20 p.m.Andrew Kapp moved, seconded by Marshall Anderson, to approve the minutes of the October 10, 2002, meeting. Noting no additions, deletions, or corrections, the motion carried.


Announcements

  1. John Stone introduced Prateek Saraswat, a graduate student in the MBA program. Prateek presented to the Council his reasons for, and interest in, organizing a graduate student organization. He would like a website dedicated exclusively to graduate students, and envisions this being used as a forum for graduate student issues, feedback, and as a directory for graduate students. The Graduate School has e-mailed Prateek’s proposal to all current graduate students to gauge the interest in organizing such a group.
  2. A summary of preliminary graduate enrollments as of December 1 for the current and each of the preceding four years was presented to the Council.Enrollments are rising, but still not to the Chancellor’s goal.
  3. The deadline to apply for Graduate Research Grants for the 2002-2003 academic year is February 15, 2003.The $500.00 awards will be used to offset the costs associated with graduate research.The funds must be expended by June 30, 2003.Typically there are between two and nine grants funded each year.
  4. There was one applicant for this year’s Midwest Association of Graduate Schools Thesis competition.Since one applicant does not constitute a competition, this student will be encouraged to apply for next year’s competition when, hopefully, there will be more applicants.
  5. Richard Lee spoke to the issue of graduate assistants for the 2003-2004 academic year.Due to the current budget crisis, it is still unclear whether there will be any available.

Information Only Items

Manuel Ossers moved, seconded by Bambi Statz, to approve items A-C and E-G of the Information Only items on the agenda. Item D, the course deletion from Ed Foundations was considered later in the meeting as it has an impact on Business items C and D. The motion carried. Information only items included:

  1. Curricular Action: Course Deletion from the Department of Communication: SPEECH 560 Media Operations and Management
  2. Curricular Action: Course Deletion from the Department of Communication: SPEECH 620 Listening Behavior.
  3. Curricular Action: Course Deletion from the Department of Communication: JOURNLSM 685 Communication Research Methods
  4. Curricular Action: Course Deletion from the College of Education: EDUINDP 740 Techniques of Assessment and Research.
  5. Curricular Action: Course Number Change from the Department of Sociology: Sociology of Health & Illness FROM: SOCIOLGY 610 to SOCIOLGY 510.
  6. Curricular Action: Course Number Change from the Department of Sociology: Social Stratification and Social Inequality FROM: SOCIOLGY 651 TO: SOCIOLGY 551.
  7. Curricular Action: Course Number Change from the Department of Sociology: Processes and Patterns of Racial-Ethnic Inequality FROM: SOCIOLGY 659 TO: SOCIOLGY 591.

Business Items

Andrew Kapp moved, seconded by Tony Truog, to approve items A, C and D of the Business agenda items. These were slightly confusing items, so Tony Truog offered an explanation of the changes.When the group had a clear understanding of how the changes would affect programs in Education, the motion carried. On a Statz/Truog motion, item D of the Information Only items was then passed.

  1. Curricular Action: New course from the Department of Educational Foundations: EDFOUND 780: Techniques of Assessment and Research
  2. Curricular Action: Change in Submajor from the Department of Communication
  3. Curricular Action: Change in Major: Master of Science in Education-Reading
  4. Curricular Action: Change in Major: Master of Science in Curriculum and Instruction

As a result of the changes above, both the Safety and Business Education programs will need to submit change of major curriculum proposals. Paul Adogamhe then moved to approve Item B, a change in submajor from the Department of Communication, on the agenda.Tony Truog seconded the motion, which carried.


John Stone began a discussion of the issues involved with transfer credits.By this time, though, the length of the meeting was far beyond the amount of time that the Council has grown accustomed to.Hence, this item of discussion will be continued at the next Council meeting.


The meeting adjourned at 3:30 p.m. on a Bambi Statz/Truog motion.

Respectfully submitted,
Sally Lange
Secretary