Graduate Council Meeting Agenda - April 21, 2014
Mendenhall Student Center 221
2:00 – 4:00
- Call meeting to order
- Minutes approved electronically, no further action required:
- Recognition of outgoing council members and GCC members
- Closed session – if needed (Two pending requests for exceptions to the 10 year time limit – confidential materials to be distributed by email or at meeting if completed in time)
- Graduate Council roster and attendance (To be distributed at the meeting)
- Graduate Assistantship workload policy (PDF) and revised Graduate Assistantship Contract (Word)
- Consideration of Chemistry Graduate Faculty criteria (old version (PDF) and new version (PDF) provided)
- Review of 2015-16 Graduate Assistantship Reallocation process and RFP (PDF)
- UCFS draft report – for discussion
- Merging of the Divisions of Research and Graduate Studies and Academic Affairs
- Merging of graduate and undergraduate admissions operations
- Reduction in number of master’s programs – (see spring enrollment data)
- Reduce number of grad classes with five or fewer students by 50% over the next two years
- Need for engagement of the Graduate Council in long range planning – June retreat? List of items to consider?
- Announcements and reports
- Report on request for exceptions, appeals and their disposition
- Update:thesis/dissertation oversight committee – Brett Keiper
- Change in tuition and fee billing, Fall 2014
- Implementation of new time-to-degree policies, Fall 2014 (PDF)
- Summer GCEC Actions
- Revision to grading policy (introduce use of W, WF, WP in graduate courses) -harmonize use of “W” grades with proposal by ad hoc committee on Fostering Undergraduate Student Success (FUSSy committee) recommendation to Faculty Senate (copy forthcoming)
- Per Andrew Morehead, should we make provisions to apply grades of “W” to S/U courses?
- Exception to GPA requirements for graduation upon readmission to a new program
- Graduate Fact Book project
- Report on enrollment in Graduate Certificate programs
- Pending summer agenda items (to-do list, no action to report, more background work needed)
- Adjourn