The meeting was called to order by Dean Douglas Wartzok at 1:30 p.m. Members in attendance were: Richard Cook, Louis Gerteis, Matthew Keefer, Roberta Lee, Piers Rawling, Theresa Sears, Christopher Spilling, Joachim Stoeckler, Anne Winkler, and Bruce Wilking. Members absent were: Ta-Pei Cheng, Fran Hoffmann, Vengu Lakshminarayanan, Donald Kummer, Margaret Sherraden.

Minutes
The minutes of the 19 November 1999 meeting were approved.

Nominations to the Graduate Faculty
Drs. Patricia Boyer and ShawnWoodhouse were approved for membership in the Graduate Faculty.

Replacement of member on the Doctoral Faculty Selection Committee
Dr. Bobbie Lee was elected unanimously to replace Dr. Janice Attala on this year's Doctoral Faculty Selection Committee. Dr. Attala retired from the University.

Committee Reports
Admissions and Scholarship - Vengu Lakshminarayanan
Dr. Wartzok gave the committee's report on behalf of Dr. Lakshminarayanan.

The committee recommends that the deadlines for the Graduate School Fellowships should be the same as they were last year, near the end of February and near the end of March.

The Summer Research Fellowship guidelines should be modified to allow external employment as long as the committee is notified of the type of employment and hours worked.

The recommendation letter supporting all applications should have the usual waiver statement signed by the student.

The following guidelines are recommended for the Dissertation Year Fellowships:

• Student should be in the advanced stage of research
• Must have passed the comprehensive examinations
• Require no more than one year to finish all phases of the dissertation
• Must be nominated by the department
• Must have recommendation letters from their advisor and two other faculty members
• Must describe the significance of the research
• Can request a start date of either September 1 or March 1
• There is no specific application form, but a letter describing the research from the department and the need for the fellowship.
• If there is more than one nominee from a department, the department should rank order them.
• List publications, meeting presentations, etc. that have come out of the research (include papers submitted, etc.)
• The deadline for receipt of applications is February 1.

Council approved the committee's recommendations.

Curriculum and Instruction - Matthew Keefer and Ta-Pei Cheng

The committee reviewed and recommend approval of the following course proposals:

Cns Ed 427 Introduction to Addictive Behaviors and Addition Counseling (add)
Cns Ed 428 Counseling the Co-Dependent (drop)
Cns Ed 429 Advanced Strategies in Addictions Counseling (change)
Cns Ed 430 Counseling the Dual Diagnosed Substance Abuser (change)
PE 492 Directed Readings in Curriculum and Instruction (add)
PE 494 Directed Readings in Motor Behavior (add)

Program Development - Louis Gerteis

The committee met twice to review the proposal for the Ph.D. in Urban and Metropolitan Studies including the Ph.D in Urban and Metropolitan Studies: History as the first emphasis area. The History emphasis area will appear in the title of the degree. All school/college deans signed off on the generic interdisciplinary proposal. Even though the interdisciplinary degree is less well defined than the History emphasis area, the committee feels confident in recommending approval of the proposal. It is anticipated that other units might be interested in their own emphasis area of the interdisciplinary degree program in the coming years. Currently, the campus will only market the history emphasis degree program. Council suggested adding a description of the expertise of the faculty who might be involved in the interdisciplinary degree. Council approved the proposals pending Dr. Wartzok adding information on faculty to the generic proposal.

Dean's Report
The Ph.D. in Education was approved in 1996 with three emphasis areas. They were in Counseling and Educational Psychology; Metropolitan Leadership and Policy Studies; and Teaching-Learning Processes. When the System forwarded the proposal to CBHE, as part of the cooperative Ph.D. in Education with UMC and UMKC, there were no emphasis areas listed. The St. Louis campus was unaware that the emphasis areas had been left out of the proposal the System forward to CBHE. Subsequent discussions with the System has resulted in their accepting the following emphasis areas for forwarding to CBHE: Counseling; Educational Psychology; Educational Leadership and Policy Studies; Teaching-Learning Processes. It is anticipated that the emphasis areas will be in place by Fall 2000. Because these emphasis areas are essentially those the Council approved three years ago, these emphasis areas are being reported to Council and the Senate for information but not for additional action.

There being no other business the meeting adjourned at 2:40 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,

Piers Rawling
Vice-Chairperson and Secretary

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