The meeting was called to order by Dean Douglas Wartzok at 1:30 pm. Members in attendance were: Ta-Pei Cheng, Richard Cook, Matthew Keefer, Thaddeus Metz, David Rose, Margaret Sherraden, Joachim Stoeckler, Anne Winkler. Members absent were: Ed Bennett, Shirley Bissen, Peggy Ellis, Allison Hoewisch, Donald Kummer, Kyungho Oh, Adell Patton.

I. Minutes of the Meeting

The minutes of the 15 September 2000 meeting were approved.
 

II. Committee Reports

Curriculum and Instruction - Thad Metz
The Curriculum and Instruction Committee recommends the approval of the change of the following thirteen biology courses. These changes are necessary so as to conform to the changes made by the clinical affiliate (Jewish Hospital College of Nursing) to comply with their accreditation guidelines.

Bio 303A Issues and Trends in Role Development (change)
Bio 303B Clinical Bacteriology (change)
Bio 303C Bacteriology Practicum (change)
Bio 303D Parasitology and Mycology (change)
Bio 303E Clinical Immunology (change)
Bio 303G Immunohematology (change)
Bio 303H Immunohematology Practicum (change)
Bio 303I Hematology (change)
Bio 303J Hematology Practicum (change)
Bio 303K Clinical Chemistry (change)
Bio 303L Chemistry Practicum (change)
Bio 303M Parasitology (change)
Bio 303N Leadership and Management CLS (change)

We also recommend the approval of the following drop & change proposals reflecting the fact that the Psychology Department is no longer co-sponsor of these Gerontology courses:

Psy 495 Practicum in Gerontology (drop)
Ger 495 Practicum in Gerontology (change)
Psy 496 Gerontology Colloquium (drop)
Ger 496 Gerontology Colloquium (change)

We also recommend the changes proposed for the following courses, as they are routine in nature (e.g. change in prerequisites, etc.):

PPA 495 Internship (change)
PS 495 Internship (change)
CCJ 499 Independent Study and Research (change)
BA 418 Governmental Budgeting and Financial Control (change)
Nrsg 417 Nursing Case Analysis in Acute and Critical Care of the Elderly (change)

We recommend the addition of the following course, which is cross-listed in three units:

Soc 468 Negotiating Workplace Conflict (add)
Mgt 419 Negotiating Workplace Conflict (add)
PPA 468 Negotiating Workplace Conflict (add)

We also recommend the approval of the following course proposals as they have good rationale for their addition. ESL 307 is basically the same course proposal that came before this committee with a graduate listing. In our opinion, an 'advanced undergraduate" designation is more justifiable.

Psy 345 Lesbian Psychology (add)
EdTec 452 Educational Multimedia Design (add)
ESL 307 Advanced Pronunciation and Accent Reduction (add)

Council accepted the committee's recommendations to approve all course proposals.

Rules and Regulations - Margaret Sherraden

Dr. Kathleen Haywood presented to the committee proposed changes in the Graduate Rules and Regulations from the College of Education. A few changes to the proposal will be made based on questions from the committee. Since some substantial changes are proposed, Dr. Sherraden will distribute these suggested changes to all doctoral department graduate program directors, hold another committee meeting, and finally bring the committee's recommendation to the full Council.
 

III. Dean's Report

All Graduate School forms are now on the web in PDF fillable format. To use this format, a student or faculty member needs to download a local client from the network. UM-St. Louis has a site license for ten simultaneous uses of the client. Unfortunately, Adobe only provides clients for PC's, not for Macintosh's or Unix stations. Dr. Rose suggested that with the new fillable forms, it might be prudent to delete the MS Word and WordPerfect versions on the Graduate School home page.

A total of 102 graduate students signed up for the health insurance. Seventy-nine are international students, for whom the insurance is mandatory, and 23 are U.S. citizens or permanent residents for whom the insurance is voluntary.

The Chancellor has recently been asking what has been the return on investment of Mission Enhancement funds in graduate student support. Although it is much too soon to see changes in external funding going to the units with better supported and better prepared graduate students, we should at least be seeing better students in our programs. The Admissions and Scholarship Committee will need to think about this when reviewing applications. Council suggested it would be helpful to the committee if they had the baseline entering graduate student performance data available to them. Also, should we be tracking student publications?
 

IV. Committee Reports continued

Program Development - Richard Cook

The committee reviewed the following changes in degree programs and recommend their approval:
M.S. in Gerontology
Graduate Certificate in Gerontology
MPPA degree requirements
M.Ed: Secondary Education with an emphasis in Adult Education
Doctor of Philosophy in Education
Doctor of Philosophy in Applied Mathematics
Master of Science in Computer Science
Graduate Studies - Math and Computer Science
Master of Arts in History

Council accepted the committee's report to approve all changes submitted.
 

V. Other Business

The Dean distributed a Graduate Faculty nomination from the College of Education for Lynn Beckwith, Superintendent in Residence.

A general discussion of all appointments submitted to Council on behalf of non-regular faculty pursued. Council expressed concern that a number of individuals are being nominated to the Graduate Faculty who do not have the typical credentials that would indicate an ability to make an effective contribution to a dissertation committee. The discussion noted that individuals without typical credentials, usually expressed through publications in peer-reviewed journals, can yet bring a unique experiential viewpoint to a dissertation committee. When this is the case, it is incumbent upon the nominating unit to argue that cogently and convincingly in the nominating letter.

Council suggested that the Rules and Regulations committee might want to look at the make up of doctoral committees. Should there be a limit to the number of non-regular faculty holding Graduate Faculty appointments who can be appointed to a dissertation committee? Council thought there was merit in the Rules and Regulations committee considering limiting to one the number of these faculty on a dissertation committee. The Dean suggested that the Rules and Regulations committee might also want to consider the issue of separate evaluation of each tenure-track Assistant Professor nomination. Because these nominations are approved almost without exception, Rules and Regulations might want to consider automatic appointment of tenure-track Assistant Professors.

Dr. Lynn Beckwith was approved for Graduate Faculty membership.

There being no other business the meeting adjourned at 2:18 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,

Matthew Keefer
Vice-Chairperson and Secretary

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