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

Minutes

The minutes of the 27 August 1999 meeting were approved.
 

Replacement of Subcommittee Members

Council elected Theresa Sears, Foreign Languages, to replace Frank Grady on the Admissions and Scholarship committee; Ta-Pei Cheng, Physics to replace Bruce Wilking as co-chair of the Curriculum and Instruction committee; and Richard Cook, English to replace Paul Roth on the Rules and Regulations committee.
 

Replacement of Graduate Council Members

Council elected Theresa Sears and Richard Cook to replace Ruth Bohan and Paul Roth respectively on Graduate Council.
 

Nominations to the Graduate Faculty

Council approved the following faculty for membership on the Graduate Faculty:
Phillip Robinson, Art/Art History
Jeffrey Sippel, Art/Art History
Deborah Balser, Business - Management
Stephen Moehrle, Business - Accounting
Jennifer Reynolds-Moehrle, Business - Accounting
Michael J. Stevens, Business - Management
Wenjie He, Computer Science
Chengjun Liu, Computer Science
Kathleen Sullivan Brown, Educational Leadership
Robert Archibald, History
Alan McClung, Music
Patricia Jamerson, Nursing
Barbara Ann Dinan, Social Work
Teresa Guess, Sociology
 

Dean's Report

Bob Dalgleish has resigned his position in the Graduate School/Office of Research Administration. By the time Council meets next month, his replacement, Patricia Barton, will be on board. Her agenda in the Graduate School will include:

*completion of an all program brochure,
*better graduate student data base for tracking time to degree, committee chair/advisor...
*handbook for graduate program directors.

Faculty should have received an e-mail from the Dean regarding research awards and an on-line fillable application. If the fillable application works well, then all of the Graduate School forms will be converted as well.

In response to a question, the Dean noted that required reallocations in the Graduate School and Office of Research Administration will require some reduction in support for graduate students and faculty research. The majority of the funding for these programs has been excluded from the reallocation process but there will be reductions in non-excluded accounts and E&E.

There being no other business the meeting adjourned at 2:05 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,

Piers Rawling
Vice Chairperson and Secretary

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