GRADUATE COUNCIL
Minutes of the Meeting
The meeting was called to order
at
I.
Minutes
The minutes
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II. Committee Reports
Curriculum and Instruction – Wes Harris
The committee recommends approval of the following course proposals:
Engr4370 Signals and Systems Laboratory – Lecture/Lab (add)
Eng 4810 English Grammar (change)
Music 5035 Instrumental Literature (add)
Phil 4450 Special Readings in Philosophy (change)
Hist 5000 Advanced Selected Topics in History (add)*
Hist 5001 Advanced U.S. History: Colonial America to 1763 (add)*
Hist 5002 Advanced U.S. History: Revolution and the New Nation, 1763 to 1815 (add)*
Hist 5003 Advanced U.S. History: Nationalism and Sectionalism 1815 to 1860 (add)*
Hist 5004 Advanced U.S. History: 1860-1900 (add)*
Hist 5005 Advanced U.S. History: 1900-1940 (add)*
Hist 5006 Advanced U.S. History: 1940 to the Present (add)*
Hist 5011 Advanced Studies in the American West (add)*
Hist 5012 Advanced Studies in American History (add)*
Hist 5021 Advanced U.S. Urban History (add)*
Hist 5022 Advanced Comparative Urban History (add)*
Hist 5031
Advanced History of Women in the
Hist 5032 Advanced History of Women in Comparative Cultures (add)*
Hist 5041 Advanced Topics in American Constitutional History (add)*
Hist 5042 Advanced U.S. Social Movements in the 20th Century (add)*
Hist 5044 Advanced American Military History to 1900 (add)*
Hist 5045 Advanced American Foreign and Military Affairs: 1900-Present (add)*
Hist 5050 Advanced Topics in African-American History (add)*
Hist 5051 Advanced Topics in African-American History: From Slavery to Civil Rights (add)*
Hist 5052 Advanced Topics in African-American History: From Civil Rights to Black Power (add)*
Hist 5053 Advanced Topics in African-American Women’s History (add)*
Hist 5062 Advanced Sport and Society (add)*
Hist 5071 Advanced Medieval England (add)*
Hist 5072 Advanced York and Tudor England (add)*
Hist 5073 Advanced Stuart England (add)*
Hist 5081 Advanced Rome: The Republic and Empire (add)*
Hist 5082 Advanced History of the Church: The Middle Ages (add)*
Hist 5083 Advanced Europe in Early Middle Ages (add)*
Hist 5084 Advanced Europe in the High and Late Middle Ages (add)*
Hist 5085 Advanced Age of the Renaissance (add)*
Hist 5086 Advanced Age of Reformation (add)*
Hist 5091 Advanced European Social History Since1715: Everyday Life (add)*
Hist 5092 Advanced Europe 1900-1950: War and Upheaval (add)*
Hist 5093 Advanced Europe 1950-Present: Peace and Prosperity (add)*
Hist 5094 Advanced France in the Modern Age (add)*
Hist 5095 Advanced Germany in the Modern Age (add)*
Hist 5096 Advanced History of Spain (add)*
Hist 5101 Advanced Modern Japan: 1850 to Present (add)*
Hist 5102 Advanced Modern China: 1800-Present (add)*
Hist 5103 Advanced Modern History of the Asian Pacific Rim (add)*
Hist 5201 Advanced History of Latin America: To 1808 (add)*
Hist 5202 Advanced History of Latin America: Since 1808 (add)*
Hist 5301 Advanced West Africa to 1800 (add)*
Hist 5302 Advanced West Africa Since 1800 (add)*
Hist 5303 Advanced African Diaspora to 1800 (add)*
Hist 5304 Advanced African Diaspora Since 1800 (add)*
Ger 4376 Mental Health and Aging (change)
Psy 4376 Mental Health and Aging (change)
SW 4376 Mental Health and Aging (change)*
Ger 5610 Mechanism of Aging I: The Aging Body (change)*
Psy 5610 Mechanism of Aging I: The Aging Body (change)*
SW 5610 Mechanism of Aging I: The Aging Body (change)*
Ger 5611 Mechanism of Aging II: The Aging Brain
Psy 5611 Mechanism of Aging II: The Aging Brain
SW 5611 Mechanism of Aging II: The Aging Brain
Ger 5612 Mechanism of Aging III: Diseases of Aging
Psy 5612 Mechanism of Aging III: Diseases of Aging
SW 5612 Mechanism of Aging III: Diseases of Aging
Ger 6441 Aging and Behavior (change)*
Psy 6441 Aging and Behavior (change)*
Nrsg 7480 Guided Nursing Research Seminar (change)**
Nrsg 7481 Development of Nursing Science and Theory (change)**
Nrsg 7482 Health Promotion and Protection (add)**
Nrsg 7483 Health Restoration and Support (add)**
Nrsg 7484 Health Care Systems (add)**
Nrsg 7485 Quantitative Design and Methods in Nursing Research (change)**
Nrsg 7487 Integrative Review of Nursing Literature (change)
Nrsg 7488 Qualitative Methods in Nursing Research (change)**
Nrsg 7490 Advanced Quantitative Design, Methods, and Analysis of Nursing Data (change)
Nrsg 7491 Advanced Nursing Theory Development and Validation (change)
Nrsg 7492 Advanced Quantitative Measurement and Analysis of Nursing (change)
Nrsg 7494 Structural Equation Modeling (drop)
Nrsg 7498 Doctoral Seminar (change)**
Ech Ed 4289 Early Childhood Primary Internship (add)
Ech Ed 6321 Parent and Community Resources in Early Childhood Education (change)*
Ed Tec 6449 Using Technology in Administration Processes (change) *
El Ed 4342 Addressing Needs in Mathematics Teaching & Learning (change)
El Ed 6387 Literacy Acquisition and Learning for Urban Students (change)
El Ed 6630 Communication Arts Instruction (change)
El Ed 6684 Instructional Strategies for Teaching Reading (change)
El Ed 6686 Literacy Assessment to Guide Instruction I (change)
El Ed 6688 Literacy Assessment to Guide Instruction II (change)
Sp Ed 6320 Advanced Studies in Classroom Management (add)*
Sp Ed 6372 Screening and Diagnosis of Developmental Delays: Birth to 5 years (change)*
Tch Ed 5310 Instructional Design (add)
Tch Ed 6010 Examining History, Community and Social Justice in Education (add)
Tch Ed 6020 Teacher Action, Advocacy and Leadership (add)
Tch Ed 6030 Instruction, Learning and Assessment (add)
Tch Ed 6040 Teacher Research (add)
Tch Ed 6910 Teacher Research Capstone (add)
Educ 7050 The Research Process I: Framing Research Questions within the Education Literature (add)
Educ 7950 The Research Process II: Developing and Refining Education Research Proposals (add)
EdPsy 6030 Instruction, Learning and Assessment (add)
EdRem 6040 Teacher Research (add)
EdRem 6910 Teaching Research Capstone (add)
AE 4410 The Non-Traditional Adult Learner (add)
AE 6424 Intervention Determination in Adult Learning and Human
Resource Development (add)
EA 6306 Special Education Administration (change)
EA 6449 Using Technology in Administration Processes (add)*
HirEd 6441 Issues in Institutional Research II (change)
Ger 4311 Special Topics in German Culture (change)
Fre 4311 Special Topics in German Culture (change)
ID 4350 Special Topics in Women’s and Gender Studies (add)
ID 4352 Independent Study in Women’s and Gender Studies (add)
ID 5450 Special Topics in Women’s and Gender Studies (add)*
ID 6353 Graduate Internship in Women’s and Gender Studies (add)
Th&D 4100 Teaching for Dance
Th&D 4220 Directing for the Theatre
Th&D 4221 Advanced Directing for the Stage
Th&D 4230 Theatre Management
Th&D 4261 Advanced Projects in Design and Technology
Th&D 4262 Advanced Problems in Costume
Th&D 4390 Theatre Internship
Th&D 4391 Dance Internship
Courses with an asterisk changed the prerequisite to “graduate standing”; ** changed to “admission to the doctoral program and consent of instructor”.
Dr. Harris
moved to accept the committee report.; Dr. Peck seconded
and Council approved the report unanimously. Council thanked Dr. Harris for his hard
work.
Council discussed which students can be admitted to 4000- and 5000-level courses. It seems that the Senate policy differs from the Bulletin. Is it a Senate policy or a Graduate Council policy? The Dean will check with the Senate chair.
Admissions and Scholarship – Carol Peck
The subcommittee visited the re-worked sections 4.1 – 4.8 on support of graduate students. Minor suggested changes are:
4.4 Graduate Non-Academic Appointments – addition of sentence “non-academic appointments are not eligible for tuition remission.” This is not a change in policy but rather a statement of the current policy.
4.8 Graduate Stipend Supplementation – change in wording from ‘supplementation of stipends’ to ‘supplementation of funding’. This would encompass salary stipends and tuition payments by any outside sources.
Program Development – Eduardo Silva
The committee reviewed and recommends approval of the following changes in degree requirements:
M.Ed. in Elementary Education
M.Ed. in Secondary Education
M.Ed. in Special Education
Doctor of Education
Council accepted the committee’s report to approve the proposals as submitted.
The committee reviewed the residency, continuous enrollment and time limitation regulations.
Residency. The regulation does not need to be changed. The committee believes that students enrolled in part-time doctoral programs (working professionals) would be exempted from the one time “15 hours in two consecutive semesters” rule.
Continuous Enrollment. Requiring doctoral students with candidate status to enroll in each regular term is not an onerous task. If there is a problem, then the student may petition for a leave of absence.
Time Limitations for completion of graduate programs already exist and seem well in line with other institutions; therefore the current policy.
The committee also discussed concerns about relaxation of on-campus instruction for degree programs, pressure from administration to do so, and the number of on-line courses and degree programs being developed. There is concern this campus could become the modern day equivalent of the correspondence school and the consequences of that for our reputation. Incentive structures to units offering on-line courses and programs cancel out to some degree the freedom of units to opt out of the correspondence school model. Karl Kottemann mentioned the on-line MBA program may be inappropriately named. Students are required to attend the 12 week course on campus one weekend of each month, which equates to ½ the contact hours of a regular course. A more appropriate title for the program might be ‘weekend program”. In fact, some applicants have been leery to attend because of the term ‘on line’. Council had concerns about real on-line programs which require no on-campus experience. Is the level of instruction comparable? How do you know the test taker is the enrolled student when exams are offered over the internet?
Dr. Tang
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Dr. Lindquist said the discussion of whether to offer coursework on-line should stay with the faculty. Her Nursing unit provides outreach, telecommunicating and on-line courses which gives their instructors various teaching options.
Dr. Kyle believes that in the future, residency requirements could become more of an issue. He has been and will be part of a grant or degree program that encompasses more than one institution. Which campus will get the course credit for those courses taught? On which transcript will the student receive graduate credit?
III. Nominations to the Graduate Faculty
The
IV. Action Plan
Dean Felix distributed the current wording for Priority 3 “Build the quality of the research, scholarship and graduate programs to benefit the region” and asked Council for their input.
Dr. Silva gave an overview of the Graduate Program Directors’ thoughts on the document.
Page1 – resources need to be spelled out – not just money but space, facilities, information technology.
Civic engagement – research – how does this priority link to the engaged research?
Don’t implement without money. Otherwise, it will demoralize faculty and they will leave campus.
Workload – give credit for working with students on their dissertations.
The group questioned who worked on this priority in research? Why wasn’t Council approached and involved in the discussion?
“Expand multicultural activities”: conflicts with faculty writing for their own journals.
Document seems aspirational. Document is currently platitudinous and disconnected; ambitious without funding; ad hoc informality about it; process that hurts us in the end.
Committees who were asked to work on it weren’t aware of it and it wasn’t part of their committee purpose.
There is too much information in the document which makes it difficult to shake out what is needed.
Need to know more about the process. What is the design to the process? It could hurt the Chancellor if it fails. What is the level of authority when so many people give input?
Some suggestions were:
· Increase number of doctoral degrees. Put in faculty workload; include full time faculty teaching;
· Increase program offerings. Graduate program directors should conduct market analysis – what effect would this have on faculty and their working situation?
· No new costs. How do we accomplish all of this without any new resources? Perhaps we should say “can’t be accomplished without additional resources”.
· Graduate students and attrition. Increasing doctorates awarded from 40 to 60 – there would be a cost to this.
· Graduate Council. Would it be beneficial for this group to take part in program reviews?
· Diversify student population. The dean has promised $2000 to one unit who wishes to recruit such a student.
· Re: CCJ on-line master’s program and Communication professional M.A. track. These types of change in delivery to existing programs do not need CBHE approval.
· Include no more than five items TOTAL in this plan and include no subsets. Cut down and prioritize the listing
· Make it clear that the document is only in the discussion stage.
ASSUMPTIONS:
· Final draft will prioritize;
· Protect faculty workload;
· Receive course credit for dissertation supervision, etc. that counts into workload. Give workload credit when a doctoral student graduates – would also help in getting students through the program in a reasonable amount of time.
The meeting adjourned at
Respectfully submitted,
Therese Macan
Vice-Chairperson and Secretary
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