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Members Present: P. Anneser, P. Baumann, M. Bednarski, G. Claffey,
R. Cohen, M. Davis, J. DeLaura, K. Farrington, J. Faryniarz, Guests/ex. officio: P. Lemma, A. Pautz, C. Pudlinski
G. Fitzgerald
welcomed the committee and called the meeting to order at 2:36 pm. A. Members present approved the April 29, 2004 minutes with no edits. II. Goals of the Graduate Committee A. G. Fitzgerald would like one of the committee’s goals to be increasing the visibility of the Graduate School. C. Marshall felt that the school needs to be more prominent on the new CCSU web pages. P. Lemma suggested that the way the site was conceived, they may not be able to be separated out by schools. It was suggested that there should be a button on the main banner to the right of the button for Library. The suggestion was made that another way to increase the visibility of the Graduate School was to create a “graduate faculty” within the school. P. Lemma related that CCSU was similar to many other Universities where faculty have teaching responsibilities in both graduate and undergraduate programs. P. Lemma reminded the GSC that this was part of the strategic plan, and that the GS Policy Committee decided at that time to not go forward with it. She felt that due to many factors, including the contract, this could cause problems and should be studied carefully. The Dean also suggested that the Graduate Forum might be the setting for the GSC and other graduate faculty to discuss this issue in more depth. G. Fitzgerald requested a volunteer for someone to chair an ad-hoc committee on this subject. R. Cohen accepted. B. Focus Groups to survey current students-G. Fitzgerald suggested that focus groups would be a way for the GSC and the GSA to get feedback from currently enrolled students. Departments should submit any issues they are interested in learning more about to G. Fitzgerald. C. Introduction of Standing Committee Chairs a. Curriculum-Joan Nicoll-Senft b. Appeals-George Claffey c. Policy-Susan Seider d. Scholarship-Pamela Anneser
New GSC members should contact the
chair of any standing committee that they would like to join. A. Fall Open House Update: More than 222 prospective students attended the Fall Graduate Open House. The Dean’s office will be sending to the department chairs the names and information of prospective students who expressed interest in their programs. B. Enrollment as of Freeze Date, Fall 2004
Target: 506 Full-time
Actual: 533 Full-time P. Lemma reminded the GSC that though the Graduate School had exceeded its target numbers, this was due to student retention (number of continuing students). She felt that the Graduate School needs to work more on recruiting new students. The Dean’s office will provide the numbers of new students admitted for Fall 04 by program to any department who is interested. Reminder: Application deadline for the spring semester is December 1, 2004. Applications should be returned to Graduate Admissions no later than two weeks upon departmental receiving them. C. New Policies P. Lemma wanted to ask everyone to bring the following four new policies back to the departments. All faculty should be reminded of these policies, especially those who are advisors of Graduate Students. a) “Students admitted conditionally have one opportunity fulfill all conditions. A second attempt may be granted by the department and the Dean, School of Graduate Studies in exceptional circumstances; however no student will be granted more than two opportunities to fulfill any conditions (p. 14).” b) “The planned program should be developed with the advisor early in the student’s graduate studies but must be approved prior to the completion of 16 credits of course work (p.13).” c) “No more than 9 credits taken at the 500 level as a non-matriculated graduate student will be approved for programs requiring 30-35 credits (or 25% of the total credits for programs over 36 credits) (p. 13).” d) “Undergraduates require a minimum 3.00 GPA and 90 credits of study, approval of undergraduate advisor, instructor, chair of the department offering the course and the Dean of the School of Graduate Studies. (p. 15)”.
D.
Reminder of
Graduate Assistant Responsibilities – Graduate assistants should not be
doing clerical work. This is especially difficult for departments that
do not have any secretarial help. The duties
were listed
by the departments
on the Graduate Assistant Request form
and were sent to the Graduate Assistant/department.
IV. Update
on Strategic Plan – G. Fitzgerald attended a meeting on the strategic
plan. Specific goals were pulled out of the Graduate School’s Strategic
plan and were isolated for further expansion. One of the five goals is
integrating graduate admissions back into the graduate school.
The
committee has provided details on responsible parties, costs and review
plan for each of the five goals. However,
there is some
concern that
the five goals identified may not necessarily be comprehensive of the
goals of the school or its current priorities. V. Committee Reports A. Curriculum Committee J. Nicoll-Senft reported that the committee had met with the following recommendations: Item #1: Department of Computer Science Course Revision of CS502, Computing and Communications Technology, including course title change to Computing and Data Technologies for Computer Science. Withdrawn. Item #2: Department of Biology a.
Course Revision of BIO401, Human Nutrition and b. Course Revision of BIO405, Ecology. Approved. c.
Course Revision of BIO410, Ecological Physiology. d. Course Revision of BIO420, Ornithology. Approved.
e. Course Revision of BIO425, Aquatic Plant Biology.
f. Course Revision of BIO436, Environmental Resources
g. Course Revision of BIO438, Aquatic Pollution. h.
Course Revision of BIO440, Evolution (and of BIO 444,
i. Course Revision of BIO480, Animal Behavior. Approved. B. Policy Committee M. Nunn reported for the committee in S. Seider’s absence. A handout was distributed giving the following information: 1. Members: M.A. Nunn, V. Rajaravivarma, C. Marshall, D. Mulcahy. D. Fearon, G. Fitzgerald and Susan Seider, Chairperson. 2. Policy meetings are held the Thursday after the Graduate Studies meetings if there is any business. They are held in HB 102 Graduate Studies office. 3. Proposals will be sent by the Chairperson to policy committee members for their review prior to the meeting, most often by email. 4. Policy meeting dates are: October 7; November 4; December 9; February 3; March 3; April 7 and May 5 if needed. 5. Those departments wishing to submit proposals for admission or other changes need to send them to Susan Seider via email (Seider@ccsu.edu) and follow up with 9 hard copies (to HB277 Attention: Dr. Seider) at least one week prior to the next policy meeting date. The policy committee will review the changes and make a recommendation to the GSC for their next meeting as appropriate. 6. The committee expects to be looking at admission changes for the Music and History programs at the October 7th. C. Scholarship Committee G. Fitzgerald reported for P. Anneser. A packet of handouts was distributed with the information and nomination forms for the Outstanding Scholar Awards and Graduate Academic Awards. All recommendations from the departments must be received by Dean Lemma’s office by Friday, November 5, 2004. Reminder: Each program can nominate one student for the Graduate Academic Award. That student can then be further nominated for the Outstanding Scholar Award. The Dean’s office will send the departments the names of the students who qualify for the award. P. Lemma discussed that the Registrar will not be able to separate the number of credits earned from the planned program, from the total number of credits. The departments should be sure to check that the student has the proper number of credits before they complete the nomination forms. R. Kalder remarked that the student must also be continuing for the next semester. P. Anneser will be happy to answer any specific questions as they arise. D. Appeals Committee G. Claffey
reported that Appeals committee was looking for new members. Anyone
who is interested in serving, please contact him. VI. New Business
None. VII. Adjournment –3:23 pm Minutes approved – 10/28/2004
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