Graduate Council Minutes

Meeting Date: 04/16/2010
Meeting Time: 3 PM
Meeting Location: Lyceum 110

Attendance

Name Present Absent
Beason, Dr. Kim R.
Cao, Dr. Lei
Clark, Dr. Alice M.
Dupont, Dr. Nancy M.
Eftink, Dr. Maurice R.
Ethridge, Dr. Robbie
Hallam, Dr. Jeffrey S.
Hoffheimer, Dr. Michael H.
Letzring, Dr. Timothy D.
McCurdy, Dr. Christopher R.
McLellan, Ms. Tara
Murchison, Dr. Margaret L.
Nichols, Dr. Dave L.
Nordstrom, Dr. Timothy W.
Nowlin, Dr. Jack W.
Payne, Dr. James S.
Repka, Dr. Michael A.
Rholes, Ms. Julia M.
Rieth, Ms. Sheri F.
Roux, Dr. Jeffrey A.
Sloan, Dr. Hugh J.
Steel, Dr. David W.
Upton, Mr. Eddie J.
Van Ness, Dr. Bonnie F.
Westmoreland, Dr. Robert B.
Wickham, Dr. Kathleen W.
Wiebe, Ms. Robin A.
Wu, Dr. Haidong

Other Attendance Information

Greet Provoost was present to discuss the proposal from the International Programs Office to accept selected international three year Bachelor's degrees. Bethany Cooper was present to answer questions about the proposal from the School of Business to accept the GRE in addition to the GMAT for consideration for admission.



Additional Minutes Notes
1. The Council voted to endorse the implementation plan for the +/- grading scale. Ms. Tara McClellan, representing the Graduate Student Council voted against the plan, noting that most graduate students she consulted were not in favor of the new grading scale. 2. The Council voted to approve the plan to assess three year foreign bachelor's degrees.

COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS

PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY

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IDRequest SummaryApproved DeniedTabled
638005215 Ph.D. in Physics

SCHOOL OF APPLIED SCIENCES

SOCIAL WORK

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IDRequest SummaryApproved DeniedTabled
638005325 MSW in Social Work

No Department Assigned

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IDRequest SummaryApproved DeniedTabled
638005510 NHM 699 - Supervised Practice

SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

COMPUTER & INFORMATION SCIENCE

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IDRequest SummaryApproved DeniedTabled
638005388 CSCI 554 - Web Architecture and Programming
638005441 CSci 556 - Multiparadigm Programming

GEOLOGY & GEOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

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IDRequest SummaryApproved DeniedTabled
638005490 Geol 500 - Intro. to Geographic Information Systems

SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM & NEW MEDIA

No Department Assigned

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IDRequest SummaryApproved DeniedTabled
638005592 Jour 664 - Journalism Practices and Ethics
638005593 Jour 668 - Narrative Journalism

No Department Assigned

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IDRequest SummaryApproved DeniedTabled
638005537 JOUR 556 - MULTICULTURAL MARKETING COMMUNICATION
638005541 JOUR 557 - BRAND AND RELATIONSHIP STRATEGIES

No School Assigned

No Department Assigned

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IDRequest SummaryApproved DeniedTabled
638005574 Addition of GRE Score to Admission Criteria
638005511 Modification to Existing Academic Unit Proposal (Renaming)
Chancellor's Notes