ChristineELynnCollege of Nursing

FloridaAtlanticUniversity

Doctoral Committee

Minutes

October 25, 2010

Call to Order

Attending: Susan Folden (by phone) (Chair), Ellen Baer, Sharon Dormire, Charlotte Barry, Anne Boykin, Kathryn Keller, Rozzano Locsin, Marguerite Purnell, Rose Sherman, Marlaine Smith,Ruth McCaffrey, Ruth Tappen, Christine Williams, Jill Winland-Brown (by phone) Mary Curran (by phone) Josie Weiss (by phone).

Item / Discussion / Action
Approval
Of Minutes / Minutes of September, 2010 meeting / Approved as distributed.
Faculty Survey / Examine workload for DNPand PHD faculty and their ability to chair dissertation committees and over see Capstone Projects.
1.)Is teaching Credit given to members of committees
2.)Are all tenured faculty expected to be chairs of committees?
3.)What is the selection process for chairs?
4.)What is the latitude in selection of topics by students
5.)Consideration for non tenured faculty like Dr Baer
6.)How many students should one faculty chair(PHD or DNP)? / Dr Folden will call other schools and see how they are handling this issue. Survey should be kept to two pages.
Presidential & Recruitment Grants / Need to start interviewing students right away as we must have firm commitments from students to receive grants. / Will start setting up interviews as soon as student's packet is complete
Statistics Course / Need to develop a Bio Statistics course by Summer to accommodate incoming Doctoral students. / Dr. Smith calling Mr. Finn regarding developing a course specific to the College of Nursing. Alice Meshbane also mentioned.
New DNP Curriculum / The BSN to DNP curriculum was distributed / Approved as distributed.
Referred to Committee on Programs for approval on 10/4, then Faculty Assembly 10/25 – Approved
UGC 11/5.
Review of Conditional Students / Students are all doing well will have those with a need contact Center for Writing Excellence. Dr Folden to contact Issues related to TA assignments and the fulfillment of commitments were addressed.
Secondly, student progression was addressed. / Dr Folden to contact students. Dr Liehr to check
Faculty to send reports of unsatisfactory work to be sent Certified.
Capstone Project Completion Form / Form was emailed to Faculty to be completed and sent to the Graduate College for students completing their Capstone Project. / Capstone Form emailed to faculty and students.
BSN-DNP / Students should start in the Fall 2011. / Need to address adding Roles, Policy etc for students who want Masters Along the Way.
Spring Graduation / Faculty should send a list of students ready to graduate in Spring to Dr Folden. / Once emailed, we will confirm list of those with approved plan of study with GraduateCollege.
Class Dates / January class meeting date needs to be changed.
For future scheduling, avoid the first week of classes or at least the first day. / Sue Folden needs to coordinate with Kathryn Keller
Evaluate meeting times / Dr Liehr would like meeting 4 times a semester to be evaluated by faculty and include student focus groups. / Sue Folden and Pat Liehr to coordinate.

There being no further items of business, the meeting was adjourned.