AGENDA

GRADUATE COUNCIL MEETING

December 2, 2015

3:30 p.m.

Plaster Student Union, Room 315

I.Call Meeting to Order

II.Approval of Minutes

III.Reports

A.Report of Graduate Council Chair – Randy Dillon

B.Report of Graduate College Dean –Julie Masterson

C.Report of Graduate Faculty Membership Committee – Bill Piston

The following people are recommended for full graduate faculty status:

Bret CormierCLSEResearch

Fei WangCHMResearch

Keiichi YoshimatsuCHMResearch

The following recommendations were tabled at a previous meetings:

John ByrdBMSProfessional

Barry CobbMKTResearch

Jason DeBodeMGTResearch

Adriane FainBMSProfessional

Brian MazanecDSSResearch

Darcy MillerBMSProfessional

Samantha MosierPLSProfessional

John NagelhoutBMSProfessional

Michael NichelsBMSProfessional

Thomas RiceBMSProfessional

D.Report of Graduate Grievance Committee – Tyler Morris

E.Report of Graduate Scholarship Committee – Kevin Evans

F.Report of Graduate Recruitment Committee – Martha Finch

G.Report of Graduate Curriculum Screening Committee – Ching-Wen Chang

Proposals can be viewed at Click on the “View existing proposals in the Curricular Action Workflow system” near the top of the page.

NON-SUBSTANTIVE ACTION PROPOSED

CHPA / REL / Course Change / REL 645 Topics History of Religions – change title
REL 655 Topics Hst Judaism & Christnty – change title and description

SUBSTANTIVE ACTION PROPOSED

CHPA / REL / Program Deletion / Religious Studies for the Professions Graduate Certificate
Course Change / REL 685 Theories of Religion – change description
REL 711 Seminar South Asian Religions – change title and description
REL 751 Seminar History Judaism – change title and description
CNAS / GGP / New Course / GLG 691 Seismic Data Processing
COAL / MCL / New Course / MCL 688 Sociolinguistics for Language Teaching
MCL 691 Principles of Linguistics
Course Change / FRN 735 Advanced French Proficiency – change hours and description
SPN 735 Advanced Spanish Proficiency – change hours and description
MUS / Program Change / Master of Music – add new placement exam statement; add carillon courses to list of courses in pedagogy and performance concentrations
COB / MBA / Program Change / Accelerated MBA – change XF policy and change admission requirement
FIN / Program Change / Finance Graduate Certificate – change hours from 15 to 12; replace FIN 785 for FIN 780 as required course
COE / CLSE / Program Change / MS, Student Affairs in Higher Education – change hours from 42 to 45; add SAE 727 and 728 as required courses while deleting COU 710 and 711
New Course / COU 768 Crisis Counseling and Disaster Mental Health Response
SAE 727 Creating Inclusive Campus Environment
SAE 728 Individual and Group Support Skills

IV.Unfinished Business

V.New Business

VI.Program

Results from November discussion groups: Recruitment, Modality/Delivery of Courses, Respect of MSU within and outside the University, Faculty Resources

VII.Adjournment

Randy K. Dillon

Randy Dillon

Chairperson

cc:Stephen Berkwitz, REL

Toby Dogwiler, GGP

Jason Jolley, MCL

Julia Combs, MUS

Libby Rozell, MBA

Kent Ragan, FIN

Tamera Arthaud, CLSE