BINGHAMTONUNIVERSITY

MINUTES OF THE December 11, 2006 MEETING OF THE GRADUATE COUNCIL

PLACE:CouperAdministrationBuilding, Room 148

PRESIDING:Nancy E. Stamp, Vice Provost and Dean of the GraduateSchool

MEMBERS:Ben Brewster, Jim Constable,Maria-Theresia Holub, Maneesha Lal, Tom McDonough,Weiyi Meng, Karen Salvage,Eugene Stevens, Marilyn Tallerico,

Diane Wiener,Tom Wilson

EX OFFICIO

MEMBERS:Susan Currie, Gerald Sonnenfeld, Lindsay Tremain

EXCUSED:JohnBridge, David Campbell, Cheryl Foster,Stephen Gilje, Theresa Grabo,

Susan Pollock, Steve Tammariello

ABSENT:Murali Jagannathan,Ed Kokkelenberg, Steven Schwartz

GUESTS:Prof. Jacques Beaumont, Prof. Pamela Mischen

  1. CALL TO ORDER:

Vice Provost and Dean Nancy Stamp called the meeting to order at 3:01 p.m.

  1. MINUTES:

The minutes of the October 30, 2006 meeting were approvedas written.

  1. COMMITTEE REPORTS:

Academic Standards Committee

The committee has not met.

Advisory Committee for Scholarship and Research

The committee met to review the proposals for the Provost’s Interdisciplinary Symposia and made their recommendations.

Budget Advisory Committee

The committee met to allocate the graduate student travel awards for fall 2006. There were 29 applicants and 12 were awarded for a total of $5,007.96.

Curriculum Committee

  1. BME 530: Biomolecular Techniques I
  2. BME 531: Biomolecular Techniques II
  3. BME 550: Intellectual Property Law in Biomedicine
  4. BME 560: Human Cardiovascular Regulation
  5. BME 580: Human Physiology
  6. BME 610: Theory and Application of Agent-Based Modeling
  7. BME 620: Modeling of Bioelectric and Biomagnetic Phenomena I
  8. BME 621: Modeling of Bioelectric and Biomagnetic Phenomena II

All BME courses Approved

  1. Biomedical Engineering MS & PhD Proposal

Prof. Jacques Beaumont attended to explain the proposals and to answer any questions. Dean Stamp gave some background on this proposal. A Letter of Intent was submitted to SUNY in December 2004 and approved. The full formal proposal was approved by Graduate Council in April 2005. The proposal was then sent on to the Faculty Senate. At the same time Faculty Senate requested that the Bioengineering Department have an external review of their undergraduate program. The EPPC asked that the graduate proposal not be reviewed until the undergraduate review was completed. In November 2005 SUNY changed its guidelines and the department decided to rewrite their proposal because they now had additional faculty members and it is more focused on what that faculty can bring to this program. An external review of the graduate program is to be scheduled soon. Approved (Yes-11 No-0 Abstentions-1)

  1. Graduate Certificate in Non-Profit Administration

Prof. Pam Mischen attended to explain the Certificate and answer questions.

Approved (Yes-12 No-0 Abstentions-0)

  1. Proposal for MPA-MSW Dual Degree

Prof. Mischen explained that the dual MPA/MSW program will prepare students for both degrees and allow the students to complete the dual degree in three years. Approved (Yes-12 No-0 Abstentions-0)

  1. Proposal for a PhD Major Field in History of Science, Technology and Medicine—Prof. Lal explained that the department is revamping their major and minor fields. In recent years there have been new faculty members added to the department that specialize in these fields.

Approved (Yes-12 No-0 Abstentions-0)

  1. MSW 575: Advanced Standing Seminar--Approved
  2. SOC 634: Macrohistorical Method--Approved

Grievance Committee

The committee has not met.

Strategic Planning Committee

The committee has not met.

  1. NEW BUSINESS:

Maria-Theresia Holub distributed a response from the GSO regarding the Five-year limit for degree progress.

Dean Stamp gave an update on the National Research Council (NRC) Study. Data collection will be continuing through January.

Dean Stamp distributed a document “BinghamtonUniversityOrganizedResearchCenters and Institutes for Advanced Studies”, that defines organized research centers and institutes on campus. Dean Stamp explained that the BraudelCenter submitted a course to the Curriculum Committee. The BraudelCenter is an Institute for Advanced Study. The Curriculum Committee had questions whether ORC’s and IAS’s can offer courses or degree programs. Vice President Sonnenfeld gave some background and explained that ORC’s do not offer courses but Institutes can offer courses but must go through the proper academic channels. The BraudelCenter has proposed having their own rubric and is planning on putting forward a proposal for a new degree program. Dean Stamp has suggested to the BraudelCenter that they need to identify the faculty and governance structure to develop a curriculum and then it would come to the Graduate Council for approval. There was discussion on interdisciplinary programs on campus and it was decided that this would be an agenda item at the next meeting.

  1. ADJOURNMENT:

The meeting was adjourned at 4:25 p.m. on a motion by Professor Stevens and seconded by Professor Wilson.

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Minutes recorded by Alta Hooker,

Secretary to the Vice Provost and Dean

of the GraduateSchool