Woodring Graduate Council Meeting Minutes

October 12, 2015 (10:30-12pm)

In attendance: Stan Goto (Chair), Bruce Larson (ex-officio), Tracy Coskie, Lauren McClanahan, Joseph Hunter

Absent: Beth Boland

Support Staff: Courianne Willard

  • Welcome
  • Dean Rios: Overview of 2015-16 Priorities
  • B. Larson attends representing the Dean’s office (overlaps w/WCC)
  • Survey placed, less response rate than anticipated, analyzed results
  • Graduate Program Future and Response to WGC Survey
  • Most people prefer a hybrid model (in-person, online, video conferencing)
  • 4-5 interest areas under discussion—appeal to a variety of avenues but with core courses that represent core values/ethics of the college
  • Idea of staggering “cognate areas” that people could come into
  • Promotes flexibility in the program
  • Self-sustaining
  • Extensive Marketing/outreach
  • Know a year in advance the amount of participation expected for specific concentration area
  • Recognition that there is a “tsunami” of need for new teachers
  • Lots of conversation regarding amount of teachers needed
  • 85-90% of teachers hired in WA come from WA institutions
  • ECE concentration to start? New part of a masters is linking PB to MA to leverage core courses w/PB.
  • Cert. plus MA aspect
  • Be attuned to teacher need. (ELED/SEC/SPED with respect to what they think is needed) Recognizing state need
  • Would we have to coordinate with Alt. Cert program?
  • Different model, small population, students not likely to come to proposed programs (lack of overlap)
  • Data from surveys and thinking about MA offerings.
  • Task of committee= create program/timeline
  • What is relationship btwn existing MA’s and this one?
  • Develop recommendation, take it to leadership councils (FAC, WAC) then create a team of people (recommendation would include team proposal) to carry it out. Principals of programs,
  • 2 years from now?
  • Lois Longwood—30 ppl? Closer to 12-14?
  • Cohort to “break even”—12 per cognate area
  • Another push to get data?
  • SPED Certified teachers
  • State that requires that all teachers require MA? Some states have 5th year program requirement (CA, NY, etc.)
  • UW doesn’t have UG teaching degree
  • Graduate Assistantship Allocation Policy
  • Notification
  • Fac. Cannot hire Grad Assistants until notified as such
  • We need a policy—future agenda item?
  • Curriculum Changes (if any)
  • Routing for curriculum approval
  • Need a calendar for current changes
  • Need to verify routing process
  • Proposed new graduate programs: next steps?
  • Copy of the survey? Sent as attachment
  • Timeline needs revision
  • Dean/WGC wanting an MA but there was no process and no data; not enough resources
  • Task force to look at design, timeline, etc. and conducting “needs survey”
  • Survey was made available for principals to distribute/push it to their respective interested parties
  • Results from survey is not reliable as representation of ed. programs
  • Has to be self-sustaining and anyone running a cognate has to demonstrate ability for completion.
  • Identify similar existing programs
  • Evidence of subject matter offered in a cognate model
  • Common set of core courses would require an agreed upon curriculum
  • Representative of WCE values?
  • Formal proposals?
  • Dean requested data—no return.
  • SG to ask Dean about written proposals for program push? Rationale for proposed programs?
  • SG drafting a letter of request for more information and sending it to council
  • How devoted each principal is to developing program
  • How planned out it is
  • Invite principals to a WGC informational session in November.
  • Principals: Gail, Veronica, Victor, Lauren, Paula, Don Green, Chairs to each department—informational meeting about what Grad Committee is working on this year, any interested party should have a representative to the conversation.
  • Revised context; clear expectations about clear proposal for program.
  • Checklist of questions that we need answered?
  • Charged to review/approve programs. Create viable pathway for programs to start. No expectations on existing programs.
  • Certification = Cognate
  • Review findings from the survey
  • Look at other University models, and this model was the most supported
  • Success and Efficacy in where it is used
  • Review of McCallum fellowship, due Nov. 1st?
  • Meeting times/dates this quarter
  • New meeting times set for every other Monday from 9-11AM starting October 26th.

Further discussion on information session:

MA WITH Cognates. Team dedicated to the whole.

Meeting Protocol (November?)

  • Invite stakeholders/proposers/representative (All College)—from Dean’s office
  • Remind of the charge of the Graduate Committee
  • Informational Meeting and Open discussion
  • Gathering further information to move forward
  • Provide specific information for moving forward
  • Our task is to provide a pathway for programs who are interested in developing an MA
  • In a way that makes it viable (facilitators of the process)
  • Next meeting set a date for the discussion

SG—Drafting email announcement for information session to review at the next meeting; list of items that we would like (keep reasonable)

Moving forward…meeting logistics…

**Accommodating off-campus attendance via web meetings, etc.

**Editing documents—via projector