AGENDA

GRADUATE COUNCIL MEETING

May 11, 2016

3:30 p.m.

Plaster Student Union, Room 315

I.Call Meeting to Order

II.Approval of Minutes

III.Reports

  1. Report of Graduate Council Chair – Randy Dillon
  2. Report of Graduate College Dean –Julie Masterson
  3. Report of Graduate Student Council – Brooke Bengel
  4. Report of Graduate Faculty Membership Committee – Bill Piston

The following people are recommended for full graduate faculty status:

Deidre ArgyleARTResearch

Amanda BartlettPASProfessional

Dustin BartlettPASProfessional

Barbara BumberryPASProfessional

John ByrdBMSProfessional

Cole ClosserARTResearch

Adriane FainBMSProfessional

Danielle LillgeENGResearch

The following recommendations were tabled at a previous Membership Committee meeting:

Jannette EldredSWKProfessional

Karen EnglerCSDResearch - - probational requested

Julie Babb HitchcockCSDProfessional

Holly MetcalfCSDProfessional

Darcy MillerBMSProfessional

John NagelhoutBMSProfessional

Michael NichelsBMSProfessional

Thomas RiceBMSProfessional

E.Report of Graduate Grievance Committee – Tyler Morris

F.Report of Graduate Scholarship Committee – Kevin Evans

G.Report of the Graduate Recruitment Committee – Martha Finch

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

SUBSTANTIVE ACTION PROPOSED

CNAS / BIO / Course Change / BIO 639 Biogeography – change hours from 2 to 3
CHM / Program Change / MS, Chemistry – change description, entrance requirements, accelerated admission requirements and degree requirements
New Course / CHM 791 Preparation for Graduate Study in Chemistry
Course Change / CHM 740 Seminar – change number from 740 to 793, title, prerequisite, hours and description
CHM 790 Advanced Topics in Chemistry – change description
CHM 792 Degree Paper – change title, prerequisite, description and hours
COAL / ENG / New Program / Teaching of Writing K-12 Graduate Certificate
Course Deletion / ENG 616 Mark Twain
ENG 687 History of Literary Criticism
COB / CIS / New Program / Data Analytics Graduate Certificate
New Course / CIS 645 Data Infrastructure for Data Analytics
CIS 655 Data Visualization
CIS 735 Neural Networks for Machine Learning
COE / CLSE / New Program / Perspectives about the American Higher Education System Graduate Certificate

IV.Unfinished Business

V.New Business

VI.Program - None

VII.Adjournment

Randy K. Dillon

Randy Dillon

Chairperson

cc:Alicia Mathis, BIOBryan Breyfogle, CHM

W.D. Blackmon, ENGRandy Sexton, CIS

Tamara Arthaud, CLSE

AGENDA FOR THE MAY ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING

OF THE 2016-17 GRADUATE COUNCIL

May 11, 2016

Plaster Student Union, Room 315

I.Call Meeting to Order – Julie Masterson

II.Election of 2016-17 Chair

III.New Business

IV.Adjournment