Minutes

University Graduate Programs Committee

December 8, 2010

Present: Deborah Floyd, Education; Bruce Barron, Library; Ali Zilouchian, Engineering; Elwood Hamlin II, CDSI; Charles Roberts, Science; Ruth McCaffrey, Nursing; Xupei Huang, Biomedical Science, Michael Cocuzza, GSA: George Morales, GSA

Guests: Gary Castrogiovanni, Business; James McLaughlin, Education; Dilys Schoorman, Education; Carlos Diaz, Education

Absent: College of Business Representative; Ben Lowe, Arts & Letters; George Morales, GSA

Others Present: Barry Rosson, Graduate College; Susan Fulks, Graduate College; Nancy Diamond, Graduate College:

I. The meeting was called to order at 2:00 p.m. by Dr. Deborah Floyd

II.  The minutes from the November 3, 2010 meeting were amended by Deborah Floyd and then approved unanimously by the committee with the few changes.

III.  Brief discussion by committee on going green and possibility of not printing out all documents for every member by moving to a room with projection capabilities was brought up again. Will be discussed at future meetings.

IV.  Review and Action Regular the Following Proposals.

ACG 6315 / Advanced Analysis and Application of Accounting Data / Business / N/A / Change
ENT 6116 / Advanced Business Plan Development / Business / 3 / New
Proposal / MBA Entrepreneurship Track / Business / 3 / New
MEMO / BS to DNP Program / Nursing / N/A / N/A
PROPOSAL / Post Masters Certificate in Advanced Holistic Nursing for Nurse Practitioners / Nursing / N/A / N/A
PHY 7566 / Numerical Relativity / Science / 3 / New
GLY 6109 / Benchmark Developments in Hydrogeology / Science / 3 / New
GLY 6825 / Methods in Hydrogeology / Science / 3 / New
EDF 6111 / Human Development: Applications for Education / Education / 3 / New
MEMO / Ed.D to Ph.D in Curriculum and Instruction / Education / N/A / N/A
PROPOSAL / Name Change Proposal from Ed.D to Ph.D for the Doctoral Degree in Curriculum and Instruction / Education / N/A / N/A

ACG 6315, ENT 6116, and the Proposal for MBA Entrepreneurship Track were unanimously approved by the committee.

Memo for BS to DNP Program was approved with a change to 2 credits on the track for the DNP Seminar II, and PHY 7566, GLY 6109, GLY 6825 were unanimously approved.

The Proposal for Post Masters Certificate in Advanced Holistic Nursing for Nurse Practitioners was tabled because the data needed to be expanded.

EDF 6111 Human Development: Applications for Education was unanimously approved.

A proposal to change the Ed.D. to a Ph.D. in the College of Education was considered. A Memo for Ed.D to Ph.D in Curriculum and Instruction and the Name Change Proposal from Ed.D to Ph.D for the Doctoral Degree in Curriculum and Instruction were posted on the web but due to technical difficulties some members were unable to open these documents. Therefore without assurances that all members had time to review the proposal and documents, it was tabled. It was agreed that this proposal will be the first one on the January 2011 agenda for consideration.

V.  The committee adjourned at 3:00 pm.

The next regular meeting will be January 19, 2011 at 2 PM.

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