MINUTES OF GRADUATE COUNCIL

6 November 1997

128 Gooch Hall

Present: K. Paul Jones for Kendall Blanchard, Tommy Cates, Maurice Field, Richard Griffin, Marti Herndon, K. Paul Jones, Robbie Kendall-Melton, Lisa LeBleu, Jerald Ogg, Richard Palmer, Linda Ramsey, Marcus Tubbs

Absent: James Johnson, Kenneth D. McCracken


Meeting was called to order at 3:10 pm. Minutes of the previous meeting were approved as distributed.

Kendall-Melton reported that the NCATE and State Department visits have been completed and a report will be forthcoming in the spring. The visits were successful; the graduate programs passed review by both agencies and the initial licensure program had only one minor stipulation which involved a wording inconsistency between the catalog and the Institutional Report.

NEW BUSINESS

CURRICULAR REQUESTS

ARTS & SCIENCES

ENGLISH

Motion to approve

1. Addition of Engl 530 Topics in World Literature (3)
2. Addition of Engl 541 Topics in American Literature before 1900 (3)

Motion passed.

HISTORY & POL SCIENCE

Motion to approve

1. Addition of Hist 502 Intro to Public History (3)
2. Addition of Hist 503 Women in American History (3)
3. Revision of course desc of Hist 522 Modern Germany, 1815 to the Present (3) NOTE: change 'Add' to Revise and check course description
4. Addition of Hist 603-604 Social and Cultural History of the United States (3,3)
5. Revision of title and course desc for Hist 648 Russia Since 1917 (3)
6. Addition of Hist 680 Topics in U.S. History: [Topic Title] (3) NOTE: change effective date to Spring 98 and in last line of course description change 'manor' to major.
7. Addition of Hist 690 Topics in Non U.S. History: [Topic Title] (3)
8. Addition of Pol Sci 680 Adv Topics in U.S. Pol Science: [Topic Title] (3)
9. Addition of Pol Sci 690 Adv Topics in Non U.S. Pol Sci: [Topic Title] (3)

Motion passed.

MODERN FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Motion to approve

1. Addition of Fren 695-696 Topics in French Lang, Lit, or Civil (1-3, 1-3)
2. Addition of Ger 695-696 Topics in German Lang, Lit, or Civil (1-3, 1-3)
3. Addition of Span 695-696 Topics in Spanish Lang, Lit, or Civil (1-3, 1-3)

Motion passed.

EDUCATION-EDUC STUDIES

Motion to approve

1. Revision of admission requirements for Major in Counseling NOTE: In the second paragraph, line 1, change 'Counseling degree' to major in Counseling; in last line change 'a member of the counseling education faculty' to the Coordinator of Graduate Programs in Education. In the last paragraph, lines 2-3, change 'the first three weeks of the receipt' to four weeks of the issuance. Consensus was to give Jones and Kendall-Melton responsibility to fine-tune the wording in the last paragraph regarding recommendations from the Counseling Admissions Board.
2. Revision of program requirements for Major in Counseling NOTE: For the elective section, add at the 600 level or above between 'electives' and 'should'; replace 'School of Education Counseling Program' with Ed Psyc discipline.
3. Revision of course desc and prereq for Ed Psyc 787 Internship in Sch Couns (3)
4. Revision of course desc and prereq for Ed Psyc 788 Internship in Mental Health/Community Counseling (3) Action taken was with the understanding that a written project is part of the evaluation of the experience for Ed Psyc 787 and 788.

Motion passed.

GRADUATE FACULTY APPLICATIONS

Prior to acting on any graduate faculty applications, Council members discussed minimal criteria for graduate faculty status.

Regular graduate faculty status was renewed for Michael Applequist, Arnold Redman, Tom Schmidt, and G.K. Sharma.

Regular graduate faculty status was approved for David Franck and Mary A. Lemons.

Adjunct status was approved for Randall Phillips, Brenda Scott, Sandee Snead, and Mary C. White.

Applications for Coleman Crocker and Larry Joe Logan were tabled to allow time for more documentation to be provided to the Council.

STUDENT REQUESTS

1. Patricia Thomas's request for an extension of time for Ed Psyc 720 was approved.

2. Jong-Jau Yang repeated Mgt 720 without having the appropriate approval. His request to allow the second grade to replace the first grade was approved.

OTHER

1. Internet and on-line courses -- Kendall-Melton will address this issue during the Spring semester.

2. Unclassified admission -- Motion to reinstate the unclassified admission category which allows for one semester with a maximum of 6 hours credit was passed with an immediate effective date. When a student moves to Conditional status from the Unclassified and/or non-degree admission category, the coursework completed in the previous category may be used to fulfill the requirements for Conditional admission.

3. TCGS update -- Jones reported on the recent TCGS meeting. Upcoming TCGS publications include recruitment and retention of graduate students, distance education and quality issues, and graduate teaching assistantship preparation.

Meeting adjourned at 5 pm.


K. Paul Jones, Executive Secretary