Present: Frank Black, Chris Chalokwu, Robert Erk, Maurice Field, Neil Graves, Karen Greenockle, Richard Griffin, Kevin Hammond, Marti Herndon, Kevin Humphrey, K. Paul Jones, Mike McCullough, Maurice Field for Doug Sterrett

Absent: Lisa LeBleu

Chair Kevin Hammond called the meeting to order at 3:50 pm.  Minutes of the previous meeting were approved as distributed.

OLD BUSINESS
Guidelines regarding graduate faculty membership at UTC, UTK, and MTSU were distributed.  Consensus was to address the issue at the first meeting in spring semester.  As part of the qualification review process, instructions for vita format should include more descriptive language.

NEW BUSINESS
STUDENT REQUESTS
1. Dorinda Hill-request for instructor to be allowed to change an I grade for Ed Eval 710 was approved.

CURRICULAR REQUESTS
School of Business Administration
Motion to approve
1. Revision of prereq/coreq for MBA and MAc programs (page 2)
2. Revision of additional prereq/coreq for MAc (page 2)
3. Addition of BLaw 711 Legal & Ethical Environment of Business (3)  NOTE: Effective date changed to Summer 00; in third line of course description, delete "deal with" and replace with "address"
4. Addition of Fin 711 Investment and Portfolio Management (3)
Motions carried.

School of Education
Motion to approve
1. Revision of admission requirements to include formula utilizing Professional Knowledge NTE scores (page 2)
Motion carried.

School of Arts & Sciences
Geology, Geography, & Physics
Motion to approve
1. Addition of Geol 535 Geologic Evolution of North America (3)
2. Revision of course desc and prereq/coreq for Geol 681 Special Topics in Geology (Title) (1-4)
Motion carried.

GRADUATE FACULTY APPLICATIONS
Chalokwu addressed the Council expressing his desire that qualification standards for graduate faculty be tightened to ensure that "graduate faculty status" represents a strong research, publication, and scholarly activity component.  He encouraged the Graduate Council to uphold standards expected of graduate faculty and that applications for renewal contain a designated level of scholarly activity.  The graduate faculty section of the Graduate Studies Operating Paper was reviewed.  Jones stated that as a result of the most recent SACS review, we now require a Faculty Qualification Report for those individuals applying for graduate faculty status who do not have a terminal degree.

Concerns for applications include-applications that are handwritten when directions specify typewritten; dates should be included for scholarly activity, presentations, publications, etc.; information relating to scholarly activity needs to be more precise and better organized.  Other concerns include-To what extent has teaching of graduate coursework been inspected?  What does it mean for an individual to have graduate faculty status and have no interaction with graduate students?

Initial regular status was granted for Sanjib Chowdhury.

Regular status was renewed for Otha Britton, Parker Cashdollar, John Collins, Marvin Downing, Emery Gathers, Robert Hearn, James Johnson, Edd Joyner, John Knight, Stephanie Kolitsch, Lonnie Maness, John Overby, Robert Putman, and Robert Self.

Adjunct status was granted for James Englert, Charles Smith, and Milton West.

Applications for Don Anthony and Stephen Mohler died for lack of a second. Action was delayed for Helmut Wenz; upon receipt of his Faculty Qualifications Report, email ballots will be taken.

OTHER
Because of time constraints the following items will be placed on the agenda for the next meeting:  transient student status, creation of outstanding graduate faculty award, and recognition of graduate students at honors.

Meeting adjourned at 5:15 pm.
 
 
 
 
 

K. Paul Jones, Executive Secretary