GRADUATE COUNCIL MEETING
October 2, 2007 MINUTES
Stephenson Research and Technology Center, Room 1020

All actions taken by the Graduate Council will have a twenty-one (21) day faculty protest period except for new courses, course changes and petitions which will be considered approved by the Graduate Faculty if no written protest is received in the Graduate College within seven (7) days.

Present: Lee Williams, Janis Paul, Julia Abramson, Sanaz Aghazadeh, Sally Beach, Michael Bemben, LeRoy Blank, John Duncan, Charity Gillman, Mary Linn, Sam Stalcup, Maureen Taylor, Dave Thompson, Theodore Trafalis, Bret Wallach

Present via Video: William Ray

Absent: Samir Barman, Denise Beesley, I-Kwang Chang, Sudarshan Dhall, Charbel Khoury, Irvin Wagner

General Business

• The minutes from September 5, 2007 were approved.

Committee Reports

• CDRP – Unit evaluations will be assigned in the first meeting, which will be held in mid-October.   Each representative will lead a discussion on his/her unit.  There will be regularly scheduled meetings throughout the fall and spring semesters.
• Faculty Senate – No report given
• Inter-liaison Report – The OUHSC Graduate Council will form an Ad Hoc committee to determine whether or not it is feasible for all graduate students to be required to take a course in Responsible Conduct in Research.  

Discussion Items

• Dean Williams led a discussion on the Graduate Enrollment Management Plan. The plan calls for creating a framework between departments and the Graduate College to manage enrollment of nationally competitive graduate students, provide those students with the highest quality graduate experience, graduate them in the most timely fashion, and assist them in finding positions relevant to their career goals.  There was a brief discussion on the possibility of implementing e-portfolios into the enrollment management plan.
• There was discussion on creating a position for an Associate Dean or a Faculty Fellow in the Graduate College.  The majority of the Council members felt it would be more appropriate to have an Associate Dean who would work on special projects.

The following course changes and proposals were unanimously approved.  Only brief information regarding approved changes follows; however, original course change proposals will be on file in the Graduate College through the seven-day protest period if you have questions or concerns about any of the following.  Please contact the Graduate Council Secretary, Clarissa Dobrinski, at 325-3811 if you wish to review any of these materials.

AMGT 5023. Course addition
AMGT 5143. Course addition

The following new course proposals were tabled until it is determined where there are duplicate courses in other departments:

AMGT 5243

With no further business, the meeting adjourned at 3:41 p.m.  The next regularly scheduled meeting will be November 7, 2007.