August 14, 2020

Graduate College Executive Committee Meeting

Friday, Aug 14, 2020 1-3 pm via Webex

• • Welcome - Dr. Alyssa Crittenden, Chair -- CONGRATULATIONS! 🎉

  • 2020-2021 List of Committees & Committee Membership - Emily

    • Creation of Webex meetings and invites to committee members by the Committee Chairs (except GCRC & GP Committees) 

    • Please invite Emily & Leslie to all your meetings

    • Please submit meeting minutes to Leslie.Hunter@Unlv.edu for posting on the website

    • Slack - Kate

  • Committee Charges 

    • Course Review Committee - Dr. James Navalta, Chair

    • Programs Committee - Dr. Greg Moody, Chair

    • Program Review Committee - Dr. Kelly Mays, Chair

    • Awards Committees 1 & 2 - Dr. Janet Dufek, Chair (1) & Dr. Steen Madsen, Chair (2)

    • Appeals & Legal Issues Committee - Sean Clark, Chair

    • Top Tier Leadership & Professional Development Academy Advisory Board - Dr. Valarie Burke & Dr. Sara Jordan, Chairs 

    • Top Tier Postdoctoral Affairs Advisory Board - Dr. Barbara St. Pierre Schneider & Dr. Valarie Burke, Chairs

    • Top Tier GEM Working Group - Dr. Emily Lin & Kara Wada, Chairs

    • Top Tier Graduate Faculty & Student Success Working Group - Dr. Peter Gray, Chair

    • Top Tier Innovative Graduate Programs Working Group - Dr. Kate Korgan & Dr. Emily Lin, Chairs

    • Top Tier Graduate Pivot Planning Working Group - Dr. Doug Unger, Chair

    • New this fall: Graduate College DEIJ Advisory Board

    • New this fall: Graduate Student Advisory Board

    • Faculty Senate Updates - Dr. Vicki Rosser, Chair

    • GPSA Updates, Mat Sunil Varre, GPSA Treasurer

  • Top Tier Metrics & Graduate Updates

  • COVID-19 Updates: See GC COVID webpage - Kate

    • Financial information

      • Budgets & Surcharge

      • GC Access budget review

        • MSI/HSI Funds

        • CARES Act Funds

        • Emergency Retention Awards

      • Hiring update

    • COVID-19 Next Steps Planning updates

      • S/U Grading Basis Change form for Summer

      • Fall plans 

        • Schedules

        • GA accommodations

        • International students outside the U.S.

        • GA Teaching prep

        • Students Requesting Short-Term Academic Accommodations

          • COVID-19 Guidance for Fall 2020

          • Short Term Adjustment Form Workflow

        • What to expect

        • Mask video, De-escalation memo, New norms video, COVID webpages on front computers

        • Student Conduct

      • Grad Rebels Return & shifts

        • Currently at August 17th return

        • Gateway Grad Commons, Aug. 24th

      • Graduate College Return to Gateway plan & Gateway Grad Commons

      • COVID-19 GC COVID Decision Tracking & Actions spreadsheet

  • Graduate R2PC - Kara

    • App/Admit/Enroll and Graduation Data Updates

    • Summer 2020 efforts to increase applications, admits, enrollment

    • 2020 GA allocations & spending report - confidential (Kate)

    • AY20-21 Admissions adaptations as a result of COVID-19

  • Leadership & Professional Development Academy (Val)

    • Virtual NSO & GAO

    • Event plans

    • Virtual workshops (need faculty speakers), programs, bootcamps

    • Virtual grant writing bootcamp development

  • Handbooks:  Graduate Faculty, Student, GA, Postdoc, IDGP - Kate  

  • Strategic & Operational Plans Update - Kate

  • Clarification in Catalog & Handbooks - Emily

  • Additional members’ voting privileges for full Grad Advisory Committees: Extra Member designation vs. UNLV faculty with Chair/member privileges

Note that after a student seats a full Graduate Advisory Committee, they may add anyone they like to the committee as a participating member (with advisor approval and must hold GFS at UNLV). Additional members joining a full GAC will be a voting member if they have been granted the following GFS privileges (See GFS privileges table below) in the students’ home department: 

(i) for Masters committees, the additional member hold at least the “GAC Member Master’s Only” (Level 4 or above)

(ii) for Doctoral committees, the additional member hold “GAC Member All Levels” (Level 2 or above)

The additional member will be a non-voting member if they hold solely the “Extra GAC Member only” designation (Level 7). Graduate Faculty Status (GFS) is organized as follows:

• • Grade threshold: A course in which the student earns a grade of less than C may not be used to fulfill degree requirements/be considered for use toward the degree. Departments may impose a higher grade standard, and it is common for degree programs to not accept courses with grades below a B.

  • Clarity in terminology: Mandatory Annual Student Review > Mandatory Annual Individual  Development Plan (IDP) - Each winter break and early spring term, graduate students are required to complete a Graduate Student Individual Development Plan form. The review covers the prior calendar year and assesses student progress, and it establishes reasonable goals for the year ahead. Reported student data is shared with students’ graduate coordinators and faculty advisors to foster opportunities for discussion about students’ strengths and weaknesses, accomplishments and next requirements, and mentoring plans so that students know what they need to do in order to progress successfully through their programs in a timely manner. Students who are graduating are also required to complete the form in order to record their achievements since the data is also used to track metrics related to the annual productivity of all students.

  • New Business