November 17, 2017

GRADUATE COLLEGE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AGENDA

November 17, 2017 @ 1-3pm, FDH 312

• 1. Committees: Updates & Charges

  2. Chair: Donovan Conley

  3. Faculty Senate: Shannon Sumpter

  4. GPSA: Kanani Espinoza

  5. Curriculum: Travis Olson

  6. Programs: Glenn Nowak

  7. Program Review: Kaushik Ghosh

  8. Professional Development: Carolyn Sabo

  9. Awards: David Damore

  10. Appeals & Legal Issues: Jennifer Rennels

  11. Top Tier Committees: Janet Dufek 

  12. Ex-officio: Kendall Hartley, Kate Korgan, Peter Gray, Brian Chrzan, Valarie Burke, Kara Wada, and Rebecca Benfield (Associate Dean representative)

      2. Updates

• • 1. Awards Deadline Reminder

    2. Student Annual Review Timeline

• 1. Graduate Program Roles and Definitions Proposal

     1. 1. Took to Grad Council

           1. Open discussion - Council agreed we vote next time after vetted through Executive Committee

  2. Proposed Changes to GFS/GAC

• • 1. Revisit wording on Graduate Advisory Committee Guidelines item 3 about terminal degrees 

• 3. Final Teaching Qualifications Proposal (background: SACS COS)

  4. Graduate Coordinator Stipends Proposal

• • 1. $2,000, $2,500, $3,000 stipend

    2. Expectations: committee participation; Council attendance (or faculty designee); management of recruitment, admissions, GAs and forms in GRG; mentorship of colleagues and students on appropriate policies and procedures; annual updates to Catalog, Handbook, and fliers; completion of up to two surveys per year (fall/spring), and responsiveness to special requests, projects, etc.

• 5. Recommendations on IDGPs -- HOLD

  6. GC Dean's Advisory Board & Development Updates

1. New Issues & Information

   1. GC Bylaws updates

   2. Tax Bill Implications

      1. CGS & ACE info page

      2. CGS scenarios

      3. Typical tax on tuition waivers

      4. Articles and stories:

         1. Inside Higher Ed

         2. Forbes

         3. NAGPS

         4. Chronicle

         5. Vox

   3. Graduate Program Recruitment Fliers

   4. Grad Coordinator Survey: GAs, SSI, and RPC

   5. New Graduate College Medallion Program

   6. Student Success Institute & Grad Student Lifecycle Model in GRG-P2

• • • 1. 3 Stages

      2. RPC + SSI Integration

      3. Docusign Forms

      4. Plan of Study Forms

• • 1. UG to Grad School Pipelines

       1. LSAMP

    2. Graduate Advantage Program

    3. Graduate Gateway Program

        4. New Business

• • 1. Writing Bootcamp in January 

    2. Inspiration, Innovation, Impact Reception, Feb. 2nd

    3. 20th-Anniversary Graduate Research Forum, Feb. 3rd

    4. WAGS Conference @ The Palms, March 18-21