October 21, 2020

Graduate Council Meeting

October 21, 2020 - 1-3pm

Agenda

• • Welcome: 

    • Graduate Council Chair - Dr. Alyssa Crittenden 

    • Welcome new Grad Coordinators! (Bill Bernatis transitioning for Richard Miller)

  • Committee Composition (Reminder to Chairs: Submit minutes To Leslie Hunter & Emily)

    • 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, Co-Chairs 

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

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

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

    • Graduate College new this fall: Kate

      • Program Onboarding Working Group

      • Data & Reporting Working Group

      • Graduate College DEIJ Advisory Board

      • Graduate Student Advisory Board

    • Faculty Senate Updates - Dr. Vicki Rosser, Chair

    • GPSA Updates - Mat Sunil Varre, Treasurer 

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

    • General check-in: how are you, your colleagues & your students?

    • Budget update & hiring

    • Grad College finances

      • Looking forward; mitigating impact via grants

      • Guide to Understanding F&A

    • S/U

    • CAPS, etc.

    • Commencement plans

    • Emergency Retention Grant Fund

    • International challenges

      • Duration of Stay

      • H1-B

  • Graduate College Initiatives: Kate 

    • HSI Latinx Graduate Student Success Initiative

    • Graduate Student Life & Climate Survey

    • Graduate College SWOT Analysis, Strategic Plan & Operational Plans

    • Deep dive conversations on critical topics: 1) Diversity, equity, inclusion and justice; 2) Certificates, badges, microcredentials, and online grad ed; 3) International student recruitment, services, and community-building, etc.

  • Graduate College Student Services: Valarie

    • Changes to Thesis & Dissertation submissions after submitted to ProQuest

    • VIRTUAL Online Leadership & Professional Development Academy (Valarie)

    • Grad Showcase 10/21

    • Rebel Grad Slam 3MT in November: Pls encourage your students to sign-up

  • GEM updates & R2PC data: Kara

    • Faculty going on leave and process of providing signatures forms. Proposed process for designating signature authority 

    • Fall 2020 Graduation-Related Reminders

      • October 26th is the extended deadline to apply for fall 2020 graduation without a late fee. Students must email grad.rpc@unlv.edu to apply as the application in MyUNLV is closed.

        • Dean Korgan's email with all updated graduation-related deadlines for fall 2020

      • Thesis/dissertation defense announcements 

        • Defenses are public and must be advertised (date, time, location) on campus. Graduating students can review the instructions on how to announce their defense. All defenses must be publicized through the Graduate College two weeks in advance. Learn more.

    • Info and Resources from ETS:

      • Email/LinkedIn article from ETS

        • A new web page with materials that can help inform the conversations that may be happening on your campus or within your academic networks about the use of GRE scores in admissions. The page offers FAQs and a number of downloadable resources, including an infographic that provides a side-by-side comparison of admissions with and without GRE scores.

        • New GRE test prep modules for advisors and educators who conduct workshops with students. Access is free, and the modules provide videos, presentation decks and other resources.

  • GC Academic Affairs: Emily

    • Handbook updates

      • Programs - Degree Directory: https://www.unlv.edu/academics/degrees 

      • Faculty forthcoming

      • Postdoc forthcoming

      • IDGP forthcoming

      • Student Handbook  https://catalog.unlv.edu/index.php?catoid=31

      • GA Handbook being updated

  • Graduate Awards https://www.unlv.edu/graduatecollege/faculty#: Opportunities & Awards: Emily

    • Graduate Awards (Students & Faculty) - Dec. 1st 

  • Graduate Coordinator Stipends: Emily

    • Please download and electronically sign Graduate  Coordinators’ Annual Allocation Agreement form. Return to gradassociatedean@unlv.edu no later than Nov. 1st, 2020.

    • Please let Emily know if there are any changes asap to deans, associate deans, department chairs, College/School level Curriculum Chairs, or graduate coordinators.

    • Graduate Coordinator phone numbers on the Degrees Directory: default to the department phone number unless otherwise notified?

  • Culminating Course Project-Final Check: James/Emily

    • GCRC charge this year is to assist with categorizing the culminating requirement for all graduate programs. 

The goal is to have all culminating requirements identified and categorized according to the following: Dissertation courses; Thesis courses; Professional Projects; Paper courses; Exam Courses; Proposal/Prospectus courses; Capstone/Culminating Courses

For College/School representative on the GCRC, we ask that they go back to their respective college/school and share with their colleagues (Graduate Coordinators or other relevant faculty in their unit) to confirm the current categorization of the courses reflected on this spreadsheet is accurate:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NMwNeC9TOX7oxfTCDG2V9f_k7XbBM9Mak3SCnBiiZd8/edit#gid=589994226   

That is, the current categorization of the course is accurate. The definitions of the categories appear in the first tab and each college/school have their own individual tabs.They and their colleagues should review each course and their respective current categorization and enter any changes to the categorization, if needed, in Columns P, Q & R. They should complete the review and provide any comments no later than Nov. 18 (GCRC Nov. meeting).

• • Faculty Leaving the University: Emily

    • Graduate faculty who are leaving UNLV must submit a Graduate Faculty Leaving form. The leaving form takes less than five-minutes to complete and does not require any uploads. The leaving form link can be found on the Graduate Faculty Status web page, here: https://www.unlv.edu/graduatecollege/graduate-faculty-status

The leaving form indicates whether the graduate faculty member may continue unfinished work with students at the time of departure, continue on current Graduate Advisory Committees, and/or teach at the graduate level. It also indicates whether the faculty member may serve on future student committees after departure.

• •  If the leaving form is not submitted within 30 days after departure from UNLV, we shall assume that the faculty member is not interested in maintaining any graduate faculty status at UNLV, continuing on any current Grad Advisory Committees, teaching at the grad level at UNLV, or engaging in future committee participation with students.

  • New Business