Graduate College Executive Committee Meeting

Friday, April 17, 2020 1-3pm

• Welcome - Dr. Toni Repetti, Chair

• Committee Reports

• Course Review Committee

• Program Committee

• Program Review

• Awards Committees 1 & 2

• Appeals & Legal Issues

• Professional Development Academy Advisory Board

• Top Tier Postdoctoral Committee & Advisory Board (TT reports due 5/7)

• Top Tier R2PC (TT reports due 5/7)

• Top Tier Faculty & Student Support (TT reports due 5/7)

• Top Tier Innovative Programs (TT reports due 5/7)

• Faculty Senate

• GPSA

• Graduate College Update: Kate -- May 1st from 1-3

• COVID-19 Updates: See GC COVID webpage (review info)

• Bryan Alexander Podcast and the Spreadsheet that broke Google

• NSHE & UNLV Budgets: It could be worse?!

• CARES Act distribution plan -- 70%; 20%; 10% need input

• Furloughs

• Exigency 

• Hiring & Spending Freeze

• GAs, IGAs, & PTIs

• Scholarships, Fellowships, SDRFs (40) & Finishing Fellows (5)

• LOA, Student Workers

• Grad Coordinator Stipends

• Essential Spending (texting; OnBase; supplies)

• GC Hiring Exemption requests/rationale

• Other Post/Pandemic Issues to Consider

• S/U Grading: Credits?

• Spring GAs

• GA’s

• State-funded GA time limits

• Tuition-only GAs for international students in fall

• GA hours

• Fall Orientation

• Fall R2PC Updates

• Admit more, expect attrition

• Extend deadlines? Campus recruitment efforts

• International students

• English proficiency accommodations

• Non-matric separations: On hold

• Non-enrollment separations: On hold

• Fall Online Teaching for at-risk instructors (faculty & GAs)

• Top Tier: A Path Forward through Crisis

• Quality Assurance: GAs, grad instruction, grad mentorship, progression (link document from Janis/Faculty Senate)

• Summer Post-Pandemic Pivot Planning Working Group

• Other COVID Updates 

• Rebel Apps & Computer Loans

• Emergency COVID Retention Fund

• Graduation Videos

• Fridays @ Noon: Lunch Chats

• Strategic Plan

• Handbooks:  Graduate Faculty, Student, Postdoc, IDGP

• Accelerated Programs & Certificates

• Forms Update & Forms Spreadsheet

• Department exams & milestone

• S/U form

• Grade change

• GFS

• Change in GFS status

• Salesforce Lightning Experience

• New Business

• Graduate students must complete a minimum of 50% of coursework at 700 level unless enrolled in a professional master’s or certificate program.

• Online oral defense guidelines (thesis, dissertation, milestone exams, etc.)

• Define good academic standing as students with a 3.0 or better graduate GPA or program GPA, whichever is higher, and not being on academic probation (university definition).