Graduate College Executive Committee Meeting

Friday, Oct 9, 2020 from 1 - 3 p.m.

Webex

• Welcome from Dr. Alyssa Crittenden, Chair

• 2020-2021 List of Committees & Committee Membership

• Committee Reports 

• 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 - 10/14

• New this fall: Graduate Student Advisory Board - Possibly 10/19

• Faculty Senate Updates - Dr. Vicki Rosser, Chair (Dr. Alyssa Crittenden presenting)

• GPSA Updates 

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

• GC COVID Decision Tracking & Actions spreadsheet & GC COVID webpage

• Budget updates & Grad College Finances

• Guide to Understanding F&A

• Staff, services & GAs

• Grants

• Spring plans

• Commencement for Spring & Summer/Fall - Kate

• Doctoral commencement

• Virtual hooding ideas & options: photo slide or advisor hooding video

• Strategic Plan & SWOT Analysis - Kate, Emily, Kara, Val

• Top Tier Metrics & Graduate Updates, plus an opportunity to update priorities, goals & objectives - Kate

• Academic Affairs - Emily

• Voting rights on Faculty Committees - (Emily)

• GFS & Grad Coordinator Training plan - (Kate)

• Closing the loop for Program Reviews. (Propose that the Program Committee Chair would share in Council meetings, the results of each of the Program review after the review concludes; highlighting the strengths and weaknesses and action steps for making improvements.)- (Kelly)

• Course approval process for late combining/cross-listing courses (Alyssa and James)

• Graduate R2PC - Kara

• App/Admit/Enroll and Graduation Data Updates

• Graduation deadlines for fall 2020

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

• Leadership & Professional Development Academy - Val

• Changing T/D after published by ProQuest process: a proposal 

• Appeal forms: Supplemental documents, forms, and approvals

• Best ways to share info with graduate faculty during Council meetings - Alyssa or Kate

• Coming soon: Viewbook and 5 Graduate Faculty, Student, GA, Postdoc, IDGP Handbooks

• New Business