MEETING DATE
1-3 p.m.

MEETING LOCATION - Online Webex:

https://unlv.webex.com/unlv/j.php?MTID=m78d528a21d1392d22fc2b1b83312194b

List of Committee members

Committee: Greg Moody (Chair), Brian Schilling, Qing Wu, David Cappelli, Joe Morgan, Henry Selvaraj, Phil Hubbard, Christine Bergman, Dan Lee, Catherine Dingley, Victor Kwong, Ben Burroughs, Corrin Sullivan, Gillian Naylor, Lina Chato, Rubaiya Murshed, Cory Tucker 

Ex-Officio: Emily Lin (Graduate College), Alexandre Goncalves (Graduate College), Kara Wada (Graduate College), Ruth Garay (Office of the Registrar), Sam Fugazzotto (Office of the Registrar), Dong-Chan Lee (College of Sciences), Elizabeth Barrie (Online Education), Gail Griffin (VPAA), Nora Carroll, Ashley Weckesser (VPAA), Lindsay Couzens (VPAA)

Invitees:  Alain Bengochea (ELAD, Master of Education), Daniel Wright (Ed Psych), Samuel Song (School Psychology), Christine Lam (Multiple Nursing proposals), Kenneth Varner (Multiple Education proposals), Pramen Shrestha (Various Engineering, Edward Nussbaum (PhD - Learning Sciences), Jennifer Pharr (PhD - Public Health), Christine Clark (Grad Cert - Social Justice Studies), Marcus Civin (MFA - Art)

Agenda

1.     Committee Business

1.      Thanks for being flexible!

2. Master of Arts - English: Clerical error adjusted under subplans 5 & 6 adding instruction as follows:: 

- 5: "Complete 15 credits of advisor-approved courses."

- 6 "Complete 21 credits of advisor-approved courses."

2.     New Programs

1. Grad Cert - English Language Acquisition & Development (Alain Bengochea)   

• Faculty vote is missing

• Start time is fall 2020. Nora – will this be possible?

• Students will need to start as a non-degree seekers, and then they can be added in after the system supports the degree?

• Vote passes: 11-0

2. Grad Cert - Leadership in English Language Acquisition & Development (Alain Bengochea)  

• Learning objectives need to be different for this proposal. Suggested increasing these

• College vote missing?

• Vote passes: 11-0

He has item 25 on the program changes – skip to him in advance

3.     Program Changes

27. MFA - Art (Wendy Kveck)

• Moving this earlier as Wendy has class soon

• These changes won’t take effect until fall 2021

• Discussion on the votes – it was optional

• Vote passes: 11-0

1. PhD Education Psychology (Daniel Wright)   

• Missing votes from the college level

• Vote passes: 11-0

2. PhD School Psychology (Samuel Song)

• Tabled

3. MS Architecture (Joshua Vermillion) 

• College vote is missing

• Vote passes: 11-0

4. MS Healthcare Interior Design (Joshua Vermillion)

• College vote is missing

• Vote passes: 11-0

5. Master of Education - School Counseling (Jared Lau)

• Vote passes: 11-0

6. MS Clinical Mental Health Counseling (Jared Lau)

• Vote passes: 11-0

7. MFA - Creative Writing (Douglas Unger)

• College vote is missing

• Vote passes: 11-0

8. MS & PhD Biological Sciences (Helen Wing)

• Vote passes: 11-0

9. Adv. Grad. Cert. in Emergency Nurse Practitioner - Reactivate (Christine Lam)

• See #10

10. Adv. Grad. Cert. in Emergenct Nurse Practitioner - Program Rev. (Christine Lam)

• Voted with #9 above

• Vote passes: 11-0

11. Adv. Grad. Cert. in Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner - Reactivate (Christine Lam)

12. Adv. Grad. Cert. in Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner - Program Rev. (Christine Lam)

13. Adv. Grad. Cert. in Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner for the FNP - Reactivate (Christine Lam)

14. Adv. Grad. Cert. in Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner for the FNP (Christine Lam)

• Doing #11-14 together

• Vote passes: 11-0

15. MS in Nursing - Pyschiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Track - Reactivate (Christine Lam)

• Vote passes: 11-0

16. PhD - Curriculum & Instruction (Kenneth Varner)

17. Doc. of Education - Curriculum & Instruction (Kenneth Varner)

18. PhD - Teacher Education (Kenneth Varner)

• Discussion and vote in batch on Items #16-18

• Vote passes: 11-0

19. PhD - Civil and Environmental Engineering (Pramen Shrestha)

• Note, 19-22 are all related – add one course as an elective option – discuss in bundle?

• Vote passes: 11-0

20. MS - Construction Management (Pramen Shrestha)

21. MS in Engineering - Civil and Environmental Engineering (Pramen Shrestha)

• Additional requirement changing the 3.5 GPA to a 3.2, 

• Vote passes: 11-0

22. MS - Transportation (Pramen Shrestha)

22. PhD - Learning Sciences (Edward Nussbaum)

• Vote passes: 11-0

23. PhD - Public Health (Jennifer Pharr)

• Tabled

24. Grad Cert. in Social Justice Studies (Christine Clark)

• Vote passes: 11-0

25. Master of Education - English Language Learning (Alain Bengochea)

• College vote is missing

• Vote passes: 11-0

26. Master of Education - Special Education (Joseph Morgan)

• Vote passes: 11-0

4.     Informational Items

1.      None