Graduate Council Meeting

December 9, 2020 - 1-3pm

Agenda

• Welcome 

• Graduate Council Chair - Dr. Alyssa Crittenden 

• Grad Coordinators leaving Council: Drs. Richard Miller, Jennifer Pharr, Micah Stohlmann, Josh Vermillion, & Paul Clements,: Thank you for your service!

• Congrats to Dr. Dufek for appointment as Vice-Provost of Faculty Affairs and thanks for Dr. Sara Jordan for serving as co-chair of GAWC-1

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

• Course Review Committee - Dr. James Navalta, Chair

• Graduate Course cross-listings: GCRC information

• Programs Committee - Dr. Greg Moody, Chair

• Program Review Committee - Dr. Kelly Mays, Chair

• Awards Committees 1 & 2 - Drs. Janet Dufek & Sara Jordan, Co-Chairs (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 Advisory Boards

• Graduate College DEIJ Advisory Board

• BGSA & LXGSA: space, scholarships, co-sponsorships, promotion

• GTW murals

• Action, not statement: student video; action meetings; holistic admissions; pipeline issues

• Recruitment: BGSA, McNair, Online Recruitment events

• Graduate Student Advisory Board

• Philanthropic: Dean’s Leadership Council; Financial Wellness Advisory Board; Entrepreneurship and Leadership Advisory Board; Alumni Ambassadors

• Faculty Senate Updates - Dr. Vicki Rosser, Chair

• GPSA Updates

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

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

• Winter, Spring & summer plans

• S/U Grading

• Up to 6 credits per semester spring, summer, fall of 2020 + spring 2021

• COVID S/U policy = B- or better is an S, C+ or lower is a U

• General S/U policy = up to 3 credits of Master’s and up to 6 credits of doctoral coursework may be included in the degree program with B = S and B- and below = U (this excludes culminating experience credits)

• Commencement for Spring & Summer/Fall

• Doctoral commencement plans

• REMO Demo @ Council

1. Desert Lodge: GC Lobby

2. Desert Lodge: Innovation & Inspiration Reception Halls

• REMO for workshops, bootcamps, events, and meetings in 2021

• Update on international student issues: struck down attempt to curtail or eliminate OPT; DACA; struck down Trump admin changes to F1-B visas

• GC budget updates 

• Fee position: ED Leadership & Professional Development Academy “The Grad Academy”

• Fee position: Instructional technologist & content developer 

• Doctoral commencement costs

• Graduate College Initiatives & Updates: Kate 

• Graduate Student Life & Climate Survey due Dec. 11, 2020

• GA Proposal

• Early Alert to support graduate student mental well-being; CGS Statement of Principles on Graduate Student Mental Health & Well-Being

• Proposed working group in ‘21 - ‘22

• Communications updates

• At the virtual printer: Five Graduate Faculty, Student, GA, Postdoc, IDGP Handbooks

• January: Text messaging

• January: Strategic Plan documents & website

• February: Graduate Viewbook

• GC Academic Affairs: Emily

• Mandatory Individual Development Plan (IDP) [Formerly known as the Student Annual Review Review form] Feedback Template Routing 

Anticipated distribution dates: Dec. 14, 2020 to Feb. 15, 2021

• Annual updates of Catalog Unit faculty lists/descriptions, Program handbooks, GFS department lists--Due April 1st, 2021

• Reminders:

• Grad Coordinator Agreement: Due Nov. 1st, 2020.

• Graduate Handbook updates:

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

2. Faculty forthcoming

3. Postdoc forthcoming

4. IDGP forthcoming

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

6. GA Handbook being updated

• Graduate College Student Services: Valarie

• Rebel Grad Slam 2020! - Thank you!

• Planning workshops for Spring 2021 - who wants to facilitate one? Be a panelist?

• Council of Graduate Schools Annual Conference

• Writing Bootcamp - breaking records! 

• GEM updates & R2PC data: Kara

• Graduate programs that require an advisory committee can opt-in to using the Graduate Faculty Advisor form to allow students to appoint a faculty advisor prior to appointing their full Graduate Advisory Committee

• We need to know: when do you want us to allow students to submit their Plan of Study form? There are two options:

1. Once the faculty advisor is appointed

2. Only after the full graduate advisory committee is appointed 

• Please note that students may submit their Plan of Study form again if there are changes that need to be made after their initial form has already been approved.

• Provide feedback here: https://forms.gle/6DGM7zr7sRqWNZou7

• New Business

PART II - Go to REMO: https://live.remo.co/e/graduate-council-meeting

Grad Coordinator Round Tables on:

• Discussion questions:

• Any best practices to share?

• Any ideas or suggestions for advancing this topic/issue?

• What information, data, or training is needed in this area?

• Do you have any other thoughts to share?

• Groups should use this feedback form, please.

• Results will be shared out to the Council and we’ll address these topics in the spring semester.