November 13, 2020

Graduate College Executive Committee Meeting

Friday, Nov 13, 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 

      • Graduate Course cross-listings information.

    • 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

  • Document shared by Doug

  • New this fall: Graduate College DEIJ Advisory Board - 10/14; next meeting 11/19

  • New this fall: Graduate Student Advisory Board - 10/22

  • 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

      • Grants: AccessLex and Spencer Foundation

    • Winter, Spring & summer plans

    • Commencement for Spring & Summer/Fall

      • Doctoral commencement plans

    • HSI Initiative plans

  • Top Tier 2.0 Datapalooza - Kate

    • Graduate Assistants

      • Stipends & health insurance

      • Teaching training

    • Postdoc Program Proposals

      • Diversity Postdoc to Faculty pipeline

      • Doctoral graduate postdoc opportunities

    • GC Systems & Data

      • Data Palooza and Top Tier Graduate Student Success

      • Special request data

      • Peterson’s Guide

      • Form signatures for unavailable faculty

  • Academic Affairs - Emily

    • Revisiting Recruitment contact info:

  • Default Department phone numbers in Salesforce & Degrees Directory:

  • https://www.unlv.edu/academics/degrees 

  • Unless otherwise indicated, all department phone numbers will be the default contact number in Salesforce.

  • Grad Committees Meeting Minutes and Etiquette Guidelines (Revisit at next meeting)

  • Reminder: Graduate student and faculty awards deadline: Dec. 1st

  • Core/required requirements for graduate degrees

  • Graduate R2PC - Kara

    • App/Admit/Enroll and Graduation Data Updates

      • Graduation deadlines for fall 2020

    • Appointing initial faculty advisors for doctoral students

  • Leadership & Professional Development Academy - Val (Kara presenting)

    • Rebel Grad Slam

      • Semi-Finals, Live, 3 rounds: Monday, Nov 16th @ 10am, 1:30pm, 3:30pm

      • Finals, Live, Wednesday, Nov 18th @4pm. Please RSVP here

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

      • Reach out to Valarie :) 

    • Writing Bootcamp - now accepting applications for January’s session

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

  • New Business