October 9, 2020

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