GC Notes 5-9-17

New Programs

• 1. College of Education 1 pm

     1. Program Evaluation Certificate (Corkill)

     2. Considered last spring. Asked to make two certs. Advanced Grad Cert and Grad Cert

     3. Admissions procedures will be the same for degree seeking and non-degree seeking

  2. School of Dental Medicine 1:10 pm

• • 1. Ph.D. in Oral Biology (Ditmyer)

    2. See proposal document detailed curriculum

    3. Faculty? 

    4. Assessment plan refers to Master's Degree and Certificate rather than PhD

    5. Appendix A in Proposal document - 'Poste Certificate?

    6. Dissertation credits should be at least 12. See Appendix A. 

    7. Applications processed through Grad Rebel Gateway, correct?

Program Changes

• 1. College of Education 1:25 pm

     1. Educational Psychology and Higher Education

        1. Ed.S. Educational Psychology - EDPEDS (Song, Loe) - Postpone until next meeting per College of Education request

        2. Ph.D. Learning and Technology - EDTPHD (Nussbaum)

        3. Multiple subplans?

        4. Add EPY 794 to Degree Requirements #3 (internship) or remove section 3.

        5. Update program handbook

  2. *School of Nursing 1:30 pm

• • 1. Advanced Graduate Certificate in Family Nurse Practitioner - FNPCERTG (Benfield)

    2. No concerns - adding 1 hr clinical synthesis course to meet accreditation

• 3. College of Sciences 1:45 pm

• • 1. Chemistry and Biochemistry - RADCHEPHD (Johns)

    2. Add post Masters subplan

       1. Masters along the way for Bachelors?

    3. Core is the same for Post Bac & Masters?

• 4. *Lee Business School 1:40 pm

• • 1. MBA - GMBA (Hsu)

    2. No concerns - change one course in one concentration

• 5. College of Hotel Administration 1:45 pm

• • 1. HOAMHA (Repetti)

    2. No concerns - add gaming management subplan

• 6. *School of Community Health Sciences 1:50 pm

• • 1. Health Care Administration and Policy

       1. Master Of Health Care Administration - HCAMHCA (Cochran)

    2. No concerns - move one class from required to electives

• 7. College of Liberal Arts 1:55 pm

• • 1. Psychology

       1. Psychology Ph.D. - PSYPHD (Rennels)

       2. Change 1 - Total Post Masters credits 53 -> 42 by reducing electives

       3. Change 2 - Proposed areas of specialization

       4. Conditional Admission options - See screen shot attached.

    2. *Political Science

• • • 1. Ph.D. - POSPHD (Lutz, Lafrentz, Rodriguez)

      2. No need to discuss - courses that are being deleted need to be removed from all programs and tracks

      3. MA - POSMA (Lutz, Lafrentz, Rodriguez)

      4. Adding courses to comparative politics field.

      5. Add 'academic references to preferred' to letters of rec requirement.

• • 3. English

• • • 1. Ph.D. - ENGPHD (Keelan)

      2. *Change 1 - change Thesis committee to Advisory committee

      3. *Change 2 - correct degree and institute titles in degree directory

      4. *Change 3 - appears to be identical to change 1

      5. M.A.- ENGMA (Decker)

      6. Change 1 document

         1. thesis optional in both subplans (in accord w/ prior practice and catalogs)

         2. expand subplans to accommodate thesis and non-thesis

      7. *Change 2, 3, and 4 documents

• • • • 1. correct course listings that were adjusted during 2013 'Catalogageddon'

• 8. School of Music 2:10pm

• • 1. *DMA - MUSDMA (Grim)

    2. updating course listings, removing deleted courses. Verify that credits remain the same in all programs. 

    3. *MM - MUSMM (Grim)

    4. updating course listings, removing deleted courses. Verify that credits remain the same in all programs. 

• 9. College of Engineering 2:15 pm

• • 1. Mechanical Engineering

       1. Graduate Certificate in Nuclear Criticality Safety - NSCXXXCERT (O'Toole)

       2. *Title of Cert is Nuclear Criticality Safety (NCS) but in the catalog text it is referred to as Nuclear Criticality Engineering Safety (NCES). Proposals removes Engineering from text to be consistent w/ cert title. 

       3. MS Aerospace Engineering - ASEMS (O'Toole)

       4. Rewording admission requirements

       5. Admission requirements - different based upon track - waive GRE for Post-Bac. Applicants will need to choose Integrated / Non-thesis / Thesis when applying. Still may not be possible to require for some and not others.

       6. Letters of rec in post-bac going directly to Grad Coordinator?

       7. "File an approved degree program before the completion of nine credits"

       8. MS Biomedical Engineering - MEGBIOMS (O'Toole)

       9. same as ASEMS (#2)

       10. MS Materials and Nuclear Engineering - MNEMS (O'Toole)

       11. same as ASEMS (#2)

       12. MS in Engineering - Mechanical Engineering - MEGMSEG (O'Toole)

       13. same as ASEMS (#2)

       14. PhD Mechanical Engineering - MEGPHDEG (O'Toole)

       15. multiple changes - need to review change form for details

           1. 5 committee members for dissertation?

           2. up to 9 waived credits based upon undergrad coursework

    2. *Electrical and Computer Engineering 2:30pm

• • • 1. Dual Degree: Master of Science in Engineering - Electrical Engineering & Master of Science - Mathematical Sciences - EEMMATDUAL (Regentova)

      2. adding course to list of computer engineering options

      3. MS in Engineering - Electrical Engineering - EEGMSEG (Regentova) 

      4. same as above

      5. Dual Degree: Doctor of Philosophy - - Electrical Engineering & Master of Science - Mathematical Sciences - EEPMATDUAL (Regentova)

      6. same as above

      7. Doctor of Philosophy - Electrical Engineering - EEGPHDEG (Regentova)

      8. same as above

• • 3. Computer Science

• • • 1. Doctor of Philosophy - Computer Science - CSCPHD (Bein)

      2. eliminate Post-Bac plans that award a masters - PhD only post-bac would remain.

      3. Clarify summer enrollment maximums - why specify courses?

      4. *MS Computer Science - CSCMSCS (Bein)

      5. editorial changes

• 10. School of Allied Health Sciences

• • 1. Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences

       1. Doctor of Philosophy - Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences - Deactivation - KINXXXXPHD (Dufek)

* potential expedited review