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Tempe Graduate Council
April 26, 2005
The Tempe Graduate Council met on Tuesday, April 26, 2005, at 2:30 p.m. in Wilson Hall, Room 132. Graduate College Associate Dean Filiz Ozel presided.
Also in attendance were Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies Allison; Graduate College Deans Zatz, Lindquist, and Dickson; Professors Barrett, Brooks, Christopher, Demaine, Koonce, McCarthy, and Thompson.
Excused: Academic Senate Representative Mayer; Professors Chawla, Savenye, Villalobos, and Zhou; and student member Hahn.
Members of the Council provided updates on their respective colleges or programs. These included new organizational and naming initiatives in the College of Architecture and Environmental Design, curricular changes in the Department of Family and Human Development , a pending merge of Family and Human Development with the Department of Sociology, participation in a Carnegie Foundation initiative on doctoral programs by the History department, recent hires and new curricular partnerships in the College of Law, the search for a founding dean in the Cronkite School, new initiatives in the College of Nursing related to their new dean, and new developments in the Herberger College of the Arts including the pending retirement of their dean.
Dean Ozel introduced Graduate College Assistant Dean Michael Dickson as a new ex-officio member of the Tempe Graduate Council.
The minutes for the February 22, 2005 meeting were approved.
Dean Zatz and Professor McCarthy introduced proposals for a new concentration in Computational Biosciences under the Ph.D. in Mathematics and under the Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Biology. Professors Baer and Renaut from the Department of Mathematics were present to respond to questions, including clarifications on the proposal from Molecular and Cellular Biology, better development of the admission criteria for the Mathematics proposal, the use of 400-level courses to fulfill graduate degree requirements, the interdisciplinary nature of the program, the core courses required for the Mathematics degree, fees associated with the programs, the use the Professional Science Master's in Computational Biosciences as a Master's in Passing, and the home unit of the dissertation chairs for students in the proposed concentrations. The proposal for the concentration under the Ph.D. in Mathematics was recommended for approval. The proposal for the concentration under the Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Biology was recommended for approval pending minor revisions to the proposal.
Dean Allison led a discussion on graduate retention and completion, especially for doctoral degrees and interdisciplinary programs. Council members were provided a copy of a handout entitled "Graduate Curricular Development/Retention Considerations." The discussion included information on curricular streamlining, creating curricular benchmarks, student engagement, attrition, and placement, retention/completion data available to program chairs in the academic program profile database, and a proposed website focusing on student retention.
Dean Allison thanked Council members for their service, including the departing members which include Professors Barrett, Savenye, Villalobos, and student member Hahn.
The meeting was adjourned at 4:30 p.m.
Respectfully submitted by
Gabriel Goltz.
The Tempe Graduate Council met on Tuesday, April 26, 2005, at 2:30 p.m. in Wilson Hall, Room 132. Graduate College Associate Dean Filiz Ozel presided.
Also in attendance were Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies Allison; Graduate College Deans Zatz, Lindquist, and Dickson; Professors Barrett, Brooks, Christopher, Demaine, Koonce, McCarthy, and Thompson.
Excused: Academic Senate Representative Mayer; Professors Chawla, Savenye, Villalobos, and Zhou; and student member Hahn.
Members of the Council provided updates on their respective colleges or programs. These included new organizational and naming initiatives in the College of Architecture and Environmental Design, curricular changes in the Department of Family and Human Development , a pending merge of Family and Human Development with the Department of Sociology, participation in a Carnegie Foundation initiative on doctoral programs by the History department, recent hires and new curricular partnerships in the College of Law, the search for a founding dean in the Cronkite School, new initiatives in the College of Nursing related to their new dean, and new developments in the Herberger College of the Arts including the pending retirement of their dean.
Dean Ozel introduced Graduate College Assistant Dean Michael Dickson as a new ex-officio member of the Tempe Graduate Council.
The minutes for the February 22, 2005 meeting were approved.
Dean Zatz and Professor McCarthy introduced proposals for a new concentration in Computational Biosciences under the Ph.D. in Mathematics and under the Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Biology. Professors Baer and Renaut from the Department of Mathematics were present to respond to questions, including clarifications on the proposal from Molecular and Cellular Biology, better development of the admission criteria for the Mathematics proposal, the use of 400-level courses to fulfill graduate degree requirements, the interdisciplinary nature of the program, the core courses required for the Mathematics degree, fees associated with the programs, the use the Professional Science Master's in Computational Biosciences as a Master's in Passing, and the home unit of the dissertation chairs for students in the proposed concentrations. The proposal for the concentration under the Ph.D. in Mathematics was recommended for approval. The proposal for the concentration under the Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Biology was recommended for approval pending minor revisions to the proposal.
Dean Allison led a discussion on graduate retention and completion, especially for doctoral degrees and interdisciplinary programs. Council members were provided a copy of a handout entitled "Graduate Curricular Development/Retention Considerations." The discussion included information on curricular streamlining, creating curricular benchmarks, student engagement, attrition, and placement, retention/completion data available to program chairs in the academic program profile database, and a proposed website focusing on student retention.
Dean Allison thanked Council members for their service, including the departing members which include Professors Barrett, Savenye, Villalobos, and student member Hahn.
The meeting was adjourned at 4:30 p.m.
Respectfully submitted by
Gabriel Goltz.