Graduate Council

Minutes—November 13, 2008
3:30 pm, Academic Affairs Conference RM 227

Members Present: Ray Blankenship, Harold Little, Jennifer Blair, Sherry Powers, Elizabeth Jones, Nedra Atwell, Cory Burton, Philip Lienesch, Claus Ernst, Maria Clara Figueirinhas, Elizabeth Winkler, Andrew McMichael, Alison Ganze, Ronald Hopper, Beverly Siegrist, Ritchie Taylor, Terri Cunningham, Nevil Speer, Jennifer Tinsley, Sarah Kessler (Council Secretary)

Alternative Members Present: Darbi Haynes-Lawrence 

Members Absent: Craig Martin, Lawrence Alice, Donna Blackburn

Guests Present: Richard Bowker, Retta Poe, Freida Eggleton, Dennis George, Sylvia Gaiko, Randy Deere, Josh Durkee, William Hey, Janice Chadha, Mark Doggett, Lee Flora, David Keeling, Bruce Kessler, Craig Cobane 

I. Consideration of October 8, 2008 minutes.
	The minutes stand approved as distributed

II. New Business

A.	College of Education and Behavioral Sciences

Action
*Atwell/Jones motion for approval passed	Create a Certification Policy
Contact: Retta E. Poe 
retta.poe@wku.edu
5-4662	
Action
*Jones/Little motion for approval passed	Revise a Program
107 MAE Exceptional Education
Contact: Nedra Atwell
nedra.atwell@wku.edu
5-4647	
Information Only	Create a New Endorsement Program
Environmental Education, P-12
Contact: Terry Wilson
terry.wilson@wku.edu
5-4671	

B.	Ogden College of Science and Engineering

Action
*Atwell/Speer motion for approval passed	Revise a Program
072 MS Chemistry
Contact: Chad Snyder
chad.snyder@wku.edu 
5-3271	
Action
*Speer/Blankenship motion for approval of GEOG 535, 537, and 538 passed	Create a New Course
GEOG 535 Seminar in Dynamic Meteorology II
Contact: Greg Goodrich
gregory.goodrich@wku.edu
5-5986	
Action	Create a New Course
GEOG 537 Seminar in Mesoscale Meteorology
Contact: Greg Goodrich
gregory.goodrich@wku.edu
5-5986	
Action	Create a New Course
GEOG 538 Seminar in Physical Meteorology
Contact: Greg Goodrich
gregory.goodrich@wku.edu
5-5986	
Action
*Ganze/Ernst motion for approval passed	Revise Course Prerequisites/Corequisites 
GEOL 440G Hydrology
Contact: Lee Florea
lee.florea@wku.edu
5-5982	
Action
*Speer/Blankenship motion for approval passed	Revise a Certificate Program
203 Geographic Information Systems
Contact: Kevin Cary 
kevin.cary@wku.edu 
5-2981	

C.	Potter College of Arts and Letters

Information Only	One Time Only
COMM 539 Contemporary Trends for Leadership Communication
Contact: Cecile Garmon
cecile.garmon@wku.ed
5-6673	

D.	College of Health and Human Services

Action
*Atwell/Seigrist motion for approval
*Ganze/McMichael motion to strike pilot study from proposal passed
*Initial motion for approval with pilot study struck from proposal passed 	Exception to an Academic Policy
Social Work
Contact:  Janice Chadha
janice.chadha@wku.edu 
5-8934	

III. Other Business
A.	Graduate Admissions Committee Report
Handout of research about GRE distributed and discussed. The committee will continue to explore the GRE and other metrics such as letters of reference and a statement of purpose. 
B.	Graduate Faculty Committee Report 
* passed
C.	Graduate Student Research Grant Committee
Sarah Kessler informed the Graduate Council that a PIE Grant for Graduate Student Research was awarded, resulting in $10,000 more in funding for graduate student research. 
D.	Discussion of iCAP for graduate programs
A short overview of this project was discussed by Sarah Kessler, Richard Bowker, and Freida Eggleton. More information will be forthcoming. 
E.	Discussion of Research Tools
Richard Bowker commented on some of the issues seen in Graduate Studies and Research with research tools and suggested that an ad hoc committee be formed to address this issue. Ronald Hopper volunteered for this committee.  
F.	Discussion of undergraduate students taking graduate courses
Bruce Kessler spoke about this issue and asked that the Graduate Council work through the questions asked the Council to find the best way to develop a plan to address the issue. Craig Cobane was also present and spoke about the implications for honors students. 
A motion from Speer/Ganze recommended the proposal to the Rules Subcommittee of Graduate Council. 
G.	Report from Graduate Dean.
No report from the Graduate Dean. He instead deferred to the Recreation program. 

IV. New Business
	*Ernst/Seigrist made a motion to consider the Physical Education and Recreation pilot program proposal
	*McMichael/Haynes-Lawrence motion to strike pilot and amend the proposal passed
	*Motion carried for approval of the PER proposal

V. Adjournment
	4:55 p.m.