Minutes of the Graduate Committee

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FRESNO
5240 N. JACKSON AVENUE, M/S UC43
Fresno, California 93740-8023

Office of the Academic Senate
Ext. 8-2743

February 05, 2008

Members Present: M. Perez (Chair), S. Brown-Welty, D. Dickerson,
T. Dull, G. Kriehn, N. Mahalik, T. Skeen,
R. Yazdipour, Z. Wang.
Members Absent: C Barnes (Student).

The meeting was called to order by Chair Perez at 2:05 p.m. in the
University Center, Room #203.

1. Minutes: MSC to approve the Minutes of 01/29/08.
2. Agenda: MSC to approve the Agenda as distributed.
3. Communications and Announcements.
   a. Chair Perez reported on his meeting with the Executive
   Committee of the Academic Senate on the Task Force on
   Graduate Culture. The request has received first reading and a
   few friendly amendments were offered including a sunset
   provision for the task force of May 2009 and increasing the
   number of students appointed to said task force.
   b. Dean Dickerson announced a workshop being prepared for
   faculty on international admissions.
   c. Chair Perez announced that the terms of the two Graduate
   Committee members Dr. Tom Dull and Dr. Miguel A. Perez will
   expire at the end of the current academic year.
   d. Dean Dickerson distributed and discussed the academic
   performance including Grade Point Average (GPA) and units of
   individual Provost Graduate Scholarship recipients.
   e. Dean Dickerson distributed a handout listing activities
   sponsored by the Division of Graduate Studies during the next
   few months.
   f. Chair Perez distributed (APM 223) Interim Standard for
   Continuation and Procedures for Termination of a Graduate
   Program which will be discussed in the next meeting.
4. Discussion of Graduate Admission Policies and Procedures.
   The committee reflected on the discussions with staff from
   domestic and international admissions. Based on those
   discussions the following recommendations will be forwarded to
   the appropriate staff.
   a. The current system of accessing the scanned graduate
   transcripts through STARS Systems is inefficient, ineffective
   and time consuming. The committee recommends the Graduate
   Admissions Office to develop a PDF-based central repository
   system which can be accessible by all graduate faculty
   members.
   b. The committee recommended a simplification of the electronic
   admission process currently used by graduate coordinators.
   Based on concerns expressed by program coordinators it would
   be useful to have a single screen (or electronic file) which offers
   links to academic transcripts, admission decision, CSUMentor
   applications, etc. This would decrease the multiple screens,
   layers, and time employed in the admission of graduate
   students to individual programs.

MSC to adjourn at 3:03 p.m.

The next scheduled meeting of the Graduate Committee is Tuesday,
Feb. 12, 2008 at 2:00 p.m. in the University Center, Room #203.

Agenda.

1. Approval of Minutes 02/05/2008.
2. Approval of the Agenda.
3. Communications and Announcements.
4. Discussion on International Admissions.
5. Discussion on Interim Standards for Continuation and Procedures for
   Termination of a Graduate Program (APM 223).

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