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 12, 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 2:00 p.m. in the University
Center, Room #203.

  1. Minutes. MSC to approve the Minutes of 02/05/08.
  2. Agenda. MSC to approve the Agenda as amended to change the
    title of agenda item #4 to “Admissions”.
  3. Communications and Announcements.
    a. Dean Dickerson advised the committee that the Newsletter from
    the Graduate Division would be disseminated this week.
    b. Graduate Faculty Enhancement Award proposals are due this
    Friday, 2/15/2008.
    c. Chair Perez announced that the Executive Committee of the
    Senate has approved creating a task force on Graduate Culture.
    They are now searching for members to serve on the task force.
    d. The Executive Committee has placed the International English
    Language Testing System (IELTS) proposal on the Senate’s
    consent calendar for a future senate meeting.
    e. The Interdisciplinary Master’s Degree Proposal for Sarah
    Rickerd was distributed to be discussed at a future Graduate
    Committee meeting.
    f. The Program Review form the Master of Science program was
    distributed for review by the committee in the near future.
    g. Chair Perez announced that the Program Review for Linguistics
    meeting and discussion with the department has been postponed
    at the request of the department.
  4. Admissions.
    a. The committee discussed issues and the process for review of
    online application materials and recommendations. G. Kriehn
    distributed a mock–up of information that should be available
    on the main screen and sub–screens to enable faculty to assess
    an applicant’s admissibility to their program. The committee
    refined the information on the screens and has asked the chair
    for a meeting to be set up with the appropriate Graduate
    Admissions personnel to discuss this request.
    b. The committee discussed recommending that the International
    Admissions Office translate foreign GPA scores to the US based
    4.0 system.
    MSC: The University Graduate Committee requests that the
    International Admissions Office translate all foreign GPA
    score percentages to a U.S. based 4.0 system, where A = 4.0,
    B = 3.0, C = 2.0, D = 1.0 and F = 0.0. Four passing letter
    grades (A, B, C, and D) should be used, even if the country
    in question only uses three passing letter grades (i.e., A, B,
    C).
  5. (APM 223) Interim Standards for Continuation and Procedures for
    Termination of a Graduate Program–Discussion.
    MSC to move Item # 5 to the next meeting.

MSC to Adjourn 3:00 p.m.

Agenda

  1. Approval of the Minutes of 2/12/2008
  2. Approval of the Agenda.
  3. Communications and Announcements.
  4. Discussion on Interim Standards for Continuation and Procedures for
    Termination of a Graduate Program (APM 223).

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