Minutes of the Graduate Committee

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FRESNO
5240 N. Jackson Avenue, M/S UC 43
Fresno, California 93740-8023
Office of the Academic Senate Ext. 8-2743

February 10, 2009

Members Present: T. Skeen (Chair), S. Brown-Welty, K. Carey, P. English,
N. Mahalik, S. Skelton, Z. Wang, R. Yazdipour.

Members Absent: G. Kriehn (excused).

Visitors: Marcee Varela and Georgette Mello, Division of Graduate
Studies (DGS)

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

  1. Minutes: MSC to approve the Minutes of February 3, 2009.
  2. Agenda: MSC to approve the Agenda as distributed.
  3. Communications and Announcements.
    Chair T. Skeen announced the following scheduled tasks:
    1. February 17, Justin Points at 2:20 p.m. (Unconfirmed)
    2. February 24, Tamyra Pierce at 2:20 p.m. Journalism/Mass Comm
      (Unconfirmed)
    3. March 3, Stefaan Delcroix Math at 2:20 p.m. (Confirmed)
    4. March 17, Thomas Attard Civil Engineering at 2:20 p.m. (Confirmed)
    5. April 14, Michelle Den Beste History Certificate at 2:20 p.m. (Confirmed)
  4. Academic Disqualification and Probation Policy.
    Discussions moved to the Academic Disqualification and Probation Policy
    (ADPP). M. Varela and G. Mello shared with the committee concerns on the
    subject.
    • Dean K. Carey indicated that the problem is that the graduate
      coordinators recommended almost all students to be readmitted after
      they reapplied.
    • According to M. Varela, the current ADPP went into effect in Fall 2007
      which may have caused more disqualified students and applications for
      readmissions.
    • The old policy had even more loop holes that were mended.
    • The committee reexamined the new policy languages which indicate that
      it is the Department Graduate Program Faculty, not the Graduate
      Coordinator, who determines the readmission.
    • The Committee looked at the Graduate Readmissions Form again and
      recommended that the office of DGS redesign this form to reflect the
      votes and the recommendations of Department Graduate Program
      Faculty.
    • The new form will be presented to the Graduate Committee for approval
      next week.

MSC to adjourn at 3:05 p.m.

The next scheduled meeting of the Graduate Committee is Tuesday, February 17,
2009 at 2:00 p.m. in the University Center, Room #203.

Agenda.

  1. Approval of the Minutes of 2/10/2009.
  2.  Approval of the Agenda.
  3. Communications and Announcements.
  4. Academic Disqualification and Probation Policy.
  5. Proposal of Juston Points for MS Interdisciplinary Studies.

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