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

March 17, 2009

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

Members Absent: G. Kriehn (excused).

Visitors. Chuck Radke.

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

  1. Minutes. MSC to approve the Minutes of 3/10/2009.
  2. Agenda. MSC to approve the Agenda as distributed.
  3. Communications and Announcements.
    1. Dean K. Carey announced that Chuck Radke, a staff member for
      the Division of Graduate Studies, was attending the meeting today
      to observe the discussion. She advised the group that a staff
      member from her office may attend from time-to-time so they can
      have an understanding of the various discussions of the
      committee.
    2. Dean K. Carey announced the deadline for submitting proposals
      for the Research symposium is approaching; April 1, 2009. She
      encouraged committee members to advertise the event and to try to
      get graduate students to attend the event.
    3. A revised version of (APM 322) Policy of Teaching Effectiveness was
      received from the Executive Committee. The policy was distributed
      to the committee for review. The revision will be discussed at the
      next meeting. The provisions in the policy will apply to
      undergraduate and graduate faculty.
  4. Civil Engineering Program Review.
    The committee briefly discussed the report of the external evaluators,
    department chair and dean. A more in depth discussion on the program
    review will take place on Tuesday, May 5, 2009.
  5. Language Requirement for the English, MFA.
    Chair T. Skeen explained the issues related to requiring students to
    master a second language at this time in the program and the desire for
    the faculty to discontinue the requirement, only because there are no
    resources for the students (i.e., faculty) to complete the requirement.
    The committee recommended that Chair T. Skeen discuss with his
    faculty the option of suspending the requirement for a number of years
    until the resources are available, rather than remove the requirement
    permanently.

MSC to adjourn at 2:40 p.m.

The next scheduled meeting of the Graduate Committee is Tuesday, March 24,
2009 at 2:00 p.m. in the University Center, Room #203.

Agenda.

  1. Approval of the Minutes of 3/17/09.
  2. Approval of the Agenda.
  3. Communications and Announcements.
  4. Language Requirement for the English, MFA.
  5. Sports Administration Option (2:20 time certain).
  6. (APM 322) Policy on Teaching Effectiveness.

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