Minutes of the Graduate Committee

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FRESNO
5241 N. Maple, M/S TA 43
Fresno, California 93740-8027
Office of the Academic Senate Ext. 8-2743

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

Members Absent: None.

The meeting was called to order by Chair Skeen at 2: 05 p.m. in Thomas Administration Building Room 117.

  1. Minutes. MSC to approve the Minutes of 5/12/2009.

  2. Agenda. MSC to approve the Agenda as distributed.

  3. Communications and Announcements.

    1. Dean K. Carey stated that students will now be permitted to transfer more than 9 units from Global and Continuing Education course that meet their degree program requirements. These courses will have been offered through Special Sessions. This change will be reviewed at the end of the year, and Dean K. Carey will be reviewing each individual who proposes to transfer more than the nine units.
    2. Chair T. Skeen noted that the Senate Executive committee had some issues with the History and Kinesiology Options we reviewed and moved forward last year, and that they most likely won’t be approved. Those programs will most likely be ones that are offered through Global and Extended education due to enrollment issues.

  4. Graduate Curriculum Subcommittee.

    MSC to reappoint Ted Bergman to the Graduate Curriculum Subcommittee.

  5. Graduate Record Examination (GRE) Waivers.

    After discussion, the committee decided they would review the rationale submitted by each program to discontinue using the GRE before any decision is made for any program. Dean K. Carey will bring the backup information to the next meeting. In addition, the committee agreed it would review the interim policy next week to determine the next steps to be taken (i.e., remain interim or recommend making it a permanent policy).

  6. Spanish Linguistics Option.

    Dr. Y. Doub will be invited to attend a future meeting. The committee will read the documentation and be prepared to discuss the proposal at a future meeting.

MSC to adjourn at 2:45 p.m.

The next scheduled meeting of the Graduate Committee will be Tuesday, September 8, 2009 at 2:00 p.m. in Thomas Administration #117.

Agenda.

  1. Approval of the Minutes of 9/1/09.
  2. Approval of the Agenda.
  3. Communications and Announcements.
  4. Engineering.
  5. Global and Continuing Education.
  6. Graduate Record Examination (GRE)- discussion continued.

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