Minutes of the Graduate Committee

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FRESNO
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Fresno, California 93740-8027
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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 T. Skeen at 2: 00 p.m. in Thomas Administration Building Room 117.

  1. Minutes. MSC to approve the Minutes of 9/1/2009.

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

  3. Communications and Announcements.

    1. Chair T. Skeen noted that the Graduate Curriculum subcommittee Chair M. Jones’ term has ended. He will contact M. Jones for reappointment through this committee.
    2. Chair T. Skeen also noted that Dr. Y. Doub, Chair of Linguistics will appear in the meeting of next week. Time certain at 2:20p.m.

  4. Engineering.

    MSC to enter the executive session at 2:02 p.m.

    MSC to exit the executive session at 2:14 p.m.

    The committee reviewed the past minutes. The issue will be discussed again in the first meeting of October 2009, mainly to review the status of the labs supposed to be open and operational in September 2009.

  5. Global and Continuing Education.

    Chair T. Skeen noted that the Provost has given the Graduate Dean authority to waive on a case by case basis the 9 unit limit on Global and Continuing Education courses that meet their degree program requirements.

  6. Graduate Record Examination (GRE) Waivers.

    Dean K. Carey showed existing memos about GRE opt–out programs including English, Linguistics, Education, Nursing, Social Work and MFA. There could be more that will be found out. The case of Kinesiology was turned down. After discussion, the committee decided that they will review the report from each program as requested early by the committee. Chair T. Skeen will contact the departments about the reports. These reports when available will be distributed to the committee members through e-mail.

MSC to adjourn at 2:45 p.m.

The next scheduled meeting of the Graduate Committee will be Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at 2:00 p.m. in Thomas Administration #117.

Agenda.

  1. Approval of the Minutes of 9/8/09.
  2. Approval of the Agenda.
  3. Communications and Announcements.
  4. Spanish Linguistics Option (Dr. Y. Doub at 2:20 pm)
  5. Graduate Record Examination (GRE) Letters.
  6. Report on Graduate Culture.

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