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
December 7, 2010
Members Present: M. Wilson (Chair), S. Brown-Welty, K. Carey N. P. Mahalik, S. Skelton, M. Stevens, Toni Wein, R. Yazdipour
Members Absent: R. Raeisi
Visitors: T. Dupont-Morales, L. Gonzalez, R. Masters
The meeting was called to order by Chair Wilson at 2:02 p.m. in Thomas #117.
1. Minutes. MSC to approve the Minutes of 11/30/2010 with editorial corrections.
2. Agenda. MSC to approve the Agenda as distributed.
3. Communications and Announcements.
A. Dean Carey announced the Graduate Committee lunch will be at BJ’s on 12/13/2010 at 11:20 am and encouraged everyone to attend. She also announced a holiday open house at her residence on 12/12 and invited the committee to attend.
B. Dr. Brown-Welty announced that the off-campus doctorate has been approved by Executive Committee and is proceeding to the Senate.
4. Zero-Units Revision: Deferred until January, 2011.
5. Criminology Program review.
a. T. Dupont-Morales reported changes in graduate policies and creation of a graduate handbook. Also application policies and procedures have been revised.
b. Goals
i. Core faculty to teach in graduate program.
ii. Encourage students who are interested in Ph.D.
c. Dean Gonzalez said she had to put pressure on dept. to increase the number of students and feels that the program could continue to grow. However, the attempted increase in students had mixed results.
d. Downtown graduate program for professionals has the same graduate faculty and same requirements. Students in program are very enthusiastic about it.
e. There is considerable support for program from alumni.
6. Discussion of Computer Science Program review.
a. Consideration of review, SOAP progress, and current state of department as reported by the chair and Dean.
b. Motion regarding Computer Science Review. M/S/C
7. Discussion of Criminology Program review.
c. Motion regarding Criminology Program Review. M/S/C
M/S/C Meeting adjourned at 3:10 pm.
The next scheduled meeting of the Graduate Committee is Tuesday, January
25, 2011 at 2:00 p.m. in the TA 117.
Agenda.
1. Approval of the Minutes of 12/7/10.
2. Approval of the Agenda.
3. Communications and Announcements.
4. Zero Units update.
5. Discussion: Grading policy for thesis and projects
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