MINUTES OF THE FIRST MEETING OF THE GRADUATE COUNCIL FOR

2003

Hargis Hall 1:00-2:30 P.M. January 22, 2003

Next Meeting: February 19 , 2003

Note: These minutes are subject to correction and approval at a subsequent meeting.

Members of the Council and Retirement Dates:

Steve McFarland (Chair), Jo Heath (Secretary), Skip Bartol (August 2003), Scott Kramer (August 2003), Dean Schwartz (August 2003), David Shannon (August 2003), Hareesh Tippur (August 2004), Claire Crutchley (August 2004), Forrest Smith (August 2004), Nancy Joseph (student 2003), Ulrich Albrecht (August 2005), Susan Brinson (August 2005), Sandra Forsythe (August 2005), Jeff Jakeman (August 2005), Daowei Zhang (August 2005).

Absent: David Shannon (Maria Witte substituting), Sandra Forsythe, Ulrich Albrecht, Nancy Joseph, Jeff Jakeman, and Daowei Zhang (Larry Teeter substituting)

1. PRESENTATION: Dean Barbara Witt, Jennifer Hamner, Barbara Wilder and Nancy McDonald from the School of Nursing presented their proposal for a new masters degree, a Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) in the education of diverse populations. The program will focus on the education of patients, care providers, and nursing students. The degree will be a joint degree between AU and AUM with courses taken on both campuses. The panel outlined the serious shortage of nurses in general and the problems of recruiting nursing faculty at AU in particular.

2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES : November 20, 2002 minutes approved.

3. ANNOUNCEMENTS

The Council congratulated one of its members, Susan Brinson, on her recent promotion.

McFarland reported that the waiver proposed to ACHE for retaining the PhD program in Aerospace Engineering despite its slight viability problem was approved.

McFarland explained that the Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) project originally in conjunction with the Library has had a setback when the person from the library took a new job in Georgia. However, the Graduate School is organizing a computer team to set up an ETD web page and eventually we will have ETDs.

4. NEW BUSINESS

1. The Council discussed the proposed policy on "confidential" theses and dissertations and it was decided to get information and opinions from departments with graduate programs before taking a final vote.

3. There is pressure from SACS to discontinue 6000 level courses that expect that same performance from those getting undergraduate credit as those getting graduate credit. Larry Teeter and other Council members said that piggyback 6000/4000 courses offer a good alternative.

4 Heath gave a report on the Distinguished Graduate Faculty Lectureship. We have 12 strong candidates and a small committee of previous DGF Lecturers will select the winner soon.

5. The Council had a general discussion about the residency requirement for graduate degrees. McFarland pointed out that there are so many exceptions to the requirement that the requirement should be re-examined. The Council recommended that advice be solicited from departments that offer graduate degrees.

4. OLD BUSINESS

On behalf of the Credentials Committee, Heath moved that the applicants for Graduate Faculty membership listed below be approved. The motion passed without dissent.

From History: Guy Beckwith, Jeff Jakeman, Lindy Biggs, Patience Essah, Tony Carey

From AUM Political Science: Carl Grafton, Anne Permaloff

From Political Science: Rene McEldowney, Christa Slaton

From the Vet School: Reid Hanson

From Counseling and C. Psychology: Debra Cobia, Holly Stadler

From Engineering: Mary Stroup-Gardiner, Mark Halpin, Soo-Young Lee,

Michael Greene, Fai Dai

From English: Virginia Kouides

From Sociology: Zongli Tang, Carolyn Pevey

From Horticulture: Luther Waters.

From Agronomy and Soils: Joey Shaw

On behalf of the Curriculum Committee, Heath moved that the course proposals listed below be approved. The motion passed without dissent.

CTSE 6020 (New) Second Language Acquisition

HDFS 7030 Change in title to "Advanced Family and Social Policy"

CTMU 7906, 7976, 8986 Distance versions of current on-campus courses.

Addition of English as a Second Language (ESL) Option for the M.Ed.

Spring 2003 Graduate Council Meetings: February 19, March 12, and April 16

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Electronic SECOND MEETING OF THE GRADUATE COUNCIL FOR 2003

February 19, 2003

Next Meeting: March 12, 2003

1. ANNOUNCEMENT: The Graduate School is pleased to announce that Professor Jitendra Tugnait from Electrical and Computer Engineering has been chosen this year’s Distinguished Graduate Faculty Lecturer.

2. OLD BUSINESS: The following two motions passed without opposition:

(1) A motion to approve the Credentials Committee recommendations that the following Graduate Faculty membership criteria proposals be approved and the following candidates be approved to Graduate Faculty membership:

(i) Criteria revisions:

Rehabilitation and Special Education

Accountancy

Mathematics/Discrete and Stat. Sc.

Forestry and Wildlife Sciences

Management

(ii) Graduate Faculty Appointments and Re-appointments

Curr. and Teaching Charles Eick

Physics Robert F. Boivin

Industrial Design Sang-Gyen Ahn

Ind. & Sys. Engineering Jorge Valenzuela

Architecture Daniel Bennett, Bruce Lindsey, Kim Steele

Educational FLT Sean Alan Forbes, Ivan E. Watts, Paul Pitre

(2) A motion to approve the recommendations of the Curriculum Committee that the course/degree proposals listed below be approved.

MSNT-MNGT degree name changed to MSNT-HRMN

VBMS 7780, change from 3 hours to 5 hours

COMP 6400/6406, 6330, 6219/6216: change in prerequisites

ECON 6970, new course: Readings in Economics

FORY 6230: change in credit hours to 4

MATL 6970, new course: Intermediate Special Topics in Materials Engineering

MATL 7970, new name: Advanced Special Topics in Materials Engineering

Master of Science degree in nursing, including these new courses:

NURS 7110, 7120, 7210, 7220, 7230, 7240, 7250, 7260, 7270

NURS 7310, 7320, 7910, 7930, 7980, 7990

Spring 2003 Graduate Council Meetings:

March 12, April 16

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MINUTES OF THE THIRD MEETING OF THE GRADUATE COUNCIL FOR

2003

Hargis Hall 1:00-2:30 P.M. March 12, 2003

Next Meeting: April 16 , 2003

Note: These minutes are subject to correction and approval at a subsequent meeting.

Members of the Council and Retirement Dates:

Absent: Ulrich Albrecht (Andras Bezdek substituting), Sandra Forsythe, Hareesh Tippur

PRESENTATION:

Representing the Graduate Student Council, Mathew Binney presented to the Graduate Council their ideas for a proposal for graduate student health insurance. They plan to develop several examples featuring different options, and they plan an incremental approach. They expect to propose that the insurance be separate from the Blue Cross/ Blue Shield insurance used by full time employees.

APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES: The minutes of the last meeting, and a couple of other meetings whose minutes had not yet been approved, were finally approved.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

1. McFarland announced the outstanding Graduate student ( a student of one of our Council members, Skip Bartol a.k.a Frank Bartol) and the outstanding doctoral and masters students.

Outstanding Graduate Student

Name Department Nominator Dept. Head

Becky Jean Tarleton, Animal Sciences, Frank Bartol, Lowell Frobish

Outstanding Doctoral Students

Eugene K. Blythe, Horticulture, Charles Giliam, Charles Gilliam

Amanda L. Chancey, Anatomy, Physiology & Pharm., Joseph Janicki

Wilson H. Faircloth, Agronomy and Soils, Michael Patterson, Joseph Touchton

Jeffrey J. Frederick, History, Wayne Flynt, William Trimble

Parag Garhyan, Chemical Engineering, Ram Gupa, Robert Chambers

Teresa Hubscher-Younger, Comp. Sci & Softw. Eng., Hari Narayanan, James Cross

Takumasa Demian Kondo, Ent. & Plant Pathology, K. L. Bowen , Michael Williams

Chao Liu Electrical & Computer Eng. Victor Nelson J. David Irwin

Xundan Shi Mechanical Engineering George T. Flowers David Dyer

Becky Jean Tarleton Animal Sciences Frank Bartol Lowell Frobish

Outstanding Master’s Students

Sarah D. Crim , Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Mark Dubois Richard Brinker

Andrew Hawkins Textile Engineering Gisha Buschle-Diller Peter Scgwartz

Kristi Huels Fisheries & Allied Aquac. Yolanda J. Brady David Rouse

Ian Kaplan Entomology & Plant Pathology K. L. Bowen Mike Williams

Alex L. Matras Mechanical Engineering George Flowers David Dyer

Jeremy McCartha Geology & Geography Charles Savrda Robert Cook

Kelly F. McGeever Sociology Charles Faupel Thomas Petee

Jin Tang Electrical & Computer Eng. Victor Nelson, J. David Irwin

Heather Vaughan English Jeremy Downes George Crandell

Matthew Veal Biosystems Engineering Steven Taylor David Dyer

2. Nancy Joseph announced the GSC annual picnic and research forum. She asked for judge volunteers from Education, Liberal Arts, Engineering and Human Sciences.

OLD BUSINESS:

1. McFarland distributed tabulated information on the opinions of 19 departments on campus as regards the confidentiality of theses and dissertations and the residency requirements.

2. After continuing the discussion on the issue of confidentiality of theses/dissertations, it was moved by Skip Bartol, and seconded by Susan Brinson, that the new Approval Page statement be: “ Except where reference is made to the work of others, the work described in this thesis is my own or was done in collaboration with my advisory committee. This thesis does not include proprietary or classified information.” Only the second sentence is new. It was further moved that the following policy be introduced into the Bulletin: “ No thesis or dissertation should be based exclusively on a proprietary or classified research project, nor should a thesis or dissertation include proprietary or classified information. Any graduate student and advisor engaged in such research should identify an alternate topic for the thesis or dissertation. Should a thesis or dissertation include such information, the document must be rewritten with the offending material excised. “ The motion passed without opposition.

3. Discussion on residency requirements continued and was tabled until the April meeting.

4. The Credentials committee recommendation, that the following applicants be granted Graduate Faculty status, passed without opposition.

Dorothy Cavender, Evelyn Brannon Consumer Affairs

Bryan M. Waldridge Clinical Sciences

Rebecca Ingram, Richelle Rice Rehab. and Special Education

Scott Finn Architecture

5. The Curriculum committee recommendations, that the following course proposals be approved, passed without opposition.

MUSI 7096, 7126, 7136 Distance versions of approved courses

Business Ed. Distance Learning New program in Curriculum/Teaching

INSY 7030/6 Upgrade for 6230

INSY 7500/6 Prerequisite update

SUMMER MEETING SCHEDULE:

May 21, June 18, July 23, August 27

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MINUTES OF THE FOURTH MEETING OF THE GRADUATE COUNCIL FOR

2003

Hargis Hall 1:00-2:00 P.M. April 16, 2003

Next Meeting: May 21 , 2003

Note: These minutes are subject to correction and approval at a subsequent meeting.

Members of the Council and Retirement Dates:

Steve McFarland (Chair), Jo Heath (Secretary), Skip Bartol (August 2003), Scott Kramer (August 2003), Dean Schwartz (August 2003), David Shannon (August 2003), Hareesh Tippur (August 2004), Claire Crutchley (August 2004), Forrest Smith (August 2004), Melissa Brooks (student 2004), Ulrich Albrecht (August 2005), Susan Brinson (August 2005), Sandra Forsythe (August 2005), Jeff Jakeman (August 2005), Daowei Zhang (August 2005).

Absent: Sandra Forsythe

ANNOUNCEMENTS

McFarland congratulated Zhang, somewhat belatedly, on his promotion.

He also introduced the new Graduate Council representative from the Graduate Student Council, Melissa Brooks from Biological Sciences.

McFarland announced a 50% increase, $5000, in the contribution to the Graduate Student Travel fund from the Vice President for Research, Michael Moriarty. McFarland also reported that Moriarty intends to increase the amount next year as well.

NEW BUSINESS:

Discussion item from the Credentials Committee: Issue of a graduate student belonging to the graduate faculty.

After a thorough and careful discussion, the Graduate Council voted, without opposition, that the policy should be that a graduate student cannot belong to the Graduate Faculty of the department in which he or she is pursuing a degree.

OLD BUSINESS:

1. Skip Bartol moved, seconded by Susan Brinson, that the following recommended statement concerning a new residency policy be inserted in the Bulletin.

Resident, on-campus study is the foundation for research-based graduate degree programs at Auburn University. Any graduate student enrolled in a degree program culminating in a thesis or dissertation must directly engage in research with the major professor, must have access to the research tools needed for the research activity, must be immersed in the culture of graduate education, must engage in the professional activities of the discipline, and must complete the research activity in a reasonable period of time. Graduation requires the major professor to certify compliance with these requirements.

2. McFarland gave the council an update on the piggyback conversions project. He explained that the current plan is to make all piggybacks 5000/6000 so that courses 6000 and above are all graduate level, and courses below 6000 are all undergraduate level. He also explained that graduate students in piggyback courses will now count (for the department) as graduate students; currently, graduate students in 6000 level courses count as undergraduates.

Credentials committee recommendations. The following were approved without opposition:

Graduate Faculty:

Building Science: Michael Hein, James Williams, Jeffrey Tickal

Entomology: Henry Fadomiro

Animal Science: B. R. Moss

Industrial Design: Bret Smith

New Departmental Criteria:

Economics

Aviation Management and Logistics

Curriculum committee recommendations. The following were approved without opposition.

Geography courses, new 7000 courses to piggyback with approved 4000 courses:

GEOG 7600, 7350, 7010, 7800, 7210, 7830, 7820

New Community Planning Graduate minor

CTRD 6716, new distance version of approved CTRD 6710.

New CPLN 7010/4010: Death and Life of Great American Cities

New INSY 7400/7406 : Simulation Modeling

Mark your calendars:

Summer meetings: May 21, June 18, July 23

First fall meeting: August 27

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MINUTES OF THE FIFTH MEETING OF THE GRADUATE COUNCIL FOR

2003

Hargis Hall 1:00-2:00 P.M. May 21, 2003

Next Meeting: June 18, 2003

Note: These minutes are subject to correction and approval at a subsequent meeting.

Members of the Council and Retirement Dates:

Steve McFarland (Chair), Jo Heath (Secretary), Skip Bartol (August 2003), Scott Kramer (August 2003), Dean Schwartz (August 2003), David Shannon (August 2003), Hareesh Tippur (August 2004), Claire Crutchley (August 2004), Forrest Smith (August 2004), Melissa Brooks (student 2004), Ulrich Albrecht (August 2005), Susan Brinson (August 2005), Sandra Forsythe (August 2005), Jeff Jakeman (August 2005), Daowei Zhang (August 2005).

Absent: Sandra Forsythe, Dean Schwartz, David Shannon, Ulrich Albrecht (Yongsheng Han substituting), Daowei Zhang (Greg Somers substituting)

PRESENTATIONS

John Adrian from Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology explained why their department wishes to change the name of its "Agricultural Business and Economics" major, Doctor of Philosophy program, to "Applied Economics." Briefly, the rationale behind this is that "Agricultural" is too restrictive. The Graduate Council voted without opposition in support of the name change.

Bruce Lindsay and Sharon Gaber from CADC attended to discuss their proposals for Master of Landscape Architecture and Master of Community Planning degree programs and several dual degree programs.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

McFarland announced three GPO workshops, June 17, 18, 20 from 11:00 to 1:00 in Hargis Hall (lunch provided). Any GPO who is interested may attend – just let us know. On the agenda will be the new electronic thesis/dissertation program, electronic plans of study, updates on graduate faculty applications, etc.

McFarland described the new ACHE moratorium for the foreseeable future beginning November 1, 2003, on new degree programs and on new institutions of higher learning. ACHE seems to think we have enough institutions of higher learning. McFarland also described the several exceptions to the new degree program prohibition: documented high demand, program exchange, documented imperativeness, etc.

McFarland announced that next fall there will be raises for faculty and staff, health insurance cost increases, and retirement cost increases, but that the 100% GRA tuition waivers is “off the table”. However, the number of GRA tuition waivers has been increased to 450.

NEW BUSINESS:

McFarland described in detail the current graduate school policy on suspensions and expulsions, and described without detail some troublesome recent cases. He asked the Council if any changes should be made in the policy and after careful discussion the Council decided, without opposition, that no changes should be made at this time.

OLD BUSINESS:

The following Credentials committee recommendations, for appointment or reappointment to the Graduate Faculty, were approved without opposition:

Agronomy and Soils: Francisco Arriaga, Andrew Price, Alan Franzleubbers

Hugo Rogers, Yucheng Feng, Gobena Huluka

Mechanical Engineering: Pradeep Lall, Aleksandr Simonian, Zhong Cheng,

Barton Prorok

Mathematics: Phil Zenor

Entomology and Plant Pathology: Mary Cupp, Micky Eubanks

Animal Sciences: Werner Bergen

The following Credentials committee recommendations, for approval of new departmental criteria, were approved without opposition:

Marketing Criteria

Communication and Journalism

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Mark your calendars:

Summer meetings: June 18 and July 23

First fall meeting: August 27

MINUTES OF THE SEVENTH MEETING OF THE GRADUATE COUNCIL FOR

2003

Hargis Hall 1:00-2:00 P.M. July 23, 2003

Next Meeting: August 27, 2003

Note: These minutes are subject to correction and approval at a subsequent meeting.

Members of the Council and Retirement Dates:

Steve McFarland (Chair), Jo Heath (Secretary), Skip Bartol (August 2003), Scott Kramer (August 2003), Dean Schwartz (August 2003), David Shannon (August 2003), Hareesh Tippur (August 2004), Claire Crutchley (August 2004), Forrest Smith (August 2004), Melissa Brooks (student 2004), Ulrich Albrecht (August 2005), Susan Brinson (August 2005), Sandra Forsythe (August 2005), Jeff Jakeman (August 2005), Daowei Zhang (August 2005).

Absent: Susan Brinson (Tom Petee substituting), Dean Schwartz, Ulrich Albrecht (Yonsheng Han substituting), Daowei Zhang.

PRESENTATION: Dr. Pat Curtis from Poultry Science described, and answered questions about, her course proposals POUL 7150 and 7156. The two courses are identical, one for off-campus students and one for on-campus students, and neither course is classroom lecture based. Rather, they are both entirely web based.

After the Council meeting, remnants of the Curriculum Committee met to discuss the course and decided that a demonstration of the course material would be very helpful in evaluating the graduate level of the courses. Accordingly, Professor Curtis will be asked for a demonstration at the next Council meeting.

RESOLUTION

The Graduate Council and the Graduate School thanked, and presented plaques to, Dean Schwartz (in absentia), Skip Bartol, David Shannon, and Scott Kramer for their work on the Council, the Credentials Committee and the Curriculum Committee.

NEW BUSINESS:

1. The Council discussed a question from the Animal Sciences Department: should there be restrictions against a student taking for credit both halves of a piggyback pair, once as an undergraduate student and once as a graduate student? There were differing views on this question but the Council reaffirmed an earlier Council’s decision not to impose this restriction.

2. The Council considered a request from Chemical Engineering to amend the requirement that at least half of the courses counting towards a graduate degree be 7000 level or above. With the piggyback conversion, a 7XXX course that is part of a piggyback pair will be renumbered 6XXX, with no change in content. The department would like for the new 6XXX courses be given the same status as the current 7XXX course. The Council concurred and voted without opposition to approve the department’s request.

The old policy was “All programs require a minimum of 30 semester hours and at least 50 percent must be at the 7000-level or above.” The new policy is “All programs require a minimum of 30 semester hours of graduate courses, 6000-level or above.”

OLD BUSINESS: The Graduate Council voted without opposition to approve the following appointments and reappointments to the Graduate Faculty:

1. Jason Gardner, Biomedical Sciences

2. Christopher Shook, Management

3. Anand Nair, Management

4. Christopher Craighead, Management

5. Min-Te Sun, Computer Science and Software Engineering

6. Lewis Payton, Industrial and Systems Engineering

7. Maria Witte, Ed. Found. Lead. and Tech.

8. John Veres, Psychology

9. Lawrence Myers, Biomedical Sciences

10. Allen Landers, Physics

11. Minseo Park, Physics

12. Juan Gilbert, Computer Science and Software Engineering

The Graduate Council voted without opposition to approve the following new departmental criteria for Graduate Faculty approvals:

Animal Science

Nursing

The Graduate Council voted without opposition to approve the following

course proposals and modifications:

PLPA 7950, 8950 Combinations of the Entomology and Plant Pathology seminars.

PLPA 7040 Delete _____________________________________________________________________

Mark your calendars:

Fall meetings: August 27, September 24, October 22, November 19.

Note: These minutes are subject to correction and approval at a subsequent meeting.

Steve McFarland (Chair), Jo Heath (Secretary), Hareesh Tippur (August 2004), Claire Crutchley (August 2004), Forrest Smith (August 2004), Melissa Brooks (student 2004), Ulrich Albrecht (August 2005), Susan Brinson (August 2005), Sandra Forsythe (August 2005), Jeff Jakeman (August 2005), Daowei Zhang (August 2005), Judith Hudson (August 2005), Henry Kinnucan (August 2005), John Pittari (August 2005), and Caroline Dunn (August 2005)

Professor Pat Curtis presented a demonstration of her web-only courses: one for on-campus students and another for off-campus students.

McFarland gave a demonstration of the new GSPOST system for electronic plans of study.

Judith Hudson of Clinical Sciences, Henry Kinnucan of Ag Economics and Rural Sociology, John Pittari of Architecture, and Caroline Dunn of Rehab and Special Education.

McFarland presented the figures for Graduate enrollment for this fall, and he warned that the tuition waivers for graduate assistants are over budget and are in some danger of being cut back. He also described other types of tuition assistance given to graduate assistants besides the tuition waivers. For instance, the non-resident part of tuition is paid by the university for any graduate assistant with at least a .25 FTE. Also, for legacy graduate students (whose parents are lifetime Alumni Association members) the university pays an amount equal to the instate tuition.

The Council discussed again correspondence courses, web-based courses, the re-showing of videos and distance-only courses without an on-campus offering.

The following Credentials committee recommendations, for criteria approval and for appointment or reappointment to the Graduate Faculty, were approved without opposition:

The following Curriculum committee recommendations for new courses or modifications of current courses were approved without opposition:

AGRN 6100 (Modification) new Prerequisites, title (Plant Genetics and Crop Improvement)

LAND 7300, 7301, 7320/4320, 7330, 7360, 7500, 7510 Change from professional courses, 5000 level, to graduate courses, 7000 level.

RSED 6036 - 7996. Twenty-one courses to go with Master’s program in Special Education via Distance Education.

1. The motion to approve the Credentials committee recommendations, for new criteria for Graduate Faculty membership and for appointment or reappointment to the Graduate Faculty, the following seven:

2. The motion to approve the Curriculum Committee recommendations to adopt the following courses or programs:

LAND 7600/7610, 7400/7401,7420 and piggybacks 4422/7422, 4240/7240, 4220/7220, 4201/7201, 4200/7200. These are primarily conversions from the professional program in Landscape Architecture.

POUL 7150/7156 (NEW) Advanced Food Laws and Regulations. A new type of web-based course.

“Distance Learning Specialist in Education: Foreign Language.” A new program from Curriculum and Teaching.

Note: These minutes are subject to correction and approval at a subsequent meeting.

McFarland announced that Jo Heath is leaving her position as Acting Assoc. Dean to return to the Mathematics Department. Susan Brinson will assume her p