Graduate Faculty Executive Committee (GFEC) 2025/2026 Agendas and Minutes

The current academic year's Graduate Faculty Executive Committee (GFEC) agendas, minutes, and supporting documents can be found here.

Meeting Information

Graduate Faculty Executive Committee

Friday, December 12, 2025

Time: 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm

Location: 52 Bascom Hall 

 

AGENDA

Automatic Consent

 

  1. (1:30) Automatic consent approvals (Dean Karpus)
    1. Minutes from November 14, 2025 Link
    2. Three-year check-in from the Master of Science in Sports Leadership Link
    3. Three-year check-in from the MBA in Business: Operations and Technology Management named option “Technology Strategy and Product Management” Link

Approvals

 

  1. (1:35) Request to suspend admissions effective spring 2026 and discontinue effective fall 2026 the Capstone Certificate in Spanish-English Bilingual-Bicultural  Education (Percival Matthews) Link
  2. (1:40) Request to approve new degree Doctor of Audiology effective fall 2027 (Amy Hartman, Margarita Kaushanskaya) Link
  3. (1:50) Request to suspend admissions effective fall 2027 and discontinue effective fall 2030 the following: (Amy Hartman, Margarita Kaushanskaya)
    1. Audiology Consortial Program with UW-Stevens Point (plan) Link
    2. Collaborative Program at UW-Madison (named option) Link
    3. Collaborative Program at Stevens Point (named option) Link
  4. (1:55) Request to suspend admissions effective summer 2026 and discontinue effective fall 2031 the doctoral minor in Gender and Women’s Studies (Nina Valeo  Cooke) Link
  1. (2:00) Request to suspend admissions effective spring 2027 and discontinue effective fall 2028 the MS-Mechanical Engineering named option “Modeling and Simulation in Mechanical Engineering” (Krishnan Suresh) Link

Program Review Response

 

  1. (2:10) French MA/PhD/Doctoral Minor and Italian MA/PhD/Doctoral Minor 10-year response (Marcy Carlson) Link
  2. (2:15) Music MA/PhD/Doctoral Minor, Music: Performance DMA, & Music: Education/Music: Performance MM Accreditation response (Marcy Carlson)  Link
  3. (2:20) MS-Psychology named option "Research"/PhD/Doctoral Minor 10-year response (Marcy Carlson) Link
  4. (2:25) Asian Languages and Cultures MA/PhD/Doctoral Minor 5-year response (Marcy Carlson) Link
  5. (2:30) Capstone Certificates in Advanced GIS and GIS Fundamentals, MS-Cartography and Geographic Information Systems named option "Accelerated/Non-Thesis" 5-year response (Marcy Carlson) Link
  6. (2:35) MS-Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis named option "Wisconsin Idea Principal Prep" 5-year response (Marcy Carlson) Link

Program Review

 

  1. (2:40) MS-Design + Innovation 5-year review (Carey McAndrews) Link

2025/2026 Meetings

September 12, 2025

Agenda/Supporting Materials

Minutes

October 10, 2025

Agenda/Supporting Materials

Minutes

November 14, 2025

Agenda/Supporting Materials

Minutes

December 12, 2025

Agenda/Supporting Materials

January 9, 2026

February 13, 2026

March 13, 2026

April 10, 2026

May 15, 2026

GFEC meetings typically occur on the second Friday of the month from 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm. To be included on the GFEC agenda, all final item materials must be submitted three weeks before the meeting date. Contact Assistant Dean, Jenna Alsteen (jenna.alsteen@wisc.edu) for questions.

Further information on previous years' meeting schedules, agendas, and minutes are available in the Graduate School KnowledgeBase (KB).


Keywords:
GFEC, Governance, Graduate Faculty Executive Committee, Graduate School 
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Created:
2023-07-11
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2025-12-05
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