Meeting Information

Graduate Faculty Executive Committee

Friday, May 3, 2024

Time: 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm

Location: 52 Bascom Hall

Automatic Consent

1. (1:30) Automatic consent approvals (Dean Karpus)

               a. Minutes from April 12, 2024 Link

               b. Approval of the extension of active Graduate Faculty status for Nursing Professor Emeritus Barbara Bowers

                   through December 31, 2024 Link

Approvals

2. (1:35) Request to approve the Master of Science in Business: Accounting for Finance Careers Approval to Plan

              (Notice of Intent) (Enno Siemsen) Link

3. (1:45) Request to discontinue the named option “Evening MBA” in the MBA in Business: General Management

               effective Fall 2025 (Enno Siemsen) Link

4. (1:50) Request to approve the new graduate/professional Certificate in Higher Education Teaching and Learning

               effective Fall 2024 (Trina McMahon, Jessica Maher) Link

5. (2:00) Request to approve the graduate/professional certificate name change from Certificate in Consumer Health Advocacy 

               to Certificate in Health Advocacy effective Fall 2024 (Sarah Davis) Link

6. (2:05) Request to approve the PhD in Science Communication Approval to Plan (Notice of Intent) (Dominique Brossard) Link

7. (2:15) Request to approve the PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Approval to Plan (Notice of Intent)

              (Sean Schoville, Troy Runge) Link

8. (2:25) Request to approve the Master of Science in Plant Science & Technology Approval to Plan

              (Notice of Intent) (Jeff Endelman) Link

9. (2:35) Request to approve the PhD in Plant Science & Technology Approval to Plan (Notice of Intent)

              (Jeff Endelman) Link

10. (2:45) Request to approve the Master of Fine Arts in Dance Approval to Plan (Notice of Intent)

                (Jin-Wen Yu) Link

11. (2:55) Request to approve the new graduate/professional Certificate in Education Law and Civil Rights

                effective Fall 2024 (Suzanne Eckes) Link

Program Review

12. (3:05) MS-Environmental Conservation named options “Environmental Conservation” and “Environmental Observation

                 and Informatics” 5-year program review (Dudley Lamming) Link

2023/2024 Meetings

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).