Graduate Faculty Executive Committee (GFEC) 2026/2027 Agendas and Minutes

Meeting Information

Graduate Faculty Executive Committee

Friday, October 9, 2026

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 September 11, 2026 Link
   2. MS in Special Education named option “Teacher Certification” 5-year program review response Link
   3. PhD in Gender and Women’s Studies 3-year Check-in response Link

Approvals

2. (1:35) Request to approve updated DAPIR policy UW-1012 “Pass/Fail Grading Option” and retire Graduate School policy UW-1215 “Pass/Fail Grading Option” (Chris Brace)
3. (1:45) Request to suspend admissions to the MS in Landscape Architecture effective Fall 2027 (David Bart) Link

Program Review

4. (1:55) MS in Pharmaceutical Sciences named option “Applied Drug Development” & Capstone Certificate in Applied Drug Development 5-year review (Kevin Black) Link
5. (2:15) Chinese MA/PhD/Doctoral Minor and Japanese MA/PhD/Doctoral Minor 10-year review (Jonathan Gray) Link

Discussion

       6. (2:35) Artificial Intelligence and Graduate Education (Dean Karpus)

2026/2027 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).