Meeting Information

Graduate Faculty Executive Committee

Friday, April 11, 2025

Time: 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm

Location: 52 Bascom Hall 

AGENDA

Automatic Consent

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

               a) Minutes from March 14, 2025 Link

Approvals

2. (1:35) Request to change the name of the Master of Science degree from Life Sciences Communication to Science Communication effective fall 2027 (Dominique Brossard) Link

3. (1:40) Request to change the name of the doctoral minor from Life Sciences Communication to Science Communication effective fall 2027 (Dominique Brossard) Link

4. (1:45) Request to suspend admissions effective fall 2026 and discontinue effective fall 2028 the Master of Accountancy in Business: Accounting along with named options:

               a) "Tax"

               b) "Accounting, Assurance, Advisory"

               (Emily Griffith)

Program Review Response

5. (1:55) Educational Policy Studies MA/PhD/Doctoral Minor 10-year response (Beth Meyerand) Link

6. (2:00) MS-Physics named option "Quantum Computing" 5-year response (Beth Meyerand) Link

7. (2:05) MS-Mechanical Engineering named option "Modeling and Simulations in Mechanical Engineering" 5-year response (Beth Meyerand) Link

8. (2:10) Energy Analysis and Policy at the Graduate Level graduate/professional certificate 10-year response (Beth Meyerand) Link

Program Review

9. (2:15) Mechanical Engineering MS named option "Research"/PhD/Doctoral Minor 10-year review (Dudley Lamming) Link

10. (2:35) French MA/PhD/Doctoral Minor and Italian MA/PhD/Doctoral Minor 10-year review (Sigan Hartley) Link

2024/2025 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).