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, May 15, 2026

Time: 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm

Location: 52 Bascom Hall

AGENDA

Old Business

  1. (1:30) Chemistry MS/PhD/Doctoral Minor 10-year review (Sebastian Heinz) Link

Automatic Consent

  1. (2:00) Automatic consent approvals (Dean Karpus)
    1. Minutes from April 10, 2026 Link
    2. Approval of the extension of active Graduate Faculty status for Soil and Environmental Sciences visiting associate professor Thea Whitman through September 30, 2027 Link
    3. Approval of the extension of active Graduate Faculty status for Botany professor emeritus Kenneth Sytsma through May 16, 2027 Link
    4. MS-Design + Innovation 5-year response Link
    5. Gender and Women's Studies MA/Doctoral Minor and graduate/professional Certificate inGender and Women's Studies at the Graduate Level 10-year response Link
    6. History MA/PhD/Doctoral Minor, History of Science, Medicine, and Technology MA/PhD/Doctoral Minor 10-year response Link

Approvals

  1. (2:05) Request to approve substantive changes to the EdS in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis program effective fall 2026 including name change from EdS in Educational Leadership andPolicy Analysis to EdS in Wisconsin Idea Executive Educational Leadership Preparation Program. (Barb Sramek and Percival Matthews) Link
  1. (2:15) Request to approve Notice of Intent for new degree Master of Arts in Arts Management & Entrepreneurship (Erica Halverson, Sarah Marty, and Percival Matthews) Link

Program Review

  1. (2:25) Sociology MS/PhD/Doctoral Minor, Community and Environmental Sociology Doctoral Minor, and Science and Technology Studies Doctoral Minor 10-year review (Donna Neumann) Link
  2. (2:55) Urban and Regional Planning PhD/Doctoral Minor and Landscape Architecture MS/DoctoralMinor 10-year review (Sigan Hartley) Link

2025/2026 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).


Keywords:
GFEC, Governance, Graduate Faculty Executive Committee, Graduate School 
Doc ID:
129662
Owned by:
Jenna A. in Graduate School
Created:
2023-07-11
Updated:
2026-05-08
Sites:
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Graduate Faculty Executive Committee (GFEC) & Graduate School Academic Planning Council (GSAPC)