Graduate Faculty Executive Committee (GFEC) - 2019/2020
Meeting Information
1. (1:30 pm) Automatic consent approvals
a. Minutes from October 4, 2019 October 2019 Minutes.pdf
Approvals
2. (1:35 pm) Request to approve new degree MS in Clinical and Health Informatics effective Fall 2020 (Jim Keck, Beth Burnside) Clinical_Health_Informatics_MS.pdf
3. (1:50 pm) Request to approve new Doctoral Minor in Energy Analysis and Policy effective Fall 2020 (Scott Williams, Paul Wilson) Energy_Analysis_Policy_DocMinor.pdf
4. (2:05 pm) Request to approve Notice of Intent to plan a new degree: PhD in Gender and Women's Studies (Aili Tripp) NOI_GWS_PhD.pdf
5. (2:20 pm) Request to approve the following changes to the Master of Arts-Business (MAB): Arts Administration effective Fall 2020 (Russ Coff, Ella Mae Matsumara) NO_Arts-CreativeLeadership_MAB.pdf
a. Rename degree: MAB in Business: Arts Administration to MAB in: Business: Arts and Creative Enterprise Leadership
b. Substantial redirection of the degree with a >50% curricular change
6. (2:35 pm) Request to suspend admissions and discontinue Doctoral Minor in Freshwater and Marine Sciences effective Fall 2020 Freshwater_MarineSciences_DocMinor.pdf
Discussion and Approval
7. (2:45 pm) Administrative restructuring of graduate programs with named options (Emily Reynolds)
Request to approve new named options effective Fall 2020 for degrees as listed below:
Name of Degree New Named Option
Biomedical Engineering MS Research
Business: Accounting M.Acc Accounting, Assurance, Advisory
Cartography and Geographical Info. Sys. MS Research
Civil and Environmental Engineering MS Research
Computer Sciences MS Computer Sciences
Curriculum and Instruction MS Research
Economics MS Economics
Educational Psychology MS Research
Engineering Mechanics MS Research
French Studies MFS Full-Time Academic
Human Ecology MS Human Ecology
Industrial Engineering MS Research
Manufacturing Systems Engineering MS Manufacturing Systems Engineering
Materials Science and Engineering MS Research
Mathematics MA Foundations for Research
Physics MS Research
Population Health MS Population Health
Population Health PhD Population Health
Social Work MSW Full-Time MSW
Statistics MS Statistics
Statistics PhD Statistics
Program Review
8. (3:00 pm) Creative Writing MFA (Leslie Smith III) CompletionofAcademicProgramReview-MFACreativeWriting2019.pdf
9. (3:15 pm) Electrical Engineering MS, PhD, Doctoral minor (Shannon Stahl) EEGradProgramReview.pdf
2019 – 2020 Meetings
September 13, 2019 Agenda and Meeting Docs / Sept 2019 MinutesOctober 4, 2019 Agenda and Meeting Docs / Oct 2019 MinutesNovember 8, 2019 Agenda and Meeting Docs / Nov 2019 MinutesDecember 13, 2019 Agenda / MinutesJanuary 10, 2020 Agenda / MinutesFebruary 14, 2020 Agenda / MinutesMarch 13, 2020 Agenda / MinutesApril 10, 2020 Agenda / MinutesMay 8, 2020 Agenda / Minutes
GFEC meetings typically take place from 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. in Bascom Hall Room 52.
Instructions and deadlines for submitting materials, and previous years’ meeting schedule, agendas and minutes are available in the Graduate School KnowledgeBase (KB).