Graduate Faculty Executive Committee (GFEC) 2023-2024 Agendas & Minutes
Meeting Information
Graduate Faculty Executive Committee
Friday, May 3, 2024
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 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
September 8, 2023
October 13, 2023
November 10, 2023
December 15, 2023
January 12, 2024
February 9, 2024
March 8, 2024
April 12, 2024
May 3, 2024
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).