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Graduate Council Agenda

for Thursday, December 15, 2011
at 2:00 p.m.
Old Main 523

PLEASE NOTE UNUSUAL LOCATION

  1. Minutes for the November 17, 2011, Graduate Council meeting will stand approved if no corrections are received.  (Please review the minutes on the Graduate School web page before the meeting:  http://www.uark.edu/grad).  
  2. Announcements
  3. Nominations for the University Course and Programs Committee
  4. Reports from the Academic Appeals Subcommittee and the Teaching Assistant Effectiveness Advisory Committee
  5. New Business, Information Only:  The name of the M.Ed. degree in Elementary Education will change to Curriculum and Instruction, and the alpha code will change from ELEDME to CIEDME (Attachment A and Attachment B).
  6. New Business:  College of Education and Health Professions, Department of Curriculum and Instruction
    1. Proposal to create a graduate certificate in Applied Behavior Analysis (Attachment C and Attachment D).
    2. Proposal to create a graduate certificate in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education as an option for students enrolled in the Childhood Education MAT program (Attachment E and Attachment F).
  7. Discussion Item:  Would the Council consider a policy of automatically awarding graduate faculty status to incoming tenure-track faculty, upon the request of the department chair/head?  This would mean that the Graduate Council would not review these applications.  Faculty appointed to non-tenure-track, adjunct and visiting positions would still have their credentials reviewed by the graduate faculty representatives and the Graduate Council.
  8. Course change report from the University Course and Programs Committee (UCPC) (Attachment G)
  9. Graduate faculty recommendations for graduate faculty:   A preliminary list is attached (Attachment H).  A complete list will be distributed at the meeting.
  10. Other Business