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Graduate Council Agenda

for Thursday, April 18th, 2013 at 2:00 p.m.

Upchurch Conference Room

PLEASE NOTE UNUSUAL DATE AND MEETING LOCATION.

  1. Minutes for the March 14th, 2013, 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://grad.uark.edu/dean/gradcouncil/minutes/).
  2. Announcements
  3. Reports from the Academic Appeals Committee and the Teaching Assistant Effectiveness Advisory Committee
  4. Old Business:
    1. Proposed changes for rules governing the master’s thesis defense ( Attachment A)
    2. Proposed changes for admission to the Graduate School ( Attachment B)
  5. New Business: Program Changes
    1. Department of Civil Engineering, proposal to modify the M.S. degree in Environmental Engineering in the ways described in Section V of Attachment C.
    2. Department of Electrical Engineering, proposal to modify the M.S.E.E. degree in Electrical Engineering, by reducing the number of hours required for a non-thesis degree from 36 to 30 hours. The number of ELEG hours required will be reduced from 24 to 21 ( Attachment D).
    3. Department of Industrial Engineering, proposal to modify the M.S.O.M. degree in Operations Management as described in Section V of Attachment E.
  6. Course change report from the University Course and Programs Committee (UCPC) ( Attachment F)
  7. Graduate faculty recommendations for graduate assistants: A preliminary list is attached ( Attachment G). A complete list will be distributed at the meeting.
  8. Graduate faculty recommendations for faculty: A preliminary list is attached ( Attachment H). A complete list will be distributed at the meeting.
  9. Other Business