Graduate Affairs Council

1 Eastern Washington University 2 Graduate Affairs Council 3 Minutes of 4 April 10, 2013 1Members Present: R. O’Quinn, C. Hazelbaker, D. Mann, T. Martin, R. Sauders, L. Reeves, P. 2Nelson, N. Ridnour, S. Stankevich, A. Abdirizak 3Ex Officio/Guests: R. Dalla, E. Morgan 4 5The meeting was called to order by C. Hazelbaker at 3:05 p.m. 6 7 2. Approval of minutes of March 13, 2013 and March 20, 2013. T. Martin stated that for 8 the March 13, 2013 minutes on line 156 the date should read, “April 12th”. T. Martin moved 9 to approve the minutes of March 13, 2013 as amended. P. Nelson seconded. Motion 10 carried. 11 12 P. Nelson moved to approve the minutes of March 20, 2013 as written. T. Martin seconded. 13 Motion carried. 14 153. Addition/Changes to Agenda. None. 16 174. ASEWU Graduate Affairs Report. a. A. Abdirizak reported this past week was family 18weekend and many prospective students came to tour the campus. b. The election candidate 19filing process began on Friday and they have received 18 applicants to date. He stated they have 20official notice that Macklemore & Ryan Lewis will be coming to campus during that time and 21any student who votes will get priority free entrance into the concert. If you know of any 22students who may be interested and would be a good fit for a position please encourage them to 23run. 24 255. Nominations for GAC Chair. T. Martin stated she doesn’t like the idea of having co-chairs 26on a council but feels a chair and vice chair would be better. C. Hazelbaker stated he is willing 27to serve as chair for the 2013-14 academic year as long as someone would be willing to attend 28Rules for him. T. Martin nominated C. Hazelbaker to serve as chair of GAC for the 2013-14 29academic year and P. Nelson as vice chair. C. Hazelbaker stated he would check with S. Ligon 30and J. Smith of the Faculty Org Executive Committee to see if they would be open to Skype for 31P. Nelson to attend Rules since she works at the Riverpoint campus. P. Nelson stated she would 32consider the position and will get back to the committee with her decision. T. Martin, L. Reeves 33and S. Anderson stated they would be willing to attend Rules if needed. 34 35 6. Committee Reports. CPAC 1. R. Sauders brought forward the following courses and 36 programs as approved by CPAC 1: MUSC 620 The Orff Schulwerk Approach to Music 37 Education; MUSC 621 Early Childhood Music Education. Comes forward as a seconded 38 motion from CPAC 1. Motion carried. Program revision – Master of Arts in Music moved to 39 a Master’s of Music; PHTH 554 Diagnosis in Physical Therapy; PHTH 617 Musculoskeletal 40 Systems II; PHTH 618 Musculoskeletal Systems III. The PADM prerequisite changes came 41 forward to be approved. This comes forward as a seconded motion from CPAC 1. Motion 42 carried. 43 44 5 Eastern Washington University 6 Graduate Affairs Council 7 Minutes of 8 April 10, 2013 45 CPAC 2. T. Martin brought forward the following courses and programs as approved by CPAC 46 2: Masters of Business Administration; BADM 603; International MBA-MA Dual Degree 47 program; MS in Applied Psychology revision; SOWK 526 Research Methods II; SOWK 568 48 Proseminars in Social Welfares Policies and Programs; SOWK 602 Advanced Generalist Practice I; 49 SOWK 694 to SOWK 571; SOWK 695 to SOWK 671; MSW revision;GIS Certificate; GEOG 521 50 GIS for Social Sciences; GEOG 523 GIS for Environmental Sciences; GEOG 527 Desktop 51 Mapping; GEOG 528 GIS I; GEOG 536 GIS Programming; GEOG 538 GIS II; GEOG 548 GIS 52 III; GEOG 549 GIS Portfolio. PLAN 500 Planning Practice; PLAN 510 Community Facilities 53 Planning; PLAN 540 Land Use Planning; PLAN 542 Sustainable Communities; PLAN 551 54 Transportation Planning; PLAN 570 Environmental Planning; PLAN 571 Environmental Review; 55 PLAN 572 Rural and Small Town Planning; MURP revision. This comes forward as a seconded 56 motion from CPAC 2. Motion carried. 57 58PDRC. AP 303-22 Section 2.9 Graduate Student Access and AP 303-22 Graduate Students – 59Chapter 7 Thesis Regulations. C. Hazelbaker stated that R. Dalla has presented two documents 60that are ready to be voted on. R. Dalla is in Wisconsin attending the NCUR conference so these 61items will be discussed and voted on at the next meeting. 62 637. Unfinished Business. a. Development of Guidelines for CPAC. Due to lack of time this 64will be unfinished business at the next meeting. 65 66b. Academic Policy 303-?? Graduate Faculty. Due to lack of time this will be unfinished 67business at the next meeting. 68 698. Chairs Report. a. C. Hazelbaker reported he attended the 4/8/13 Rules meeting and they 70discussed whether the grading scale was hurting the students. He stated they are looking at other 71institutions to see what they do and will continue to discuss this at the next meeting. b. UAC and 72GAC created a document to remind the Senators their job is to make substantive changes only to 73documents sent forward from the councils/committees and not to wordsmith them. He stated 74there has been a lot of wordsmithing by the Senators that only delay documents and appears to 75dismiss the hard work done by the councils/committees. c. FPAC has been working on revising 76the Faculty Organization Constitution and the changes are ready to come forward to Senate at 77their next meeting. The committee will work on the bylaws next year. 78 799. Good of the Order. None. 80 8110. Adjournment. Meeting adjourned at 4:56 p.m. The next meeting will be held on April 24, 822013. 83