University of Nevada, Reno Graduate Council

Meeting Minutes, March 14, 2002

 

Members Present:

Deborah Ballard-Reisch, Chair and HCS

Linda Brinkley, VP for Research and Dean of the Graduate School

Marsha Read, Associate Dean of the Graduate School

Jennifer Greer, Journalism and vice chair

Brent Bowman, Business

Rangesan Narayanan, Agriculture

Jeongwon Joe, Proxy for Katharine DeBoer, A&S, Fine Arts

Robert Winzeler, A&S, Social Sciences

Katherine McCall, Proxy for Jeff Thompson, A&S Science

Stacy Burton, A&S, Humanities

Chris Cheney, Education

Peter Krumpe, Medicine

Dean Adams, Engineering

Scott Tyler, Mines

Marilu Woolm, Graduate Student Association

Pam Moore, recorder

 

Members Absent:

Alan Gertler, Science

Kathryn Obienchain, Education

Dana Edberg, Faculty Senate Representative

 

  1. The Chair called the meeting to order at 1:35.  The Chair reminded everyone that at the last meeting it had been agreed on to revise the order of the agenda so that New Business would be addressed first and deal with the standard reports later on.  The Chair revised the agenda to have old business item B first as Scott Tyler had information concerning the item and had to leave before the meeting ended. The council agreed.

 

Old Business

 

  1. Marsha reviewed the current practices on “outside members” from the 22 programs that responded to her inquiry. Marsha went on to review the “Definition and Role of Graduate Committees”.

Marsha turned the floor over to Scott Tyler and he reviewed a revised copy in which he indicated some changes to language in several areas that were of concern. There was discussion on the rewording of several areas, about the definition of “Adjunct Faculty”, about who could serve and/or chair committees, and on the wording in the section concerning constituting graduate committees.

The council would like to see the wording revised as per the discussion, Marsha will revise and will present to the council next meeting.

 

Chair polled council as to having standing reports for this meeting before finishing old and starting new business as Dr. Brinkley also had another meeting to attend and would be leaving before Graduate Council ended. The Council agreed.

 

 

 

 

Standing Reports

 

  1. Dr. Brinkley reported that there would not be a strategic plan by May 1, 2002. President Lilley has quite a few areas that still need to be studied, evaluated, and meetings to attend to have a good working plan by May 1, 2002. In addition, the UPC is still meeting on areas that it felt needed additional study, and they will be meeting several more time between now and May 1.

President Lilley will now be accepting direct email comments/feedback. In addition, he will be having meetings with dept., divisions, program areas, etc. and Dr. Brinkley reminded everyone that attending these meeting would benefit all graduate programs, faculty, and students.

 

  1. Jennifer Greer from C & C reported that the MA in Social Psychology was approved; Post Master Certificate in Nursing was approved. (A future agenda item would be concerning what role the Graduate Council will have in supervising the Graduate Certificate Program).

 

Old Business

 

  1. Marsha presented the revised SPEAK test to council. After discussion, it was felt that the language was still somewhat confusing and still needed to be revised. MOTION (Greer/McCall) to send back for additional revisions. Motion passed unanimously.

 

New Business

 

A.    Marsha addressed the improper use of the GRE scores and the problems. The information in the Catalog will be changed. The discussion addressing concerns and options including a memo to all Graduate Program Directors outlining the GRE information. MOTION (Greer/Cheney) to approve the change concerning use of GRE scores and for a memo to all Graduate Program Directors. Motion passed unanimously.

 

Standing Reports

 

  1. Marsha reported that the in-progress grade for professional paper was given the number 599 but because of financial aid and deferring loan payments the number will be 899 instead. Discussion concerning wording about counting toward degree for catalog. No action taken.

Marsha reported on the WAGS conference.

Graduate Commencement will start at 2:30 pm on May 18, 2002; there will be no seating available until 1:00 pm for the Graduate Ceremony.

 

  1. New GSA president reported on Scholarship Fund

GSA reported that there is a need for Graduate Housing. The discussion involved what percentage of graduate student would need or want housing. It was suggested to GSA that they need to do a survey concerning the need for graduate housing. And also that they might contact Wolf’s Run about Graduate Housing.

 

2.     At 3:29, the Council adjourned. The Next meeting will be held in the Alan Bible Conference Room, Getchell Library, Thursday, April 11, 2002 at 1:30 pm