Graduate Council Minutes 2002

MINUTES OF THE TWELTH MEETING OF THE GRADUATE COUNCIL FOR 2001

MINUTES OF THE FIRST MEETING OF THE GRADUATE COUNCIL FOR 2002

Hargis Hall 1:00-2:00 P.M. January 23, 2002

Next Meeting: February 20, 2002

Note: These minutes are subject to correction and approval at a subsequent meeting.

Members of the Council and Retirement Dates:

Steve McFarland (Chair), Jo Heath (Secretary), Art Chappelka (August 2002 ), Miriam Clark (August 2002 ), Chris Rodger (August 2002 ), Daniel Szechi (August 2002 ), Jean Weese (August 2002 ), Skip Bartol (August 2003), Scott Kramer (August 2003), Dean Schwartz (August 2003), David Shannon (August 2003), Hareesh Tippur (August 2004), Claire Crutchley (August 2004), Forrest Smith (August 2004), Chad Harvey (student 2002 ).

Members Absent: Crutchley (Lee Colquitt substituting), Schwartz (James Sartin substituting), and Kramer.

APPROVAL OF MINUTES

Minutes of November 14, 2002, Council meeting approved. The December 5^th meeting was electronic only.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

McFarland reported that graduate study applications between December 15 and January 15 are up 30% and application fee payments are up 80%, as compared to the same period last year. While the economy gets part of the credit, information on our tuition waivers is getting to many prospective graduate students and they are responding very positively.
The electronic storage of dissertations in the library will have to wait until the library has a new permanent dean.
The council was asked to evaluate the nominees for the Outstanding Graduate Lectureship at the next meeting. Information on the nominees will be provided each council member well before the next meeting.
Skip Bartol urged the council to look at the advertisement for Auburn’s doctoral graduate assistantship program scheduled to appear in the January 25 edition of Science featuring the AU Cellular and Molecular Biosciences program.
Daniel Szechi asked if it were true that there is a greater emphasis on developing graduate education at Auburn University. McFarland described some of the activities of the “Directions” group and acknowledged that earlier language emphasizing undergraduate instruction may be changing to language emphasizing instruction without a limiting adjective. McFarland also pointed out that our graduate/undergraduate student ratio is pathetic as compared to other institutions.
Chad Harvey, Graduate Student Organization president, announced the 9^th annual Graduate Research Forum to be held March 8. The deadline for submitting abstracts is February 5.

OLD BUSINESS
1. Curriculum Committee: Heath moved that the following applicants for appointment and reappointment to Graduate Faculty membership be approved. The motion passed without dissent.

Upton Hatch Agric. Econ & Rural Soc.

Henry Kinnucan Agric. Econ & Rural Soc.

Robert G. Nelson Agric. Econ& Rural Soc.

James L. Novak Agric. Econ & Rural Soc.

David Y. Han Agronomy and Soils

Laura Prange Industrial Design

Steven B. Caudill Economics

Richard P. Saba Economics

Nelson Ford Management

Daniel D. Butler Marketing

Carl K. Chang Computer Sci & Software

Dean Hendrix Computer Sci& Software

Honorio E. Carino Forestry & Wildlife Sciences

Dean Gjerstad Forestry & Wildlife Sciences

David N. Laband Forestry & Wildlife Sciences

Mark Mackenzie Forestry & Wildlife Sciences

Kevin T. Phelps Discrete & Statistical Sciences

James R. Wall Discrete & Statistical Sciences

James S. Wohl Clinical Sciences

James (Barry) Grand Forestry & Wildlife Sciences

Richard W. Ault Economics

Edward Slaminka Mathematics

Robert Juster Architecture

Karen Rabren Rehab. and Special Ed

Duane Michael Cheers Communication and Journalism

Michael Glenn Rich Communication and Journalism

Elena Strauman Communication and Journalism

Elizabeth R. Perusich Chemical Engineering

William Schaffer Music

Rosephanye D. Powell Music

David C. Carter History

William C. Powell Music

Kathryn Braund History

Munagala S. Reddy Entomology and Plant Pathology

Debra H. Tennyson Political Science

Steven Swidler Finance

Janice C. Wittekind Sociology, Anthro. & Social Work

Kevin S. Sherman Curriculum and Teaching

Changhoon Jung Political Science

Kimberly G. Key Accountancy

John A. Hamilton, Jr. Computer Sci & Software

Chung-wei Lee Computer Sci & Software

Edward Slaminka Mathematics

Curriculum Committee: Heath moved that the following programs,

course proposals, and modifications be approved. The motion passed without dissent.

RSED 7150/7156

FISH 6215, 7420, 6425, 7735, 7745, 7765, 7775, 7815

PSYC nonthesis Master of Science

HIST 8610, 7580/7586

COMP 6380/6386, 6710, 6700, 6390/6396, 6360/6366

ELEC 6150/6156, 6130/6136, 6100/6106, 6110/6116,

6120/6126

NEW BUSINESS

TheCouncil discussed the problem of being appointed to the Graduate Faculty with no publications due to concerns for future patentable research. No action was taken.

Spring 2002 Graduate Council Meetings:

February 20

March 20

April 3

MINUTES OF THE SECOND MEETING OF THE GRADUATE COUNCIL FOR

2002

Hargis Hall 1:00-2:30 P.M. February 20, 2002

Next Meeting: March 20, 2002

Note: These minutes are subject to correction and approval at a subsequent meeting.

Members of the Council and Retirement Dates:

Members Absent: Kramer (Steve Williams substituting), Weese ( Sareen Gropper substituting) , Shannon( Maria Witte substituting), Daniel Szechi, and Chad Harvey.

APPROVAL OF MINUTES

Minutes of January 23, 2002, Council meeting approved.

PRESENTATION

Phil Browning and Amysue Reilly of Rehabilitation and Special Education presented their new proposal for a Distance Education Special Education Graduate Program. Some of the questions asked and topics discussed included :

(Chappelka ) How many students each term? Short answer: 15 – 30.
(McFarland) How will interaction be achieved? Short answer: WebCT format.
(McFarland) Will there be a loss of on campus students? Short answer: No because only students working full time for some school system will be admitted.
(Rodger) How long will the program take? Short answer: two years.
McFarland also asked how the practicum would be implemented.

After Browning and Reilly left, the council voted to approve their proposal.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

McFarland announced that this year’s choice for Distinguished Faculty Lecturer, Krystyna Kuperberg from Mathematics, was chosen by a committee of previous winners. Her address will be at 4:00 on April 24. He also pointed out that the committee thought the other applications were also outstanding.
McFarland announced that the Graduate School will pay to send Nancy Bernard from Career Development Services to a training course in New Jersey sponsored by Educational Testing Services so that she can learn to conduct GRE tutorials. He hopes that by this summer Ms. Bernard can begin tutorials for our juniors and seniors who may be planning to go to graduate school and want to do well on their GREs. The Graduate School will pay all expenses for the tutorials and they will be free of charge to our undergraduates.
The Graduate School has hired GroupOne Studios to update its web page.

OLD BUSINESS

Heath moved that the applicants for Graduate Faculty membership listed below be approved. The motion passed without dissent.

Elaine S. Coleman Anatomy, Phy.& Pharm.

William Dale Harrison Communications and Journalism

Ken McNabb Forestry and Wildlife

Jerry Crews Ag. Economics and Rur. Soc.

Eugene Simpson Ag. Economics and Rur. Soc

Lourdes Betanzos Foreign Languages and Liter.

Daryl L. Kuhlers Animal & Dairy Sciences

Nannan Liu Entomology& Plant Pathology

Gary R. Mullen Entomology & Plant Pathology

Claire E. Crutchley Finance

Kermit Davis Management

Steven Silvern Curriculum& Teaching

David T. Hill BioSystems Engineering

Timothy Dykstal English

Stephen L. McFarland History

Richard Penaskovic Philosophy

Jill Crystal Political Science

Douglas J. Watson Political Science

Thomas Vocino Political Science-AUM

Charles Faupel Sociology

Bill G. Felkey Pharmacy Care Systems

Kem P. Krueger Pharmacy Care Systems

Roland Dute Biological Sciences

Michael Miller Biological Sciences

Christine Sundermann Biological Sciences

Ronald Dale Lewis Geology and Geography

William R. Jones Animal and Diary Sciences

Anthony Gadzey Political Science

Curriculum Committee. Heath moved that the following course proposals, deletions, and modifications be approved. The motion passed without dissent.

CBML/VBMS 7500

FLFR 7020, 7740

Deletes: FLFR 7310, 7230, 7160, 7150, 7110,

7140, 7060, 7130, 7990, 7120

V New Business

Spring 2002 Graduate Council Meetings

March 20

April 3

MINUTES OF THE THIRD MEETING OF THE GRADUATE COUNCIL FOR 2002

Hargis Hall 1:00-2:30 P.M. March 20, 2002

Next Meeting: April 3, 2002

Note: These minutes are subject to correction and approval at a subsequent meeting.

Members of the Council and Retirement Dates:

Members Absent: Scott Kramer (Steve Williams substituting), Chad Harvey.

APPROVAL OF MINUTES

Minutes of the January 23, 2002 Graduate Council meeting were approved.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Skip Bartol, Animal and Dairy Sciences, announced that AU now holds an unrestricted site license for Vector NTI bioinformatics software. Faculty may arrange to get copies of the software by contacting Dr. Jacek Wower at jwower@auburn.edu.

McFarland reminded the council that this year’s choice for Distinguished Faculty Lecturer, Krystyna Kuperberg from Mathematics, will speak at 4:00 on April 24 in 2370 Haley Center. She will speak on “Mathematics without borders.”

Departmental GPOs and others have been invited to workshops to be held on April 4, 10, and 24 from 11:30 to 1:00. The intent is to give the GPOs a chance to address pertinent issues with the Graduate School administration and also keep them up-to-date on technical resources available and on changes taking place in policies and procedures. Lunch will be provided by the Green Bean.

A student exit survey is being worked on with such questions as “What was the best thing about your graduate program?”, or “What was the worst thing about your graduate program?”. Also underway is a graduate assistant guide.

Our on-line application program, demonstrated by David Johnson, was a hit at a recent seminar in Florida for admissions specialists. We are now getting many requests for it.

The update of the GWAAP program is behind schedule due to diversity issues taking precedence.

A new GRE will go into effect on October 1, 2002, designed with the usual quantitative and qualitative components, but with a new writing component to replace the analytical component. Two professionals will grade each essay and if their scores are not sufficiently close, a third will be consulted.

David Shannon, chair of the Graduate Fellowship Committee (a subcommittee of the Graduate Council) announced the following selections for this year’s Outstanding Graduate Students:

* Most Outstanding (a tie this year between two)

Richard Sykora (Chemistry) and Jeffrey Slipke (Fisheries)

Top Doctoral Students:

Renee Anderson (Entomology and Plant Pathology)

Linnea Burk, (Psychology)

Pratibhash Chattapadhay (Chemical Engineering)

Gerald Davis (Industrial and Systems Engineering)

Janna Glenn (Horticulture)

Lori Harach (Human Development and Family Studies)

John Hunt (Biological Sciences)

Margaret Sankey (History)

Jeffrey Slipke (Fisheries)

Angela Stowe (Counseling and Counseling Psychology)

Richard Sykora (Chemistry)

Top Masters Students:

Becky Lynne Estes (Forestry and Wildlife Sciences)

Laura Hall (Agriculture Economics and Rural Sociology)

John Miller (English)

Ricky Schaeffer (Geology and Geography)

Joe Slaughter (Fisheries)

Chad Harvey (Entomology and Plant Pathology)

Brian Higginbotham (Human Dev. and Family Studies)

Joseph Ragan (Mechanical Engineering)

Milam Saxon (Biological Sciences)

Todd Smitherman (Clinical Psychology)

McFarland reported on the progress of the Auburn University Directions Committees: Instruction, Research, Enrollment. A new direction that will be coming from the Instructional Directions Committee is an emphasis on inquiry based instruction wherein faculty and graduate students will bring their research efforts into the undergraduate classroom.

PRESENTATION

Andrew Weaver and Kimberly Walls presented a proposal to the Council to offer a distance education version of the Curriculum and Teaching Master of Education in Music Education degree. Then Andrew Weaver and Sue Barry presented a proposal to the Council to offer a distance education version of the Curriculum and Teaching Master of Education in Foreign Language Education. Questions and discussions concerned these topics:

Time limits on the degrees
Number of students in the programs
Possible loss of on-campus students
Testing methods
Opportunities for study abroad
Will future students come from outside Alabama?
Requirement of on-campus seminars

The Graduate Council voted without opposition to approve the proposals.

NEW BUSINESS

Andras Bezdek, Mathematics, presented a request for a special exception that would allow his student to graduate this term. After discussion, Skip Bartol moved that the exception be granted, Hareesh Tippur seconded, and the motion was approved without opposition.

OLD BUSINESS

Heath moved that the applicants for Graduate Faculty membership, listed below, recommended by the Graduate Council Credentials Committee, be approved. The motion passed without dissent.

Kenneth Noe History

Susan Bannon Educational Found., Leadership, Tech.

W.R. Jones Animal and Dairy Sciences

Rod E. Turochy Civil Engineering

Heath moved that the course proposals, listed below, recommended by the Graduate Council Curriculum Committee, be approved. The motion passed without dissent.

COMP 6000, 6020, 6720

MNGT 7670

Jo Heath

Secretary

Remaining Spring 2002 Graduate Council Meeting: April 3

MINUTES OF THE FOURTH MEETING OF THE GRADUATE COUNCIL FOR 2002

Electronic Meeting 1:00 P.M. April 3, 2002

Next meeting: May 29, 2002

Note: These minutes are subject to correction and approval at a subsequent meeting.

Members of the Council and Retirement Dates:

OLD BUSINESS (ONLY BUSINESS)

Heath moved, electronically, the following two motions.

Motion 1. To approve, as recommended by the credentials committee, the graduate faculty applications of the following list of people. The motion was approved without dissent.

Robert Meadows, AUM Counselor, Leadership, and Special Education
James Wright, AUM Counselor, Leadership, and Special Education
Allen Brian Dyal, AUM Counselor, Leadership, and Special Education
Patricia Curtis, Poultry Science
David Roland, Poultry Science
Kip Balkcom, Agronomy and Soils
Hilary Wyss, English
Sandra Clark-Lewis, Communication Disorders
Elizabeth Zylla-Jones, Communication Disorders
Martha Wilder Paxton, Communication Disorders

Motion 2. To approve, as recommended by the Curriculum committee, the following course proposals. The motion was approved without dissent.

CTMU 7526, 7536

HLHP 7670

CTSE 7536, 7546

FORY 7150

CMDS 7820

Summer meetings: May 29, June 26, and July 24, 2002.

Jo Heath, Secretary

MINUTES OF THE FIFTH MEETING OF THE GRADUATE COUNCIL FOR 2002

Hargis Hall 1:00-2:30 P.M. May 29 , 2002

Next Meeting: June 26, 2002

Note: These minutes are subject to correction and approval at a subsequent meeting.

Members of the Council and Retirement Dates:

Members Absent: Claire Crutchley (Carl Hudson substituting), Scott Kramer, Chris Rodger, David Shannon, Jean Weese.

APPROVAL OF MINUTES : The minutes were approved without amendment.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Nancy Joseph, the new president of the Graduate Student Council, was introduced to the Council.
McFarland reported on three successful GPO workshops conducted last semester. There were 45 participants altogether.
McFarland pointed out that although our GTA’s have tuition waivers, many of our GRA’s and GA’s do not. There are 300 graduate research fellowships that provide tuition relief, but these fellowships are not awarded until after the students are accepted. Thus a graduate research fellowship does not serve as a recruitment tool. McFarland hopes to eliminate the disparity between GTA’s and the other graduate assistants, perhaps by the fall of 2003.
McFarland offered the following statistics for the period October 1, 2001 to May 22, 2002: there were 8,712 applications for graduate study at Auburn including 3,208 paid applications, and of the paid applications about 2/3 have been processed with 1247 acceptances.
McFarland reported that the average GRE score for students admitted October ’01 through last week rose slightly but the grade point averages for these same students rose dramatically from an average of 3.01 to an average of 3.38.
Art Chappelka announced to the council the 2002 Canon National Parks Science Scholars Program for the Americas. This program offers substantial support (up to three years at $26,000 per year) for graduate students “who will learn, discover, invent and create solutions to preserve the national parks of the 21^st century”. There are restrictions as to research categories etc., and a deadline of July 1, 2002. Full details can be found at www.nature.nps.gov/canonscholarships/ 2002_App_Guide.pdf

NEW BUSINESS

The Council approved a motion from Miriam Clark, seconded by Art Chappelka, to include in the Graduate School policy on committee composition the following statement: “Committees are urged to be attentive to the potential for conflicts of interest in the membership of graduate committees, including the outside reader for doctoral students. Any potential for a conflict of interest should be immediately brought to the attention of the dean of the Graduate School.” The motion passed without opposition.

The credentials committee will meet to draft a proposal concerning graduate faculty status for administrators. The proposal will be brought to the Council for action at a meeting sometime this summer.

The Council discussed the rule for doctoral students requiring a full semester lapse between the general exam and the final exam and decided it should not be altered.

Auburn’s MBA at Josten’s was discussed. This program is not a new program; it has the same courses, the same hours, and the same requirements as the current MBA.

OLD BUSINESS

Heath moved that the applicants for Graduate Faculty membership listed below be approved. The motion passed without dissent.

Report of the Credentials Committee

Charles R. Breese Pharmacal Sciences

Francesca Adler-Baeder Human Dev. and Family Studies

Douglas Scott Fuller Building Science

Willis Hames Geology and Geography

Roy Hartfield Aerospace Engineering

Covadonga R. Arias Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures

Robert Gillette Clinical Sciences, APP

Edward Loewenstein Forestry and Wildlife Sciences

Heath moved that the following four course modifications be approved. The motion passed without dissent.

FLFR 7960 Foreign Languages and Literatures

“Directed Readings in French Language, Literature, or Culture”

FLFR 7970 Foreign Languages and Literatures

“Seminar in French Literature, Culture, or Language”

FOUN 7400 Education EFLT

“Educational Psychology and Educational Implications”

FOUN 7430 Education EFLT

“Motivation and Achievement”

Secretary

Jo Heath

Remaining 2002 Graduate Council Meetings:

June 26, July 24, August 28 , September 25, October 23, November 20

MINUTES OF THE TWELTH MEETING OF THE GRADUATE COUNCIL FOR 2001

Electronic Meeting June 26, 2002

MINUTES OF THE SIXTH MEETING OF THE GRADUATE COUNCIL FOR 2002

Next Meeting: July 24, 2002

Note: These minutes are subject to correction and approval at a subsequent meeting.

Members of the Council and Retirement Dates:

OLD BUSINESS

Heath moved that the applicants for Graduate Faculty membership listed below be approved. The motion passed without dissent.

Paula Francis Miller Peek

Consumer Affairs

SaadBiaz

Computer Science and Software Eng.

Rex Dunham

Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures

Scott Ketring

Human Development and Family Studies

Debbie Folkerts

Biological Sciences

___________________________________________________________

Heath moved that the following course proposals and modifications be approved. The motion passed without dissent.

ACCT 7430/7436 (New course proposal)

Title: Taxes and Decision Making

Description: Emphasis on identifying, understanding, and evaluating tax planning opportunities.

FOUN 7426 (Outreach version of existing course)

Title: Learning Theory and Educational Practice.

Description: Advanced study of learning theory and research with an emphasis on application to effective design, implementation and evaluation of instruction. Attention will also be given to the relevance of motivation and management models to learning.

PSYC 7150 (Title change only)

Old title: Biological bases of behavior

New title: Biological psychology

PSYC 7180 (Title change only)

Old title: Social bases of behavior

New title: Social psychology

PSYC 7190 (Title change only)

Old title: Introduction to cognitive psychology

New title: Cognitive psychology

Jo Heath

Secretary

___________________________________________________

Remaining 2002 Graduate Council Meetings:

July 24, August 28 , September 25, October 23, November 20

MINUTES OF THE TWELTH MEETING OF THE GRADUATE COUNCIL FOR 2001

MINUTES OF THE SEVENTH MEETING OF THE GRADUATE COUNCIL FOR

2002

Hargis Hall 1:00-2:30 P.M. July 24, 2002

Next Meeting: August 28, 2002

Note: These minutes are subject to correction and approval at a subsequent meeting.

Members of the Council and Retirement Dates:

Members Absent: Chris Rodger (Doug Leonard substituting), Scott Kramer (Steve Williams substituting), Art Chappelka, Daniel Szechi, Dean Schwartz, and Hareesh Tippur.

APPROVAL OF MINUTES: The minutes were approved without amendment.

PRESENTATION

Catherine Jannik presented the advantages of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs), their features, and fielded numerous questions from the Council. Ilga Young, Sherry Downer, and Beth Nicol attended. The Graduate School will initiate a test of the ETD process for fall 2002. In this initial effort, all current procedures for theses and dissertations will continue. Students, however, will be asked to participate, voluntarily, by submitting an electronic version of the thesis or dissertation. More information on ETDs may be found at http://www.ndltd.org.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Skip Bartol reminded everyone that his department is now “Animal Sciences,” shortened from “Animal and Dairy Sciences.”

McFarland announced the Graduate Student Council would sponsor a picnic for all new and existing graduate students and all members of the Graduate Faculty at 11:45 A.M. on August 15 behind Hargis Hall.

Thanks and plaques were awarded to the Council members, whose terms of office are expiring: Chris Rodger, Miriam Clark, Art Chappelka, Jean Weese, and Daniel Szechi. McFarland read a resolution of gratitude to these five members. The resolution passed without opposition.

After a long discussion about a possible new level 2A Graduate Faculty, the motion was tabled so that two features of the new level could be worked out.

McFarland explained at length the new $75 international student fee. The fee will pay for the unfunded mandate issued by the INS for increased tracking of international graduate students. McFarland also explained the new mandatory health insurance for all international graduate students and international visiting scholars. International students and scholars have the option of buying their own health insurance from another source provided they can document that it provides equivalent coverage. McFarland pointed out that although the INS does not require AU to provide insurance, it does require AU to ensure that no international student will likely become a public charge. Forrest Smith asked if higher deductibles would lower costs and McFarland answered that the reduction is negligible. Nancy Joseph said that she understands the rationale, but that it needs to be pointed out that based on what international students make, the new fees are a lot of money.

OLD BUSINESS

On behalf of the Credentials Committee, Heath moved that the applicants for Graduate Faculty membership listed below be approved. The motion passed without dissent.

Joel Melville Civil Engineering

Michael DeVivo Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (UAB)

Timothy Braden Anatomy, Physiology & Pharmacology

Lenda Jo Connell Consumer Affairs

Carol Centralla Consumer Affairs

Christopher Hinkelmann Finance

On behalf of the Curriculum Committee, Heath moved that the following course deletions be approved:

Seven deletes: PHYS 7510, 7530, 7600, 7700, 8150, 8300, 8400

Jo Heath

Secretary

________________________________________________________________________

Remaining 2002 Graduate Council Meetings:

September 25, October 23, November 20

MINUTES OF THE EIGHTH MEETING OF THE GRADUATE COUNCIL FOR

2002

Hargis Hall 1:00-2:00 P.M. August 28, 2002

Next Meeting: September 25, 2002

Note: These minutes are subject to correction and approval at a subsequent meeting.

Members of the Council and Retirement Dates:

Steve McFarland (Chair), Jo Heath (Secretary), Skip Bartol (August 2003), Scott Kramer (August 2003), Dean Schwartz (August 2003), David Shannon (August 2003), Hareesh Tippur (August 2004), Claire Crutchley (August 2004), Forrest Smith (August 2004), Nancy Joseph (student 2003), Ulrich Albrecht (August 2005), Susan Brinson (August 2005), Sandra Forsythe (August 2005), Jeff Jakeman (August 2005), Daowei Zhang (August 2005).

Members Absent: Ulrich Albrecht, Nancy Joseph, David Shannon, Daowei Zhang.

APPROVAL OF MINUTES : The minutes of the July meeting were approved without amendment.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

McFarland announced the graduate school enrollment numbers, as of now. It’s anticipated that the numbers will increase somewhat in the next few days. They are: 2884 graduate students versus 2819 for last year. The greatest growth was in Engineering: 591 engineering graduate students as opposed to 520 last year. He also pointed out that, compared to graduate programs located in large urban areas, we have a larger proportion of graduate students who are full time, who are immersed in their studies, as compared to part timers who take courses now and then.

McFarland pointed out that the GRE and GMAT scores of our graduate students are going up. The tuition stipends are, as predicted, helping us attract stronger students.

McFarland gave a history of the multiple-year struggle to get tuition waivers for our graduate students. As of now, all GTAs get tuition waivers, and many GRAs do also. He and John Pritchett are pushing hard to get tuition waivers for all GRAs, perhaps as early as Fall

Skip Bartol announced this year’s AU Cellular and Molecular Biosciences Mini-Symposium Friday, September 6, 2002, 1:00 – 5:00 in the Conference Center, rooms F& G. The keynote address will be given by Dr. David B. Allison from the Birmingham School of Public Health at 1:15. Later in the afternoon there will be presentations by 8 of our undergraduate research scholars and 3 of our graduate research assistants.

McFarland gave an outline of many of the problems we are having this year with new regulations for international graduate students: INS forms are being collected at the port-of-entry, new background checks are being required, there are serious delays in obtaining social security numbers, and we must report to the INS those students who do not arrive in Auburn. He mentioned that Ronnie Herring in Payroll has been exceptionally accommodating to help meet the new requirements. McFarland also discussed the health insurance required of international graduate students; he pointed out that it is cheaper and has better coverage than the health insurance available to American graduate students.

McFarland described the new voluntary ETD (Electronic Thesis and Dissertation) experiment being planned for this fall.

OLD BUSINESS

On behalf of the Credentials Committee, Heath moved that the applicants for Graduate Faculty membership listed below be approved. The motion passed without dissent.

From Architecture: John Gaber, Sharon Gaber

From EFLT: Daniel Vertrees

From Curriculum and Teaching: Melody Russell, Candra Thornton, Octavia Tripp,

Leane Skinner, Jenelle Reeves, and Kathleen Tate

From Communication and Journalism: Brigitta Brunner

From Clinical Sciences: Juming Zhong and Todd Axlund

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Remaining 2002 Graduate Council Meetings:

September 25, October 23, November 20

MINUTES OF THE NINTH MEETING OF THE GRADUATE COUNCIL FOR

2002

Hargis Hall 1:00-2:00 P.M. September 25, 2002

Next Meeting: October 23, 2002

Note: These minutes are subject to correction and approval at a subsequent meeting.

Members of the Council and Retirement Dates:

Members Absent: David Shannon (Maria Witte substituting), Claire Crutchley.

APPROVAL OF MINUTES : The minutes of the August meeting were approved without amendment.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

McFarland distributed bar graphs depicting recent increases in graduate enrollment, assistantships, and tuition waivers. He pointed out that there was a 14% increase in the number of African Americans who applied for admission to graduate study at Auburn this fall, but that there was a 44% decrease in the number of African Americans who were admitted by departments into their graduate programs. Specifically, 417 applied, 177 indicated serious intentions by paying the application fee, and 36 were accepted by the departments. McFarland further pointed out that we have had little success with attracting McNair scholars.

McFarland mentioned that delays in GRE scores persist, that the delays sometimes are several months. The analytical part of the GRE has been eliminated, replaced by two hand-graded essays. Starting next year, these essays will be available to departments wishing to see them when evaluating a potential graduate student.

Skip Bartol brought up the problem of departments not knowing when an international student has been accepted into another program. McFarland responded that the International Education Office will alert departments when an international student applies for a transfer of the I-20 authorization.

More statistics: 155 out of 159 applications for graduate student travel were funded, and 20 out of 47 applications for Grant-in-Aids were funded for the 2001-2002 academic year.

NEW BUSINESS

The Credentials Committee proposed and the Graduate Council approved, without dissent, a new Graduate Faculty level 2A for full time administrators only. Each department or relevant program will decide individually whether to include this option in their departmental criteria for Graduate Faculty membership. If department X decides to add level 2A, all full time administrators who are members of department X will be eligible to apply for level 2A if they so choose.

The new level 2A is for full time administrators who originally held level 2 memberships. Level 2A membership allows limited graduate program participation and continuation as a member of the Graduate Faculty without a vote by the level 2 graduate faculty within the department and without having to satisfy the other usual level 2 criteria. Level 2A precludes administrators from directing doctoral students (without special exceptions granted by the Dean of the Graduate School) but permits directing master’s students, teaching graduate courses, and serving on graduate committees at both levels. Some administrators may need a few years after they return to teaching and research to restore their research, publication, and graduate teaching credentials to Level 2 reappointment requirements and for this purpose administrators are allowed to retain their level 2A membership for 4 years after they step down from an administrative appointment.

OLD BUSINESS

On behalf of the Credentials Committee, Heath moved that the applicants for Graduate Faculty membership listed below be approved. The motion passed without dissent.

Robert Voitle Poultry Science

John Blake Poultry Science

Martina Miranda Curriculum and Teaching

Gary Martin Curriculum and Teaching

James Armstrong Forestry and Wildlife Sciences

Christopher Kerth Animal Sciences

Joseph Janicki Biomedical Sciences

Ellen Behrend Biomedical Sciences

On behalf of the Curriculum Committee, Heath moved that the course proposals listed below be approved. The motion passed without dissent.

(1) AGRI 6800 new course, title “Advanced agricultural leadership development”, prerequisites AGRI 3800 and ANSC 4800, partial description “. . . leadership processes and principles of learning to lead through service.”

(2) FORY 7980 course modification: changed to 2 hours, pass/fail

(3) MATH 6330 new course, title “Computational Algebra”, prerequisite MATH 6310, partial description “Introduction to computation in multivariate polynomial rings and finite fields. . . .”

(4) PHYS 8600 Course modification: new title “Plasma Physics”, new prerequisite PHYS6620, new description “A detailed study of plasma physics including particle orbit theory, magnetohydrodynamics, plasma waves and transport phenomena”.

(5) PHYS 8700 course modification: new title “Solid state physics”, new prerequisite PHYS 6610, new (partial) description “Atomic and electronic structures of solids . . . “

(6) PSYC 6611 course modification: new number (old was PSYC 8540)

(7) PSYC 7910 new course, title “Practicum in applied psychology”, partial description “. . . this practicum experience is required to meet requirements for national certification.”

(8) PSYC 7970 course modification: new number only (old number PSYC 7980)

(9) PSYC 7980 new course, title “Applied behavior analysis capstone project”, partial description “This course will be taken in the last term of the department’s area of concentration in applied behavior analysis in developmental

disabilities . . “

(10) VBMS 7260 Course modification: change in hours from 5 to 3-5 ________________________________________________________________________

Remaining 2002 Graduate Council Meetings:

October 23, November 20

MINUTES OF THE TENTH MEETING OF THE GRADUATE COUNCIL FOR 2002

Electronic Meeting October 23, 2002

Next Meeting: November 20 , 2002

Members of the Council and Retirement Dates:

OLD BUSINESS

The following two motions were approved without opposition.

Motion 1: The GC Curriculum Committee moved approval of the following graduate course proposals. The motion was approved without dissent.

Course Modifications:

COMM 7980. Change in credit hours allowed.

PLPA 6050. Changed to Piggyback 4050/7050.

PLPA 7820. Change in hours, description, and title.

Change in prerequisite only. AGRN 6000, 6020, 6080, 6150, 6160, 6300, 7180, 7590

New Courses:

CPLN 6000 Death and Life of Great American Cities

VBMS 7750 Graduate Colloquium in Veterinary Clinical Science

VBMS 7440 Advanced Equine Arthroscopic Surgery

VBMS 7210 Radiation Biology

ECON 6706 Health Economics

RSED 7236 Distance Learning version of RSED 7230

RSED 6176 Distance Learning version of RSED 6170

Motion 2: The GC Credentials Committee moved that the following nominees for appointment or reappointment to the Graduate Faculty be approved. The motion was approved without dissent.

Laura Vernon Psychology

Elaina Frieda Psychology

Martha Escobar Psychology

Chris Correia Psychology

Douglas Findley Horticulture

Amy Wright Horticulture

Fenny Dane Horticulture

Joseph Kemble Horticulture

Paul Holley Building Science

Pradeep Lall Mechanical Engineering

David Bevly Mechanical Engineering

Kathryn Pratt English

Jared Russell Health and Human Performance

Sheri Brock Health and Human Performance

David Pascoe Health and Human Performance

Glenda Avery Nursing-BSN

Deacue Fields Ag. Econ. and Rural Soc.

Valentina Hartarska Ag. Econ. and Rural Soc.

William Daniels Fisheries

LaDon Swann Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures

Jesse Chappell Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures

Allison Jones-Farmer Management

Dianne Hall Management

Patrick McMullen Management

Sang-Jin Suh Biological Sciences

Aravind Somanchi Biological Sciences

John Williams Physics

Chin Che Tin Physics

Gary Swanson Physics

Francis Robicheaux Physics

Michael Pindzola Physics

J.D. Perez Physics

Evgueni Oks Physics

Yu Lin Physics

Stephen Knowlton Physics

James Hanson Physics

Eugene Clothiaux Physics

An-ban Chen Physics

Michael Bozack Physics

Mark Barnett Civil Engineering

Alyson Whyte Curriculum and Teaching

Michael Mitchell Forestry and Wildlife

Next meeting November 20, 2002.

Spring 2003 Graduate Council Meetings:

January 22, February 19, March 12, April 16

MINUTES OF THE ELEVENTH MEETING OF THE GRADUATE COUNCIL FOR 2002

Hargis Hall 1:00-2:30 P.M. November 20, 2002

Next Meeting: January 22 , 2003

Note: These minutes are subject to correction and approval at a subsequent meeting.

Members of the Council and Retirement Dates:

Absent: David Shannon (Tony Guarino substituting), Skip Bartol (Russ Muntifering substituting), Hareesh Tippur, Scott Kramer.

APPROVAL OF MINUTES : The minutes of the October meeting were approved without amendment.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

McFarland reminded the Council that the deadline for nominations for this year’s Distinguished Graduate Faculty Lectureship is December 2. Furthermore, the Graduate School is willing to solicit the support letters to complete the packets.

McFarland reported that the applications for entrance into our graduate programs are expected to catch up with last year’s numbers. One temporary problem is that we have only 5 to 10 applications from China. This represents a significant decline from last year. The cause is probably that Chinese students cannot now take the GRE until November and they are naturally reluctant to send the $50 required with an application until they know how they did on the GRE. So, the number of Chinese applications is expected to rise significantly in January.

NEW BUSINESS

The discussion of classifying, i.e. not publishing, theses and dissertations was discussed at length. Forsythe moved, and Jakeman seconded, a motion to table the issue until the January meeting. The motion passed without opposition.

A request from Marketing to drop its participation in the Master of Science Business Administration graduate program was electronically approved after a delay due to temporary concerns about the proper handbook procedure for dropping a program.

Setting another deadline for doctoral student submission of the dissertation draft to the student’s committee died for lack of a motion.

OLD BUSINESS

On behalf of the Credentials Committee, Heath moved that the new criteria for Graduate Faculty membership be approved for the following departments: Entomology and Plant Pathology, Geology and Geography, and Rehabilitation and Special Education. The motion passed without opposition.

On behalf of the Credentials Committee, Heath moved that the applicants for Graduate Faculty membership listed below be approved. The motion passed without dissent.

Nursing Kathy Jo Ellison

Civil Engineering Anton K. Schindler, Prabhakar Clement, Willie Harper ,

Joe Morgan , Dongye Zhao

Discrete Sciences and Stat. Ashaeber Abebe

Rehab. and Sp. Ed Vivian Larkin, Caroline Dunn, Karen Rabren

Textile Engineering: Sabit Adanur, Yasser Gowayed, Royall Broughton

Psychology Jeffrey Katz

Ag. Econ. Diane Hite

Fisheries Allen Davis, William Deutsch

Management Mark Clark

Horticulture Raymond Kessler, Jr., W.A. Dozier

English Donald Cunningham, Jeremy Downs, Joyce Rothschild,

Judy Troy, Robin Sabino,

Agronomy and Soils James Hairston, Edzard van Santen

Nutrition and Food Sc. Tung-Shi Huang

On behalf of the Curriculum Committee, Heath moved that the course proposals listed below be approved. The motion passed without dissent.

CTMU 7516, 7546, 7556 Distance Ed versions of current courses.

GEOL 6300 Basin Analysis (new course)

WILD 7200 Wildlife Nutritional Ecology (new course)

BIOL 7010 Fundamentals of teaching biology (new course)

PLPA 4200/7200 Change to “piggy-back”

RSED 7226 Distance version of current course, with change in description and removal of prerequisites

ACCT 6310/6316 Modification: change in prerequisites

CTSE 7520/7526 Distance version plus modifications

CTSE 8986, Distance version of current course

CTSE 7400 Technology and Media in ESL (new course)

CTSE 7460 Teaching English as a Second Language in pre K – 12. (new course)

CTSE 7470 Issues in ESL Education (new course)

CTSE 7480 Assessment in ESL (new course)

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Spring 2003 Graduate Council Meetings:

January 22, February 19, March 12, April 16

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