Members attending: P. Stearns (chair), P. Becker, J. Maxwell, A. Fortino, D. Lavoie, J. Vail, D. Boehm-Davis, M. Goor, J. Offutt, D. Holisky, S. Nash, S. Cheldelin, D. Campbell (Secretary)

Guests: L. Schwartzstein (Provost), J. Christensen (Provost), S. Swett (CAS), S. Jones (Registrar), C. Hill, (Provost), K. Gentemann (Inst. Assess.), R. Green (Inst. Assess.)

I. Call to order

Schwartzstien called the meeting to order at 1:30.

II. Announcements

1. Nash asked about the status of RA-ships, given the new budget constraints. Schwartzstein replied that she will meet with VPres. Kidd soon, will bring that issue up and provide an answer.

III. Approval of February 2001 minutes

Minutes were approved as written.

IV. Old Business

1. Enrollment committee. Christensen handed out a report and list of recommended actions. Stearns went over the actions. He stressed the importance of having a person answer phone questions during established hours and having a single POC in the admissions office to whom departments can refer interested students. There was also discussion on the need for a central database of prospective students. Departments could refer general inquiries to the POC and the POC could refer specific inquiries to departments. Stearns would like to devote more Grad Council time to enrollment issues, so this item will be on the agenda for the foreseeable future.
2. Graduate student Survey. A number of the members objected to Institutional Assessment's practice of telling students that diplomas will be withheld unless they complete a graduate student survey and to having students attach their student number to it. Gentemann responded that those practices were to improve the response rate and to obviate the need for students to provide demographic information. Numerous suggestions were made of ways to get students to respond to the survey without resorting to such measures and also suggested giving students the option of providing demographic data or ID number.
3. 30-day posting. Proposed, seconded and approved that the Grad Council will have a 15-day posting period for course and program changes.

V. New Business

A. CNHS courses for approval

• New courses: NURS/HSCI 546, NURS/HSCI 577, NURS 586, 587 - approved.
• Modified courses: NURS 755, 790, 791 - approved.

B. GSE courses for approval

• New courses: EDCI 631, 632, 633, 634, 635, EDSE 841, 842, 843, 844 - approved.
• Modified course: EDCI 660 - approved.
• Modified program: Professional licensure, Unified Transformative Early Education Model (UTEEM) - approved.

C. SPP courses for approval

• Modified courses: MNPS 700, 702, 703, 704, PUBP 808, 853 - approved.

D. IT&E course for approval

• New course: SWE 763 - approved.

VI. Discussion Items

A. Admin procedures for bachelor's/accelerated masters:

Jones said that units with B/AM programs should tell her very quickly which courses are open to those students.

VII. Adjournment at 3:00

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