MINUTES:
Graduate Council – February 28, 2005, 1:15 p.m., President’s Conference Room,
Dossett Hall
ATTENDEES:
Barrett, Stanley, Champney, Pointer, Hoover, Musick, Tedesco, Scheuerman, Taylor,
McIntosh, Powers-Beck, Whitson
ABSENT: Brown, Ellis, Clay, Halverson, Howard, Dixon, Woodruff
GUESTS: Lloyd, Dalton, Van Etteger
I. Approval of Minutes – January 31, 2005
Action
Taken by Council: Approved.
II. Curriculum Sub-Committee – Martha Pointer,
Chair
A.
College
of Arts and Sciences
1.
New Concentration
in Mathematical Sciences –
A proposed master’s degree concentration in
Precollegiate Mathematics will be targeted at in service teachers at regional
institutions. This program was developed at the request of several Southwest
Virginia school systems that are funding a cohort of teachers willing to
participate in the program.
Action Taken by Council: Approved.
2.
New
Course – Department of Mathematics
a.
Math
5450 – Advanced Topics in Graph Theory
Action
Taken by Council: Approved
3.
New
Course – Center for Appalachian Studies and Services
a.
APST
5150 – Seminar in Appalachia and Religion (3 CH)
b.
APST
5337 – Appalachian, Scottish, and Irish Studies in Scotland (3 CH)
c.
APST
5567 – Scottish Ethnology (3 CH)
Action
Taken by Council: Approved
4.
New
Course – Department of Sociology & Anthropology
a.
SOAA
5567 – Scottish Ethnology (3 CH)
Action Taken by Council: Approved
5.
Social
Work Curriculum Revisions
The curriculum elective is being moved from the
foundation year into the clinical concentration year and the psychopathology
course is being moved from the concentration year into the foundation year. The
reason this change is being made is so the elective is used to support the
clinical concentration content and thereby enrich the concentration curriculum.
The psychopathology course is being moved into the foundation year so that
students will have the course content from psychopathology before they take the
clinical course content in the concentration year. Our accrediting body's
representative, Commissioner Shank, recommended
this change in our curriculum in that electives taught in our curriculum should
be used to support our concentration curriculum and psychopathology underpins
or supports the concentration year clinical treatment courses.
Action
Taken by Council: Approved
6.
New
Course – Department of Communication
a.
SPCH
5200 – Gender and Communication (3 CH)
Action Taken by Council: Approved
7.
New
Course - College of Education
a.
READ
5961 – Storytelling Capstone Project (Non-
Thesis)
Action
Taken by Council: Approved
8.
Public
and Allied Health – Change in course number to dual listed course number.
a.
CDIS
4010 – Changed to CDIS 5017 –Speech/Hearing Sciences I (4 CH)
b.
CDIS
4020 – Change to CDIS 5027 – Speech/hearing Sciences II (4 CH)
Action Taken by Council: Approved
III. Old Business
A. ETSU Graduate Studies Thesis/Dissertation/Capstone
Award Plan – Dr. McIntosh informed the Council that she has distributed email
notification and nomination information to all ETSU graduate faculty as
requested by the council. She has
already received two nominations. She
has nearly completed putting together a list of
graduate faculty members who are willing to serve on one of the five different
subcommittees and the list will be sent to Council members when completed.
B. ETSU
School of Graduate Studies Research Grants – Dr. McIntosh stated that she had
revised the grant plan to reflect increased dollar figures (up to $500) and to
indicate there would be up to eight grants. She has not finished this project as the grants will not be available until
next year and her primary focus has been on the Thesis/Dissertation/Capstone Award plan.
IV. New Business
A.
Graduate Student Database
– Dr. Powers-Beck provided a demonstration of the MPH graduate student database
that he has been working on for Dr. Beth Hogan, Public Health. He explained that the Graduate School will
make this available to all graduate programs if they wish to use it. Individual
database development and information will reside in the home departments.
B.
Graduate Studies New
On-Line Application – Dr. Powers-Beck
informed Council members that within the next
couple of weeks
there would be a new on-line application for
graduate
admission. The new on-line form may take students a
little longer to complete but will provide a more professional look as well as
greater options and more information to the student and the College. It will allow for auto credit card payment
as well which the School of Graduate Studies does not have at this time. It
will also include a check-box for students requesting consideration for
graduate assistantships and/or tuition scholarships.
C.
EndNote Software – Dr. McIntosh explained that the EndNote
Software
item was being provided as an information item. It is available at the Sherrod Library and is a bibliographic
management software called EndNote, that is now available on site license. EndNote software has been loaded on the ETSU server and is
available for your download and use in
one of the ETSU servers. This citation
management software is for the use of ETSU faculty, staff and graduate students
only.
D.
TOEFL
Study – Dr. Powers-Beck explained to Council members
that
ETS is coming out with a new Internet Based TOEFL in the
fall,
and they’ve completed their first field tests of the
new
TOEFL in comparison with the Computer-Based Test and
Paper-Based
Tests. Dr. Powers-Beck proposed that the new
scoring
standards be included in this year’s graduate
catalog.
A score of 79 would be the range comparison that
would
equate to a computer-based total of 213 or a paper-
based 550
that ETSU currently uses as a TOEFL score.
Action Taken by Council: Approved for next
year’s catalog based upon a review of the
internet
base-TOEFL scores for consistency with
computer-based
and paper-based TOEFL scores.
V.
Next Meeting
The
next two meetings of the Graduate Council are scheduled in the recently
renovated President’s Conference Room, second Floor, Dossett Hall, 1:15 p.m. Please
mark your calendars to reflect this change in meeting rooms for March 28m 2995
and April 25, 2005.
VI. Adjournment
The meeting adjourned at 2:15 p.m.
Scott Champney, Chair