Date: 
02/01/2013 1:00 pm
Location: 
128 Kidder Hall
Agenda: 

Remote participation: D. Stroud – 541-322-3155

1. Approval of January 25 Minutes

2. Category I Proposal – Renaming an Academic Program Proposal from Women Studies Program to Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies #84962 – Robert Iltis, Ben Tribelhorn

3. Course Designator Proposals

  • College of Business Proposals
    • FIN – Finance
    • MGMT – Management
    • MRKT – Marketing
  • Graduate School Proposals for Graduate School Courses
    • GRAD Proposal

4. Report from the Chair – Mike Bailey

5. Report from Academic Affairs – Bill Bogley

Information Item:
Any materials distributed during the meeting must be sent to Vickie Nunnemaker prior to the meeting.

Pending Issues:

  • GPA calculation models
  • E-campus overload compensation rates – D. Fisher (policy distribution pending)
  • Category I proposals eventually need to include mention of assessment and learning outcomes (includes Ecampus memos)? CC to discuss
Minutes: 

Voting Members Present: Paul Adams, Mike Bailey, Frank Chaplen, Alix Gitelman, Robert Iltis, Sara Jameson, Richard Nafshun, Daniel Stroud (via phone), Ben Tribelhorn
Ex-officio Members Present: Bill Bogley (Academic Affairs), Dianna Fisher (Ecampus), Nancy Laurence (Registrar’s Office), Steven Sowell (University Libraries)
Liaison Members Present: John Greydanus (Instructional Technology), Daniel Stroud (OSU-Cascades), Clay Torset (Academic Advising Council)
Guest: Gary Beach, Susan Shaw, Sarah Williams

Approval of January 25 Minutes

  • Dianna Fisher’s name was misspelled in the last paragraph.

Action: Robert moved approval of the minutes as corrected; motion seconded and approved by voice vote with no dissenting votes.

Category I Proposal – Renaming an Academic Program Proposal from Women Studies Program to Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies #84962 – Curriculum Council Reviewers: Robert Iltis, Ben Tribelhorn

 

  • Mike noted that the transmittal sheet was not signed; Susan Shaw indicated that Larry Rodgers would sign it next week.
  • The proposal is straightforward; changes to the curriculum have already been made and the proposal is catching up with those changes; the proposal addresses why ‘women’ was kept in the name; the name change reflects shifts in hiring; and liaisons are positive.
  • The WGSS course designator was approved by the Curriculum Council on November 7, 2012.
  • Bill reviewed the assessment and stated that the unit will replicate assessment items for the new proposal.

Action: Robert moved to approve the proposal; motion seconded and passed by voice vote with no dissenting votes.

Course Designator Proposal Requests
a. College of Business Proposals

  • FIN – Finance
  • MGMT – Management
  • MRKT – Marketing
    • These proposed designators are needed because the College of Business has run out of numbers for the existing course designators.

Action: Sara moved to approve the College of Business proposed course designators as they seem totally logical, there is no lack of clarity and they would serve students well; motion seconded and approved by voice vote with no dissenting votes.

b. Graduate School Proposal for Graduate School Courses

  • GRAD Proposal
    • Dianna felt that the current IST Graduate School designator is not intuitive.
    • Robert noted that the IST courses do have an academic home and will be assessed when the academic unit is assessed, but there is no process for assessing programs housed in administrative units.
    • Because the programs associated with the proposed GRAD course designator don’t have an academic unit, and the coursework is out of other units, how will the integrity of the courses be ensured?
    • Bill noted that courses with IST designators have no responsible individual indicated in the catalog.
    • Gary mentioned that there are some existing non-academic course designators, such as ALS, INTL, etc.

Action: The previously appointed Course Designator Sub-committee, which meets next Tuesday, will include this issue in their discussion and report to the Council at the next meeting. A Graduate School representative will be invited to the meeting following the sub-committee’s report.

Report from the Chair – Mike Bailey

  • Mike reported that, for the first time in five years, there was one brief period yesterday when there were no pending proposals in his queue!
  • The MOU for proposal #85405 will be discussed next week; the reviewers are Mike Bailey and Daniel Stroud

Report from Academic Affairs – Bill Bogley

  • The Math Undergraduate Program Review is scheduled for February 17 and 18; the Curriculum Council reviewer is Alix Gitelman.


Minutes prepared by Vickie Nunnemaker, Faculty Senate staff