Graduate Council Meeting Minutes

Coastal Carolina University

November 5, 2008

 

 

Members Present:  Emory Helms, (Education), Joe Winslow (Education), John Marcis (Wall College of Business),  Miglena Ivanova (Humanities and Fine Arts), Jill Sessoms (Humanities and Fine Arts),  Sharon Gilman (College of Natural and Applied Sciences), John Reilly (College of Natural and Applied Sciences), Dan Lawless (Registrar), and Richard Johnson (Associate Provost for Graduate Studies and Academic Outreach).

 

Guests:  John Lox (MBA Director, Wall College of Business), Jim Luken (CMWS Director, College of

Natural and Applied Sciences), Linda May (Professor, Spadoni College of Education)

 

The meeting was called to order by Dr. Richard Johnson at 11:30 a.m. in the Conference Room of the Bill Baxley Hall. 

 

Request made to approve minutes from the October 1, 2008 Graduate Council Meeting.   The minutes were approved.

 

Old Business:

 

  1. Approval of minutes from 10-1-08 Graduate Council Meeting

 

Minutes were approved with 1st motion, 2nd motion, and all in attendance.

 

  1. Dr. Johnson discussed several items

 

a.   Proposing a restructure of Graduate Council to the Provost to include all program directors as members of the council, a representative from the library to be added, the Associate Provost of Graduate Studies will become an Ex Officio member, number of members from each college will remain the same, a chair be appointed from members of council.

 

b. Per Provost direction. from this time going forward for checks and balances purposes, all curricula approved by Graduate Council will be sent  to Academic Affairs and then to Faculty Senate for approval before going to the Provost and President for final sign off signatures. 

 

c.  For SACS unification, every syllabus must have course description, university grading system from catalog (must include pluses), attendance policy to meet catalog requirements, student learning outcomes before it will be approved.

 

New Business:

 

  1. Approval of new course from College of Natural and Applied Sciences

 

a.  CMWS 699 Graduate Seminar III

 

Course was presented by Dr. Jim Luken from the College of Natural and Applied Sciences. Course was not approved.  Course is to be resubmitted at next meeting with changes.

 

  1. Approval of new degree program approval from the Spadoni College of Education

 

a.  Master Degree in Educational Leadership

 

Program was presented by Linda May from the Spadoni College of Education.  Degree program was approved as a complete package to include program summary and all related courses. 

 

 

Meeting was adjourned at 12:15 p.m.  Next scheduled Graduate Council meeting is 12/3/08.